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Anatomy of a Fall(2023)

2h 30min | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.9/5 (with 384 votes)

A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.

Directed by Justine Triet - With Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth, ...

The Judge(2014)

Κ-12
| 2h 21min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,806 votes)

A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

Law Abiding Citizen(2009)

16
| 1h 49min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 2,192 votes)

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

Ghostbusters II(1989)

1h 48min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 1,927 votes)

Five years after they defeated Gozer, the Ghostbusters are out of business. When Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement to aid her and hopefully save New York City from a new paranormal threat.

Good Will Hunting(1997)

12
| 2h 7min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 5,452 votes)

Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire.

The Devil's Advocate(1997)

16
| 2h 24min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.7/5 (with 2,579 votes)

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

The Hitman's Bodyguard(2017)

1h 58min | Action, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 2,896 votes)

The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

12 Angry Men(1957)

Κ
| 1h 37min | Drama
4.3/5 (with 3,899 votes)

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

Double Jeopardy(1999)

1h 45min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Drama
3.3/5 (with 548 votes)

Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving the mystery that destroyed her once-happy life. Standing between her and her quest; however, is her parole officer, Travis Lehman. Libby poses a challenge to the cynical officer, one that forces him to face up to his own failings while pitting him against his superiors and law enforcement colleagues.

Molly's Game(2017)

2h 20min | Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 1,659 votes)

Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

A Time to Kill(1996)

2h 29min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,090 votes)

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

Roman J. Israel, Esq.(2017)

2h 2min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 566 votes)

Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

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The Lincoln Lawyer(2011)

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| 1h 59min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,383 votes)

A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

The Juror(1996)

1h 58min | Thriller, Crime
2.8/5 (with 168 votes)

With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence her for good, she sends Oliver abroad and tries to gather evidence of the plot against her, setting up a final showdown.

The Rainmaker(1997)

13
| 2h 15min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 532 votes)

When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.

Witness for the Prosecution(1957)

1h 56min | Drama, Mystery, Crime
4.1/5 (with 559 votes)

When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits—but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.

God's Not Dead 2(2016)

2h 1min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 176 votes)

When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the public square once and for all.

Presumed Innocent(1990)

2h 7min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 284 votes)

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

Naked Singularity(2021)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama
2.3/5 (with 25 votes)

When a successful New York public defender loses his first case, he is pulled into a drug heist by a former client in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.

A Fish Called Wanda(1988)

15
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Crime
3.6/5 (with 931 votes)

A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.

In the Name of the Father(1993)

2h 13min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 800 votes)

A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.

Murder in the First(1995)

16
| 2h 2min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 258 votes)

Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19 days, but Henri spends years alone, cold and in complete darkness, only to emerge a madman and soon to be a murderer. The story follows a rookie lawyer attempting to prove that Alcatraz was to blame.

Anatomy of a Murder(1959)

2h 41min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 395 votes)

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

Interstate 60(2002)

1h 56min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 278 votes)

An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

Suspect(1987)

2h 1min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 88 votes)

When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.

The Third Murder(2017)

2h 4min | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.3/5 (with 104 votes)

Shigemori is a lawyer tasked with defending Misumi in a murder trial. Misumi has previous convictions for murder and has confessed to the crime, but evidence in the case leads to Shigemori having doubts about what really happened.

Inherit the Wind(1960)

2h 8min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 169 votes)

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

The Limehouse Golem(2016)

1h 49min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 277 votes)

A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.

Directed by Juan Carlos Medina - With Olivia Cooke, Bill Nighy, Douglas Booth, Eddie Marsan, Daniel Mays, Pete Sullivan, ...

Jagged Edge(1985)

16
| 1h 48min | Thriller
3.2/5 (with 107 votes)

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasn't handled a criminal case for many years. There's a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves.

The Verdict(1982)

2h 9min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 256 votes)

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.

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