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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...

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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...

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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)

A young lawyer (John Beal) defends an alcoholic woman (Gladys George) for murder, unaware she is his...

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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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R.I.C.C.O. (2002)

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Criminal Court (1946)

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

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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...

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The Kiss Before the Mirror

Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his...

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Madame X (1929)

A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.

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Murder in Greenwich Village

In this romantic mystery, a defense attorney attempts to get his lovely client acquitted of murder...