Please wait - finding best movies...
Highly successful London barrister Anthony Keane takes on the case of Italian Maddalena Paradine who is accused of poisoning her blind military hero husband. Keane comes increasingly under her spell, threatening both his marriage and his career.
| Themes: | wealthprejudiceblindnesscrueltyhumiliationobsessionprisonadulteryjealousymarriagesuicidemurder |
| Mood: | murder trialmurder caserain |
| Locations: | courtroompolice stationrural settinglondon englandtrain |
| Characters: | police sergeantfrench canadianpolice arrestlustkillerlove trianglelawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | wedding anniversarydeath by poisonwine glassportrait paintingjail celldefense lawyerprison matronprison guarddysfunctional marriageaccused of murderlondon bobbyhorse groomarrest warrantindignitybird's eye shot …wet hairriver thames30 year oldbarristeradulteressinnuendosolicitormanor houseblueprintbig ben londonsweatingsheet musicoathspectatorcourthousemarital infidelitycaretakerinnmurderessinmatebathrobeheritageinfatuationvaletjurypiano playinglast will and testamentpolice inspectordirector cameoadulterous wifetestimonydonkeyanniversarypipe smokinghorse and carriageblind manbutlerrailway stationtowellawfireplaceitalianchessnewspaper headlineclass differencessuspicionwitnesspianistringpoisoncigar smokingfemme fataletrialjudgedinnerwidowmansionwinejailpaintingthree word titlephotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlebased on novel (See All) |
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 … it off? (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthobsessionprisonadulterymurder |
| Locations: | courtroompolice station |
| Characters: | lustlawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | jail celladulteresslast will and testamentadulterous wifelawsuspicionringcigar smokingfemme fatalejudgedinnerwidowmansionwinejail …cigarette smoking (See All) |
When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the "murder".
| Themes: | prisonmurder |
| Mood: | murder trial |
| Locations: | courtroompolice station |
| Characters: | police arrestlawyerhusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | jail cellprison guardinmatejurytestimonyhorse and carriagenewspaper headlinetrialjudgepaintingphotographcigarette smoking |
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: | murder |
| Mood: | murder trial |
| Locations: | courtroompolice stationtrain |
| Characters: | police arrestlawyer |
| Story: | jail celljurypolice inspectortestimonynewspaper headlinetrialjudgejailphotographcigarette smokingbased on novel |
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 …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: | wealthobsessionprisonadulteryjealousysuicidemurder |
| Mood: | murder trial |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | courthousetestimonylawclass differenceswitnesstrialjudgemansionjail |
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 …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: | obsessionmarriagesuicidemurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lustlawyerhusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | oathspectatorcourthousejurytestimonylawfireplaceitaliannewspaper headlinewitnessringtrialjudgepaintingthree word title …photographcigarette smokingbased on novel (See All) |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enor …mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthhumiliationprisonjealousymarriagemurder |
| Locations: | courtroomtrain |
| Characters: | police arrestlawyerpolice |
| Story: | oathinmatejurylast will and testamentpipe smokingbutlerlawnewspaper headlinewitnesspoisontrialjudgewidowwinepainting …photographcigarette smoking (See All) |
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: | prisonsuicide |
| Locations: | courtroompolice station |
| Characters: | lawyer |
| Story: | defense lawyeroathcourthousejurytestimonylawwitnesstrialjudgephotograph |
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 … might be linked to an old case of his. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyer |
| Story: | defense lawyeraccused of murdercourthousejurywitnesstrialjudgejailthree word titlephotographbased on novel |
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 …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: | jealousymurder |
| Locations: | courtroomtrain |
| Characters: | love trianglelawyer |
| Story: | jail celltestimonylawwitnesspianistringcigar smokingtrialjudgewidowjailcigarette smokingbased on novel |
A shy ladies' companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year be …fore. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthcrueltyobsessionjealousymarriagesuicidemurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | rural settinglondon england |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | portrait paintingdirector cameobutlerclass differencesmansionpaintingcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlebased on novel |
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 …n. Will he be up to the task? (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | courtroompolice station |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | jail celloathjurylast will and testamentlawnewspaper headlinecigar smokingjudgephotographcigarette smokingbased on novel |
Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madl …y in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthcrueltyprisonadulteryjealousysuicidemurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | prison guardtestimonytowelchesspoisontrialjudgewinejailpaintingphotographcigarette smokingbased on novel |
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: | wealthobsessionmarriagesuicidemurder |
| Mood: | murder caserain |
| Locations: | courtroomtrain |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | dysfunctional marriagejuryclass differencessuspiciontrialjudgedinnerwinethree word titlephotographcigarette smoking |
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 …mpany of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US. (Read More)
