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1) Puncture
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Mike Weiss is a talented young Houston lawyer and a functioning drug addict. Paul Danziger, his longtime friend and partner, is the straight-laced and responsible yin to Mike's yang. Their mom-and-pop personal injury law firm is getting by, but things really get interesting when they decide to take on a case involving Vicky, a local ER nurse, who is pricked by a contaminated needle on the job. As Weiss and Danziger dig deeper into the case, heavyweight...
Publisher
LG Premiere
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper....
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Though equally respected in their field, divorce lawyers Audrey and Daniel are opposites inside and out of the courtroom. Audrey is meticulous and by the book, while Daniel relies on personality and luck to get by. Neither have lost a case and neither intends to now, but a celebrity power couple gone wrong will end one of their winning streaks. The divorce settlement hinges on an old Irish castle. The two race to Ireland where after an Irish festival...
4) The Firm
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm.
5) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jim Fremont is an Illinois States Attorney fighting corrupt unions in Chicago. The union crooks in collaboration with a gambling syndicate try to pin a murder rap on an uncooperative union leader Blane. Fremont and his co-worker fiancee Laura, work to prove Blane's innocence and to punish the true villains.
8) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything - his future, his family, and his own life - to expose the truth.
Publisher
Advent Film Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Caleb teams up with Rachel to lead Patrick Henry College to the National Moot Court Championship. Along the way, he is caught in a moral tug-of-war between his parents -- a newly Christian father and a constitutional attorney mother. As the PHC moot court team and the U.S. Supreme Court simultaneously grapple with legal cases involving abortion, Caleb clashes with his mother and his own conscience as he struggles to internalize his beliefs and stand...
11) The trial
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
'Mac' McClain is an emotionally crippled attorney who's lost his faith in God and himself. That's when Mac reluctantly decides to take on one last case, a young man facing the death penalty for first-degree murder. But nothing can prepare Mac for the startling twists and turns of the ensuing trial, as the determined lawyer fights for justice and seeks a path to his own redemption.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corruptgovernment institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
13) The accused
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A fiercely independent woman is gang raped, then battles the legal system twice, going after both her attackers and the onlookers whose cheering fueled and encouraged the assault.
14) Class action
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The only thing Jedediah Tucker Ward (Gene Hackman) and his daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) have in common is law. Equally brilliant, equally driven, the two find their longtime personal battle takes a new form when they represent opposing sides in a corporate class action lawsuit. A suspense-filled trial pits father against daughter, justice against victory.
15) My cousin Vinny
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Two carefree pals (Macchio and Whitfield) traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, Vincent Gambini (Pesci) is the cousin of one of them and he is a lawyer. Vinny is a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try and has never been in court. When cousin Vinny arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend (Tomei) to handle his first case, it's a real shock - for both Vinny...
17) The insult
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Arabic
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Description
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
18) The incident
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Set during World War II, an attorney is coerced into defending a German POW who is accused of murdering the town physician, the attorney's best friend.
19) Helter skelter
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his 'family'.
20) Jagged edge
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
An attorney falls in love with her defendant, the prime suspect in a vicious murder case.