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 · Page 7.
Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Quinn's character, a jaded ex-lawyer, has been befriending and exploiting death row convicts and selling their final letters to the media. While attempting to foster his relationship with Nielsen's character, he becomes convinced that she …
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crime film
Tony Petrocelli is a Harvard-educated attorney of Italian heritage who practices in an unidentified part of the American Southwest. He works (and drives) at a frenetic pace, not only because he is a zealous advocate for his defendants (mos…
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Drama, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film
thumb|The full film Personable Judge Priest (Will Rogers), known to his contemporaries as "Billy", presides over court in Fairfield, Kentucky, in 1890; Jeff Poindexter is accused of chicken theft. Senator Horace Maydew, a rival in an elect…
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drama film
Michelle Ramskill-Estey (Julie Benz), a single mother, is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to save her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
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Drama, drama film, trial film
Leslie is a troubled 1960s teenager who eventually becomes a follower of Charles Manson and is charged, convicted, and sentenced to death in August 1969 for the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. The story revolves around how a young j…
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trial film
Situated in 1982, Shari Karney is a successful attorney, assigned to an incest case, involving a three-year-old girl, Christie, who is being molested by her father. She initially refuses to take the case, explaining that she isn't familiar…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
thumb|200px|left|Lightning in The Case of the Howling Dog Severely agitated by the howling of a German Shepherd police dog next door, millionaire Arthur Cartwright comes to Los Angeles lawyer Perry Mason to draw up his will, stating that t…
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Crime, crime film
A young woman and two other people are killed in a Kindle County local bar. Experienced detective sergeant Larry Starczek (Tom Selleck) begins investigation on the murders. Soon everything points to the small-time thief, Squirrel.
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thriller film
Dan Cutler, the head of an advertising agency, invites his colleagues to a whitewater rafting trip. The invitation feels more like an order to some of the executives, one of whom is decidedly fearful about going on the trip; Cutler conside…
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crime film, drama film
Danny Dunkleman (David Strathairn) is a Jewish humanist and a lawyer who works for the court system in Canada. He is assigned to defend Mike Downey (Andrew Walker), a neo-Nazi skinhead who is accused of a brutal, racially motivated murder.…
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crime film, drama film, trial film
District attorney Jim Stowell realizes that his wife might be having an affair while he is prosecuting a cuckolded murderer.
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crime film, drama film, trial film
Attorney Paul Held is defending his friend, Walter Bernsdorf, who has been charged with the murder of his wife Lucy in Vienna. By Walter's account, Lucy was unfaithful to him during their marriage. After a court hearing, Paul returns home …
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Drama, drama film
Oliver Wyatt lives with his mother, Hannah Wyatt, and her live-in boyfriend, Frank Donally, and spends occasional afternoons with his father Martyn Wyatt. After Oliver suffers a series of mysterious physical injuries, which he vaguely blam…
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crime film, drama film, trial film
Sean Raine, an ex-army officer with issues of his own, defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby that he believes is an evil being known as a Tikoloshe.
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Crime, Satire, comedy drama
In a cell under the Old Bailey, two men meet. One is Wilfred Morgenhall, a single barrister who never gets any cases and is overjoyed to have won this dock brief, the defence of an accused individual with no lawyer (at public expense). The…
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crime film, docudrama, drama film, trial film
Undercover officers of the Boston Tactical Patrol Force (TPF) are instructed to watch for two tall black suspects in an earlier armed robbery. During their stakeout surveilling the presumed getaway car, officers Duggan (Michael O'Hare) and…
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drama film, mystery film
A reporter refuses to reveal his source in the case of the murder of a young girl. As a result, he and his family are shunned by the residents of the small town in which they live. Virtually no one comes to his daughter's wedding, and at h…
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Drama, drama film
Jacqueline, an alcoholic and drug addict, returns to her hometown of Rouen with her gigolo 'husband', Jean Leroque, travelling by liner and railway. She tells Leroque in flashback why she has returned from Buenos Aires: she is independentl…
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Thriller, drama film
A Canadian mother and businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex , is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She tra…
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Erksine, a family man, is the director and chief of staff of New Horizons, a group home and counseling center for abused boys. Glen is a child psychologist who meets a new patient named Tommy Jackson, who is a victim of emotional, physical…
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