| Themes: | prejudiceprison |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | courtroomtrain |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | jail cellprison guardpipe smokinglawnewspaper headlinesuspiciontrialjudgepaintingthree word titlephotographcigarette smoking |
In prison awaiting execution the next morning Louis, the 10th Duke of Chalfont, sets down on paper the events that led him to his current situation. His mother has been banished from her family, the D'Ascoynes, after she married Louis' father who was considered far beneath her. After her death, the …D'Ascoynes refused permission for her to be buried in the family crypt. Louis then plots his revenge - and kills all those ahead of him in the succession until he becomes the Duke. Along the way, he becomes involved with the married Sibelia who, when spurned, makes sure he ends up in prison. The day before his execution Sibelia recants her testimony saving him not only from the gallows but also sets him free. Once outside the prison however, he realizes he's forgotten one little thing........ (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthprisonadulteryjealousymarriagesuicidemurder |
| Locations: | london england |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | portrait paintingprison guardtestimonyhorse and carriagefireplacewitnesspianistpoisontrialwidowwinephotograph |
In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for th …eir marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryjealousymarriagemurder |
| Locations: | london england |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | london bobbylast will and testamentpolice inspectordirector cameopipe smokingfireplacenewspaper headlinecigar smokingtrialjudgephotographcigarette smoking |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark …question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
| Themes: | crueltyobsessionadulteryjealousymarriagemurder |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | police arrestlawyerhusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | wedding anniversaryanniversaryfireplacesuspicionfemme fatalephotographcigarette smokingbased on novel |
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 …st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
| Themes: | blindnesssuicidemurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
| Story: | courthousejuryblind manlawfemme fataletrialjudgewidowphotographcigarette smokingbased on novel |
In London, solicitor Arthur Kipps still grieves the death of his beloved wife Stella on the delivery of their son Joseph four years ago. His employer gives him a last chance to keep his job, and he is assigned to travel to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford to examine the documentation of the Eel … Marsh House that belonged to the recently deceased Mrs. Drablow. Arthur befriends Daily on the train and the man offers a ride to him to the Gifford Arms inn. Arthur has a cold reception and the owner of the inn tells that he did not receive the request of reservation and there is no available room. The next morning, Arthur meets solicitor Jerome who advises him to return to London. However, Arthur goes to the isolated manor and soon he finds that Eel Marsh House is haunted by the vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black. He also learns that the woman lost her son drowned in the marsh and she seeks revenge, taking the children of the scared locals. (Read More)
| Themes: | suicidemurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | rural settinglondon englandtrain |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | portrait paintingsolicitormanor houseinnlast will and testamenthorse and carriagerailway stationfireplacesuspicionwidowmansionpaintingphotographbased on novel |
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: | obsessionprisonjealousymarriagemurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | prison guardcourthousejurytestimonylawtrialjudgephotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in title |
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 …o believe what Father Moore says is true. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | courtroomrural setting |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshippolice |
| Story: | jail celljurytestimonysuspicionwitnesspianisttrialjudgephotographcharacter name in title |
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 …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: | prisonadulterymarriagemurder |
| Mood: | murder trialrain |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | accused of murdercourthousejurytestimonylawchessnewspaper headlinesuspiciontrialjudgephotograph |
It's Britain, 1953. Upon his return to work following a heart attack, irrepressible barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts, known as a barrister for the hopeless, takes on a murder case, much to the exasperation of his medical team, led by his overly regulated private nurse, Miss Plimsoll, who tries her hard …est to ensure that he not return to his hard living ways - including excessive cigar smoking and drinking - while he takes his medication and gets his much needed rest. That case is defending American war veteran Leonard Vole, a poor, out of work, struggling inventor who is accused of murdering his fifty-six year old lonely and wealthy widowed acquaintance, Emily French. The initial evidence is circumstantial but points to Leonard as the murderer. Despite being happily married to East German former beer hall performer Christine Vole, he fostered that friendship with Mrs. French in the hopes that she would finance one of his many inventions to the tune of a few hundred pounds. It thus does not help his case when it is learned that Mrs. French changed her will prior to her murder with Leonard being the primary beneficiary of a GBP80,000 estate. Leonard states that he knew nothing about the will. Christine is apparently the only alibi Leonard has to his whereabouts at the time of the murder. The usual methods Sir Wilfrid uses to test his clients' guilt or innocence leads to him believing that Leonard is indeed innocent. As the trial progresses, the prosecution calls a surprise witness… (Read More)
| Themes: | marriagemurder |
| Mood: | murder case |
| Locations: | london england |
