FR #42 | Movie | Court-Drama, Drama | USA | English
Director
Sidney Lumet
Writer
Reginald Rose
Cast
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, Jack Warden
Plot
The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
FR #127 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Robert Mulligan
Writer
Harper Lee, Horton Foote
Cast
Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Paul Fix
Plot
A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.
FR #246 | Movie | Biography, Court-Drama | UK, Ireland | English
Director
Jim Sheridan
Writer
Gerry Conlon, Terry George, Jim Sheridan
Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Anthony Brophy, Emma Thompson
Plot
An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
FR #368 | Movie | Court-Drama, War | USA | English, German
Director
Stanley Kramer
Writer
Abby Mann, Montgomery Clift
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Plot
Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
FR #650 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Otto Preminger
Writer
Wendell Mayes, John D. Voelker
Cast
James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, George C. Scott
Plot
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth and will he win his case?
FR #830 | Movie | Court-Drama, Romance | USA | English
Director
Robert Benton
Writer
Avery Corman, Robert Benton, Jay Christian
Cast
Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander
Plot
After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.
FR #954 | Movie | Court-Drama, Fantasy | UK | English, French
Director
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast
David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Richard Attenborough
Plot
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
FR #1282 | TV | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Writer
Dick Wolf
Cast
Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T
Plot
Follows the NYPD's specially trained squad of detectives who investigate sex crimes, including rape, paedophilia, child abuse, human trafficking and domestic violence.
When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small-time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
FR #1599 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English, German
Director
Peter Weir
Writer
William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl W. Wallace
Cast
Harrison Ford, Kelly Mcgillis, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover
Plot
While protecting an Amish boy - the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their rural community when his own life is threatened.
FR #1911 | Movie | Biography, Court-Drama | USA, Sweden | English, French
Director
Richard Brooks
Writer
Truman Capote, Richard Brooks
Cast
Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
Plot
Two ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt before going on the run from the authorities who try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.
FR #1920 | Movie | Biography, Court-Drama | USA | English
Director
Stanley Kramer
Writer
Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith, Jerome Lawrence
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan
Plot
Based on a real-life case in 1925; two great lawyers argue the case for, and against, a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
FR #1928 | Movie | War, Court-Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Writer
Stanley Roberts, Michael Blankfort, Herman Wouk
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred Macmurray, Lee Marvin
Plot
When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
FR #2041 | Movie | Court-Drama, History | Germany, USA | German, Greek
Director
Stephen Daldry
Writer
David Hare, Bernhard Schlink
Cast
Ralph Fiennes, Jeanette Hain, David Kross, Kate Winslet
Plot
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
FR #2347 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Sidney Lumet
Writer
Barry Reed, David Mamet, Jay Presson Allen
Cast
Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason
Plot
An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
FR #2776 | Movie | Court-Drama, Fantasy | USA | German, Italian
Director
Taylor Hackford
Writer
Andrew Neiderman, Jonathan Lemkin, Tony Gilroy
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron
Plot
An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date.
FR #3291 | Movie | Court-Drama, Comedy | USA | English
Director
Jonathan Lynn
Writer
Dale Launer
Cast
Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Bruce Mcgill
Plot
Two New Yorkers accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college call in the help of one of their cousins, a loudmouth lawyer with no trial experience.
FR #3299 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA, UK | English
Director
Tony Gilroy
Writer
Tony Gilroy
Cast
George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson
Plot
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.
FR #4278 | TV | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Writer
Dick Wolf, Rick Eid
Cast
Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina
Plot
Two Part drama which focuses on the New York criminal Justice System by showing a violent crime investigated by police detectives in the first half and then the trial of the accused in court by the prosecutors in the second half.
FR #4304 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | Germany, USA | English
Director
Gregory Hoblit
Writer
Daniel Pyne, Glenn Gers
Cast
Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn
Plot
After shooting his wife, Ted confesses his crime and asks the court to move his case to trial. He represents himself against Willy, a successful lawyer. But there's more to the case than meets the eye.
FR #4354 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Norman Jewison
Writer
Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson
Cast
Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe
Plot
A lawyer is forced to defend a judge, while defending other clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.
Sex, drugs and a gruesome murder. An edgy one night stand turns into a nightmare for Aditya, when he wakes up with blood on his hands. The evidence is stacked against him, but he doesn't remember the grisly crime. Is he guilty or ...
FR #6026 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Director
Brad Furman
Writer
John Romano, Michael Connelly
Cast
Matthew Mcconaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, John Leguizamo
Plot
Defence lawyer Mick Haller lands a case defending a wealthy realtor's son who is accused of raping a prostitute. Believing his client to be innocent, Haller soon finds evidence that proves otherwise.
FR #7758 | Movie | Biography, Court-Drama | USA, Switzerland | English
Director
Tony Goldwyn
Writer
Pamela Gray
Cast
Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo
Plot
A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.
FR #7810 | TV | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English
Writer
Rene Balcer, Dick Wolf
Cast
Kathryn Erbe, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jamey Sheridan, Jeff Goldblum
Plot
Follows the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) Major Case Squad (MCS), a unit of detectives who investigate high-profile cases, typically murder, while also presenting aspects of the crime from the perpetrator's perspective.
FR #9190 | Movie | Biography, Court-Drama | USA | English
Director
John Ford
Writer
Dudley Nichols, Oliver H.P. Garrett, Charles Nordhoff
Cast
Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, Jerome Cowan
Plot
A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.
FR #9194 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | USA | English, French
Director
Don Siegel
Writer
Peter Milne, Israel Zangwill
Cast
Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring
Plot
After an innocent man is executed in a case for which he was not responsible, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
FR #10212 | TV | Court-Drama, Crime | Russia | Russian
Cast
Aleksey Serebryakov, Dmitriy Pevtsov, Olga Drozdova
Plot
Detective Sergei Chelishchev leaves the police to find the real murderer of his parents. Everything changes when he meets his long-lost friend, a war veteran who joined local mafia following the fall of the Soviet Union.
A turbulent comedy of confusion about the water sprites who go soul hunting in the river Vltava and become ordinary mortals through all kinds of misadventures.
FR #16051 | Movie | Biography, Court-Drama | USA, Japan | English, German
Director
Barbet Schroeder
Writer
Alan Dershowitz, Nicholas Kazan
Cast
Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
Plot
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
FR #19723 | Movie | Court-Drama, Crime | Germany | German
Director
Wolfgang Staudte
Writer
Robert A. Stemmle, Thomas Keck, Maximilian Vernberg
Cast
Martin Held, Hanns Lothar, Ellen Schwiers
Plot
Courtroom drama about the murder of a four-month-old baby. Police almost immediately arrest the mother Ingrid, who is the mistress of the father, a rich business VIP married to someone else. His position and wealth keep him insula...
FR #23327 | TV | Court-Drama, Crime | UK, Canada | English
Writer
Dick Wolf
Cast
Bradley Walsh, Robert Glenister, Harriet Walter
Plot
UK version of the long-running U.S. TV drama that tells the stories of both the police, who investigate crime; and the crown prosecutors, who prosecute the offenders.
