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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.

Judge Dredd(1995)

1h 36min | Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 1,035 votes)

In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.

Sweet Girl(2021)

1h 36min | Action, Thriller, Drama
3.4/5 (with 520 votes)

A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.

Directed by Brian Andrew Mendoza - With Jason Momoa, Isabela Merced, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Amy Brenneman, Adria Arjona, Justin Bartha, ...

The Prince(2014)

1h 33min | Thriller, Action
2.5/5 (with 219 votes)

A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.

Batman: The Killing Joke(2016)

1h 12min | Action, Animation, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 801 votes)

As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness.

Directed by Sam Liu

Out of the Furnace(2013)

Κ-15
| 1h 56min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 853 votes)

Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.

High Noon(1952)

Κ-12
| 1h 25min | Western, Drama
3.9/5 (with 612 votes)

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

Just Mercy(2019)

Κ-12
| 2h 17min | Drama, Crime, History
4.0/5 (with 934 votes)

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

The Secret in Their Eyes(2009)

4.0/5 (with 1,094 votes)

A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.

Death Sentence(2007)

1h 45min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 474 votes)

Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.

High Crimes(2002)

1h 55min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.2/5 (with 335 votes)

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

Red Corner(1997)

2h 2min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 154 votes)

An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.

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On the Basis of Sex(2018)

Κ
| 2h | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 464 votes)

Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

Till(2022)

3.7/5 (with 72 votes)

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

Directed by Chinonye Chukwu - With Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, ...

Zorro(1975)

3.2/5 (with 61 votes)

A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.

Even Lambs Have Teeth(2015)

1h 18min | Thriller, Horror
2.9/5 (with 46 votes)

Two young women terrorized by a group of small town psychos seek revenge on their tormentors.

The Ox-Bow Incident(1943)

1h 16min | Western, Drama
3.9/5 (with 159 votes)

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

Miss Meadows(2014)

1h 28min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 105 votes)

Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.

Directed by Karen Leigh Hopkins - With Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale, Callan Mulvey, Mary Kay Place, Jean Smart, Ava Kolker, ...

We Were Tomorrow(2017)

How many lifetimes will alter tomorrow? In attempt to salvage humanity, alchemists relocate a small group to an alternative world and grant them three lifetimes to restart the population. Now, after only a few centuries, those in the new world face annihilation faster than those in the world they left behind. Tattooed with the key to escape, twin siblings Noah and Evelyn, battle through three vastly alternate lifetimes, to reconnect with their matches William and Siena, before time, an immortal hunter Cain, or the world, robs them of their last chance.

Red(2008)

1h 33min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 79 votes)

Avery, a reclusive older man, has a best friend in his dog, Red. When three teens kill Red without reason, Avery sets out for justice and redemption, attempting to follow the letter of the law. But when the law fails him, and the boys' father clearly defines right and wrong in his own way, Avery must avenge himself by any means possible.

Ghosts of Mississippi(1996)

2h 10min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 58 votes)

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.

Tom Horn(1980)

1h 34min | Western, Action, Drama
3.3/5 (with 47 votes)

A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ambitions of ranchers and corrupt officials as progress marches over him and the old west.

The Jack Bull(1999)

1h 56min | Western, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 35 votes)

The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their Crow Indian caretaker, Billy. When Judge Wilkins throws out Myrl's complaint, the war he wages to force Ballard to nurse the emaciated animals back to health escalates into a vigilante manhunt, murder and the possible defeat of Wyoming's bid for statehood.

Call Northside 777(1948)

1h 51min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 62 votes)

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to change his mind, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

Heaven(2002)

3.2/5 (with 111 votes)

A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.

One Good Cop(1991)

1h 54min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 35 votes)

When his partner is killed in the line of duty, Artie Lewis becomes the legal guardian of his three orphaned girls. But during his investigation of the case, Lewis finds his life – and that of his newfound family – on the line. That's when the guilty crime-lord comes face to face with one man's rage, one man's fury, one man's justice.

An Average Little Man(1977)

2h 2min | Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 92 votes)

Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son Mario, his biggest pride in the world, with the same secure government job before he eventually retires. For this, Giovanni will stop at nothing...

Tales of the Night(2011)

1h 24min | Fantasy, Animation
3.7/5 (with 57 votes)

Six exotic fables, each unfold in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, an Aztec kingdom, the African plains, and even the Land of the Dead.

Directed by Michel Ocelot

In My Country(2004)

1h 43min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

The Silence of Others(2019)

1h 35min | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 32 votes)

The story of the tortuous struggle against the silence of the victims of the dictatorship imposed by General Franco after the victory of the rebel side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1975). In a democratic country, but still ideologically divided, the survivors seek justice as they organize the so-called “Argentinian lawsuit” and denounce the legally sanctioned pact of oblivion that intends to hide the crimes they were subjects of.

Directed by Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar
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