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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films · Page 5.
Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1855, an upper middle-class Victorian family purchases a house in Blythswood Square, Glasgow. Their eldest daughter Madeleine Smith claims the basement bedroom so she will have easy access to the servants' entrance and be able to entert…
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Drama, drama film
Arthur Goldman is Jewish and a Nazi death camp survivor. Now a rich industrialist, he lives in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects…
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Crime, Drama, Historie, biographical film, crime film, drama film, trial film
Derek Bentley is an illiterate, epileptic young adult with developmental disabilities who falls into a gang led by a younger teenager named Christopher Craig. During the course of the robbery of a warehouse in Croydon, in which Bentley is …
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Drama, drama film
Holly Parker, a lower-class shopgirl from San Francisco, marries into the wealthy Anderson family of Fairfield, Connecticut. Her husband Clayton is a diplomat with strong political aspirations. Her mother-in-law Estelle looks down on her a…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, vigilante film
Judge Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles judge who becomes frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of three criminals. The first is a man who was charged with murdering several elderl…
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Family Saga, drama film
Larry Cook, a prosperous farmer in Iowa, decides to retire and split his acres of land among his three daughters, Ginny, Rose and Caroline. Ginny and Rose happily accept the lucrative agreement to live and work on the farm but Caroline aba…
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Drama, drama film, romance film
It is 1924. Newlywed Kate Judson Lawrence is distraught to discover on her wedding night that her upper-class Philadelphia Main Line husband, William, never really wanted to marry her, when he says, "It was my mother who wanted this marria…
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Forensic, Thriller, erotic film, erotic thriller, trial film
Jennifer Haines is an up-and-coming Chicago attorney. She wins a big case, celebrates with the man in her life, Phil Garson, and returns to work to a hero's reception. Into her life walks David Greenhill, who was seated in the gallery duri…
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Biographical picture, Forensic, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, trial film
Howl explores the life and works of 20th-century American poet, Allen Ginsberg. Constructed in a nonlinear fashion, the film juxtaposes historical events with a variety of cinematic techniques. It reconstructs the early life of Ginsberg du…
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Drama, drama film
The film tells the story of a medical study with covert goals organized by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, conducted on poor African American men in the years 1932–1972 at Tuskegee University, designed to study the effect…
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Drama, trial film
In 1878, two young British officers arrive to join a regiment in India. Middle-class Second Lieutenant Arthur Drake, whose father previously served in the regiment, is eager to fit in. Second Lieutenant Edward Millington, son of a general,…
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Action, Bad Cop, Crime, Justice Drama, Police Film, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Roland Dalton is a burned-out, mild-mannered Manhattan public defender, and his last case before leaving legal aid is crack dealer Michael Jones, accused of shooting to death police officer Patrick O'Leary in Central Park. According to Jon…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, trial film
The story is about a lawsuit concerning injuries caused by a defective automobile. The suit takes on a personal dimension because the injured plaintiff's attorney, Jedediah Tucker Ward, discovers that the automobile manufacturer's attorney…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, trial film
In 1832, a family traveling through New Salem, Illinois in their wagon need groceries from Lincoln's store, and the only thing of value that they have to trade is a barrel of old books including a law book, Blackstone's Commentaries. After…
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crime film, trial film
Ellen Harrod appears to have a happy marriage to David, although his frequent work-related absences are beginning to take a toll on her. While taking night school classes with her neighbor and best friend, Marge Bracken, she is introduced …
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political thriller film, trial film
Cray Fowler, a young New Orleans lawyer running for congress, is filmed with a prostitute as blackmail. As he investigates, Fowler discovers some shocking secrets involving his father, his family's fortune and his own political advisors.
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drama film
In Jasper, Texas, in June 1998, three self-proclaimed white supremacists chain James Byrd Jr., to the back of their pickup truck and drag him to his death over three miles of country road. When the town is forced to deal with an onslaught …
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Fresh out of law school, Robin "Stormy" Weathers cannot stand the tedium of case filing and research. Desperately wanting to "practice law" and go to trial, one morning he intentionally withholds the fact that a trial is scheduled to begin…
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Drama, Film Noir, docudrama, film noir
Episcopal priest Father Lambert is shot dead on a Bridgeport, Connecticut street at night. The police, led by Chief Robinson, fail to immediately find the murderer. The case soon becomes a political hot potato, with the police accused of i…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, trial film
In occupied West Germany in 1960, four drunk American soldiers leave Florida Bar, where "Town Without Pity" is playing on the jukebox, and head to a river in the nearby countryside. Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old local Fräulein Karin Steinhof…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, trial film
Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell (Gary Cooper) tries to prove the worth of the Air Service as an independent service by sinking a battleship under restrictive conditions agreed to by the Army and Navy. He disobeys their orders to…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, trial film
After parking his car and wearing a "Happy Now?" sign, a man finds extortionist Jake Farley lying under the bridge. He grabs his foot with the rope and discovers he is dead. Meanwhile, beleaguered ex-police officer Joe Paris wakes up with …
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Crime, Forensic
In 1944, in Lincoln Bluff, a fictional, small Colorado town, the Second World War is still raging when the town's only doctor, George Hansen, is murdered at local US Army Camp Bremen, which holds German prisoners of war. Harmon Cobb, a loc…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Three teenagers from the Italian section of New York City's East Harlem, Danny diPace, Anthony Aposto and Arthur Reardon, are members of a street gang named the Thunderbirds. They have an ongoing turf war with a Puerto Rican gang, based in…
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