After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack. Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi. Votes: 35,172 | Gross: $32.07M. 25.
No one believes that the young man didn't have any murderous intent, so the gambler teams up with a retired lawyer in hopes of saving the young man from death row. Length : 69 minutes Director : Henry Hathaway
Dec 31, 2019 · Their lawyer, played by Orson Welles, must then work hard to defend the two young men and save them from execution. The film is based on the well-known and often-cited Leopold and Loeb case of 1924. Trivia : Despite his top-billed status, Welles does not appear in the film until an hour and five minutes in.
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet , Ralph Fiennes , …
The Client - A small boy who saw the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to help protect him when the DA tries to use him to take down the mob family.#N#Length: 119 minutes# N#Director: Joel Schumacher#N#Stars: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro#N#Watch Movie: The Client
...And Justice for All - An attorney is forced to defend a guilty judge, while still helping other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.#N#Length: 119 minutes#N#Director: Norman Jewison#N#Stars: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe#N#Watch Movie: ...And Justice for All
Length: 107 minutes. Director: Michael Anderson. Stars: Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard.
Breaker Morant - Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for killings prisoners as a way of diverting attention from war crimes committed by their superiors.#N#Length: 107 minutes#N#Direct or: Bruce Beresford#N#Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters#N#Watch Movie: Breaker Morant
Legal Eagles - A New York DA works and flirts with his legal opponent and her bizarre artist client, who is on trial for a murder that she didn't commit.#N#Length: 116 minutes#N#Direct or: Ivan Reitman.#N#Stars: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah#N#Watch Movie: Legal Eagles
Reversal of Fortune - Rich Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, and husband Claus is found guilty of attempted murder; but he maintains his innocence and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.#N#Length: 111 minutes#N#Director : Barbet Schroeder#N#Stars: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver#N#Watch Movie: Reversal of Fortune
Murder in the First - A young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner who has been accused of killing another inmate, despite his client having just spent over three years in solitary confinement.#N#Length: 122 minutes#N# Director: Marc Rocco#N#Stars: Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman#N#Watch Movie: Murder in the First
Deemed one of the greatest courtroom dramas of all time and based on the novel with the same title, Anatomy of a Murder follows Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler (played by James Stewart), who has his work cut out for him after agreeing to defend Lt. Manion (played by Ben Gazzarra), who murdered a local bar owner after learning he’s been accused of rape.
Philadelphia (1993) Directed by Jonathan Demme, Philadelphia tells the story of lawyer Andrew Beckett, who struggles to hide his homosexuality, as well as his HIV status, for fear that they will have a negative impact on his career at a prestigious Philadelphia law firm.
McDeere finds himself in a jam when the FBI contacts him to gather evidence about the actions of his colleagues. As a result, he must decide between doing what’s best in the eyes of the law and making the decision that will keep him alive.
Trivia: Julia Roberts’ salary for her role as Erin Brockovich made her the first actress in Hollywood to earn more than $20 million.
Set in 1839, Amistad tells the story of a slave ship sailing from Cuba to the United States. In the film, directed by Steven Spielberg, Cinque (played by Djimon Hounsou) leads the slaves in an uprising, which results in them being held as prisoners in Connecticut.
Trivia: Despite his top-billed status, Welles does not appear in the film until an hour and five minutes in.
Trivia: Holly Hunter’s performance lasts five minutes and 59 seconds, making it one of the shortest Oscar-nominated performances of all time.
The film, which came and went in theaters in 2017 with little fanfare, stars Denzel Washington as the cranky, old-school lawyer of the title.
Keanu Reeves plays a cocky young Florida lawyer named Kevin Lomax who can't and won't lose a case, getting even the most heinous criminals acquitted. He's invited to come to New York and help a hotshot law firm with jury selection and is ultimately recruited by the company run by Al Pacino's mysterious John Milton.
Primal Fear (1996) Based on the 1993 William Diehl novel of the same name, this classic thriller has it all: murder, a possibly innocent man on trial, multiple personalities, and a driven defense attorney (Richard Gere) who's fighting for justice for his client.
The Firm (1993) As you can tell from the rest of this list, the '90s were a golden era of sleek, movie-star-packed legal thrillers, and they don't get much better than director Sydney Pollack's The Firm.
A Few Good Men (1992) Considering this list was inspired by the release of The Trial of the Chicago 7, we had to include Aaron Sorkin's debut film as a writer, the adaptation of the play that made him a star, A Few Good Men.
