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Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband's story, the police surgeon can find no evidence that β¦ she has been raped. Manion is defended by Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a rather humble small-town lawyer. During the course of interviews, Biegler discovers that Manion is violently possessive and jealous, and also that his wife has a reputation for giving her favors to other men. Biegler realizes that the prosecution will try to make the court believe that Laura was the lover of the bartender and than Manion killed him and beat her up when he discovered them together. Manion pleads "not guilty" and Biegler, who knows that his case is weak, sets his assistants to try to find a witness who will save Manion. (Read More)
Themes: | religious beliefu.s. militaryjusticejealousyrapemurderdeath |
Mood: | murder trial |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | canadianpsychiatristalcoholiclawyersoldier |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | judicial systempinball machinefirst lieutenantdistrict attorneylaw firmfly fishingcleaning fishlocked in jailpiano duetwearing sunglasses insideplaying pianodefense lawyerdrunk soldierrape victimpicasso painting β¦woman with a black eyetemporary insanitycourt battlesoldier's wifeinsanity pleajury selectionyear 1886broken marriagecross examinationhard boiled egglegal issuejailhousebluffingafipolygraphjazz scoregirdlesleeping on a sofafreight trainjazz bandjudiciaryjudicialarsonistflirtcigarette holderontario canadalugerjazz clubillegitimate sondrunken womanjealous husbandrosarydriving at nightpinballwanted posterreading a newspaperfamous scoreprosecutormichigantrailer parktrue crimepocket watchcatholicismtrailer homejazz musicirish americanshot multiple timesdivorceelieutenantprison cellblack eyeconvictattorneyinnocencegossiplawcold warwitnessconvertibledebtlibrarybartendercigar smokingcontroversyfishingtrialjudgefishjailpianosunglassesbeercar accidentunderwearbased on true storypantiesdancingbased on noveldog (See All) |
Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. The district attorney on the case is Katheryn Murphy who wants to prove that although Sarah had taken drugs that night and was acting provocatively while in the bar, this is no reason for her to be so brutally attacked and the men re β¦sponsible should be brought to justice. (Read More)
Themes: | justicerape |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systempinball machinedistrict attorneyrape victimjudicialjudiciaryprosecutorattorneyinnocencelawwitnessbartendertrialjudgecar accident β¦underwearbased on true storypantiesdancing (See All) |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
Themes: | justicemurder |
Mood: | murder trial |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | psychiatristlawyer |
Story: | judicial systemdistrict attorneyjudicialjudiciaryprosecutorprison cellbartendertrialjudgejailbased on novel |
When a judge is charged with rape, Arthur Kirkland is forced to defend him. Kirkland has had problems with the judge in the past, including one incident when the judge wrongly sentenced his client Jeff McCullaugh because of a technicality. Kirkland faces a moral and legal dilemma.
Themes: | justicerape |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemdistrict attorneydefense lawyerjudiciaryprosecutorattorneyinnocencelawwitnesstrialjudgecar accidentpanties |
Rudy Baylor is a jobless young attorney. However, he is also the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. In this judicial drama, Rudy learns to hate corporate America as he falls in love with a battered young married woma β¦n. Will he be up to the task? (Read More)
Themes: | justicemurder |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | judicial systemjudicialjudiciaryattorneylawbartendercigar smokingjudgebased on noveldog |
Kevin Lomax, a ruthless young Florida attorney that never lost a case, is recruited by the most powerful law firm in the world. In spite of his mother's disagreement, which compares New York City to Babylon, he accepts the offer and the money that comes along. But soon, his wife starts feeling homes β¦ick as she witnesses devilish apparitions. However, Kevin is sinking in his new cases and pays less and less attention to his wife. His boss and mentor, John Milton, seems to always know how to overcome every problem and that just freaks Kevin right off. (Read More)
Themes: | rapedeathmurder |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemlaw firmrape victimjudicialjudiciaryattorneylawwitnessbartendertrialjudgecar accidentpantiesdancingbased on novel β¦dog (See All) |
Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hots β¦hot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousymurderdeath |
Mood: | murder trial |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | district attorneylaw firmprosecutorlawwitnesstrialjudgejail |
Mick Haller is a defense lawyer who works out of his Lincoln. When a wealthy Realtor is accused of assaulting a prostitute, Haller is asked to defend him. The man claims that the woman is trying to get some money out of him. But when Haller looks at the evidence against him, he learns that this case β¦ might be linked to an old case of his. (Read More)
Themes: | rapedeathmurder |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | district attorneydefense lawyerprosecutorwitnesstrialjudgejailbased on novel |
'Erin Brockovich-Ellis' (qv) is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation β¦ for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation. (Read More)
Themes: | justice |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemlaw firmjudiciaryjudicialdivorceeattorneylawdebttrialjudgecar accidentbased on true story |
