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  • A Place in the Sun picture
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    A Place in the Sun

    A social climber (Montgomery Clift) in love with a wealthy beauty (Elizabeth Taylor) figures out how...

  • The Paradine Case picture
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    The Paradine Case (1947)

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

  • Twelve Angry Men picture
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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...

  • Inherit the Wind picture
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    Inherit the Wind (1960)

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

  • The Chamber picture
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    The Chamber (1996)

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

  • A Cry in the Dark picture
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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...

  • Dance With a Stranger picture
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    Dance With a Stranger (1985)

    Nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson) has a doomed affair with an upper-class auto racer...

  • The Newton Boys picture
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    The Newton Boys (1998)

    Seeking an escape from poverty, sibling Texas farmers (Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan...

  • Kramer vs. Kramer picture
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    Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

    A New York adman (Dustin Hoffman) fights for custody of his son (Justin Henry) after his wife (Meryl...

  • My Cousin Vinny picture
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    My Cousin Vinny (1992)

    A wise-guy Brooklyn lawyer (Joe Pesci) and his motormouth girlfriend (Marisa Tomei) go to Alabama to...

  • The Bonfire of the Vanities picture
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    The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

    A Wall Street tycoon's life becomes a shambles when an unscrupulous journalist implicates him in a...

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    Sommersby (1993)

    A farmer's wife (Jodie Foster) suspects the man (Richard Gere) in her bed, back from the Civil War,...

  • The People vs. Larry Flynt picture
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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...

  • To Kill a Mockingbird picture
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    To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

    A widowed lawyer (Gregory Peck) with two children (Mary Badham, Philip Alford) defends an innocent...

  • Trial By Jury picture
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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...

  • In the Name of the Father picture
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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...

  • Bounce picture
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    Bounce (2000)

    An ad executive (Ben Affleck) seeks out the widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) of a stranger who swapped...

  • The Next Best Thing picture
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    The Next Best Thing (2000)

    A gay man (Rupert Everett) has a child with his best friend (Madonna), and the two decide to live...

  • The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez picture
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    The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1982)

    Truth is elusive as Texas Rangers chase a Mexican-American cowhand (Edward James Olmos) for shooting...

  • Miracle on 34th Street picture
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    Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

    An adwoman's (Maureen O'Hara) lawyer boyfriend (John Payne) tries to prove that Macy's Santa Claus...

  • The Devil's Advocate picture
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    The Devil's Advocate (1997)

    A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

  • The Verdict picture
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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...

  • The Man Without A Face picture
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    The Man Without A Face (1993)

    A disfigured recluse (Mel Gibson) tutors a confused teen (Nick Stahl) for a military-school entrance...

  • Seems Like Old Times picture
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    Seems Like Old Times (1980)

    A writer (Chevy Chase) mixed up in a bank robbery seeks help from his ex-wife (Goldie Hawn), who's...

  • A Few Good Men picture
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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...

  • Judgment at Nuremberg picture
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    Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

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

  • Suspect picture
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    Suspect (1987)

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

  • The Accused picture
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    The Accused (1988)

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

  • Anatomy of a Murder picture
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    Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

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