Courtroom Drama
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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...

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    Judgment

    An attorney (Corbin Bernsen) defends a Christian extremist (Leigh Lewis) accused of crimes against...

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    The Client (1994)

    Mobsters and lawyers (Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones) hound a boy who knows about the missing...

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    Libel

    An English nobleman's (Dirk Bogarde) wife (Olivia de Havilland) has him sue a Canadian (Paul Massie)...

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    Matter of Trust (1999)

    Threatening phone calls and her husband's disappearance force a D.A. to turn to her troubled...

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    Defenseless (1991)

    A lawyer is hired to defend an old college friend accused of murdering her husband.

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    A Reasonable Man

    In Zululand a lawyer (Gavin Hood) dealing with ghosts of own his past defends a South African boy...

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    Tomorrow (1972)

    A circa-1910 Mississippi farmer (Robert Duvall) takes in a pregnant woman (Olga Bellin).

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    Illegal (1955)

    After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he...

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    Citizen Verdict (2005)

    A television producer creates a court show where viewers act as the jury.

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    Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

    A small-town reporter (Ethan Hawke) covers the murder trial of a Japanese-American and learns that...