Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "grand-jury"

1. The Hate U Give (2018)

PG-13 | 133 min | Crime, Drama

Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.

Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Anthony Mackie

Votes: 40,201 | Gross: $29.72M

2. Arbitrage (2012)

R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

Director: Nicholas Jarecki | Stars: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling, Tim Roth

Votes: 54,883 | Gross: $7.92M

3. At Close Range (1986)

R | 111 min | Crime, Drama

Reunited with his career criminal father, tough teen Brad thinks he's found his ticket to an exciting life of crime, only to find out he's wrong.

Director: James Foley | Stars: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson, Chris Penn

Votes: 17,782 | Gross: $2.35M

4. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

R | 106 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Director: Marielle Heller | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone

Votes: 56,220 | Gross: $8.80M

5. 16 Blocks (2006)

PG-13 | 102 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An aging alcoholic cop is assigned the task of escorting a witness from police custody to a courthouse 16 blocks away. There are, however, chaotic forces at work that prevent them from making it in one piece.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Bruce Willis, Yasiin Bey, David Morse, Jenna Stern

Votes: 134,873 | Gross: $36.90M

6. Rush (1991)

R | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two small-town Texas cops go undercover to catch a major drug dealer and are sucked into the drug culture, compromising their assignment.

Director: Lili Fini Zanuck | Stars: Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott, Max Perlich

Votes: 9,898 | Gross: $7.24M

7. Fair Game (I) (2010)

PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison, Vanessa Chong

Votes: 51,080 | Gross: $9.53M

8. Murder Me, Murder You (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Stacy Keach, Tanya Roberts, Don Stroud, Delta Burke

Votes: 381

9. Before and After (1996)

PG-13 | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong, Julia Weldon

Votes: 9,992 | Gross: $8.80M

10. Phil Spector (2013 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 92 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.

Director: David Mamet | Stars: Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Jeffrey Tambor, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Votes: 7,934

11. The Amy Fisher Story (1993 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The true story of the Long Island teen who shoots and wounds the wife of a man she called her lover.

Director: Andy Tennant | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Tony Denison, Harley Jane Kozak, Tom Mason

Votes: 1,596

12. The Narrow Margin (1952)

Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against potential assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Directors: Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert

Votes: 8,662

13. Bullets or Ballots (1936)

Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When a crusader against rackets is murdered, a grand jury battles the rackets by promoting McLaren to be in charge of the cleanup. He fires NYPD Detective Blake, who punches him and joins the racket.

Director: William Keighley | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart

Votes: 3,514

14. The Confession Killer (2019)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, Crime

Henry Lee Lucas was known as America's most prolific serial killer, admitting to hundreds of murders, but, as DNA results contradict his confessions, will they expose the biggest criminal justice hoax in U.S. history?

Stars: Bob Prince, Nan Cuba, Hugh Aynesworth, Phil Ryan

Votes: 10,335

15. Telling Lies in America (1997)

PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Music

A loner befriends a local celebrity, Billy Magic, but he soon begins to tell lies in order to maintain the friendship and the newfound status.

Director: Guy Ferland | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Brad Renfro, Maximilian Schell, Calista Flockhart

Votes: 2,428 | Gross: $0.25M

16. Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983–1986)

60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Private detective Philip Marlowe solves many crimes in Los Angeles during the 1930s.

Stars: Powers Boothe, Billy Kearns, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Ken Pogue

Votes: 484

17. The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987)

178 min | Crime, Drama

Family image matters more than anything to the Grenvilles, even when the son is shot dead by his former chorus girl wife, whom his mother despises.

Stars: Ann-Margret, Claudette Colbert, Stephen Collins, John Rubinstein

Votes: 383

18. Uncertainty (2008)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins, Assumpta Serna, Olivia Thirlby

Votes: 6,673 | Gross: $0.04M

19. Death in Small Doses (1995 TV Movie)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

One night, Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after--poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of ... See full summary »

Director: Sondra Locke | Stars: Richard Thomas, Shawn Elliott, Tess Harper, Glynnis O'Connor

Votes: 408

20. Dragnet (1954)

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

Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member.

Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Ann Robinson

Votes: 1,138

21. Dirty Pictures (2000 TV Movie)

R | 104 min | Drama

A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: James Woods, Ann Marin, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid

Votes: 872

22. Accused of Murder (1956)

Approved | 74 min | Film-Noir, Mystery

Police detective falls for singer, gets involved with gangster killing.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: David Brian, Vera Ralston, Sidney Blackmer, Virginia Grey

Votes: 396

23. Girl 27 (2007)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Biography

The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other underage girls into attending a stag party, where she was raped.

Director: David Stenn | Stars: Patricia Douglas, Baby Peggy, Richard W. Bann, Kelly Brown

Votes: 1,185

24. Telling Secrets (1993 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 240 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A rich woman plots the murder of her adulterous husband's mistress through a series of elaborate schemes, but soon falls under the suspicion of the investigating detective, who must prove her involvement.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Cybill Shepherd, Ken Olin, Christopher McDonald, G.D. Spradlin

Votes: 284

25. The Sellout (1952)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

During the 1950s, a small-town newspaper editor and a state assistant attorney-general fight corrupt local officials from one rotten county.

Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter, Paula Raymond

Votes: 676

26. Hoodlum Empire (1952)

Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After WW2, ex-mobster war hero Joe Gray goes straight, to the dismay of his New York mob boss uncle who's afraid that his nephew will testify against his outfit before a Grand Jury.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston

Votes: 363

27. Frank Serpico (2017)

Unrated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography

In his own words, Frank Serpico tells the story of his one-man crusade for police reform in the NYPD during the early 1970s.

Director: Antonino D'Ambrosio | Stars: Frank Serpico, Stanislao Pugliese, Janet Panetta, John O'Connor

Votes: 388 | Gross: $0.01M

28. Smart Woman (1948)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A crusading district attorney, Robert Larrimore, butts heads in court with defense attorney Paula Rogers.

Director: Edward A. Blatt | Stars: Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett, Barry Sullivan, Michael O'Shea

Votes: 259

29. The Year That Trembled (2002)

R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.

Director: Jay Craven | Stars: Jonathan Brandis, Charlie Finn, Jay R. Ferguson, Meredith Monroe

Votes: 225

30. I Promise to Pay (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Eddie Lang (Chester Morris), a decent family man making $27.50 a week, borrows fifty-dollars from Richard Farra (Leo Carrillo) in order to take his wife, Mary (Helen Mack) and two small ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 187

31. Hunting JonBenet's Killer: The Untold Story (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 83 min | Drama

Elizabeth Vargas takes a fresh look at the most notorious cold case murder in American history. With new leads and new DNA tests, this documentary special takes a deeper dive to ultimately help bring justice and peace to the Ramsey family.

Stars: Jim Benish, Bob Bonnell, Scott Caruthers, Robert W. Clark

Votes: 87

32. Missing Girls (1936)

Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama

A group of gangsters shoot Senator Benson (Wallis Clark) and take his daughter, Dorothy Benton (Muriel Evans) and her friend Ann Jason (Ann Doran) as hostages at Ma Barton's hideout. ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Roger Pryor, Muriel Evans, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison

Votes: 58

33. Gang Bullets (1938)

Approved | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Anne Nagel, Robert Kent, Charles Trowbridge, Morgan Wallace

Votes: 214

34. Bloodsworth: An Innocent Man (2015)

TV-14 | 82 min | Documentary, Crime, Thriller

Charged. Convicted. Sentenced to Death. Innocent. Follows the 1st death row inmate exonerated by DNA in the US.

Director: Gregory Bayne | Star: Kirk Noble Bloodsworth

Votes: 89

35. Bulldog Edition (1936)

Passed | 57 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Ray Walker, Evalyn Knapp, Regis Toomey, Cy Kendall

Votes: 100

36. Un eroe borghese (1995)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An intriguing look at a sinister web of power, linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.