After the box-office success of movie adaptations of his novels The Firm and The Pelican Brief in 1993, plus his run on the best-seller list, the legal thriller writer looked untouchable.
A lesser-known early work from screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, the mastermind behind Basic Instinct and Showgirls, Jagged Edge offers an alluring mix of violent mayhem, ill-advised romance, and legal intrigue. Glenn Close plays Teddy Barnes, a defense attorney recruited to defend a wealthy newspaper publisher (Jeff Bridges) accused of killing his wife. Soon enough, they're riding horses, preparing for trial, and carrying on their own secret affair. Set primarily in the wealthy homes and spacious offices of San Francisco's Reagan-era elite, the movie has a lushness that sets it apart from many of the legal thrillers of the '90s, which often played out in the sweltering Southern cities of Grisham's novels.
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.
The seven Oscar-nominated film starred the A-List cast of James Stewart as the defense attorney and George C. Scott as the prosecutor. Al Pacino plays an angry attorney in And Justice For All. Photo courtesy of Blue Ray.
In particular, the film focuses on four judges who allegedly became Nazi accomplices by using their courts to turn a blind eye to Nazi atrocities.
The 1980 film deals with military themes of which orders to follow and what people are actually the enemy , and the superb writing was awarded with an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Anatomy of a Murder tells the story of an Army lieutenant who was accused of killing a bartender who allegedly raped his wife. The script was an adaption of a novel that was based on true events and written by a Michigan judge.
His honesty is so extreme that it wrecks havoc on his career, as he previously used his gift of manipulation to get ahead. Once forced to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, Fletcher realizes he can actually succeed as a lawyer being honest and can use truth-telling to get closer to his son.
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.
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The story starts in a countryside mansion when the elderly lord of the mansion and others begin to get ready for a hunt. While chasing the fox, his horse refuses to jump of a fence and hurl him flying over the fence. The old man is then transferred to his bed when he is spending the last few hours of his life.
An suspenseful and affirming story about a young woman ( Julianne Hough) with a mysterious past. Film is based on the novel from Nicholas Sparks. If you liked ‘Dear John’ and ‘The Notebook’ then you’ll surely enjoy in this story, too.
The year is 1795 and this is a biographical portrait of Jane Austen ( Anne Hathaway) and her great, untold romance with a young Irishman ( James McAvoy ).
Oliver Tate ( Craig Roberts) is a 15-year-old boy with two objectives – to extinguish the flame between his mother ( Yasmin Paige) and an ex-lover who moved in next door, and to lose his virginity before his next birthday.
The film tells the life story of Nemo Nobody ( Jared Leto ). It’s year 2092 and human race has achieved quasi-immortality. Nemo is 118 years old and he’s the last mortal man on Earth.
1. The Fountain. A medical researcher ( Hugh Jackman ), looks for a cure that’ll save his dying wife ( Rachel Weisz ). This movie is a beautiful testament to love and the cycle of life. ‘The Fountain’ is the movie that needs to be seen more than once. “Death frees every soul.”.
Luhrmann. Set between 1939 and 1942 (before World War II). This film has a real sense of adventure and romance between Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
A young woman ( Julie Delpy) and man ( Ethan Hawke) meet by chance on a train in Europe. They spend one evening together in Vienna (Austria) but this will probably be their only night together.
At the film's outset, "The Gentlemen" swiftly introduces us to Mickey Pearson and establishes that he snubbed a powerful tabloid newspaper editor known as Big Dave (Eddie Marsan), who vows to take Pearson down in revenge for making him look like an idiot in front of his friends. Sounds petty, but hey, the film's better for that motivation because it sets slimy investigator Fletcher (Hugh Grant) on Pearson's tail to dig up some dirt on the cannabis kingpin.
Following the 2008 release of "RocknRolla, " director Guy Ritchie took a few years off from exploring the darkly comedic exploits of British gangsters using his signature frenetic energy and wit. But after taking on a variety of different projects like the live-action "Aladdin," Robert Downey Jr.'s "Sherlock Holmes," and "King Arthur," ...
Once Ray Smith and Mickey Pearson have put the pieces together, it makes something very clear to the American: He's not done with his empire, and he's definitely not about to sell it cheap to a backstabbing weasel like Matthew Berger.
It's a sneaky tactic — and Berger would've gotten away with it, too. Unfortunately, Fletcher's extortion attempt confirmed to Ray Smith that Berger was conspiring with Dry Eye in exchange for putting the gangster at the head of the Chinese gangs working in London.