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Kanopy
90
8.1
/194804/
79
/3211/
80
/2443/
4.2
/268539/
98
/64/
93
/2665/
98
/18/
cc age 15+

Rashomon (1950)
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
poster
Kanopy
87
8.1
/530866/
79
/18275/
78
/8615/
4.1
/573704/
97
/378/
93
/2949/
93
/45/
cc age 15+

Spotlight (2015)
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
poster
Hulu
83
7.5
/18992/
74
/781/
75
/418/
4.0
/105993/
97
/160/
94
/24/
84
/30/

The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.5
/107705/
74
/1861/
73
/1453/
3.7
/3036/
97
/60/
86
/1955/
80
/26/
cc age 17+

Dead Man Walking (1995)
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/26560/
72
/570/
74
/540/
4.1
/56543/
84
/45/
87
/394/

The Trial (1962)
Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.9
/60792/
78
/2158/
73
/817/
3.8
/78691/
96
/52/
87
/1364/
88
/10/

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
poster
Hoopla
82
8.3
/349502/
79
/5118/
79
/2782/
4.1
/247011/
93
/69/
93
/7705/
88
/16/
cc age 12+

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.6
/5714/
76
/165/
69
/70/
3.9
/7437/
98
/61/
78
/35/
83
/12/

Court (2015)
A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
poster
82
7.7
/50048/
75
/1111/
74
/698/
4.0
/57217/
88
/40/
88
/744/
77
/17/
cc age 15+

The Verdict (1982)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
81
7.9
/24044/
76
/399/
76
/385/
4.1
/48061/
91
/23/
90
/222/

A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.8
/20660/
78
/845/
76
/418/
3.9
/32418/
93
/15/
87
/608/

12 Angry Men (1997)
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.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.7
/18661/
76
/570/
70
/220/
3.9
/22038/
87
/38/
92
/1119/

The Castle (1997)
The quirky Kerrigan family lives together in a makeshift home they built themselves – with great pride and a bizarre attention to detail – a few yards from the edge of Melbourne, Australia's busy Tullamarine Airport. When a building inspector condemns the building and reveals that the government plans to use their land for an airport expansion, Darryl Kerrigan and his brood recruit hack attorney Dennis Denuto and prepare themselves for the fight of their lives.
poster
79
7.7
/271962/
77
/6233/
77
/4519/
3.9
/200666/
83
/63/
89
/4674/
66
/21/
cc age 14+

Philadelphia (1993)
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.
poster
78
7.5
/36266/
74
/754/
73
/707/
3.9
/60329/
86
/57/
84
/554/

The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
poster
MUBI
78
7.9
/123048/
77
/2244/
79
/1933/
4.2
/191129/
69
/120/
91
/4065/
63
/33/

Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
poster
77
7.0
/1715/
70
/48/
70
/43/
3.7
/2849/
100
/16/
78
/7/
81
/9/

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015)
Scheherazade narrates three more tales, supposedly selected from the 470th, 484th and 497th nights of her ordeal: “It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a Judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence. A runaway murderer will wander through the land for over forty days and will teletransport himself to escape the Guard while dreaming of prostitutes and partridges. A wounded cow will reminisce about a thousand-year-old olive tree while saying what she must say, which will sound none less than sad!
poster
Kanopy
76
7.7
/278258/
77
/6684/
76
/3758/
4.0
/404258/
77
/47/
89
/3807/
47
/18/
cc age 17+

Primal Fear (1996)
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.3
/28606/
76
/1864/
72
/657/
3.5
/18418/
80
/145/
84
/292/
66
/34/
cc age 13+

Marshall (2017)
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
poster
76
7.3
/8522/
72
/138/
69
/217/
3.5
/6055/
80
/20/
83
/167/
80
/20/

Ridicule (1996)
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
poster
fuboTV
76
7.5
/93515/
74
/1935/
74
/1839/
3.7
/72936/
90
/31/
88
/1399/
59
/11/
cc age 16+

Midnight Express (1978)
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
poster
AMC
76
7.6
/155930/
78
/5425/
75
/1777/
3.9
/300989/
85
/61/
87
/3579/
68
/23/
cc age 15+

My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
poster
Netflix
75
7.4
/201672/
75
/11154/
71
/3924/
3.6
/255103/
82
/304/
84
/960/
71
/46/
cc age 16+

Molly's Game (2017)
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.
poster
75
7.3
/47171/
73
/1029/
72
/714/
3.5
/14236/
70
/174/
76
/2216/
68
/39/
cc age 16+

North Country (2005)
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.
poster
Peacock Premium
74
7.5
/691177/
78
/41307/
77
/20463/
3.7
/1930988/
78
/257/
81
/165083/
71
/37/
cc age 12+

