Category
page 1American legal drama films
12 Angry Men
1957 American film by Sidney Lumet
The Social Network
2010 film by David Fincher
Spotlight
2015 film directed by Tom McCarthy
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979 film by Robert Benton
Bridge of Spies
2015 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Philadelphia
1993 film by Jonathan Demme
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 film by Robert Mulligan
Erin Brockovich
2000 film directed by Steven Soderbergh
JFK
1991 film directed by Oliver Stone
A Few Good Men
A Few Good Men is a 1992 American legal drama film, produced and directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin, who adapted his 1989 play. It stars an ensemble cast including Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, J. T. Walsh, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Kiefer Sutherland. The plot follows the court-martial of two U.S. Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tribulations of their lawyers as they prepare a case.
Amistad
1997 film directed by Steven Spielberg
A Place in the Sun
1951 film by George Stevens
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 US film by Stanley Kramer
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 American film directed by Billy Wilder
Joker: Folie à Deux
2024 film directed by Todd Phillips
Dead Man Walking
1995 film by Tim Robbins
Primal Fear (film)
Primal Fear is a 1996 American legal thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by William Diehl, written by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman. It stars Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, and Edward Norton in his film debut. The film follows a Chicago-based defense attorney who believes that his client, an altar boy, is not guilty of murdering a Catholic bishop.
Anatomy of a Murder
1959 film by Otto Preminger
The Judge
2014 film by David Dobkin
The Verdict
1982 film by Sidney Lumet
The Accused
1988 film by Jonathan Kaplan
A Time to Kill
1996 film by Joel Schumacher
The Client
1994 film directed by Joel Schumacher
North Country
2005 film by Niki Caro
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005 film by Scott Derrickson
...And Justice for All
1979 film by Norman Jewison
Casualties of War
1989 film directed by Brian De Palma
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020 film directed by Aaron Sorkin
The Paradine Case
1947 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
The Rainmaker
1997 film by Francis Ford Coppola
The Caine Mutiny
1954 film directed by Edward Dmytryk
My Sister's Keeper
2009 film by Nick Cassavetes
Quiz Show
1994 film by Robert Redford
Gifted
2017 film by Marc Webb
Hart's War
2002 American film by Gregory Hoblit
A Free Soul
1931 film by Clarence Brown
Rules of Engagement
2000 film by William Friedkin
Evil Angels
1988 film by Fred Schepisi
Just Mercy
2019 film directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
2017 film by Dan Gilroy
The Mauritanian
2021 film directed by Kevin Macdonald
Inherit the Wind
1960 film by Stanley Kramer
On the Basis of Sex
2018 film by Mimi Leder
Delivery Man
2013 film by Ken Scott
Murder in the First
1995 film by Marc Rocco
True Story
2015 film directed by Rupert Goold
A Civil Action
1998 film by Steven Zaillian
Argentina, 1985
2022 film directed by Santiago Mitre
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996 film by Rob Reiner
The Young Philadelphians
1959 film by Vincent Sherman
Conviction
2010 film directed by Tony Goldwyn
Class Action
1991 film by Michael Apted
Snow Falling on Cedars
1999 film by Scott Hicks
Compulsion
1959 film by Richard Fleischer
Marshall
2017 film directed by Reginald Hudlin
Devil's Knot
2013 film directed by Atom Egoyan
Guilty by Suspicion
1991 film by Irwin Winkler
Nuts
1987 film by Martin Ritt
God's Not Dead 2
2016 film by Harold Cronk
Denial
2016 film by Mick Jackson