Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "courtroom-drama"

51. Witness for the Prosecution

Thriller | Announced

A veteran lawyer must defend a man in what promises to be the most dramatic trial of his career.

Director: Ben Affleck | Star: Ben Affleck

52. Petrocelli (1974–1976)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Harvard-educated lawyer from Boston sets up shop in a small Arizona town.

Stars: Barry Newman, Susan Howard, Albert Salmi, Arnold Jeffers

Votes: 1,049

53. The Devil Has a Name (2019)

R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

A psychotic oil matriarch leaves the whole industry exposed when she attempts to outfight a bullish farmer whose water has been poisoned.

Director: Edward James Olmos | Stars: Kate Bosworth, Chivonne Michelle, Katie Lynn McDowell, Alfred Molina

Votes: 1,435

54. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Respected Black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers, Billie Burke

Votes: 5,387

55. Jolly LLB (2013)

Not Rated | 135 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Wanting to earn fame and fortune, a small time lawyer files a PIL for an infamous hit-and-run, and thus learns what it really is like to be a lawyer.

Director: Subhash Kapoor | Stars: Arshad Warsi, Amrita Rao, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla

Votes: 21,407

56. The Other Side of Midnight (1977)

R | 165 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.

Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone

Votes: 1,949 | Gross: $24.65M

57. The Letter (1940)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort

Votes: 14,636

58. Jolly LLB 2 (2017)

Not Rated | 137 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Jolly is a clumsy lawyer who is faced with representing the most critical court case of his career.

Director: Subhash Kapoor | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Huma Qureshi, Saurabh Shukla, Annu Kapoor

Votes: 27,222 | Gross: $1.63M

59. Shoeshine (1946)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortensi

Votes: 8,149

60. Inherit the Wind (1999 TV Movie)

PG | 113 min | Drama

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Lane Smith, Tom Everett Scott

Votes: 2,033

61. The Insult (2017)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.

Director: Ziad Doueiri | Stars: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh, Diamand Abou Abboud

Votes: 18,130 | Gross: $1.00M

62. Deiva Thirumagal (2011)

Not Rated | 166 min | Drama

A man with disabilities fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his opponent lawyer the value of love and family.

Director: A.L. Vijay | Stars: Vikram, Anushka Shetty, Amala Paul, Nassar

Votes: 6,506

63. Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

Passed | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History

A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan

Votes: 9,192

64. Class Action (1991)

R | 110 min | Drama, Thriller

An attorney representing a traumatized accident victim finds that his opponent is a very familiar defense attorney - his own daughter.

Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Colin Friels, Joanna Merlin

Votes: 8,333 | Gross: $24.28M

65. 8 (2012 TV Movie)

91 min | Drama, History

Live chronicle of the landmark federal trial of California's Prop. 8 using the actual court transcripts and first-hand interviews.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Dustin Lance Black, David Boies, Matt Bomer

Votes: 610

66. Witness for the Prosecution (1982 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama

Leonard Vole is accused of murdering an elderly rich woman, and the only alibi to him depends on his wife Christine.

Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Beau Bridges, Donald Pleasence

Votes: 1,125

67. Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama

Ken Harrison is an artist who makes sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk, and he wants to die. In hospital he ... See full summary »

Director: John Badham | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes, Christine Lahti, Bob Balaban

Votes: 3,554 | Gross: $8.21M

68. Let Him Have It (1991)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, History

This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Christopher Eccleston, Eileen Atkins, Rebecca Eccleston

Votes: 3,811

69. Inherit the Wind (1988 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, History

A biblical orator opposes a liberal lawyer defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jason Robards, Darren McGavin, John Harkins

Votes: 614

70. The Pizza Triangle (1970)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini, Manuel Zarzo

Votes: 2,261

71. The Disappearance of Aimee (1976 TV Movie)

100 min | Biography, Drama

In 1926, famous evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared for six weeks. When she surfaced, she claimed that she had been kidnapped and held prisoner in Mexico. Others claimed that she ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Bette Davis, James Sloyan, James Woods

Votes: 760

72. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)

Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A novelist aided by his future father-in-law conspires to frame himself for the murder of a burlesque dancer as part of an effort to ban capital punishment.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer, Arthur Franz

Votes: 5,927

73. Illegal (1955)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Hugh Marlowe, Jayne Mansfield

Votes: 2,343

74. Boomerang! (1947)

Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams

Votes: 5,070

75. What Makes a Family (2001 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 91 min | Drama

When an artificially-inseminated woman dies, her partner must fight to regain custody of their child.

Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Brooke Shields, Cherry Jones, Anne Meara, Al Waxman

Votes: 818

76. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Drama, War

A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Eric Bogosian, Jeff Daniels, Brad Davis, Peter Gallagher

Votes: 741

77. The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)

PG | 117 min | Drama

Mossad agents kidnap an American Jewish man, accuse him of being a fugitive Nazi war criminal and take him to Jerusalem to face trial for genocide.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Lawrence Pressman, Luther Adler

Votes: 1,489

78. The Rack (1956)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, War

A decorated Korean War hero inexplicably collaborates with the enemy while interred in a POW camp and is court-martialed.

Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond O'Brien

Votes: 1,661

79. Ms. Hammurabi (2018)

80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The series tells the story of the life of judges and the various disputes that they have to settle.