Bill Gambini and Stanley Rothenstein are two friends from New York University who just received scholarships to UCLA. They decide to drive through the South. Once they arrive in Alabama, they stop at a local convenience store to pick up a few snacks. But, no sooner than they leave the store, they ar β¦e arrested. They had thought that they were arrested for shoplifting, but they were arrested for murder and robbery. Worse, they are facing execution for this crime. Bill and Stan do not have enough money for a lawyer, so the good news is that Bill has a lawyer in his family, his cousin, Vincent Laguardia Gambini. The bad news is that Vinny is an inexperienced lawyer who has not been at a trial. So, Vinny has to defend his clients and battle an uncompromising judge, some tough locals, and even his fiancee, Mona Lisa Vito, who just does not know when to shut up, to prove his clients' innocence. But he will soon realize that he is going to need help. (Read More)
Themes: | justicemurder |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemjudicialjudiciaryinnocencelawconvertibletrialjudgejail |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | jealousyrapemurderdeath |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | district attorneyconvictattorneyinnocencelawbartendertrialjudgesunglassesbeerdancingdog |
High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the milita β¦ry justice system, she'll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire's sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died. (Read More)
Themes: | justicemurder |
Mood: | murder trial |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | first lieutenantdefense lawyerdriving at nightblack eyeattorneytrialcar accidentbased on novel |
As children, Lorenzo Carcaterra - Shakes to his friends - Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano, and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known by its residents. The ⦠one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit. In 1967, their lives would change forever when a typical teenage prank went wrong which led to the four of them being sentenced to various terms at Wilkinson Home for Boys, a reformatory. There, they were physically, emotionally and sexually abused primarily by Sean Nokes, the head guard of their cell block, and fellow guards Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, although there were other caring figures of authority at the home including other guards. Their time at the home affected the four, not all who were able to emerge from the experience to regroup their lives. In their want to forget about the experience, they made a vow not to talk about it either between themselves or with others. Fast forward thirteen years, with Tommy and Johnny being career criminals, Michael an assistant district attorney and Shakes a newspaper writer, their friendship on the surface more loose than it was when they were children. When Tommy and John spot Nokes, it leads to Shakes and Michael banding together to exact revenge not only on Nokes b⦠(Read More)
Themes: | justicerapedeathmurder |
Mood: | murder trial |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | judicial systemdistrict attorneyjudicialjudiciaryirish americanattorneyinnocencewitnesslibrarytrialjudge |
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-d β¦rama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room. (Read More)
Themes: | justicemurder |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemjudicialjudiciaryattorneylawwitnesstrial |
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murde β¦red. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan... (Read More)
Themes: | deathmurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemlaw firmjudicialjudiciaryconvictattorneylawconvertiblecigar smokingjudgejailbased on noveldog |
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants t β¦o believe what Father Moore says is true. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | law firmprosecutorcatholicismwitnesstrialjudgepianocar accidentbased on true storydancing |
1882, New Mexico Territory. Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are itinerant lawmen, hired by desperate towns as marshal and deputy. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg, a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen. Cole an β¦d Hitch contrive to arrest Bragg and bring him to trial, but hanging him proves difficult. Meanwhile, a widow has arrived in town, Allison French, pretty, refined, and good-natured. Virgil falls hard, and it seems mutual, but there may be more to Allie than meets the eye. Can friendship and skill with a gun overcome a pernicious villain and green-eyed jealousy? (Read More)
Themes: | justicejealousyrapedeathmurder |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | lawwitnessbartendercigar smokingtrialjudgejailpianounderwearbased on novel |
It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about 4 judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and cleansing policies. Retired American judge, Dan Haywood has a daunting task ahead of him. The Cold War is heating up and no one β¦wants any more trials as Germany, and Allied governments, want to forget the past. But is that the right thing to do is the question that the tribunal must decide. (Read More)
Themes: | justice |
Locations: | courtroom |
Story: | judicial systemafijudicialjudiciarylawcold wartrialjudge |
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | judicial systemjudicialjudiciaryattorneylawcontroversytrialjudgebased on true storypanties |
