The Laramie Project (2002), 12 Angry Men (1997), Inherit the Wind (1960), Character (1997), After Innocence (2005), Red Riding: 1983 (2009), Capernaum (2018), The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Courtroom movies.
Storyline: Divorced and ruined in Paris, a Polish hairdresser (Zbigniew Zamachowski) gets even with his French ex-wife (Julie Delpy).
Plot Keywords: immigrant, wife, judge, boss, hairdresser, brother, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Henry Hill might be a small time gangster, who may have taken part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who might have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners could kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to think about climbing up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, might be badly affected by his partners' success, but will he consider stooping low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy?
Plot Keywords: mobster, gangster, thief, partner, agent, mob enforcer, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott (Katharine Hepburn) has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones (Laurence Olivier) is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
Plot Keywords: actress, aristocrat, barrister, suitor, ex-lover, amusing, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand) and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif), struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan (Brian Cox), a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
Plot Keywords: activist, detective, terrorist, lawyer, government official, partner, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charismatic psychopath Greg Powell (James Woods) teams up with Jimmy Youngblood (Franklyn Seales), a petty thief. Driving in Los Angeles in 1963, they are pulled over by Detective Hettinger (John Savage) and his partner, Campbell (Ted Danson), for an illegal U-turn. Panicked, Powell kidnaps the officers and kills Campbell. Hettinger escapes, and his description of the men leads to their arrest. As both men evade prosecution with legal tricks, Hettinger is racked with guilt over his survival.
Plot Keywords: psychopath, petty criminal, police officer, survivor, district attorney, wife, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Britain, 1953. Upon his return to work following a heart attack, barrister takes on a murder case,. The case is defending American war vet Leonard Vole, a poor, out of work, struggling inventor who's accused of murdering his middle-aged lonely and wealthy acquaintance, Emily French. The evidence is circumstantial but points to Leonard as the murderer, butr the csse has constant revelations.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, wife, defendant, prosecutor, nurse, witness, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nader (Payman Maadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) argue about living abroad. Simin prefers to live abroad to provide better opportunities for their only daughter, Termeh. However, Nader refuses to go because he thinks he must stay in Iran and take care of his father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi), who suffers from Alzheimers. However, Simin is determined to get a divorce and leave the country with her daughter.
Plot Keywords: bank employee, wife, pregnant woman, nurse, senior citizen, daughter, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Small-town Alabama, 1932. Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and a widower. He has two young children, Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch is currently defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Meanwhile, Jem and Scout are intrigued by their neighbours, the Radleys, and the mysterious, seldom-seen Boo Radley in particular.
Plot Keywords: young girl, young boy, lawyer, neighbor, defendant, drunk, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Upper-class Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) stands trial for killing her French lover (Ivan Desny) in Victorian Scotland.
Plot Keywords: suspect, lover, father, wealthy man, lawyer, judge, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The brother of condemned killer Gary Gilmore comes to terms with his brother's crimes and his family's violent legacy.
Plot Keywords: brother, murderer, death row inmate, journalist, mother, chilling, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian (Al Pacino) as he advocates assisted suicide.
Plot Keywords: terminally ill person, pathologist, technician, patient, death, sister, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. Retired American judge, Dan Haywood has a daunting task ahead of him. The Cold War is heating up and no one wants any more trials as Germany, and Allied governments, want to forget the past. But is that the right thing to do is the question that the tribunal must decide.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: judge, defendant, lawyer, military officer, nazi, widow, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned.
Plot Keywords: tennis player, wife, writer, criminal, detective, intellectual, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When reporter Rachel Armstrong (Kate Beckinsale) 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 (Matt Dillon) and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert Burnside (Alan Alda) argues her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Plot Keywords: reporter, cia agent, prosecutor, attorney, husband, editor, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1927 Chicago, the body of a theatrical agent is found in the apartment of his client, would-be dancer Roxie Hart (Ginger Rogers), who lives with her husband, Amos. Convinced by two reporters that juries never convict pretty women and that she can garner fame by confessing, Roxie, who knows Amos is guilty, agrees. Amos hires snappy lawyer Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) to stir publicity, and Roxie is a sensation. But when public interest flags, Roxie fears she might be convicted after all.
Plot Keywords: dancer, husband, reporter, lawyer, thief, foreman, brash ...
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