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260 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 50 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Witness for the Prosecution. 1957 1h 56m Approved. 8.4 (139K) Rate. 76 Metascore. A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
Dec 22, 2016 · A good legal dispute is the stuff great dramas are made of, with all their rebuttals, arguments and surprise witnesses. That’s why it’s so easy to name 25 absolutely stellar courtroom drama ...
1. The Verdict. 1982 2h 9m R. 7.7 (46K) Rate. 77 Metascore. An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling. Director Sidney Lumet Stars Paul Newman Charlotte Rampling Jack Warden. 2. Fracture. 2007 1h 53m R. 7.2 (220K) Rate. 68 Metascore.
- Liar Liar
- Legal Eagles
- Vaashi
- Unspeakable Acts
- Shastry Virudh Shastry
- Yara
- In Defense of A Married Man
- The Laundromat
- A Fall from Grace
- Seeing Allred
This one is a comedy film that centers on a lawyer and his latest case. So, in essence, it is a courtroom drama. We have Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey), an attorney whose lie-filled exploits in the courtroom are renowned and have earned him quite a reputation. But after he misses his son’s birthday and the kid wishes for his father to speak only the t...
Directed by Ivan Reitman, this legal drama stars Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah. The film follows Assistant District Attorney Tom Logan (Robert Redford) and Attorney Laura Kelly (Debra Winger), who work together to solve the mysterious case of Kelly’s client, Chelsea Deardon (Daryl Hannah). Deardon has been accused of stealing a pai...
Penned and directed by Vishnu G. Raghav, ‘Vaashi’ is a captivating drama featuring Tovino Thomas and Keerthy Suresh. The plot unfolds as a courtroom drama, pitting two skilled, self-made lawyers against each other in a high-stakes case. Their determination to win takes center stage as the legal battle intensifies, providing a riveting narrative tha...
Starring Jill Clayburgh, Brad Davis, Season Hubley, and Gary Frank, ‘Unspeakable Acts’ is a biographical drama directed by Linda Otto. Based on the 1986 book of the same name by Jan Hollingsworth, the film showcases one of the worst cases of child abuse in the United States, the child abuse in Country Walk daycare in Miami, Florida, in 1984. It was...
Directed by Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, ‘Shastry Virudh Shastry’ is an Indian Hindi-language film that is a remake of the Bengali film ‘Posto’ (2017) that is also directed by the same duo. It pins Manohar (Paresh Rawal) against his son Malhar (Shiv Panditt) in an emotional custody battle for the former’s grandson, 7-year-old Yaman Shastr...
An exhilarating courtroom drama, ‘Yara,’ directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, follows the aftermath of the murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio. The shocking murder ends up dividing the town of Brembate di Sopra into two as people clamor for the murderer to be brought to justice. In such a tumultuous setting, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri has no leads ...
This one is an oldie but goodie. The premise is so interesting – a man having an extra-marital affair becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his girlfriend and has to lawyer up. Who’s the lawyer? The very wife he was cheating on. ‘In Defense of a Married Man’ is a satisfyingly soapy, made-for-TV movie that features some brilliant acting and a s...
This star-studded film about the real-life scandal of the Panama Papers and a money manipulation scam is headed by Meryl Streep. But even the legendary Streep’s presence is not enough to elevate a dry script and make this appear as an entry much higher on this list. The story, direction, and acting jobs are all well done, but the film’s narrative l...
When a woman is jailed for the murder of her husband, a rookie lawyer believes that things just don’t add up and starts an investigation of her own. When the woman denies killing her husband, the lawyer knows she has to find out the truth at all costs. The truth is something entirely different, and her client is being framed, especially since the d...
‘Seeing Allred’ is an interesting documentary that follows women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred and documents her firebrand court performances as she fights famous people charged with sexual misconduct and assault. The attorney, who is considered a stalwart in her field, undertook various controversial cases and has fought for women’s rights again...
- And Justice for All (1976) Defense attorney Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino) delivers one of the most memorable courtroom speeches on film toward the end of And Justice for All.
- Just Mercy (2019) One crime that deserves serious investigation is how the 2019 legal drama Just Mercy didn’t receive so much as a single Oscar nomination the year it came out.
- Primal Fear (1996) Anyone paying attention to Primal Fear upon its release had to know that they were witnessing only the very beginning of Edward Norton’s movie career.
- In the Name of the Father (1993) While there are a lot of movies about innocent people accused of crimes they didn’t commit, few come as close to showing the true cost of such injustice as In the Name of the Father.
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Jan 27, 2024 · There's no shortage of great courtroom drama movies out there, from newer releases like Anatomy of a Fall to classics like To Kill a Mockingbird.