Director: Michele Placido | Stars: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Michele Placido, Omero Antonutti, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu

Votes: 298

37. The First Degree (1923)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama

Sam Purdy, a banker-turned-politician-turned-sheep farmer is repeatedly blackmailed by his half-brother because of their love for a woman named Mary.

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Frank Mayo, Sylvia Breamer, Philo McCullough, George A. Williams

Votes: 100

38. Alcatraz Island (1937)

Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguire, Gordon Oliver

Votes: 252

39. Strange Alibi (1941)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In a pre-arranged set-up, a cop strikes his police-chief, is fired and infiltrates the mob but when the police-chief is murdered, the ex-cop is unable to prove his innocence and is left-out in the cold, on the wrong side of the law.

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale, John Ridgely

Votes: 146

40. The Last War Crime (2012)

Drama, History, Thriller

Epic political fantasy drama, envisioning what would have happened if Dick Cheney had been indicted for ordering torture, which was used to get the false confessions to make a fraudulent ... See full summary »

Director: Sean Garrett | Stars: Deanna Hurst, Richard Tanner, Grey Wolf, Troy Conrad

Votes: 20

41. The Silence of Cricket Coogler (2000 Video)

Documentary

Historical documentary covering the murder of a waitress, Cricket Coogler, who was last seen in a New Mexico state automobile and the subsequent grand jury investigation which exposed a ... See full summary »

Director: Charlie Cullin | Stars: John Ehrlichman, Walt Finley, Tony Hillerman, Jerry Nuzum

42. The Trials of Alger Hiss (1980)

164 min | Documentary

Documentary by lifelong friend that supports the innocence of Alger Hiss (convicted in January 1950 on two counts of espionage-related perjury)

Director: John Lowenthal | Stars: Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, John Lowenthal, Richard Nixon

Votes: 14

43. She Was Murdered (2017 Video)

70 min | Talk-Show

Stefan Molyneux's caller is Brian, whose life has been aimless since the (still-unsolved) murder of his mother.

Stars: Stefan Molyneux, Mike M. DeMarco

44. Ferguson: A Special Report (2014 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 28 min | Documentary

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Stars: Jon Alexander, Karina Arango, Anne-Marie Berger, Morgan Bradley

45. Crossroads (1955–1957)
Episode: Cleanup (1955)

26 min | Drama

A pastor exhorts his parishioners to take back their city from the gangsters and corrupt politicians who have taken it over.

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Vincent Price, Sally Blane, Lloyd Corrigan, Howard Petrie

Votes: 12

46. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999)
Episode: Betrayal (1997)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A girl is found with a broken rib which punctured her lung and 26 belt buckle marks on her body. Pembleton and Bayliss question the mother and her live-in boyfriend after a social worker ... See full summary »

Director: Clark Johnson | Stars: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes

Votes: 133

47. I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)
Episode: Realpolitik (1993)

Drama

Forrest finally gets his grand jury indictment against the murders of Colonel Landers with the testimony of shopkeeper Curtis Barnett. Meanwhile, Forrest and Christina go away for the ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Arkush | Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch

48. L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode: Parent Trap (1993)

TV-PG | 47 min | Drama

Rollins represents a man who is fighting to keep his pregnant girlfriend, put in a coma after a car accident, on life-support so their unborn child can be brought to full-term. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »

Director: Steven Robman | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker

Votes: 28

49. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Bait (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A teenager who was shot in a drug deal gone bad claims to have been coerced into working as an informant for a corrupt narcotics officer.

Director: Lewis Gould | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 285

50. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Ritual (1997)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An Egyptian man is murdered because he had hired an Egyptian doctor to perform a female circumcision on the man's niece. A.D.A.s McCoy and Ross have to deal with a clash between cultural convictions and the law.

Director: Brian Mertes | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 300