Courtroom Drama
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    The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

    An agnostic lawyer (Laura Linney) defends a Roman Catholic priest (Tom Wilkinson) accused of...

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    North Country (2005)

    A constant barrage of abuse from her co-workers spurs a miner (Charlize Theron) to file a sexual...

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    My Sister's Keeper (2009)

    Sara and Brian Fitzgerald's life with their young son and their two-year-old daughter, Kate, is...

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    The Children's Hour (1961)

    Based on Lillian Hellman's play about the effect of a student's malicious lie at an exclusive...

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    Hart's War (2002)

    A conniving colonel (Bruce Willis) oversees the murder trial of a black airman (Terrence Howard) in...

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    Eureka (1984)

    An Alaskan gold prospector (Gene Hackman) lives in luxury with his family on an island gangsters...

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    The Paradine Case (1947)

    A married barrister (Gregory Peck) falls for a client (Alida Valli) accused of killing her blind...

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    Twelve Angry Men (1957)

    One (Henry Fonda) of 12 jurors holds out in the case of a boy from the slums who is accused of...

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    I Want to Live! (1958)

    Convicted of murder, drug-addicted shill and prostitute Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) lands on...

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    The Crucible (1996)

    A 17th-century Salem woman (Winona Ryder) accuses an ex-lover's (Daniel Day-Lewis) wife of witchery...

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    The Red Corner (1997)

    A Chinese attorney (Bai Ling) defends a U.S. businessman (Richard Gere) accused of killing a model...

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    Inherit the Wind (1960)

    A fundamentalist orator (Fredric March) opposes a liberal lawyer (Spencer Tracy) defending a...

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    The Chamber (1996)

    Dark secrets drive a lawyer (Chris O'Donnell) to defend his Klansman grandfather (Gene Hackman) on...

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    A Dry White Season (1989)

    A white South African challenges government policies when he accuses a police captain of the murder...

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    A Cry in the Dark (1988)

    An Australian pastor (Sam Neill) and his wife (Meryl Streep) become media prey in 1980 after a wild...

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    Fracture (2007)

    A hotshot prosecutor (Ryan Gosling) squares off against a cunning engineer (Anthony Hopkins) who...

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    High Crimes (2002)

    An attorney (Ashley Judd) tries to prove her husband's (Jim Caviezel) innocence after the military...

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    Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (2009)

    Remake of the 1956 film noir film "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" in which a writer's plan to expose a...

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    American Violet (2009)

    A single African-American mother struggles to clear her name after being wrongly accused and...

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    Body of Evidence (1993)

    A lawyer (Willem Dafoe) defends a gold digger (Madonna) for murder by sex, a charge whose validity...

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    Erin Brockovich (2000)

    A law clerk (Julia Roberts) researching a client's health case stumbles on a cover-up of a...

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    The Blind Goddess

    The blind goddess is justice, which may or may not be served in this British second feature. Eric...

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    The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

    Arrested on obscenity charges, the publisher (Woody Harrelson) of Hustler magazine, with the help of...

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    Trial By Jury (1994)

    A New York mob boss (Armand Assante) tries to ensure his acquittal by scaring a single mother...

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    Breaker Morant (1980)

    Australian Lt. Morant (Edward Woodward) and two fellow officers are court-martialed for executing...

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    Before and After (1996)

    A Massachusetts man (Liam Neeson) destroys evidence after his teen son (Edward Furlong) is arrested...

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    A Man For All Seasons (1966)

    Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) opposes Henry VIII's (Robert Shaw) appointing himself head of the...

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    I Am Sam (2001)

    A man (Sean Penn) with the mental capacity of a child hires a lawyer (Michelle Pfeiffer) to regain...

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    Sleepers (1996)

    A DA and a reporter fix the trial of childhood pals who killed a sadistic guard (Kevin Bacon) they...

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    Prisoners of the Sun (1991)

    An Australian captain (Bryan Brown) tries to prosecute a Japanese baron (George Takei) for POW-camp...

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    Disclosure (1994)

    A computer-firm boss (Demi Moore) seduces her married co-worker (Michael Douglas), then accuses him...

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    Amistad (1997)

    U.S. lawyers (Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey) defend Africans who revolted against their...

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    In the Name of the Father (1993)

    An Irishman (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his father (Pete Postlethwaite) share a British prison cell for a...

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    Shakedown (1988)

    A legal-aid lawyer (Peter Weller) and an undercover officer (Sam Elliott) check a drug dealer's...

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    The Verdict (1982)

    A boozing lawyer (Paul Newman) takes on a law-firm dean (James Mason), the Archdiocese of Boston and...

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    Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)

    Based on the novel by Alan Paton. A white South African and a black pastor are bonded by the murder...

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    Philadelphia (1993)

    Fired by his firm, a lawyer (Tom Hanks) with AIDS fights back in court with help from his lawyer...

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    A Few Good Men (1992)

    Navy lawyers (Tom Cruise, Demi Moore) defend two Marines accused of killing a private at the naval...

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    Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

    Stanley Kramer's Oscar-winning account of the postwar courtroom proceedings against Nazi war...

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    The Caine Mutiny (1954)

    A World War II Naval officer (Van Johnson) is court-martialed for relieving paranoid Capt. Queeg...

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    Suspect (1987)

    A Washington lobbyist (Dennis Quaid) on jury duty helps a public defender (Cher) save a deaf-mute...

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    The Accused (1988)

    A lawyer (Kelly McGillis) crusades for her client (Jodie Foster), the victim of a barroom gang rape.

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    Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

    A Michigan lawyer (James Stewart) and his colleague defend an Army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) who...

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    A Time to Kill (1996)

    A Southern lawyer (Matthew McConaughey) and his legal assistant (Sandra Bullock) defend a black man...

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    The Letter

    The Letter was the first film version of the Somerset Maugham play of the same name. Broadway star...

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    12 (2009)

    12 jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather.

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    Power of Attorney

    An attorney is hired to defend a notorious mobster which he has been trying to send away for years...

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    Judgment in Berlin (1988)

    A U.S. judge (Martin Sheen) tries the touchy case of an East German couple who have hijacked a plane...

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    The Hurricane (1999)

    Aided by a Brooklyn teen (Vicellous Reon Shannon) and three Canadians, boxer Rubin Carter (Denzel...

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    The Lawyer (1969)

    Barry Newman stars as Tony Petrocelli, a maverick Midwestern attorney. Petrocelli is hired to defend...