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | barristersolicitorjurylast will and testamentpolice inspectortestimonywitnesscigar smokingtrialjudge |
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 … 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: | jealousymurder |
| Mood: | murder trial |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyerpolice |
| Story: | defense lawyerlawwitnesscigar smokingtrialjudgejailbased on novel |
Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he's Rowena's …prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she's soon the object of Hill's attentions. She's helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out? (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionadulterymurder |
| Mood: | murder trial |
| Locations: | courtroomtrain |
| Characters: | killerlawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | marital infidelityjurynewspaper headlinewitnesspoisonfemme fataletrialphotograph |
London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
| Themes: | prisonmarriagemurder |
| Locations: | london england |
| Characters: | killerhusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | jail cellriver thamespolice inspectordirector cameosuspiciontrialjailbased on novel |
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival ma …gicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionprisonadulterysuicidemurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | courtroomlondon englandtrain |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | jail cellsolicitorhorse and carriageblind manfireplacetrialjudgejailphotographbased on novel |
THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna love …s being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. (Read More)
| Themes: | prisonsuicidemurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | courtroomtrain |
| Characters: | lustlawyerfather daughter relationshippolice |
| Story: | courthousemurderesslast will and testamentlawtrialjudgewinejailphotographcigarette smokingbased on novel |
Set in the 1930s, the story takes place in an old-fashioned English country house where a weekend shooting party is underway. The story centers on the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, William McCordle. Getting on in years, William has become benefactor to many of his relatives and … friends. As the weekend goes on, secrets are revealed, and it seems everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money, but how far will they go to get it? (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryjealousymurder |
| Story: | death by poisonmanor housevaletpolice inspectorbutlerclass differencespoisoncigar smokingdinnermansionphotographcigarette smoking |
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 …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: | prejudiceprison |
| Locations: | courtroomlondon england |
| Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | jail cellprison guardpolice inspectortrialjudgecigarette smoking |
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 …e between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | lawyerpolice |
| Story: | jail cellcourthouselast will and testamenttestimonywitnessjailphotograph |
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that L …eone never sees the light of day. (Read More)
| Themes: | crueltyprisonsuicidemurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Story: | jail cellprison guardinmateringcigar smokingjailphotographcigarette smoking |
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 …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: | lawclass differencespoisontrialjudge |
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not af …fect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulteryjealousymarriagesuicide |
| Locations: | rural settingtrain |
| Characters: | love trianglefather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | adulterous wifehorse and carriagepianistcigar smokingpaintingthree word titlecigarette smokingcharacter name in titlebased on novel |
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 …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: | prejudicemurder |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyer |
| Story: | jurylawwitnesstrialthree word titlephotograph |
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 …, 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: | humiliationprisonadulterymurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | courtroompolice station |
| Characters: | killerlawyerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | courthousejurytrialjudgewinecigarette smoking |
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme …to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. (Read More)
| Themes: | obsessionadulterymarriagemurder |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | lustfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | railway stationsuspicionwitnessfemme fatalewidowphotographbased 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: | crueltyhumiliationprisonadulterymarriagemurder |
| Mood: | murder trialrain |
| Locations: | courtroomtrain |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | courthousejurytestimonyitalianwitnesstrialjudgephotographcigarette smoking |
Walter Goodfellow, the vicar for the small English country parish of Little Wallop, has allowed his marriage to Gloria go stale, and he is so detached from his family that he has not taken notice that his 17-year-old daughter Holly is going through a succession of relationships with unsuitable boyfr …iends, and his son Petey fears going to school owing to being bullied. Out of desperation for affection, Gloria begins to fall for the advances of Lance, an American golf pro who is giving her "private" lessons. The problems upsetting the family start to fade away after Grace Hawkins, the new housekeeper, arrives and starts tending to matters as an older, and rather darkly mysterious version of Mary Poppins. (Read More)
| Themes: | adulterymarriagemurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | courtroomrural settingtrain |
