12 Angry Men (1997), Inherit the Wind (1960), Capernaum (2018), Scott Turow's Innocent (2011), The Cheat (1915), 12 Angry Men (1957), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), Madeleine (1950) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Courtroom Drama movies.
Storyline: One (Jack Lemmon) of 12 jurors holds out in the case of a boy (George C. Scott) from the slums who is accused of killing his father.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, murder case, prejudice, class conflict, moral dilemma, social critique, black and white film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) reporting, two of the nation's leading lawyers go head to head: Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March) for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) for the defense.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, historical drama, american history, evolution, cultural conflict, based on true events, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Plot Keywords: social realism, poverty, family breakdown, street life, legal battle, struggle for survival, humanitarianism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a judge (Bill Pullman) is accused of murdering his wife, an affair from his past threatens to destroy his defense.
Plot Keywords: legal thriller, courtroom drama, murder mystery, crime investigation, moral dilemma, power struggle, family conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a wealthy man (Sessue Hayakawa) brands a woman (Fannie Ward) for revoking their loan agreement, she shoots him, and her husband (Jack Dean) takes the blame in court.
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, crime, race, morality, betrayal, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, prejudice, justice, legal system, moral dilemma, group dynamics, black and white ...
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: courtroom drama, mystery, crime, drama, film noir, classic, murder ...
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: drama, romance, historical, british film, black and white, classic, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Detective Philo Vance sifts through clues and comes up with seven possible suspects in the murder of a sportsman.
Plot Keywords: murder mystery, detective story, classic film, 1930s, film noir, crime investigation, whodunit ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a military-led country, a pacifist organization, which supports the opposition party in the government, is planning on holding an anti-military rally. The organization's leader is scheduled to arrive the day of the rally, amid reports of an assassinating plot.Thrown into the mix is a photojournalist who's looking for the truth.
Plot Keywords: political thriller, historical event, government corruption, social injustice, investigative journalism, judicial injustice, based on true events ...
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: family, marriage, moral dilemma, social class, law, conflict, truth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Giovanna is taken to the Inquisition court. . After the accusation of blasphemy continues to pray in ecstasy . A friar thinks that Giovanna is a saint, but is taken away by the soldiers. Giovanna sees a cross in the shadow and feels comforted. She is not considered a daughter of God but a daughter of the devil and is sentenced to torture. Giovanna D 'Arco says that even if she dies she will not deny anything. The eyes are twisted by terror in front of the torture wheel and faint. Giovanna is taken to a bed where they are bleeding. Giovanna feels that she is about to die and asks to be buried in a consecrated area. Giovanna burns at the stake while devoted ladies cry.
Plot Keywords: silent film, historical drama, biography, french film, black and white, classic film, trial ...
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: comedy, musical, courtroom drama, crime, black comedy, adaptation, chicago ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Struggling new attorney Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon) resorts to working for a shady lawyer (Mickey Rourke), where he meets paralegal Deck Shifflet (Danny DeVito). When the insurance company of Dot Black (Mary Kay Place) refuses her dying son coverage, Baylor and Shifflet team up to fight the corrupt corporation, taking on its callous lawyer (Jon Voight). Meanwhile, Baylor becomes involved with Kelly Riker (Claire Danes), an abused wife, whose husband complicates matters when he confronts Baylor.
Plot Keywords: legal, drama, courtroom, lawyer, insurance fraud, moral dilemma, justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A district attorney (William Powell) condemns his boyhood buddy, a racketeer (Clark Gable) whose crime saves his bid for governor.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, gangster, romance, friendship, betrayal ...
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