Courtroom, a list by thomas giblin

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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.

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7.3

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75

/7545/

72

/3505/

3.6

/124863/

83

/172/

82

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63

/31/

3.0

age 16+

Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty crooks and other bottom-feeders, so it comes as quite a surprise when he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy who is accused of attempted murder. However, what Mick initially thinks is an open-and-shut case with a big monetary reward develops into something more sinister.

73

7.1

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71

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66

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3.4

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82

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70

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75

/40/

3.5

age 17+

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

52

6.2

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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.

79

7.7

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77

/6214/

77

/4495/

3.9

/197023/

83

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89

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66

/21/

3.5

age 14+

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

52

6.3

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65

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63

/2046/

2.9

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45

/167/

38

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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.

61

6.7

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67

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66

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3.1

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46

/156/

60

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46

/32/

3.0

age 15+

When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

72

7.5

/201330/

76

/5025/

73

/2817/

3.8

/179375/

66

/56/

85

/3590/

53

/21/

3.0

age 15+

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.

67

7.3

/77115/

75

/3024/

70

/1439/

3.5

/27446/

53

/134/

66

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60

/31/

3.0

age 18+

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

67

7.3

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74

/2481/

72

/1431/

3.4

/25917/

58

/153/

79

/864/

51

/31/

2.5

age 12+

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.

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8.1

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80

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79

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4.2

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94

/50/

95

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84

/16/

3.0

age 16+

A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.

69

6.8

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72

/1857/

68

/680/

3.4

/17866/

82

/169/

71

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63

/34/

2.5

age 13+

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

83

7.8

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75

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75

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4.1

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90

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89

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77

/9/

4.0

age 13+

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

72

7.3

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73

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70

/1375/

3.5

/49012/

78

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79

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64

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3.0

age 15+

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.

60

6.4

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66

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64

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2.9

/12034/

60

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48

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49

/32/

3.0

age 17+

When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.

65

7.2

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72

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73

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3.2

/24629/

40

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74

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age 16+

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

57

6.4

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67

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63

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3.0

/15573/

31

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50

/572/

48

/33/

3.0

age 14+

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.

59

6.6

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70

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72

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3.2

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50

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54

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50

/30/

2.0

age 14+

New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

56

6.2

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66

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62

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2.9

/22231/

58

/62/

41

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58

/19/

2.0

A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.

71

7.1

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70

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69

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3.4

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82

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73

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64

/12/

age 14+

When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

52

5.7

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55

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55

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2.8

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45

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33

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45

/38/

3.0

age 18+

A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

74

7.2

/21624/

75

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80

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3.5

/29661/

67

/9/

84

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Having died unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by 3 afterlife guardians. Only when he passes 7 trials over 49 days and proves he was innocent in human life, he’s able to reincarnate, and his 3 afterlife guardians are by his side to defend him in trial.

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6.9

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3.2

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56

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62

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55

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3.0

age 12+

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

75

7.3

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73

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72

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3.5

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70

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76

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68

/39/

4.0

age 16+

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

69

6.8

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75

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69

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3.3

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73

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2.0

age 15+

Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.

52

6.4

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66

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62

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3.0

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26

/31/

46

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48

/30/

2.0

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.

82

7.7

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75

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74

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4.0

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88

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88

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77

/17/

4.0

age 15+

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.

81

7.8

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78

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76

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3.9

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93

/15/

87

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During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.

67

6.6

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69

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64

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3.2

/12303/

65

/71/

55

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68

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3.5

age 13+

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything—including his career and his clients' goals—in order to continue the case against all odds.

66

6.8

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69

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65

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3.2

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71

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66

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75

/31/

2.0

age 14+

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

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8.0

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76

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73

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3.7

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100

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81

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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.

43

5.8

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61

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57

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2.7

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7

/28/

36

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35

/11/

Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.

57

52

6.3

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65

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63

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2.9

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35

/33/

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

74

8.1

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76

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72

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3.5

/12912/

75

/123/

A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.

48

5.7

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63

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56

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2.8

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22

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31

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2.0

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.

85

8.2

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80

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80

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4.4

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89

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88

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92

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This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.

65

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6.5

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66

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61

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3.4

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65

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Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on rookie defense attorney Phoenix Wright, as he strives to protect his clients in various murder trials, including the death of his mentor, Mia Fey, and the accusation of rival prosecutor, Miles Edgeworth. Phoenix's greatest ally is Mia's younger sister Maya, a spirit medium whose body is possessed by Mia to communicate with him.

84

7.7

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72

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75

/140/

4.0

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100

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81

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90

/20/

4.0

The trial story of Viviane Amsalem's five year fight to obtain her divorce in front of the only legal authority competent for divorce cases in Israel, the Rabbinical Court.

77

7.3

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70

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68

/315/

3.6

/12617/

77

/30/

79

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78

/14/

4.0

age 13+

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

33

4.6

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53

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49

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2.4

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8

/38/

23

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29

/17/

0.5

When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him. District attorney Robert Garrett decides to prosecute Rebecca, arguing that she deliberately engaged in wild sex with the old man to overexcite him and lead to his premature death. Defense attorney Frank Dulaney defends Rebecca in court while getting sucked into a dangerous affair with her.

73

7.2

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72

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67

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3.6

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91

/23/

82

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66

/10/

2.5

In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.

48

6.0

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63

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59

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2.8

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13

/23/

39

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45

/18/

2.0

Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

80

7.1

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71

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66

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3.5

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92

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78

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93

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4.0

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

67

6.5

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66

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63

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3.2

/11827/

79

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59

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60

/15/

3.5

After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.

63

6.6

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70

/369/

65

/240/

3.2

/5921/

71

/17/

59

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53

/13/

2.5

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.

71

6.7

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67

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66

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3.5

/16412/

87

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69

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68

/18/

3.0

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

75

7.5

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70

/250/

66

/407/

3.6

/3848/

76

/59/

83

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72

/17/

3.5

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

72

7.1

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70

/210/

68

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3.5

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85

/40/

78

/17/

61

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