Legal thriller dramas, a list by Lunaivy

7.0

/120752/

71

/9714/

68

/2293/

3.4

/601878/

93

/183/

90

/108/

72

/37/

3.0

age 14+

While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.

63

59

6.0

/24840/

65

/251/

61

/61/

3.0

/15883/

71

/17/

61

/59/

When Ankur is wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death in a foreign country, his steely sister Satya is driven by a lethal resolve to break him free.

?

7.7

/8/

No Means No is a cross-genre action-packed, teenage musical love story, a courtroom drama that's more like the thrill of a roller-coaster ride as each twist and turn begins to unravel to reach a conclusion that calls out for justice.

83

7.5

/299937/

73

/12251/

74

/3917/

4.0

/1143376/

93

/473/

84

/1570/

89

/63/

4.0

age 16+

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

62

16

5.9

/493/

65

/54/

69

/15/

2.8

/406/

Devoted wife and mother Barbara Weaver led a traditional life in her conservative Ohio Amish community. Her husband, however, gave into the “temptations of women and technology” forbidden to the community, leading a secret life online as the “Amish Stud.” Furthermore, he shared with mistresses his desire to kill his wife — something that made him the prime suspect when Barbara is found dead.

83

7.6

/203902/

75

/8092/

75

/3074/

4.1

/1385550/

96

/287/

91

/63/

86

/44/

3.5

age 14+

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

76

7.1

/19926/

71

/1299/

70

/411/

3.9

/131447/

96

/92/

74

/74/

80

/16/

3.0

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the case’s puzzle.

62

5.8

/14070/

62

/1384/

58

/341/

2.8

/7627/

70

/37/

72

/37/

49

/8/

3.0

age 16+

A disgraced ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the woods, but his quiet life comes to an end when a private eye recruits him to investigate the murder of an eccentric TV star's wife.

64

?

6.6

/1577/

64

/28/

3.2

/219/

CA Keswani is arrested for bank fraud and forgery. Keswani hires Birbal, a lawyer, to fight his case. But Birbal realises that there's more to it than what meets the eye.

65

6.6

/173088/

66

/7120/

65

/3335/

2.9

/482473/

61

/371/

83

/1758/

59

/59/

2.5

age 15+

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.

50

?

5.3

/151/

40

/8/

58

/5/

Abby represents her estranged sister in a murder trial. Is her sister guilty or is there a killer on the loose?

68

55

7.1

/2339/

70

/120/

69

/67/

3.6

/2891/

62

/13/

In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.

70

7.5

/70900/

75

/3597/

74

/1226/

3.7

/56951/

75

/219/

85

/191/

53

/35/

2.0

age 16+

The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.

79

7.7

/203610/

77

/7440/

76

/3243/

3.8

/402987/

89

/344/

90

/454/

76

/49/

3.0

age 16+

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

46

5.4

/30653/

59

/2729/

60

/944/

2.4

/37296/

40

/110/

27

/159/

46

/27/

1.5

age 15+

In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear them apart.

50

5.5

/3891/

59

/329/

52

/130/

2.8

/2240/

42

/45/

37

/22/

53

/14/

2.0

age 15+

A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's unorthodox sermons, but so is a police chief who has his suspicions.

77

7.6

/83502/

79

/5001/

78

/2426/

3.8

/126812/

85

/310/

99

/4320/

68

/50/

2.5

age 13+

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.

79

7.6

/119594/

77

/6928/

75

/2409/

3.8

/170091/

89

/236/

95

/539/

73

/38/

3.0

age 14+

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

50

5.5

/1584/

56

/142/

53

/61/

3.0

/495/

36

/25/

42

/9/

50

/9/

2.0

age 15+

An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

64

6.7

/111491/

69

/6317/

69

/3478/

3.1

/228136/

54

/191/

57

/442/

52

/31/

3.5

age 16+

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

71

39

5.2

/456/

70

/74/

70

/24/

92

/39/

age 13+

A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.

58

5.9

/10321/

65

/672/

61

/294/

2.8

/19272/

66

/151/

48

/53/

59

/32/

2.0

age 17+

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.

76

6.9

/9959/

70

/560/

66

/201/

3.6

/8548/

96

/91/

72

/58/

88

/22/

3.0

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

75

7.4

/201290/

75

/11154/

71

/3912/

3.6

/252858/

82

/304/

84

/960/

71

/46/

3.0

age 16+

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.

