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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films · Page 2.
Forensic, Psychological Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, thriller film, trial film
Erin Bruner, an ambitious lawyer seeking to become a senior partner in her law firm, takes the case of Father Richard Moore, a Catholic diocesan priest charged with negligent homicide following an attempted exorcism of 19-year-old student …
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Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, trial film
The film covers the years 1529 to 1535, during the reign of Henry VIII. During a private late-night meeting at Hampton Court, Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England, chastises More for being the only member of the privy council to opp…
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, trial film
Rožat "Rusty" Sabich is the right-hand man of Kindle County prosecutor Raymond Horgan and is known as an effective and ruthless prosecutor. In his most recent case, Rusty oversees the prosecution of a mother who tortured her son by placing…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Forensic, Political Thriller, action thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Assassin Khamel kills two Supreme Court justices, Jensen and Rosenberg. Tulane University law student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing a motive for the murders. Her law professor and lover Thomas Callahan, a former clerk of Rosenb…
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Destiny, Forensic, crime film, drama film, trial film
On April 18, 1987, 24-year-old waitress Sarah Tobias is gang-raped by three men at a local bar while several patrons watch and cheer. District Attorney Katheryn Murphy is assigned to the case. Although there is strong physical evidence cor…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film, prison film
In 1966, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a promising and top-ranked middleweight boxer from Paterson, New Jersey, who was expected by many fans to become the world's greatest boxing champion. However, a bartender and two customers were shot t…
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Erotic Thriller, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller
Bob Garvin, the founder and CEO of the technology company DigiCom, plans to retire following a merger with a textbook company. Manufacturing chief Tom Sanders expects to be promoted to run DigiCom after the merger. Instead, Meredith Johnso…
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Drama, Forensic, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, trial film
Arthur Kirkland, a Baltimore defense attorney, is in jail on a contempt-of-court charge after throwing a punch at Judge Henry T. Fleming while arguing the case of Jeff McCullaugh. McCullaugh was stopped for a minor traffic offense, then mi…
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, drama film
Adela Quested is sailing from England to British-ruled India with Mrs. Moore, the mother of her intended bridegroom, Ronny Heaslop, Mrs. Moore's son from her first marriage.
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Detective Film, Forensic, Komödie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, trial film
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, small-town lawyer Paul Biegler, a former district attorney who lost his re-election bid, spends most of his time fishing, playing the piano, and hanging out with his alcoholic friend and colleague Parnel…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, historical film
In Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, a group of village girls meet in the woods with slave Tituba, attempting to conjure love spells. Abigail Williams kills a chicken and drinks its blood, wishing for John Proctor's wife Elizabeth to die. Whe…
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Biographical picture, Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Satire, Satire On Media, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, trial film
In 1972, Larry Flynt and his younger brother, Jimmy, run the Hustler Go-Go, a struggling strip club in Cincinnati. In a bid to improve his business, Flynt decides to publish a newsletter for the club featuring nude photos of his strippers,…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Forensic, drama film, trial film
In New Orleans, an ex-employee perpetrates a mass shooting with a machine pistol at a stock brokerage firm. Eleven people are killed and several others wounded in the incident. Among the dead is Jacob Wood.
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Crime, Drama, drama film, trial film
Once-promising attorney Frank Galvin is an alcoholic ambulance chaser. As a favor, his former partner Mickey Morrissey sends him a medical malpractice case which is all but certain to be settled for a significant amount. Deborah Ann Kaye w…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, prison film, women in prison film
After graduating from high school, best friends Alice Marano and Darlene Davis take a trip to Thailand, despite some reluctance from Darlene who tells her dad they are going to Hawaii. While there, they meet a captivating Australian man (w…
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Destiny, Forensic, Historie, War Film, action film, drama film, mystery film, trial film, war film
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, a disastrous American advance leaves U.S. Marine Lieutenant Hayes Hodges wounded and his men dead. His fellow platoon leader Lieutenant Terry Childers executes a North Vietnamese prisoner to intimidate a ca…
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Drama, Forensic, War Film, drama film, war film
In late 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, U.S. Army intelligence officer First Lieutenant Thomas Hart (Farrell) is captured by German forces. While interrogating Hart, the Germans coerce him to divulge intelligence by ta…
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Biographical picture, Mysterie, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, trial film
Sunny von Bülow, a millionaire heiress and socialite, lies in a hospital bed in a persistent vegetative state after falling into a coma from diabetic shock on December 21, 1980. She had previously fallen into a coma on December 26, 1979, b…
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Forensic, crime film, drama film, heist film, legal thriller, mystery film, thriller film, trial film
Attorney Claire Kubik and her woodworker husband Tom had led an idyllic life in Marin County, California. Whilst Christmas shopping in San Francisco's Union Square, Tom is suddenly arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and charge…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, trial film, war film
During World War II, newly commissioned Ensign Willis Seward "Willie" Keith reports to the minesweeper USS Caine, where he meets career officer Lieutenant Stephen Maryk, the ship’s executive officer, and aspiring novelist and communication…
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Forensic, drama film, trial film
Environmental toxicants in the city of Woburn, Massachusetts, contaminate the area's water supply and become linked to a number of deaths of local children. Cocky Boston attorney Jan Schlichtmann and his small firm of personal injury lawye…
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Forensic, Psychological Thriller, crime film, mystery film, thriller film, trial film
A masked intruder breaks into the beach house of San Francisco socialite Page Forrester, ties her to her bed, rips open her shirt, and kills her with a hunting knife. The maid is also murdered. Husband Jack Forrester, arrested for her murd…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Paul Armstrong, a liberal Harvard professor and former lawyer opposed to capital punishment, is persuaded by an elderly woman to go to Florida to investigate the conviction of her grandson Bobby Earl Ferguson for murder. Ferguson, a former…
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Thriller, crime film, docudrama, drama film
Told through flashback, ex-convicts Perry Smith and Richard "Dick" Hickock meet in rural Kansas in late 1959. They concoct a plan to invade the farm home of the wealthy Clutter family, as patriarch Herbert Clutter supposedly keeps a large …
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