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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 Lady From Shanghai (1948)

    A rich lawyer (Everett Sloane) and his seductive wife (Rita Hayworth) frame an Irish sailor (Orson...

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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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    High Crimes (2002)

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

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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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    The Lawyer (1969)

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

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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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    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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    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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    Paths of Glory (1958)

    A World War I French colonel (Kirk Douglas) defends three soldiers picked to be shot for a general's...

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    Genealogies d'un crime (1998)

    An exploration of the Oedipal theme--of fate versus individual choice--which is based on a true...

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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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    In Case of Emergency (1958)

    An uptight lawyer defends a poor street girl on a petty robbery case. Since she has no money, she...

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    Victim (1961)

    A prominent London barrister sets out to learn the identity of a blackmailer who preys on...

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    Jagged Edge (1985)

    A lawyer (Glenn Close) falls in love with her client, a San Francisco publisher (Jeff Bridges)...

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    Compulsion (1959)

    A lawyer (Orson Welles) defends two young thrill-killers (Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman), as in...

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    The Guilty

    A rape victim and an illegitimate son threaten to destroy the career of a newly appointed judge with...

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    The Green Scarf (1953)

    The Green Scarf may be set in France, but its cast, crew, and overall tone is impeccably British....

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    The Kiss (1991)

    A lawyer (Conrad Nagel) defends his lover (Greta Garbo) who stands trial for the murder of her...

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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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    Fiber Optics

    Claudia, the mistress of a powerful union leader, is framed for his murder. Marco, a young reporter...

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    Criminal Court (1946)

    A wily candidate (Tom Conway) for district attorney defends his fiancee (Martha O'Driscoll) charged...

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    Eye Witness

    A lawyer (Robert Montgomery) goes to England for the murder trial of a war buddy, whose fate hangs...

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    Knock on Any Door (1949)

    A lawyer (Humphrey Bogart) builds a sob-story defense for a juvenile delinquent (John Derek) on...

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    Crime Without Passion

    Crime Without Passion is an odd, almost existential murder yarn. Famed attorney Claude Rains,...

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    Guilty Hands

    A district attorney (Lionel Barrymore) frames a woman (Kay Francis) after killing his daughter's...

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    Madame X (1929)

    A French diplomat's (Lewis Stone) fallen wife (Ruth Chatterton) stands trial for murder, defended by...