THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE


Release Date: 2003
Director: Alan Parker
Distributor: Universal Pictures

An anti-death-penalty activist is convicted of rape and murder and put on death row.

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG


Release Date: 1961
Director: Stanley Kramer
Distributor: United Artists

Four judges are charged with war crimes.

PRESUMED INNOCENT


Release Date:
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

A prosecutor is charged with the death of his former mistress.

DEAD MAN WALKING


Release Date: 1995
Director: Tim Robbins
Distributor: Gramercy Pictures

A nun befriends a convict on death row.

CHANGING LANES

Release Date: 2002
Director: Paramount Pictures
Distributor: Roger Michell

An attorney and insurance agent get into a car accident that causes the agent to miss a child custody hearing and the attorney to lose important legal documents.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN


Release Date: 2002
Director: Steven Spielberg
Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution

A young con artist impersonates various professionals and passes bad checks.

BODY HEAT


Release Date: 1981
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

An attorney has an affair with a married woman. The two later plot to kill the woman's husband.

PHILADELPHIA


Release Date: 1993
Director: Jonathan Demme
Distributor: TriStar Pictures

An attorney with AIDS sues the law firm that fired him because he has the disease.

BREAKER MORANT


Release Date: 1980
Director: Bruce Beresford
Distributor: Roadshow Entertainment

Three Australian soldiers are tried for the deaths of prisoners.

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION


Release Date: 1957
Director: Billy Wilder
Distributor: United Artists

A man is tried for murder and his wife appears as a witness for the prosecution.

INHERIT THE WIND


Release Date: 1960
Director: Stanley Kramer
Distributor: United Artists

A teacher is put on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution to his class.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD


Release Date: 1962
Director: Robert Mulligan
Distributor: Universal Pictures

A white attorney defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in Mississippi.

AMISTAD


Release Date: 1997
Director: Steven Spielberg
Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution

A courtroom drama about a mutiny aboard a slave ship.

ADAM'S RIB


Release Date: 1949
Director: George Cukor
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

A woman is on trial for attempted murder of her. She is defended by the wife of the prosecutor assigned to her case.

ABSENCE OF MALICE


Release Date: 1981
Director: Sydney Pollack
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

A false story is leaked about the son of a former mafia boss in order to compel the son to provide evidence of a murder.

SUSPECT


Release Date: 1987
Director: Peter Yates
Distributor: TriStar Pictures

A homeless deaf-mute man is charged with murder.

THE CLIENT


Release Date:
Director: Joel Schumacher
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

A young boy witnesses the suicide of the attorney of a Mafia hit-man. Before he dies, the attorney tells the boy where the body of his client's victim is buried.

THE FIRM


Release Date: 1993
Director: Sydney Pollack
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

An attorney is approached by the FBI to asked to act as in informant against the law firm that employes him.

ENEMY OF THE STATE


Release Date: 1998
Director: Tony Scott
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures

A lawyer who obtains evidence of a politically motivated murder seeks the help of a surveillance expert.

EAGLE EYE



Release Date: 2008
Director: D.J. Caruso
Distributor: DreamWorks SKG

A military computer forces civilians to engage in illegal activity.

BOILER ROOM


Release Date: 2000
Director: Ben Younger
Distributor: New Line Cinema

A young man becomes a stock broker at a small firm. He later learns that the firm scams clients out of their money.

....AND JUSTICE FOR ALL


Release Date: 1979
Director: Norman Jewison
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

An attorney represents a judge accused of rape.

12 ANGRY MEN


Release Date: 1957
Director: Sidney Lumet
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Jurors deliberate over the gilt or innocence of a defendant charged with murdering his father.

UNTRACEABLE

Release Date: 2008
Director: Gregory Hoblet
Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

An FBI agent tries to apprehend a serial killer who is murdering people live on the Internet.

PRIMAL FEAR


Release Date: 1996
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest.

ANATOMY OF A MURDER


Release Date: 1959
Director: Otto Preminger
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

A man is accused on murdering the man who raped his wife.

