Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "court-order"

1. Vanilla Sky (2001)

R | 136 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell

Votes: 285,723 | Gross: $100.61M

2. The Sandpiper (1965)

TV-14 | 117 min | Drama, Romance

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the married headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.

Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson

Votes: 3,806 | Gross: $15.26M

3. Fracture (2007)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

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.

Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike

Votes: 218,940 | Gross: $39.02M

4. The Insider (1999)

R | 157 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora

Votes: 180,229 | Gross: $28.97M

5. Snowden (2016)

R | 134 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.

Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto

Votes: 162,988 | Gross: $21.59M

6. Side Effects (I) (2013)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 197,147 | Gross: $32.17M

7. Dangerous (III) (2021)

R | 99 min | Action, Thriller

A reformed sociopath journeys to a remote island to investigate the mystery behind his brother's demise, but soon ends up facing off with more than he bargained for.

Director: David Hackl | Stars: Scott Eastwood, Kevin Durand, Famke Janssen, Tyrese Gibson

Votes: 8,675

8. 99 Homes (2014)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.

Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown

Votes: 38,254 | Gross: $1.41M

9. Unsane (2018)

R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple

Votes: 49,931 | Gross: $7.73M

10. Love & Mercy (2014)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Music

In the 60s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 80s, he's a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist, Dr. Eugene Landy.

Director: Bill Pohlad | Stars: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti

Votes: 42,614 | Gross: $12.55M

11. A Civil Action (1998)

PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama

A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing several children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career.

Director: Steven Zaillian | Stars: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Kathleen Quinlan, Tony Shalhoub

Votes: 31,091 | Gross: $56.71M

12. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)

R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court.

Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Annika Hallin

Votes: 74,562 | Gross: $5.43M

13. Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

While planning her family reunion, a pistol-packing grandma must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her love-troubled nieces.

Director: Tyler Perry | Stars: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe

Votes: 12,017 | Gross: $63.32M

14. The Trial (2010)

PG-13 | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for a small town attorney, until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life.

Director: Gary Wheeler | Stars: Larry Bagby, Matthew Modine, Clare Carey, Robert Forster

Votes: 1,685 | Gross: $0.02M

15. Mighty Joe Young (1949)

Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A young woman who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood years later seeking her fortune.

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong, Mr. Joseph Young

Votes: 5,784

16. Follow That Dream (1962)

109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A family of ragtag vagabonds sets up a makeshift home on a Florida beach after becoming marooned there, prompting an uptight local bureaucrat to attempt to evict them.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Helm, Joanna Moore

Votes: 2,995

17. Alcarràs (2022)

120 min | Drama

The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.

Director: Carla Simón | Stars: Josep Abad, Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Albert Bosch

Votes: 7,839

18. God's Not Dead: We the People (2021)

PG | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy

Reverend Dave defending himself and a group of Christian homeschooling families after the inspection by the local government official.

Director: Vance Null | Stars: David A.R. White, William Forsythe, Isaiah Washington, Antonio Sabato Jr.

Votes: 1,642

19. Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine (1989)

Unrated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An egocentric psychic murders his old mentor, a magician charged to expose him as fraud, by beheading him while he's rehearsing his guillotine trick.

Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Peter Falk, Anthony Andrews, Karen Austin, James Greene

Votes: 2,280

20. Destination Moon (1950)

Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

"Destination Moon", tells the tale of when Doctor Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer approach Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson

Votes: 4,693 | Gross: $5.00M

21. Country (1984)

PG | 105 min | Drama

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley, Matt Clark

Votes: 2,238 | Gross: $9.64M

22. Lost Souls (2000)

R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A Catholic teacher meets an atheist journalist, whom a group of Catholics and Priests believes has been chosen by the devil to be the Antichrist.

Director: Janusz Kaminski | Stars: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter, Philip Baker Hall

Votes: 11,373 | Gross: $16.78M

23. Neverwas (2005)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A psychiatrist searches for insight into the life of his father, who was an acclaimed children's author. But he is shocked when his journey leads him to believe that the fantasy-land his father wrote about might actually exist.

