Scott Turow's Innocent (2011), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997), Primal Fear (1996), Dark Waters (2019), Jolly LLB (2013), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Michael Clayton (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Legal Thriller movies.
Storyline: After a lawyer gets disbarred, he goes off to write a book about his experience. He meets a man who lets him read his manuscript. The man dies and the lawyer passes the book off as his. Just when the book becomes a big success. He gets arrested for the true life murders of the five lawyers in his book. He then finds himself, trying to prove that he is innocent of the murders.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, mystery, legal, murder, lawyer, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After fighting with husband Stephen, Jan storms out with a suitcase. Meanwhile, Stephen gets drunk, picks up Grena and brings her back to their apartment. But a fight leads to a dead body, and soon, Stephen's landlord wants money to remain silent.—Ulf Kjell Gür
Plot Keywords: crime, murder, thriller, mystery, film noir, british film, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In California, Cate McCall is an alcoholic lawyer who was on probation and rehab. She had an argument with a judge who made her take a breathalyzer test and put her on probation in a small office. Cate is also fighting to recover custody of her daughter who lives with her father, who is moving to Seattle. Cate is assigned to defend Lacey Stubbs, who has appealing against her wrongful conviction of murdering another woman on the basis of a since there was a trial error. Further, Lacey also tells that she was raped by a guard in the prison. Cate, who has never lost a case, investigates the case with her friend Bridges and they find evidence that might prove that Lacey is innocent and that her case had been fabricated. But is she really innocent?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: legal thriller, courtroom drama, female lead, crime, suspense, drama, lawyer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Reasonable Man tells the story of a city lawyer who comes across the case of a herdboy from remote, rural Zululand, who has killed a one year old baby in the mistaken belief that he was killing an evil spirit, known throughout Southern Africa as the "Tikoloshe". Dark Secrets which lie buried deep within the lawyer connect him to the boy. He takes the case and enters a world of African witchcraft and mysticism to discover the truth about the killing - and himself.—Gavin Hood <gavinhood@compuserve.com>
Plot Keywords: legal drama, courtroom drama, south africa, cultural conflict, justice system, moral dilemma, race relations ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The midnight murder of a rancher and his wife leaves circumstantial evidence pointing the finger of guilt toward a married couple, George Braden and his wife Ellen, who live and work on the ranch. George confesses to the killings in order to free his wife from hours of grilling by the police. Despite the best efforts of his defense attorney Doug Madison, George gets the death penalty. Subsequent events, and his sympathy for Ellen convince Doug that George is innocent, but he must find the real murderer to prove it. His manhunt leads to a former hired hand, Max Verne. With the help of the latter's greedy girlfriend, Gracie Sanger, Max is found and admits to the killings. But when a hearing is held, a psychiatrist pronounces him unsound of mind but harmless, and the judge sets him free. After the Governor rejects Doug's pleas for an appeal for George, the townspeople turn against him, and his fiancée Paula Mitchener misconstrues his association with Ellen and breaks their engagement, and, having spent all his own money in an effort to achieve justice for George, and with his practice gone, Doug prepares to leave town.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime drama, courtroom drama, murder mystery, legal thriller, wrongful conviction, b movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter, that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper - and begins to realize that the whole truth is something she alone can uncover.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, mystery, thriller, legal, murder case, lawyer, truth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only four weeks before Sam Cayhall is to be executed, Adam meets his grandfather for the first time in the Mississippi prison which has held him since the crime. The meeting is predictably tense when the educated, young Mr. "Hall" confronts his venom-spewing elder, Mr. "Cayhall," about the murders. The next day, headlines run proclaiming Adam the grandson who has come to the state to save his grandfather, the infamous Ku Klux Klan bomber. While the old man's life lies in the balance, Adam's motivation in fighting this battle becomes clear as the story unfolds. Not only does he fight for his grandfather, but perhaps for himself as well. He has come to heal the wounds of his own father's suicide, to mitigate the secret shame he has always felt for the ...
Plot Keywords: legal thriller, courtroom drama, racism, death penalty, lawyer, grandfather, redemption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the 1980s, Dom is a teenager who finds himself drawn into the charismatic world of football 'casuals, influenced by the firm's top boy, Bex. Accepted by the gang for his fast mouth and sense of humor, Dom soon becomes one the boys. But as Bex and his gang clash with rival firms across the country and the violence spirals out of control, Dom realizes he wants out - until he learns it's not that easy to simply walk away.
Plot Keywords: legal thriller, crime, drama, suspense, lawyer, betrayal, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man accused of murdering his wife approaches a hotshot female criminal attorney to take his case. The man is a self-professed womaniser, and his alleged motive would be the large sum of money his wife left him. The attorney begins to have second thoughts about representing him when he starts making it look like they're having an affair and tells her things she can't reveal because of lawyer/client privilege, so she starts her own investigation of him, which threatens her career and the safety of her friends and herself.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, drama, courtroom, murder, lawyer, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.—BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, legal, murder, courtroom, psychological, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While traveling Dr. Vijay Verma witness some men assaulting a laborer; he intervenes and mercilessly beat them up. A few days later he is approached by the village Sarpanch, Dharamraj and threatened not to take matters further but he ignores this. Then one morning the dead body of his assistant is found in his dispensary; the case is then called up in court where by his witness turns hostile, he is sentenced to a long jail term and his wife, Aarti is accused of having illicit relations with his deceased assistant. She is then outcast from the village by angry villagers and handed over to Bombay's police officer, Pandey who attempt to sexually molest her; when she resists her daughter is killed. A few days later she approaches Minister, Channdas for justice but to her shocked she is instead raped by the Minister. She then attempts suicide but is rescued by advocate Bharti Mathur who promises to fight her case in a court of law ensuring that justice prevails. But Bharti herself is unable to do much due to extreme pressure from her politician husband, Chunautilal. After completing his jail term Vijay's attempts to locate his wife are fertile until one day when he happens to see her in the company of Channdas. He then misunderstood this scenario - without knowing that Aarti is doing this with an ulterior motive that will benefit him and her.—gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, drama, crime, mystery, courtroom drama, legal thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fresh out of the academy, straight-laced rookie Christopher O'Brien (Rory Cochrane) is paired with decorated police Detective Nora "Hugs" Hugosian (Gina Gershon). For their first assignment as partners, Hugs and O'Brien must investigate a series of brutal murders in which all the victims are criminals. As the impressionable O'Brien falls for Hugs, the Internal Affairs Bureau sends Simon Hertzel (Ron Silver) to warn him that his new mentor may be involved in shocking vigilante activities.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, race, courtroom, lawyer, murder, discrimination ...
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