Frank Galvin was once a promising Boston lawyer with a bright future ahead. An incident early in his career in which he was trying to do the right thing led to him being fired from the prestigious law firm with which he was working, almost being disbarred, and his wife leaving him. Continually drown β¦ing his sorrows in booze, he is now an ambulance chasing lawyer, preying on the weak and vulnerable, and bending the truth whenever necessary to make what few dollars he has, as he has only had a few cases in the last few years, losing the last four. His only friend in the profession is his now retired ex-partner, Mickey Morrissey, who gets Frank a case, his fee solely a percentage of what his clients are awarded. The case should net Frank tens of thousands of dollars by settling out of court, that money which would at least get him back on his feet. It is a negligence suit brought on behalf of Deborah Ann Kaye by her sister and brother-in-law, Sally and Kevin Doneghy, against St. Catherine Laboure Hospital, operated by the Archdiocese of Boston, and Drs. Towler and Marks. Kaye was admitted to the hospital for what should have been a routine delivery, but something that happened while Kaye was on the operating room table led to her brain being deprived of oxygen, resulting in permanent brain damage, and Kaye now being in a totally vegetative state requiring hospitalization for the rest of her life. Frank eventually learns that the cause seems to be that Dr. Towler, the anesthesioloβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | justice |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemlaw firmafijudicialjudiciarypinballirish americanlawtrialbased on novel |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de β¦fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Mood: | murder trial |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | jury selectioncross examinationattorneyinnocencelawfishingtrialjudgesunglassesbeercar accidentunderwear |
This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doin β¦gs to write a feature on one of William's famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim's violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim's buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy's murder, Kelso has his hands full. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | murder trial |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | true crimelawtrialjudgebased on true storydog |
In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the co β¦mpany of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US. (Read More)
Themes: | justice |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyersoldier |
Period: | 1950s |
Story: | law firmirish americanlieutenantlawcold wartrialjudgebased on true story |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, β¦ even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousyrapemurder |
Locations: | bar |
Story: | fly fishingjazz scoretrailer parktrailer homecontroversyfishingfishbeercar accidentunderwearpantiesdog |
In Canton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks -- James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Almost immediately after Tonya is found and rushed to a hospital, Pete and Billy Ray are found at a roadside bar, where they had been bragging about ⦠what they did to Tonya. Tonya's understandably distraught and enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, remembers a case from a year ago, when four white men raped an African-American girl in a nearby town, and got acquitted. Carl is determined to not let that happen in this case. While deputy Dwayne Powell Looney is escorting Pete and Billy Ray up a flight of stairs to a court room, Carl emerges from the building's basement with an assault rifle, and he kills Pete and Billy Ray for what they did to Tonya. Carl is later arrested at his house by African-American sheriff Ozzie Walls, and Carl is scheduled to be placed on trial. Despite the efforts of the NAACP and local African-American leaders to persuade Carl to choose some of their high-powered attorneys, Carl wants to be represented by his friend Jake Tyler Brigance, who has a wife named Carla and a daughter named Hannah. Presiding over the trial is white judge Omar Noose, and the prosecution attorney is Rufus Buckley, who would like nothing more than to win the case and swim in the publicity that a win would generate, because Rufus realizes that a murder conviction could help him gain higher office. Helping Jake on the case are his form⦠(Read More)
Themes: | justicerapemurder |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Story: | judicial systemjudicialjudiciaryattorneylawtrialjudgejailbased on noveldog |
After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, β¦ his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | district attorneylieutenantwitnessdebtfishjailcar accidentpantiesdog |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | psychiatristlawyer |
Story: | district attorneywanted posterreading a newspapertrue crimetrialjudgesunglassesunderwearbased on true storypantiesdancingdog |
