Showing posts with label Criminal Law and Procedure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Criminal Law and Procedure. Show all posts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.