Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 (2000), The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz (2018), Im Labyrinth des Schweigens (2014), The Verdict (1946), Fracture (2007), The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Prosecutor movies.
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: Based on the actual events of the West Memphis Three, where three young boys were savagely murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Spurred on by the demand from a grieving town, the local police act quickly to bring three "devil-worshipping" teenagers to trial. With their lives hanging in the balance, investigator Ron Lax is trying to find the truth between the town's need for justice and the guilt of the accused.
Plot Keywords: murder, trial, true story, mystery, crime, legal, miscarriage of justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer.—Jonathan Broxton <j.w.broxton@sheffield.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, legal, death penalty, lawyer, prisoner, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Up-and-coming District Attorney, Mitch Brockton is involved in a fatal hit-and-run, but Clinton Davis, is found with the body and charged with murder. Believing that Davis is innocent, Brockton is compelled to throw the trial. Soon after, Brocton's perfect life begins to unravel as he realizes that the man he set free is hiding a secret that will destroy him.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, legal, mystery, courtroom, murder, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1964, New York City activist Mickey Schwerner (Tom Hulce) takes a field position in rural Mississippi on behalf of the civil rights group known as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). There Schwerner; his wife, Rita (Jennifer Grey) ; and fellow activists Andrew Goodman (Josh Charles) and James Chaney (Blair Underwood) endure harassment by local thugs and police, as well as violent hate-mongers the Ku Klux Klan, in their quest to help African-Americans secure their basic human rights.
Plot Keywords: murder, crime, drama, mystery, true story, legal, race ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation. Through a web of blackmail and prostitution involving the Governor, an old lover of the lawman emerges as a prime suspect and he has to deal with his personal feelings as well as the case.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, mystery, drama, noir, murder, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An assistant district attorney discovers one of the hoodlums he must prosecute is the son of a former love.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, courtroom, murder, new york, gang, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After young Robert Graham (Phillips Holmes) commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady (Walter Huston) and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Plot Keywords: crime, prison, law, murder, justice, lawyer, trial ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A tough female district attorney is investigating a man who picks out women from public places by posing as a famous photographer, then takes pictures of them, then pushes on their submissive tendencies and takes advantage of them physically and financially. The trouble is that none of these women want to press charges, because they feel fulfilled in some way by their encounter. The DA arranges to meet him and finds herself in a similar situation as the other victims, and has to come to grips with her own submissive desires.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, drama, mystery, romance, psychological, legal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Valerie Alston (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) is placed on the jury for the criminal case of mob boss Rusty Pirone (Armand Assante), and it's not long before she is threatened by Pirone's right-hand man, Tom Vesey (William Hurt). Though it is clear to the 11 other members of the jury that Pirone is guilty, Valerie must convince them to find him innocent. If she doesn't, her son will be killed. Valerie is only following Vesey's orders out of fear, but her conscience begins to haunt her.
Plot Keywords: courtroom, crime, thriller, legal, murder, trial, witness ...
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