Stars: Go Ara, Kim Myung-soo, Sung Dong-il, Ryu Deok-hwan

Votes: 741

80. Verdict (2022– )

45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When a renowned criminal lawyer from São Paulo sees one of the people she loves most become a victim of the Brazilian penitentiary system, she must decide whether to cross the line that ... See full summary »

Stars: Camila Morgado, Pedro Caetano, Bárbara Colen, Lucinha Lins

Votes: 320

81. You Disappear (2017)

TV-MA | 117 min | Drama

A teachers' world is turned upside down when her husband, a successful headmaster, is caught embezzling from their own school. Did he do this of his own free will - or has his personality been altered by the tumor lurking in his brain? As the teacher is assisting an attorney in providing a legal defense, recent neuroscience forces her to rethink who her husband really is.

Director: Peter Schønau Fog | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Michael Nyqvist, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

Votes: 1,152

82. Custody (I) (2016)

TV-14 | 104 min | Drama

The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.

Director: James Lapine | Stars: Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Tony Shalhoub

Votes: 1,252

83. The Black Vampire (1953)

90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

This "feminist" reworking of Fritz Lang's classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile.

Director: Román Viñoly Barreto | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nelly Panizza, Mariano Vidal Molina

Votes: 582

84. The Chatterley Affair (2006 TV Movie)

Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

The trial, under The Obscene Publications Act, of the publishers of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' in 1960 was a sensation that consumed the nation. The movie follows two ... See full summary »

Director: James Hawes | Stars: Rafe Spall, Louise Delamere, Mary Healey, Gerard Horan

Votes: 469

85. The Affair (1995 TV Movie)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A love story, set amongst the beginnings of the integration of Negro soldiers from America to England during World War II. A tragic tale of war, love, desire and injustice.

Director: Paul Seed | Stars: Courtney B. Vance, Kerry Fox, Leland Gantt, Ned Beatty

Votes: 438

86. Damini (1993)

Not Rated | 175 min | Crime, Drama

After witnessing a rape in her own household, Damini fights for justice for the deceased victim. However, she faces a bunch of challenges until she meets a disgraced lawyer who decides to fight the case and bring the culprits to justice.

Director: Rajkumar Santoshi | Stars: Meenakshi Sheshadri, Rishi Kapoor, Sunny Deol, Amrish Puri

Votes: 4,027

87. Twilight of Honor (1963)

Approved | 104 min | Crime, Drama

A murder case that can't be won is assigned to a young defense attorney. He asks his old ailing friend, a legend among attorneys, for help on the case as his consultant.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Nick Adams, Claude Rains, Joan Blackman

Votes: 696

88. The Glass Shield (1994)

PG-13 | 109 min | Crime, Drama

Two cops become compelled to act against corruption and discrimination within their police precinct.

Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Michael Boatman, Lori Petty, Erich Anderson, Richard Anderson

Votes: 3,577 | Gross: $3.31M

89. Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story (2013 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 84 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A charming but devious college student is accused of killing his wealthy father and attempting to murder his mother in their home while they slept.

Director: Norma Bailey | Stars: Matt Barr, Eric McCormack, Lolita Davidovich, Kendra Anderson

Votes: 478

90. Jump! (II) (2007)

118 min | Biography, Drama

Police in 1928 Austria arrest Phillippe Halsman, of Jewish origin, for patricide and allege that he killed his father, Morduch, while on a hiking trip. Phillippe is defended by a Jewish ... See full summary »

Director: Joshua Sinclair | Stars: Ben Silverstone, Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon, Heinz Hoenig

Votes: 661

91. First Monday in October (1981)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes, Jan Sterling

Votes: 1,662

92. The Incident (1990 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Drama

Small town lawyer Harmon Cobb defends a German prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Walter Matthau, Susan Blakely, Robert Carradine, Peter Firth

Votes: 601

93. Libel (1959)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Mystery

A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley

Votes: 1,604

94. My Forbidden Past (1951)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,161

95. Public Defender (1954–1955)

30 min | Crime, Drama

Bart Matthews defends the poor and others who cannot afford an attorney. All episodes are based on actual cases from across the country.

Stars: Reed Hadley, John Close, Herschel Graham, Brick Sullivan

Votes: 113

96. Suing the Devil (2011)

TV-PG | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy

A down-and-out law student sues Satan for $8 trillion dollars. Satan appears to defend himself with seven of the greatest trial lawyers, and the trial of the century begins.

Director: Timothy A. Chey | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Shannen Fields, Corbin Bernsen, Tom Sizemore

Votes: 4,152

97. A Covenant with Death (1967)

97 min | Drama

A convicted murderer kills his hangman. Then it is discovered that he actually didn't commit the murder he was convicted for.

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman

Votes: 388

98. Trial of the Century (2016– )

Drama

A fictional courtroom drama which shows how the trial of Pádraig Pearse, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, might have gone.

Stars: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Andrew Bennett, David Heap, Mark Huberman

Votes: 23

99. The Verdict - State Vs Nanavati (2019)

20 min | Crime

Indian Naval commander Nanavati returns home to find about his wife's affair. Jealousy leads to a murder that sparks a nationwide drama. When people, media and politics get into a war of opinions, it turns into a case that divided India.

Stars: Manav Kaul, Elli Avrram, Angad Bedi, Sumeet Vyas

Votes: 3,697

100. Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)

PG-13 | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.

Director: Boris Petroff | Stars: Ronnie Burns, Pamela Lincoln, Darrell Howe, Judy Howard

Votes: 630