Courtroom Drama
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    Madame X (1966)

    The wife of a wealthy diplomat carries on an affair with a playboy. When her lover is accidentally...

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    The Man from Galveston

    This western served as the pilot film for Warner Bros.' Temple Houston television series. It is the...

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    Abba Ganuv

    A divorced couple fight over the custody of their son.

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    The Truth (1960)

    Murder occurs when seven strangers gather at a spiritual retreat.

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    The Seventh Juror

    In a fit of obsessive jealousy, a middle-aged, married, successful man kills a young girl who spurns...

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    Close-Up (1999)

    Filmmakers document an unemployed man's (Ali Sabzian) trial for masquerading as a renowned director.

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    L' Inconnu dans la Maison

    A celebrated lawyer, who has let everything go since his wife's suicide, decides to defend his...

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    Silent Victim (1993)

    A Georgia man (Kyle Secor) sues his wife (Michele Greene) for murder after her attempted suicide...

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    Justiz (1993)

    A young lawyer unwillingly defends a murderer and manages to get him acquitted, although in the...

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    Jeanne la Pucelle

    A teenage country girl leads the French in driving the English from the territory of France during...

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    Kangaroo Court (1994)

    A black city attorney is forced to defend a white cop who's being held hostage by a gang seeking...

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    The Beast

    A chilling courtroom drama set in the near future which tackles issues such as the nature of the...

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    A Judge in Anxiety

    A layered courtroom drama about a tough, uncompromising judge who gets a taste of his own medicine...

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    Toyour El-Zalam

    A denunciation of political corruption and religious fundamentalism as told through the story of...

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    The Hollow Reed (1997)

    A father's (Martin Donovan) homosexuality and the abusive behavior of a mother's (Joely Richardson)...

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    Deacon Brode

    A period drama set in Edinburgh about a social fixture, Deacon Brodie who's a bit of a rake; he's...

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    Advocaat Van De Hanen

    A study of an alcoholic advocate's crisis of conscience.

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    A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999)

    In the early Fifties, a black minister arrives in Vermont to become pastor in a small town. When a...

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    Uninvited

    A man is accused of murdering his childhood love and her entire family.

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    Restraining Order

    When a lawyer (Eric Roberts) discovers his client (Hannes Jaenicke) lied to avoid a murder...

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    A Trial in Prague (2001)

    Filmmaker Zuzana Justman examines the trumped-up charges against 14 Communists accused of treason...

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    From the Hip (1987)

    A showoff young lawyer (Judd Nelson) hates his client, a Boston professor (John Hurt) accused of...

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    The Good Mother (1988)

    After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by...

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    John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997)

    A Memphis law school graduate (Matt Damon) aids a battered wife (Claire Danes) and fights a...

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    Rules of Engagement (2000)

    A decorated career Marine (Samuel L. Jackson), about to stand trial for a botched rescue mission,...

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    True Believer (1989)

    Pushed by his clerk (Robert Downey Jr.), a jaded '60s-radical New York lawyer (James Woods) defends...

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    Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

    A reporter (Dana Andrews) lets his publisher (Sidney Blackmer) frame him for murder to show the...

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    Mesmerized (1986)

    An orphan (Jodie Foster) weds an older man (John Lithgow) in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out...

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    The Boys (1962)

    Lawyers (Richard Todd, Robert Morley) debate British law itself in the murder trial of four juvenile...

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    I Just Didn't Do It

    A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and...