Topic: Legal Drama

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Henry Fonda · Lee J. Cobb · Jack Warden · E.G. Marshall

Plot Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same...

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Tyrone Power · Marlene Dietrich · Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester

Plot Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a young and attractive man, is accused of the murder of Miss French, a rich old woman. Wilfred Roberts (Charles Laughton), a criminal lawyer from London,...

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · James Stewart · Vera Miles · Lee Marvin

Plot Congressman Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) returns with his wife Hallie (Vera Miles) to the tiny town of Shinbone to bury an old friend, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne), and tells reporters...

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Gregory Peck · Mary Badham · Brock Peters · Phillip Alford

Plot The lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), decides to defend a black man (Brock Peters) undeservedly charged with raping a poor white woman. The bigoted townspeople would rather lynch the accused...

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Emma Thompson · Pete Postlethwaite · John Lynch

Plot Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, 'Proved Innocent', Jim Sheridan's 'In the Name of the Father' tells the story of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the bombing of a...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Marlene Dietrich

Plot It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about four Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Spencer Tracy · Walter Abel · Bruce Cabot

Plot This is the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who escapes a lynch mob and then orchestrates his apparent murder at their hands to get revenge.

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Eva Marie Saint · Karl Malden · Lee J. Cobb

Plot Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is an ex-prize fighter struggling against union corruption along the New York waterfront. Malloy's battle takes him all the way to the witness stand, where he...

Direction Andrew Jarecki

Plot Directed and produced by Andrew Jarecki and produced and shot by Marc Smerling (the Oscar® nominees behind “Capturing the Friedmans”), the six-part documentary series exposes long-buried information discovered during their...

Direction Gustavo Pérez Puig

Cast José María Rodero · José Bódalo · Manuel Alexandre · Sancho Gracia

Plot 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....

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast James Stewart · Lee Remick · Ben Gazzara · Arthur O'Connell

Plot An Army Lieutenant, Frederick Manion (Ben Gazarra), is accused of murdering a man, Barney Quill, for allegedly raping his beautiful wife, Laura Manion (Lee Remick). Manion’s lawyer, Paul Biegler (James...

Direction Steven Zaillian · Richard Price · James Marsh

Cast Riz Ahmed · John Turturro · Michael Kenneth Williams · Bill Camp

Plot TV Miniseries (2016). 8 Episodes. After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.

Direction Moira Demos · Laura Ricciardi

Cast Steven Avery

Plot TV Series (2015-2018). 2 Seasons. 20 Episodes. This documentary series focuses on the case of Steven Avery, a man convicted of sexual assault, before being exonerated by DNA evidence 18...

Direction Ava DuVernay

Cast Jharrel Jerome · Aunjanue Ellis · Asante Blackk · Caleel Harris

Plot TV Miniseries (2019). 4 Episodes. In 1989 five teenagers of color who were accused of a rape in Central Park they did not commit. Based on a true story that...

Direction Joe Berlinger · Bruce Sinofsky

Plot A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Spencer Tracy · Judy Holliday · Tom Ewell

Plot Domestic and professional tensions mount when husband Adam Bonner and his wife Amanda work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.

Direction Abbas Kiarostami

Cast Hossain Sabzian · Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Plot A manic movie fan pretends to be film director Mohsen Makmalbaf in this film about the nature of art and documentary.

Direction Scott Alexander · Larry Karaszewski · Ryan Murphy · Anthony Hemingway

Cast Cuba Gooding Jr. · John Travolta · Sarah Paulson · Courtney B. Vance

Plot There are few truly unifying events in American life. When something happens that makes the entire country stop and take notice, we remember it forever. Everybody remembers where they were...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Fredric March · Gene Kelly · Dick York

Plot Teacher B.T. Cates is arrested for teaching Darwin's theories. Famous lawyer Henry Drummond defends him; fundamentalist politician Matthew Brady prosecutes. This is a very thinly disguised rendition of the 1925...

Direction Peter Ustinov

Cast Robert Ryan · Peter Ustinov · Terence Stamp · Melvyn Douglas

Plot H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere. He...