69

7.1

/37474/

69

/1355/

69

/859/

3.6

/30025/

75

/151/

71

/56/

65

/31/

2.5

Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.

56

6.5

/47504/

69

/3268/

63

/1354/

3.1

/39291/

55

/175/

57

/374/

58

/41/

1.0

age 13+

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.

76

7.3

/28532/

76

/1852/

72

/656/

3.5

/18057/

80

/145/

84

/293/

66

/34/

3.5

age 13+

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

52

12

5.8

/628/

65

/57/

50

/11/

3.0

/503/

30

/5/

Lyle and Eric Menendez were nice, educated boys from Beverly Hills, which makes the murder of their parents even more inexplicable. Never-before-seen details emerge in this investigation into their lives.

?

5.8

/73/

30

/2/

60

/1/

After a loving wife murders a blackmailer to protect her husbands flourishing law career, she must watch as he prosecutes another for her crime.

62

6.3

/24725/

67

/1796/

62

/711/

3.1

/16683/

74

/77/

55

/108/

63

/20/

2.0

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.

80

70

8.0

/51733/

76

/634/

73

/233/

3.7

/13918/

100

/14/

81

/9/

age 15+

A sexual assault victim, unjustly tried for the attempted murder of her attacker, is defended by a retired lawyer who challenges India's rape culture.

42

5.1

/6486/

60

/450/

53

/220/

2.4

/6445/

26

/35/

25

/31/

42

/16/

1.5

Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of the dark childhood that that fuels his writing. Adrift in the precarious gray area of memory, Stephen is led by three sources of inspiration: a new romance, the best friend who shares his history, and a murder trial that reminds him more than a little of his own story. Based on the memoir of the same name.

60

19

6.2

/1057/

56

/31/

55

/27/

3.2

/299/

64

/9/

A stand-up comedian confesses to a murder on-stage at an open mic night to a shocked audience - his crime the result of a deadly triangle formed between his older sister, just released from prison after a 20-year stay for the murder of their parents, the loving bond he now shares with a caring surrogate family, and the ultimate choice he must make between them - his dysfunctional blood ties with his own sister, or his picturesque view of the ideal family.

52

6.2

/36401/

69

/4023/

65

/1241/

2.8

/28198/

35

/31/

34

/114/

46

/15/

2.0

A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.

36

5.3

/18953/

63

/1960/

55

/597/

2.3

/4922/

7

/27/

22

/111/

24

/10/

1.0

age 16+

An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.

63

56

6.0

/4863/

64

/252/

67

/121/

3.3

/16175/

61

/24/

When a small town near the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out overnight, suspicion falls on the lone survivor. But a roll of photos the survivor took that night tells a different story.

80

7.6

/342101/

75

/15820/

72

/7127/

3.6

/216848/

91

/314/

87

/2547/

81

/48/

3.5

age 13+

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

52

6.3

/75449/

65

/3687/

63

/2046/

2.9

/52835/

45

/167/

38

/454/

50

/40/

1.5

age 17+

A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

59

?

5.0

/218/

63

/19/

65

/2/

A district attorney asks a forensic accountant (Nicole de Boer) to investigate the murder of a key witness.

64

7.4

/217164/

73

/7632/

73

/4312/

3.4

/101454/

49

/197/

72

/2010/

48

/39/

2.5

age 16+

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.

51

50

5.8

/5855/

64

/312/

57

/153/

2.8

/2908/

40

/15/

36

/70/

age 17+

Lizzie Borden Took An Ax chronicles the scandal and enduring mystery surrounding Lizzie Borden, who was tried in 1892 for axing her parents to death. As the case rages on, the courtroom proceedings fuel an enormous amount of sensationalized stories and headlines in newspapers throughout the country, forever leaving Lizzie Borden’s name in infamy.

44

5.7

/21469/

63

/1337/

58

/578/

2.6

/4620/

33

/9/

31

/168/

19

/5/

When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch's worst fears come true when he realizes that he acquitted a guilty man, and he soon finds himself on the hunt for the killer before more victims pile up.

52

6.2

/24095/

64

/1204/

59

/483/

2.9

/4368/

43

/131/

31

/314/

50

/39/

2.0

age 16+

A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.

51

6.1

/25401/

65

/1121/

62

/696/

2.8

/12155/

26

/96/

39

/274/

42

/24/

2.5

age 15+

The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

47

43

5.5

/6260/

58

/277/

57

/191/

2.5

/1859/