Director: Joshua Michael Stern | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte

Votes: 6,979

24. Get on the Bus (1996)

R | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, History

A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher, Richard Belzer

Votes: 6,039 | Gross: $5.73M

25. Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)

G | 76 min | Comedy

On the verge of being evicted from their run-down farmhouse, the large Kettle family is given a new, modern home after Pa wins a contest, but he is accused of plagiarizing his winning slogan by a jealous local woman.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall

Votes: 1,505

26. Love's Complicated (2016 TV Movie)

TV-G | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Leah's (Holly Marie Combs) surprise enrollment in a conflict management class pushes her to develop friendship, love and inner strength.

Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Holly Marie Combs, Ben Bass, Corbin Bernsen, Catherine Disher

Votes: 1,449

27. ExTerminators (2009)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

Three women who meet in an anger-management class decide to form a traditional business with very untraditional methods.

Director: John Inwood | Stars: Heather Graham, Jennifer Coolidge, Matthew Settle, Amber Heard

Votes: 2,688

28. Deadly Whispers (1995 TV Movie)

97 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A couple vows to find their murdered daughter's killer. The police investigation's suspects narrow to the father, leaving the mother torn between the love of her husband and the story revealed by the investigation.

Director: Bill Norton | Stars: Tony Danza, Pamela Reed, Ving Rhames, Heather Tom

Votes: 544

29. Brain Twisters (1991)

R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Employees of a software company discover a conspiracy to use the games made by the company to control the thoughts of its customers.

Director: Jerry Sangiuliano | Stars: Farrah Forke, Terry Londeree, Joe Lombardo, Donna Bostany

Votes: 537

30. Regular Lovers (2005)

183 min | Drama, Romance

1968 and 1969 in Paris during and after the student and trade-union revolt. 20-year-old François is a poet dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas, Eric Rulliat

Votes: 2,985

31. Take Two (2017)

TV-PG | 70 min | Family

A father's day story. When one young Filmmaker "Clay" finds out that he has a daughter he realizes the torture that she was lives under and it is up to Clay to save her from the torture she is under.

Director: Robert Douglas Kollar | Stars: Robert A. Rogers III, Izetta Merriman, Dawn Long, Rusty Whitener

Votes: 62

32. The Rooftop Christmas Tree (2016 TV Movie)

TV-G | 88 min | Family, Romance

Every year since Sarah was a child, her lonely neighbor has had a rooftop Christmas tree. Lately, he's been arrested for it. This year Sarah is back in town as lawyer, sitting with him in court. Why is the tree so important?

Director: David Winning | Stars: Michelle Morgan, Tim Reid, Stephen Huszar, Roger Dunn

Votes: 1,157

33. O anthropos pou espage plaka! (1972)

94 min | Comedy

The story of a man whose greatest pleasure is to set pranks and find ways to tease other people.

Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Labros Konstadaras, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Aimilia Ypsilanti, Stavros Xenidis

Votes: 459

34. The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen

Votes: 1,135

35. Meet Me After the Show (1951)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music, Musical

Delilah Lee is the star of husband Jeff Ames' Broadway show when she starts to suspect he has been exchanging more than contracts with the show's vampish backer. Alimony and amnesia become the order of the day.

Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Betty Grable, Macdonald Carey, Rory Calhoun, Eddie Albert

Votes: 215 | Gross: $2.61M

36. Fresh Meat: Jeffrey Dahmer (2021 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 89 min | Documentary, Crime

Dissect the mind of America's most shocking cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer, to understand what drives these killers to commit unspeakable crimes.

Stars: Vernell Bass, Henry Zebrowski, Ben Kissel, Nancy Glass

Votes: 194

37. Wildcat Bus (1940)

Approved | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A small bus company run by a father/daughter team comes under attack by a group of "wildcatters" who want to put the company out of business so they can take over the profitable Los Angeles-to-San Francisco route.

Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Fay Wray, Charles Lang, Paul Guilfoyle, Don Costello

Votes: 219

38. A Day at Santa Anita (1937)

Approved | 18 min | Short, Drama, Family

Orphaned horse-trainer's little daughter has reciprocated bond with horse, which needs her presence to win races.

Director: Bobby Connolly | Stars: Sybil Jason, Marcia Ralston, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Joseph Crehan

Votes: 410

39. A Call to Arms (2009)

85 min | Documentary, History, War

The eyewitness story of the illegal U.S. and U.K. military anthrax vaccination programs, which is recommended by Montel Williams as the Must-See Documentary of the Year. Because of the ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Miller | Stars: Michael Douglas, Linda Hamilton, Scott Miller, Melissa Mosich Miller

Votes: 60

40. Little Sista

Comedy

Commitment-phobe, Charmaine must learn to grow up when she is paired with an at-risk youth in a Big Brother, Big Sister programme.

Stars: Charmaine Bingwa, Neila Manson, Nicole Carney, Tsu Shan Chambers

Votes: 6

41. Mental Hospital (1953)

19 min | Short

Mental hospitals in Oklahoma are populated with people from a variety of backgrounds, who are treated for a variety of psychiatric issues. Patient treatments may include counseling, insulin... See full summary »

Director: Layton Mabrey

Votes: 64

42. Chasing Grace (2017)

12 min | Short, Drama

A young woman reluctantly meets with her estranged father only to discover the truth about the events of the wild 70's summer that drove them apart.

Director: Julia Barnett | Stars: Christopher Backus, Julia Barnett, Lydia Tracy, Van Tracy

Votes: 9

43. Charlottesville: Violence in the Streets (2017 Video)

24 min | Short, News

Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio and Faith Goldy of Rebel Media discuss the riot in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Director: Stefan Molyneux | Stars: Stefan Molyneux, Faith Goldy

Votes: 16

44. Kafe souru (2009)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama

A freelance reporter comes to the aid of a humble confection shop criminally threatened by land developers and weakened by distant family ties.

Director: Masaharu Take | Stars: Jeong-hoon Kim, Takumi Saitô, Kim Dong-wook, Seong-min Choi

Votes: 58

45. Supreme Court Oral Arguments (2000– )

Documentary, History

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Stars: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy

46. Príbuzní ludia (1988 TV Movie)

64 min | Drama

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Director: Laco Halama | Stars: Vladimír Jedlovsky, Nora Cileková, Juraj Viljkovsky, Matej Benes

47. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: The Wild West's Biggest Train Holdup (1965)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

The aging and ailing sheriff of Washoe County, Nevada gets a big assist from his deputy in the county's fight with the Central Pacific railroad over payment of back taxes.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Charles Bateman, Pat Priest, Roy Barcroft, Tyler McVey

Votes: 34

48. The Equalizer (1985–1989)
Episode: Torn (1986)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

McCall finds his attention divided when Jason Mazer from The Agency offers him a chance at revenge against an old enemy, while at the same time a young girl asks McCall to protect her and her mother against her abusive father.

Director: Russ Mayberry | Stars: Edward Woodward, Ron O'Neal, Yvonne Wilder, Zohra Lampert

Votes: 107

49. The Flying Doctors (1986–1992)
Episode: No Quarter Asked (1987)

Drama

Kate's friend Jessie returns to the Crossing after being away for five years. However the celebration soon comes to an end when it emerges Jessie has Multiple sclerosis. Emma and Sam decide that they should get married.

Director: Dan Burstall | Stars: Robert Grubb, Liz Burch, Lenore Smith, Peter O'Brien

Votes: 9

50. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Hand Roll Express (1988)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama

Brackman unwittingly gets arrested for solicitation by an inexperienced undercover policewoman who mistakes his reading of a Japanese restaurant menu for come-ons. Meanwhile, Roxanne tells ... See full summary »

Director: Kim Friedman | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry

Votes: 41