THE VERDICT


Release Date: 1982
Director: Sidney Lumet
Distributor: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

An attorney tires to redeem his professional reputation by litigating a medical malpractice case.

MY COUSIN VINNY


Release Date: 1992
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Distributor: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Two young men are accused of murder, call upon newly admitted attorney, cousin Vinny, to represent them.

THE MONEY PIT


Release Date: 1986
Director: Richard Benjamin
Distributor: Universal Pictures

A couple purchases a home, moves in and then realizes it has numerous problems.

SWORDFISH


Release Date: 2001
Director: Dominic Sena
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

A cyberterrorist hires a computer expert to hack into a government computer so he can steal government secrets and money.

SNEAKERS





Release Date: 1992
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Distributor: Universal Pictures

A group of security systems experts are tricked into stealing a black box that can decode encryption systems around the world.

DUPLEX



Release Date: 2003
Director: Danny DeVito
Distributor: Miramax Films

A young couple purchase a home that comes with an unpleasant tenant.

A FEW GOOD MEN


Releae Date: 1992
Director: Rob Reiner
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Marines are accused of murder after caring out a hazing order that ends in death.

THE CHAMBER


Release Date:
Director: James Foley
Distributor: Universal Pictures

A young lawyer represents his grandfather who is on death row.

SLEEPERS


Release Date: 1996
Director: Barry Levinson
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

Four boys sentenced to a juvenile facility are beaten and sexually assaulted by guards. Years later, now men, they seek revenge.

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS


Release Date: 1995
Director: Carl Franklin
Distributor: TriStar Pictures

A man hires a detective to find his missing fiancee.

IRRECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES


Release Date: 1984
Director: Charles Shyer
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

A little girl files suit to divorce her parents.

THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE


Release Date: 1997
Director: Taylor Hackford
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

A young lawyer accepts a position with a New York City law firm and bazaar things occur.

NORTH COUNTRY


Release Date: 2005
Director: Niki Caro
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

Female employees file a sexual harassment suit against a mining company.

MUSIC BOX


Release Date: 1989
Director: Costa-Gavras
Distributor: TriStar Pictures
A man accused of war crimes his defended by his attorney daughter.

MINORITY REPORT


Release Date: 2002
Director: Steven Spielberg
Distributor: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

A police program can predict when a murder will occur and therefore cops can arrest would-be murderers before any crime occurs. A police office working with the program is accused of a future murder and sought for apprehension.

HACKERS


Release Date: 1995
Director: Iain Softley
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

A group of teenagers discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus.

LOSING ISAIAH


Release Date: 1995
Director: Stephen Gyllenhall
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

An African American child is adopted by a white couple after being abandoned by a crack addicted mother. Years later the mother sues to regain custody.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY


Release Date: 1999
Director: Bruce Beresford
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

A woman is framed and convicted of murdering her husband. She later learns her husband is not dead, but faked his death.

NUTS


Release Date: 1987
Director: Martin Ritt
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

A call girl kills a customer in self-defense. Her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent in order to avoid a trial.

GIDEON'S TRUMPET


Release Date: 1980
Director: Robert E. Collins
Distributor: Columbia Broadcasting System

The true story of the case that established the right to assistance of counsel in criminal proceedings.

THE CONTENDER


Release Date: 2000
Director: Rod Lurie
Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution

A female senator is nominated for the Vice Presidency of the United States. Her past, however, may jeopardize her confirmation.

THE PELICAN BRIEF


Release Date: 1993
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures

The lives of a law student and journalist are endangered when the student discovers the conspiracy behind the deaths of two Supreme Court justices.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION


Release Date: 1994
Director: Frank Darabont
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

A man is convicted for the murder of his wife and sent to prison for life.

RUNAWAY JURY


Release Date: 2003
Director: Gary Fleder
Distributor: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

A widow sues a gun manufacturer over the shooting death of her husband. A juror sitting on the trial manipulates its outcome.