12 Angry Men (1997), Inherit the Wind (1960), 12 Angry Men (1957), Raw Deal: A Question of Consent (2001), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), Nothing but the Truth (2008), Inherit the Wind (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Court Battles movies.
Storyline: Fearing it would compromise his career, lawyer Andrew Beckett hides his homosexuality and HIV status at a powerful Philadelphia law firm. But his secret is exposed when a colleague spots the illness's telltale lesions. Fired shortly afterwards, Beckett resolves to sue for discrimination, teaming up with Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), the only lawyer willing to help. In court, they face one of his ex-employers top litigators, Belinda Conine.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, gay man, wife, husband, homophobe, boyfriend, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The film presents the little-known story of the 20,000 European Jews who fled to Shanghai between late 1937 and 1941. After 1939, Shanghai was the last and only resort to find safe haven from the Nazis, though not that safe either, as the film shows. This was due to Shanghai's status as a free port not requiring entry papers, and the relative tolerance of the Japanese occupiers, who, far from being saviors, resisted their Grand Ally's (Germany) demand to exterminate the Jews, and even prevented the actions of the Nazi "Butcher of Warsaw" who was assigned to liquidate the Shanghai Jews. After the Communist takeover of China, all traces of the Jews' existence, including a Jewish cemetery with 2,000 graves, were razed. The Jews passage through Shanghai is revealed, and preserved through four survivors (Fred Fields now of Miami, Ernest and Illo Heppner, and Siegmar Simon), and an incredible collage of rare film footage assembled by Joan Grossman and Paul Rosdy who wrote, edited, directed and produced the documentary.—Guy33134 of Miami
Plot Keywords: unfaithful husband, wife, mistress, lawyer, son, secretary, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary on the infamous gonzo journalist, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
Plot Keywords: journalist, johnny depp, actor, amusing, outlandish, hollywood, calif., hunter s. thompson ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alexander Stille narrates the film based on his 1995 book of the same name, which chronicles the efforts of Italian prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino to bring the Sicilian Mafia to justice. After years of futility, Falcone and Borsellino strike a massive blow, convicting more than 350 mafiosi. Five years later, both would die within months of each other at the hands of the mob. The film also features the gritty work of anti-Mafia photojournalist Letizia Battaglia.
Plot Keywords: prosecutor, mafioso, photojournalist, chilling, brutal, sicily, organized crime ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the Melbourne airport (according to Jane Kennedy, it's "practically their back yard"). However, they are forced to leave their beloved home, by the Government and airport authorities. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their house, taking their case as far as the High Court.
Plot Keywords: tow truck driver, wife, hairdresser, son, lawyer, inspector, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rakesh gets married to Geeta and goes to London for further studies for 3 years after a year he comes to know about Geeta's illness and returns back and Geeta dies in his arms,Rakesh goes in depression and lives with her memories.One day inspector Daljit comes to meet Rakesh and tells him about a bandit Raina they caught on other day who claims to be his wife,Rakesh meets her and is shocked that she totally resembles Geeta. Rakesh doesn't agree to this as Geeta died in his arms,but Raina tells such things about Rakesh that only a wife would know but it is impossible for Geeta to be alive as she was Cremenated in front of whole village.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
Plot Keywords: lawyer, wife, criminal, judge, somber, melodramatic, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Regarded as a First Amendment crusader by some and a smut peddler by others, Larry Flynt is nevertheless an important figure in American culture. In this documentary, Flynt talks about his Hustler magazine empire and discusses the prison sentence he served for not revealing the source of a tape featuring auto executive John DeLorean being threatened by the FBI. He also offers insight into his political campaigns and the Supreme Court trial that pitted him against religious leader Jerry Falwell.
Plot Keywords: pornographer, associate, friend, news reporter, politician, religious person, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This documentary presents a sobering reminder of the racial tensions that gripped America not so long ago. In Mississippi during the '50s, a black teenager named Emmett Louis Till, who is from Chicago and visiting his great-uncle, whistles at a white woman in public. Not too long afterward, he is kidnapped and murdered. The filmmakers revisit the public outrage that follows, revealing Till's family as being particularly brave for standing up to white racism when it was clearly unsafe to do so.
Plot Keywords: mother, civil rights activist, family member, sheriff, teenager, al sharpton, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, villager, magistrate, veteran, impostor, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught, they start to think that Barbara has helped the police to arrest them. As revenge, they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: petty criminal, journalist, thief, attorney, psychologist, raw, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Plot Keywords: pornographer, stripper, lawyer, judge, religious person, reverend, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's the early 1920s. Britons Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and her probable future mother-in-law Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) have just arrived in Chandrapore in British India to visit Adela's unofficial betrothed, Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers), who works there as the city's magistrate. Adela and Mrs. Moore, who long for "an adventure" in experiencing all India has to offer, are dismayed to learn upon their arrival that the ruling British do not socialize, let alone associate, with the native population. Such people as the Turtons, Mr. Turton (Richard Wilson) being Ronny's superior, who openly thumb their noses at the idea in their belief that the Indians are an inferior people. They are further dismayed to see that Ronny adheres to that custom in not wanting to jeopardize his career. At the local white only club, Adela and Mrs. Moore find a like-minded Brit in the form of Richard Fielding (James Fox), the school master at government college, he who offers to organize a small, but truly ...
Plot Keywords: tourist, doctor, fiancé, friend, lawyer, emotional, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife Jennifer and entraps her lover, Lieutenant Robert "Rob" Nunally. He signs a confession. At the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all of the objects moving in ways he predicts.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, engineer, judge, murderer, boss, defendant, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1940, Thurgood Marshall is a young lawyer for the NAACP who criss-crosses the country defending innocent African-Americans from unjust indictments in court. His latest case is in Bridgeport, Connecticut where an African-American chauffeur is accused of rape of a wealthy white society woman. To admit Marshall into the local Bar, insurance lawyer Sam Friedman is picked over his objections to do introductions in court. However, Friedman's commitment changes drastically when the racist judge forbids Marshall to speak in court, forcing Friedman to act as lead counsel. Now in an intolerable situation for the pair, Marshall must guide his new compatriot through this criminal trial even as Friedman endures not only this unfamiliar area of law, but also the bigoted pressure he now must share. However, the case proves more complex than either anticipates with unexpected twists and turns even as it becomes a vital one that would define two careers as well as the fight for justice in America.
Plot Keywords: thurgood marshall, black man, chauffeur, lawyer, confident, emotional, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Plot Keywords: brother, convict, lawyer, student, touching, tense, gripping ...
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