Mark Sway is an 11 year old boy who lives with his mother and brother in a trailer. One day he and his brother are hanging out when a car pulls over beside them. The driver then sticks a hose in his exhaust and puts the other end into the car. Mark pulls it out. But the man sees him and grabs him an β¦d takes inside the car. The man talks to Mark then later shoots himself. The shock sends Mark's brother into a catatonic state. The police question him and slips out some stuff that makes them think he's saying more than he knows. Roy Foltrigg, a prosecutor with political ambitions tells Mark he wants to talk to him tomorrow. Mark feeling that he needs a lawyer, sees Reggie Love. Mark tells her about the man who killed himself. Reggie tells him he's a mob lawyer. And one of his clients is a member of a mob family who is suspected of killing a Senator who was trying to take down his family. But because the Senator's body is missing, they can't prosecute him. Reggie thinks Foltrigg thinks the lawyer told Mark where the body is which is why he wants to speak to him. Mark goes to meet Roy and when he threatens him, Mark steps out then Reggie comes in with a recording of his conversation with Mark telling him that made several violations. In the meantime, the mobster is told by the head of the family to take care of Mark. So he threatens Mark. Mark doesn't know what to do and learns that Reggie has some secrets of her own and is uncertain if he can trust her. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemdistrict attorneyjudicialjudiciaryprosecutortrailer parklawwitnessconvertiblejudgejailbased on novel |
Andrew Beckett, a gay, HIV positive lawyer, is fired from his law firm in fear that they might contract HIV from him. After Andrew is fired, in a last attempt for peace, he sues his former law firm with the help of a homophobic lawyer, Joe Miller. During the court battle, Miller sees that Beckett is β¦ no different than anyone else on the gritty streets of the city of brotherly love, sheds his homophobia and helps Beckett with his case before AIDS overcomes him. (Read More)
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemlaw firmcourt battlejudiciaryjudiciallawlibrarytrialdancing |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a pa β¦st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
Themes: | justicemurderdeath |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | judicial systemjudicialjudiciaryattorneylawtrialjudgebased on novel |
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | murder trial |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | district attorneycross examinationtrue crimewitnesstrialjudge |
Themes: | religious beliefmurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | alcoholic |
Story: | pinball machinelugerpinballwanted postertrailer parktrailer homebartendersunglassescar accidentbased on novel |
Mexican Narcotics officer Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas has to interrupt his honeymoon on the Mexican-US border when an American building contractor is killed after someone places a bomb in his car. He's killed on the US side of the border but it's clear that the bomb was planted on the Mexican side. A β¦s a result, Vargas delays his return to Mexico City where he has been mounting a case against the Grandi family crime and narcotics syndicate. Police Captain Hank Quinlan is in charge on the US side and he soon has a suspect, a Mexican named Manolo Sanchez. Vargas is soon onto Quinlan and his Sergeant, Pete Menzies, when he catches them planting evidence to convict Sanchez. With his new American wife, Susie, safely tucked away in a hotel on the US side of the border - or so he thinks - he starts to review Quinlan's earlier cases. While concentrating on the corrupt policeman however, the Grandis have their own plans for Vargas and they start with his wife Susie. (Read More)
Themes: | justicerapemurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | district attorneyfamous scoreconvictlawconvertiblecigar smokingjailunderweardancingbased on novel |
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull β¦ it off? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | famous scoreattorneylawconvertiblecigar smokingjudgejailsunglassesbeerpantiesdancing |
Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from β¦the gallows in 1920s Chicago. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Mood: | murder trial |
Story: | judicial systemdefense lawyerjudiciaryjudicialprosecutortrialjailbased on true story |
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also i β¦mplicated in the crime. He spends 15 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce. Based on a true story. (Read More)
Themes: | justice |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyersoldier |
Story: | judicial systemjudicialjudiciaryattorneyinnocencetrialjudgebased on true story |
Hayes Hodges finds his career aspirations dashed when he's wounded in Vietnam combat. He then returns to America and becomes a disillusioned lawyer who goes up against the service to defend Colonel Terry Childers, who is accused of inciting an incident that leaves many demonstrators dead. Hodges in β¦no position to decline: Childers heroically saved his life back in Vietnam. (Read More)
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyersoldier |
Story: | judicial systemfly fishingjudiciaryjudicialtrialjudge |
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she pl β¦ays against powerful enemies and her own past. (Read More)
Themes: | rapemurder |
Mood: | murder trial |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | psychiatristlawyer |
Story: | rape victimshot multiple timesinnocencetrialbased on noveldog |
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned t β¦he simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son. (Read More)
Themes: | justicemurderdeath |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | cross examinationrosaryprosecutorprison celltrial |