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of motivated students to defend themselves against the Dark Arts.
poster
MGM Plus
74
7.5
/19056/
73
/321/
73
/292/
3.9
/19984/
87
/31/
88
/321/
61
/9/

Lenny (1974)
The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.
poster
74
7.1
/51310/
72
/1121/
71
/970/
3.6
/31493/
82
/50/
75
/692/
75
/24/

Casualties of War (1989)
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
6.5
/4211/
68
/402/
68
/174/
3.2
/6872/
94
/33/
91
/14/
65
/7/

The Prosecutor (2024)
A poor young man is wrongly charged with drug trafficking after being deceived. An ex-prosecutor investigates the case, uncovers a corrupt lawyer team's scheme, and restores justice despite obstruction from evil forces.
poster
73
7.5
/250002/
76
/4859/
76
/3751/
3.8
/162077/
73
/56/
85
/3007/
49
/18/
cc age 18+

Sleepers (1996)
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
poster
MGM Plus
72
7.5
/202404/
76
/5063/
74
/2838/
3.8
/187251/
66
/56/
85
/3590/
53
/21/
cc age 15+

A Time to Kill (1996)
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.
poster
Kanopy
70
7.4
/9632/
73
/217/
71
/174/
3.7
/5590/
75
/20/
76
/66/

Music Box (1989)
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
70
6.9
/12184/
66
/252/
66
/209/
3.6
/15413/
78
/18/
79
/171/
85
/5/

The Last Wave (1977)
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.
poster
Kanopy
69
6.9
/27038/
66
/382/
64
/274/
3.4
/6528/
73
/88/
76
/514/
68
/31/

Heaven (2002)
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.
poster
69
7.4
/87439/
72
/1765/
71
/941/
3.4
/14990/
60
/25/
82
/1569/
58
/10/

Felon (2008)
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
poster
73
68
7.7
/8395/
79
/289/
77
/211/
3.8
/7276/
77
/13/
70
/28/
55
/7/

The Attorney (2013)
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.
poster
The Roku Channel
67
6.5
/18422/
66
/430/
62
/282/
3.2
/12293/
79
/29/
59
/171/
60
/15/

Jagged Edge (1985)
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.
poster
Hoopla
66
6.6
/10335/
64
/161/
61
/128/
3.1
/2736/
71
/35/
58
/137/
66
/16/

Restoration (1995)
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.
poster
66
6.8
/37473/
71
/1214/
67
/750/
3.8
/95122/
63
/56/
72
/1360/
64
/24/
cc age 18+

Serial Mom (1994)
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
poster
Kanopy
71
64
7.0
/4320/
64
/116/
64
/100/
3.7
/5515/
89
/19/
69
/41/

Foolish Wives (1922)
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.7
/80298/
68
/2239/
64
/1336/
3.2
/47747/
57
/123/
55
/1603/
62
/29/
cc age 17+

The Gift (2000)
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.
poster
62
6.3
/105300/
63
/2388/
59
/1609/
3.0
/70517/
76
/188/
48
/2187/
71
/40/
cc age 15+

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
poster
61
6.7
/7978/
70
/117/
63
/119/
3.3
/2918/
42
/26/
71
/121/

Nuts (1987)
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
poster
fuboTV
61
6.7
/148350/
67
/4541/
66
/2970/
3.1
/134212/
46
/156/
60
/12416/
46
/32/
cc age 15+

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
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.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
61
6.9
/260848/
74
/25385/
68
/6524/
3.1
/205201/
44
/226/
67
/1641/
47
/42/
cc age 16+

The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
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.
poster
57
6.4
/51236/
67
/1467/
63
/847/
3.0
/16288/
31
/132/
50
/572/
48
/33/
cc age 14+

High Crimes (2002)
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.
poster
56
6.1
/194709/
62
/9791/
60
/5125/
3.0
/718825/
49
/171/
53
/16791/
54
/34/
cc age 7+

Bee Movie (2007)
Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides to sue the human race after learning about the exploitation of bees at the hands of mankind. What will happen next?
poster
The Roku Channel
54
6.6
/8600/
63
/168/
63
/133/
3.4
/4651/
44
/32/
59
/133/
52
/14/

Agnes of God (1985)
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
53
7.5
/4903/
72
/81/
69
/65/
3.5
/1897/
79
/17/

Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.
poster
50
5.9
/10785/
70
/1116/
67
/389/
2.6
/6333/
19
/37/
67
/114/
32
/14/
cc age 16+

Acrimony (2018)
Faithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now she cannot let it go.


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