Courtroom Drama
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    Trial (1955)

    A publicity-seeking Communist (Arthur Kennedy) dupes a law professor (Glenn Ford) into defending a...

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    Aakrosh

    Released in India as Aakrosh, Cry of the Wounded is reportedly based on an actual government...

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    Twilight of Honor

    An old trial lawyer (Claude Rains) helps a young lawyer (Richard Chamberlain) defend a man (Nick...

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    Morgen in Alabama

    Man under Suspicion begins at a German political assembly reduced to chaos by neo-fascist activists....

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    A Passage to India (1984)

    Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) tour 1920s India with a native doctor...

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    Brilliant Lies (1997)

    Character witnesses lie without conviction when a promiscuous Australian (Gia Carides) charges her...

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    Heaven's Fall

    In 1931 a New York defense lawyer (Timothy Hutton) comes to the aid of nine black men accused of...

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    The Gingerbread Man (1998)

    A Georgia lawyer (Kenneth Branagh) becomes involved with a caterer (Embeth Davidtz) whose unbalanced...

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    Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

    A cavalry officer (Jeffrey Hunter) defends a sergeant (Woody Strode) accused of rape and a double...

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    The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1959)

    The flamboyant Victorian wit (Peter Finch) sues the Marquess of Queensberry for a sodomy slur, but...

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    Loved (1998)

    After a husband is accused of droving his third wife to suicide, his first wife Hedda, a troubled...

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    The Good Father (1987)

    Anthony Hopkins stars in The Good Father as a publishing executive whose wife Julie Walters has left...

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    Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)

    A fledgling district attorney's (Andy Garcia) probe of a New York Police Department scandal may...

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    Nuts (1987)

    A public defender (Richard Dreyfuss) takes the case of an unstable New York call girl (Barbra...

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    The Advocate (1994)

    In medieval France, an eager young lawyer comes to the aid of a Gypsy woman whose pig has been...

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    A Soldier's Story (1984)

    An Army lawyer (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) probes the slaying of a sergeant (Adolph Caesar) from an...

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    Music Box (1989)

    A Chicago lawyer (Jessica Lange) defends her father (Armin Mueller-Stahl), accused of Hungarian...

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    A Map of the World (1999)

    After a friend's (Julianne Moore) child dies while in her care, a woman (Sigourney Weaver) suffers...

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    Presumed Innocent (1990)

    A married prosecutor (Harrison Ford) hires an attorney (Raul Julia) to defend him against charges of...

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    Reversal of Fortune (1990)

    Harvard's Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) defends Claus von Bulow (Jeremy Irons) for trying to kill his...

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    Without Evidence

    A man searches for the killer of his brother Michael Francke, head of correction for the state of...

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    Runaway Jury (2003)

    A juror (John Cusack), a lawyer (Dustin Hoffman) and a mysterious woman stand in the way of a man...

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    Witness For the Prosecution (1958)

    An aging barrister (Charles Laughton) defends a man (Tyrone Power) for murder despite damaging...

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    Where Love Has Gone (1964)

    A divorced couple's (Susan Hayward, Michael Connors) teenage daughter stands trial for stabbing her...

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    The Juror (1996)

    A mob hit man (Alec Baldwin) will kill a single mother's (Demi Moore) son (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) if...

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    The Winslow Boy (1999)

    Struggling to clear his son's name, a man (Nigel Hawthorne) hires a lawyer (Jeremy Northam) and...

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    Absence of Malice (1981)

    A federal bureaucrat (Bob Balaban) leads a Miami newswoman (Sally Field) to libel a dead gangster's...

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    Town Without Pity (1961)

    Two U.S. majors (Kirk Douglas, E.G. Marshall) defend and prosecute four GIs for raping a local...

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    Losing Isaiah (1995)

    An ex-crack addict (Halle Berry) fights for custody of her son adopted by a social worker (Jessica...

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    Lured Innocence

    A Mississippi journalist is involved in a murderous plot surrounding with his invalid wife and his...