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Movies: Best "crooked lawyer" Movies


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The Devil's Advocate(1997)

R
| 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.

Michael Clayton(2007)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Crime
3.4/5 (with 718 votes)

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

Midnight Run(1988)

3.6/5 (with 442 votes)

An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman(2005)

PG-13
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 92 votes)

Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seemed to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, her life takes an unexpected twist when she comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing her and kicks her out. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life. Helen is forced to rediscover love, life and religion on her pursuit for happiness.

Justice, My Foot!(1992)

1h 42min | Comedy, Action
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

An unscrupulous lawyer with an equally eccentric kung-fu sidekick wife tries to bring justice to the court.

Ride Clear of Diablo(1954)

NR
| 1h 20min | Western
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

A young railroad surveyor returns to his hometown to find the man who murdered his father and brother.

The Hard Word(2002)

1h 42min | Action, Comedy, Crime
2.7/5 (with 16 votes)

Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Directed by Scott Roberts - With Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor, Joel Edgerton, David No

Cry of the City(1948)

NR
| 1h 35min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism. When Martin fears Candella will implicate his girlfriend Teena, he'll do anything to protect her. How many others will he drag down to disaster with him?

The Big Racket(1976)

1h 44min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorising a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth. As a result, the owner's young daughter is raped, and the violence continues. Discovering that the gang is associated with drug dealers, Palmieri is forbidden to continue investigating his case by his superior - so he takes matters into his own hands. Palmieri recruits a couple of men who have become victims of the gang and sets out for a bloody revenge.

The Case of the Stuttering Pig(1937)

3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Porky Pig and his family inherit Uncle Solomon's estate, but if they die everything goes to the lawyer, who turns himself into a Mr. Hyde-style monster in an effort to kill off the pigs.

Directed by Frank Tashlin

Treasure of Monte Cristo(1949)

NR
| 1h 16min | Action, Adventure, Drama
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.

Directed by William Berke

The Tattered Dress(1957)

NR
| 1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; murder results. Top defense lawyer J.G. Blane, whose own marriage exists in name only, arrives in Desert View, Nevada to find the townsfolk and politically powerful Sheriff Hoak distinctly hostile to the Restons. In due course, Blane discovers he's been "taken for a ride," and that quiet desert communities can be deadly...

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Fury at Showdown(1957)

1h 15min | Western
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

After serving a year for a killing in self-defense, gunfighter Brock Mitchell tries to help his younger brother save his ranch but a crooked lawyer has other ideas.

Directed by Gerd Oswald - With John Derek

Sunset on the Desert(1942)

1h 3min | Action, Western
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.

Eyes of Texas(1948)

1h 10min | Action, Western
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A ranch owner turns his place into a home for boys who have lost their fathers in World War II. His evil female lawyer covets the ranch and uses a gang of local toughs, a pack of killer dogs, and a phoney rancher's beneficiary to get it. U.S. Marshal Rogers opens an investigation when the rancher is killed.

Lady at Midnight(1948)

NR
| 1h 2min | Mystery

A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.

Directed by Sam Newfield

The Spellbinder(1939)

NR
| 1h 9min | Crime, Romance / Love, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?

Directed by Jack Hively - With Lee Tracy

Marshal of Laredo(1945)

NR
| 56min | Western

Substituting for Allan Lane, who'd been called away to active military service, Bill Elliot stars in the Republic "Red Ryder" western Marshal of Laredo. This time, Red comes to the aid of a frontier lawyer, who is suspected of being an outlaw.

The Associate(2020)

As he faces graduation, a top Yale Law School student is coerced into taking a job with a prestige firm after he's given privileged information concerning a multi-billion-dollar case.