| Characters: | lustfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | jail celldysfunctional marriagemurderessfireplacetrialjudgephotograph |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fou …r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthobsessionadulteryjealousymarriage |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | london england |
| Characters: | lustlove trianglehusband wife relationship |
| Story: | dysfunctional marriageriver thamesadulterous wifephotographcigarette smoking |
Chronicles the experiences of a formerly successful banker as a prisoner in the gloomy jailhouse of Shawshank after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit. The film portrays the man's unique way of dealing with his new, torturous life; along the way he befriends a number of fellow prisoners …, most notably a wise long-term inmate named Red. (Read More)
| Themes: | prisonadulterysuicidemurder |
| Mood: | murder trialrain |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | police arrest |
| Story: | prison guardinmatenewspaper headlinetrialjudgejailthree word titlephotograph |
In 1946, the former boxers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are policemen in Los Angeles. Lee has a good relationship with his chief and uses a box fight between them to promote the department and get a raise to the police force. They succeed and are promoted to homicide detectives, workin …g together. Bucky becomes a close friend of Lee and his girlfriend Kay Lake, forming a triangle of love. When the corpse of the aspirant actress 'Elizabeth Short (I)' is found mutilated, Lee becomes obsessed to solve the case called by the press Black Dahlia. Meanwhile, Bucky's investigation leads him to a Madeleine Linscott, the daughter of a powerful and wealthy constructor that resembles the Black Dahlia. In an environment of corruption and lies, Bucky discloses hidden truths. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthobsessionsuicidemurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | lustlove trianglefather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | dysfunctional marriagebird's eye shotnewspaper headlineclass differencesfemme fatalepaintingthree word titlephotographcigarette smokingbased on novel |
After finally catching serial killer and occult "sorcerer" Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. But when Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once agai …n. Contending with his partner's new fiancee and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the dauntless detective must unravel the clues that will lead him into a twisted web of murder, deceit, and black magic - and the deadly embrace of temptress Irene Adler. (Read More)
| Themes: | prisonmurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | london englandtrain |
| Characters: | killerlove triangle |
| Story: | london bobbybig ben londonpipe smokinghorse and carriagerailway stationnewspaper headlinewitnessfemme fatalecharacter name in title |
Despite his tarnished reputation after the events of The Dark Knight, in which he took the rap for Dent's crimes, Batman feels compelled to intervene to assist the city and its police force which is struggling to cope with Bane's plans to destroy the city.
| Themes: | wealthblindnessprisonsuicidemurder |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | lawyerpolice |
| Story: | jail cellprison guardmanor houselast will and testamentbutlerfireplacenewspaper headlineclass differencesfemme fataletrialjudgemansionphotograph |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's … not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
| Themes: | prisonmurder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | courtroomtrain |
| Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | jail celljurytestimonyrailway stationnewspaper headlinewitnesstrialjudgephotographcigarette smoking |
An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no understanding of the culture he finds. His investigations are helped by another ex-con. Together they learn that his daughter had been having a …n affair with a record producer, who is presently having an affair with another young woman. An aging actress, who also knew his daughter, forces him to look at his own failures as a father. The movie does focus on the drama of the situation and the inter-relationships of the characters and seldom slips into an action piece. (Read More)
| Themes: | wealthprisonsuicidemurder |
| Locations: | courtroomlondon england |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshippolice |
| Story: | inmatevalettowelfireplacetrialjudgemansionphotographcigarette smoking |
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he's seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | rain |
| Locations: | police stationtrain |
| Characters: | killerlove trianglefather daughter relationshippolice |
| Story: | 30 year oldpiano playingpolice inspectorsuspicionwitnesspianistcigar smokingcigarette smokingbased on novel |
Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton is bored with her quiet life at home with her parents and her younger sister. She wishes something exciting would happen and knows exactly what they need: a visit from her sophisticated and much traveled uncle Charlie Oakley, her mother's younger brother. Imagine her delig …ht when, out of the blue, they receive a telegram from uncle Charlie announcing that he is coming to visit them for awhile. Charlie Oakley creates quite a stir and charms the ladies club as well as the bank president where his brother-in-law works. Young Charlie begins to notice some odd behavior on his part, such as cutting out a story in the local paper about a man who marries and then murders rich widows. When two strangers appear asking questions about him, she begins to imagine the worst about her dearly beloved uncle Charlie. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | train |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshippolice |
| Story: | oathinfatuationpipe smokingrailway stationlawsuspicionringpoisoncigar smokingdinnerwidowwinephotograph |
An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | murder trial |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | lawyer |
| Story: | courthousejurytestimonywitnesstrialjudge |
© 2023 FilmTagger.com
·
New Movies
·
About
·
RSS
·
Conditions
·
Privacy
FilmTagger.com