In 1999, retired Argentinian federal justice agent Benjamin Esposito is writing a novel, using an old closed case as the source material. That case is the brutal rape and murder of Liliana Coloto. In addition to seeing the extreme grief of the victim's husband Ricardo Morales, Benjamin, his assistan β¦t Pablo Sandoval, and newly hired department chief Irene Menendez-Hastings were personally affected by the case as Benjamin and Pablo tracked the killer, hence the reason why the unsatisfactory ending to the case has always bothered him. Despite the department already having two other suspects, Benjamin and Pablo ultimately were certain that a man named Isidoro Gomez is the real killer. Although he is aware that historical accuracy is not paramount for the novel, the process of revisiting the case is more an issue of closure for him. He tries to speak to the key players in the case, most specifically Irene, who still works in the justice department and who he has always been attracted to but never pursued due to the differences in their ages and social classes. The other issue is that Gomez is still at large, no one aware if he is alive or dead. But as Pablo at the time mentioned that passion is one thing that cannot be changed in behavior, Benjamin learns now that that premise still holds true. (Read More)
Themes: | justicerapedeathmurder |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | judicial systemdistrict attorneyjudicialjudiciaryprosecutorprison celljudgejailbased on noveldog |
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' m β¦erry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? (Read More)
Themes: | justicejealousymurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Story: | pinball machineplaying pianodriving at nightbartendercontroversypiano |
When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
Themes: | justicerapemurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | defense lawyerinnocencebartenderfishjailpanties |
The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuernos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her life β¦, she tries to find legitimate work but with little education and limited social skills, she fails at every turn. She starts working as a hooker hitching rides along the local interstate highway and after robbing a few clients has an encounter with a vicious client whom she kills in self-defense. After that however she just takes to killing clients taking their money and car. Once arrested she claims self-defense but is eventually convicted. (Read More)
Themes: | rapedeathmurder |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | rape victimtrue crimeattorneybartendertrialjudgebeercar accidentunderwearbased on true story |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei β¦ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousyrapemurderdeath |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | innocencewitnessfishingtrialfishjailbeercar accidentunderwearbased on true storydancingbased on novel |
Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choos β¦e between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | reading a newspaperconvictwitnessjailcar accident |
The Final Days is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration, the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's lif β¦e: a journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless. (Read More)
Themes: | justice |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | cross examinationprosecutorprison celllawwitnesstrialjudgejailbased on true story |
Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened "radar sense" that allows him to "see" far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorne β¦y. But after he's done his "day job" Matt takes on a secret identity as "The Man Without Fear," Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom. (Read More)
Themes: | justicedeathmurder |
Locations: | courtroombar |
Characters: | alcoholiclawyer |
Story: | wearing sunglasses insideirish americanattorneycigar smokingtrialjudgesunglassescar accident |
Russell and his younger brother Rodney live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, and have always dreamed of escaping and finding better lives. But when a cruel twist of fate lands Russell in prison, his brother becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the Northea β¦st - a mistake that will cost him everything. Once released, Russell must choose between his own freedom, or risk it all to seek justice for his brother. (Read More)
Themes: | justicemurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | soldier |
Story: | trailer parktrailer homeshot multiple timesprison celldebtbartendersunglassescar accidentunderwear |
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new respo β¦nsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted, however, refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son. (Read More)
Themes: | justice |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemafijudiciaryjudicialdivorceetrialjudgebased on novel |
Clyde Shelton's family is brutally murdered. The ones responsible are caught. However, because of improper procedure, the D.A., Nick Rice only has circumstantial evidence. So he decides to get one of them to testify against the other. When Shelton learns of this, he is not happy. Ten years later, th β¦e one who was convicted is being executed but something goes wrong; his execution goes awry and he suffers. They learn that someone tampered with the machine. And the other one is found dead, killed in a gruesome manner. Rice suspects Shelton, so he has him picked up. At first, Shelton agrees to a plea agreement with Rice but changes his mind. It appears that Shelton is not done, it appears he blames the whole system and is declaring war on it going after everyone involved with his family's case. So Rice has to stop him but Shelton is way ahead of him. (Read More)
Themes: | justicerapedeathmurder |
Locations: | courtroom |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | judicial systemdistrict attorneyprosecutorprison cellattorneylawjudge |