The Advocate (1993), You Only Live Once (1937), The Collini Case (2019), Death Wish (1974), The Rose Garden (1989), Hunt the Man Down (1950), Death Wish 3 (1985) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Public Defender movies.
Storyline: Hoping to escape the complications of 15th-century Paris, young lawyer Richard Courtois (Colin Firth) takes a job as a public defender in a rural area. There he finds himself defending a pig accused of murdering a Jewish boy. Squaring off against a determined prosecutor (Donald Pleasence) and Catholic priest (Ian Holm), Richard defends the animal, which is owned by a beautiful gypsy woman, Samira (Amina Annabi). The medieval justice system and local superstitions mingle as the case plays out.
Plot Keywords: public defender, lord, catholic priest, gypsy, prosecutor, daughter, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joan is the secretary to the public defender in a large city. She is in love with a career criminal named Eddie, and she believes that he is a basically good person who just had some tough breaks. She uses her influence to get him released early, and he tries to go straight after marrying her, but things don't work out, and they both go on the lam.—Tim Horrigan <horrigan@eworld.com>
Plot Keywords: secretary, ex-convict, public defender, tense, melodramatic, passionate, prison ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 2001, Fabrizio Collini (Franco Nero), a retired Italian worker, who had been living in Germany for 35 years, kills an elderly wealthy industrialist well known throughout the country. Collini's defense has been assigned to a public defender, the young lawyer Caspar Leinen (Elayas M'Barek), at his first major trial. However, Caspar had been a protegee of the murdered person, who he considered as a kind of father.—Ferruccio
Plot Keywords: public defender, lawyer, industrialist, worker, dead person, intricate, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Open-minded architect Paul Kersey returns to New York City from vacationing with his wife, feeling on top of the world. At the office, his cynical coworker gives him the welcome-back with a warning on the rising crime rate. But Paul, a bleeding-heart liberal, thinks of crime as being caused by poverty. However his coworker's ranting proves to be more than true when Paul's wife is killed and his daughter is raped in his own apartment. The police have no reliable leads and his overly sensitive son-in-law only exacerbates Paul's feeling of hopelessness. He is now facing the reality that the police can't be everywhere at once. Out of sympathy his boss gives him an assignment in sunny Arizona where Paul gets a taste of the Old West ideals. He returns to New York with a compromised view on muggers...
Plot Keywords: architect, friend, gang leader, gang member, police chief, public defender, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
Plot Keywords: public defender, holocaust survivor, nazi, husband, gripping, suspenseful, frankfurt, germany ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dishwasher 'Bill Jackson' thwarts a robbery; resulting publicity fingers him as the 12-years-missing Richard Kinkaid, wanted for murder. Kinkaid half-convinces public defender Paul Bennett of his innocence; but Paul knows he'll never convince a jury without the 7 witnesses who've had 12 years to vanish. It develops that these prosperous young folks have gone down in the world. Paul and his father, a one-armed ex-cop, have a week to find them...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: public defender, suspect, witness, woman, man, brooding, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paul Kersey, New York City architect and part-time vigilante, returns from L.A. to visit an old friend. Instead, he must avenge his death by fighting youth gangs.
Plot Keywords: architect, friend, gang leader, gang member, police chief, public defender, rousing ...
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