Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore courtroom conflicts, trials and questions of justice.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films.
Forensic, crime film, drama film, thriller film, trial film
At Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, United States Marine Private William Santiago dies after being tied up and beaten in the middle of the night. Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey face court-martial, accu…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychodrama, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, satanic film, thriller film
Kevin Lomax is a defense attorney based in Gainesville, Florida who has never lost a case. While defending schoolteacher Lloyd Gettys against a charge of child molestation, he realizes his client is guilty. He proceeds with his defense, de…
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Komödie, comedy film
California University of Los Angeles sorority president Elle Woods is taken to a restaurant by her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III. She expects a proposal, but he breaks up with her instead. Intending to become a successful senator, he be…
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Family Drama, Forensic, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film
In 1993, Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother of three living in Los Angeles, California. After being injured in a car crash with a doctor, she files a lawsuit. Her lawyer, Ed Masry, expects to win, but Erin's explosive courtroom…
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Coming Of Age, Forensic, Mafia Film, Social Drama, buddy film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, prison film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, trial film
In the summer of 1967, Lorenzo "Shakes" Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan and John Reilly are childhood friends living in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. At that time, the boys start running small errands for local gangster "King" Ben…
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Destiny, Family Drama, comedy film, drama film, trial film
In 1993, Sam Dawson, a Starbucks barista with an intellectual disability, becomes the single father of Lucy Diamond Dawson, named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", following her abandonment by her mother, a homeless w…
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Forensic, Komödie, comedy film, trial film
While driving through Alabama, New York college students Bill Gambini and Stan Rothenstein stop at a convenience store, where Bill absentmindedly pockets a can of tuna. After they leave, the store clerk is found robbed and murdered, and th…
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Forensic, Political Thriller, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, trial film
Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller works in Los Angeles County, California, from the back of his black Lincoln Town Car, chauffeured by Earl Briggs. He typically works for low-end criminals including Eddie Vogel, leader of a biker gan…
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Forensic, crime film, drama film, trial film
Recent Memphis State University Law School grad Rudy Baylor has no high-paying work prospects lined up. He takes a job at a Memphis bar where he meets the bar's owner, J. Lyman "Bruiser" Stone, who is also a ruthless but successful ambulan…
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Destiny, Forensic, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, drama film, trial film
In the early 1990s, Andrew Beckett is a senior associate at Philadelphia's law firm Wyant, Wheeler, Hellerman, Tetlow, & Brown. He conceals his homosexuality and his status as an AIDS patient from others in the office. A partner in the fir…
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Family Drama, drama film
When Ted Kramer, a workaholic advertising executive in New York City, shares news of landing an important account and job promotion with his wife Joanna, she announces she is leaving him after eight years of marriage. She leaves without Bi…
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Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Marital Tragedy, Political Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, crime film, legal thriller, thriller film, trial film
Mitch McDeere, a top Harvard Law School graduate, accepts a lucrative offer from boutique law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke in Memphis, Tennessee. After he and wife Abby relocate there, he prepares for the Tennessee bar exam. Senior partne…
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Forensic, Thriller, crime film, thriller film, trial film
Theodore "Ted" Crawford, a wealthy Irish aeronautical engineer living in Los Angeles, confirms that his wife, Jennifer, is having an affair with police detective Robert Nunally. Confronting his wife, Crawford shoots her. He calls the polic…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Forensic, crime film, drama film, trial film
The story is set during the Great Depression in the fictional segregated town of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout, aged six, lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a white middle-aged lawyer. Guided by a strong social co…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, legal thriller, mystery film, trial film
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his little brother Ricky are smoking cigarettes in the woods near their Memphis trailer home when they encounter mob lawyer W. Jerome Clifford attempting suicide. Mark sneaks up to the back of Clifford's car t…
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Forensic, Political Drama, Swords and Sandals, drama film, trial film, white savior film
The schooner La Amistad is transporting black slaves off the coast of the Spanish colony of Cuba in 1839. A captive, Cinqué, leads an uprising against the crew, most of whom are killed. Two navigators, Pedro Montes and José Ruiz, are spare…
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Family Drama, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In a quiet Amish community outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania, friends and family attend the funeral of Jacob Lapp, leaving behind his wife, Rachel, and eight-year-old son, Samuel. Rachel and Samuel travel by train to visit Rachel's sister, w…
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Drama, Historie, Social Drama, drama film, trial film
A military tribunal convened in Nuremberg, Germany, involves four German judges and prosecutors standing accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. Dan Haywood heads a panel of A…
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Drama, Forensic, Justice Drama, Melodrama, Romantic Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, prison film, romance film
In 1958, 15-year-old Michael Berg becomes sick on a tram ride in an unnamed provincial city. He is helped by 36-year-old tram conductor Hanna Schmitz. Weeks later, he has recovered from scarlet fever and at his mother's insistence visits H…
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Drama, Forensic, drama film, trial film
Medgar Evers, an African-American civil rights activist in Mississippi, was murdered outside his home on June 12, 1963, by Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist. De La Beckwith had been tried twice in the 1960s, with both trials ended …
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Drama, drama film
In 1989, Josey Aimes flees from her abusive husband with her children, Sammy and Karen. She returns to her hometown in northern Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range to live with her parents, Alice and Hank. Hank is ashamed of his daughter, who ha…
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Christmas film, Drama, Romantic Comedy, children's film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
Prior to the Thanksgiving parade, Cole's Department Store's special events director Dorey Walker fires Tony Falacchi, an employee working as the store's Santa Claus when the latter becomes intoxicated. Immediately trying to find a replacem…
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Justice Drama, Thriller, drama film, legal thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Lawyer Michael Clayton is a "fixer" for the prestigious Kenner, Bach, and Ledeen law firm in New York City. One night, Michael attends to a high-profile client in Westchester County. Driving home, Michael sees three horses standing at the …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, trial film
In 1965, a pair of professional carnival workers named Lester and Betty Likens have two children, sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens and Jenny, her disabled fifteen-year-old sister. Lester and Betty need to go on tour so they ask Gertrude Bani…
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