Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people. Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier. Votes: 1,461 | …
Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy. Votes: 310,870
A voluptuous black vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend. Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter. Votes: 10,322 | Gross: $2.46M. 9.
Two New Yorkers accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college call in the help of one of their cousins, a loudmouth lawyer with no trial experience. Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield. Votes: …
Al Pacino plays a manic and angry lawyer who must represent a judge accused of rape. The film was famous for Pacino’s line, “ You’re out of order! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They’re out of order!” and the screenplay rightfully was nominated for an Oscar.
Steven Spielberg directed this 1997 film about a lawyer, played by Matthew McConaughey, who represents slaves involved in a slavery ship uprising. Although it was nominated for four Oscars, critics said that the film took too many liberties with the facts. Despite the controversy, Amistad examined our country’s history with slavery and how the law was used for and against it.
This thriller explores a case where a small Boston law firm takes on two conglomerates who they claim caused leukemia-related deaths in eight children. The Oscar-nominated film stars John Travolta as a lawyer obsessed with fighting a better-funded enemy.
Even those who haven’t seen the movie know the pivotal scene of A Few Good Men when Jack Nicholson’s character barks at Tom Cruise’s character, “You can’t handle the truth!” The courtroom drama about two Marines accused of killing one of their colleagues was written by A-list scribe, Aaron Sorkin, and it was loosely based off of a military case prosecuted by David Iglesias, who later become the Attorney General of New Mexico.
A Man for All Seasons. Legal movies don’t just have to deal with the modern justice system. In A Man for All Seasons, Sir Thomas More, played by Paul Scofield, plays a judge who is caught in the trial between Henry VIII and the Roman Catholic Church.
The seven Oscar-nominated film starred the A-List cast of James Stewart as the defense attorney and George C. Scott as the prosecutor.
“Yes, they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in hell!” That was a powerful line spoken by Samuel L. Jackson in A Time to Kill, a John Grisham novel-turned-feature film. In the movie, Jackson plays a black father in a Southern town who murders the white supremacists who raped his young daughter. Matthew McConaughey, who plays a lawyer oh-so-well, plays a lawyer in this story who puts his life and family in danger in order to do what’s right.
Patrick Hastings was a successful lawyer who wrote plays in his spare time, of which Blind Goddess was most popular. It premiered in 1948, a few years before Hastings' death.
The Blind Goddess. (1948 film) The Blind Goddess is a 1948 British courtroom drama film directed by Harold French and starring Eric Portman, Anne Crawford and Hugh Williams. The screenplay concerns a secretary who sets out to his expose his boss, Lord Brasted, for embezzlement.