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1. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.

Director: Justine Triet | Stars: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz

Votes: 126,112

2. The Good Wife (2009–2016)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Alicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney. After a very humiliating sex and corruption scandal, he is behind bars. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a litigator in a law firm.

Stars: Julianna Margulies, Chris Noth, Josh Charles, Matt Czuchry

Votes: 82,938

3. Molly's Game (2017)

R | 140 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera

Votes: 188,257 | Gross: $28.78M

4. L.A. Law (1986–1994)

TV-PG | 46 min | Drama

The lives and work of the staff of a major Los Angeles law firm.

Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry, Alan Rachins, Michael Tucker

Votes: 6,490

5. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)

R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.

Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Carla Quevedo

Votes: 222,741 | Gross: $6.39M

6. Burning (2018)

Not Rated | 148 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.

Director: Lee Chang-dong | Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Soo-Kyung

Votes: 76,566 | Gross: $0.72M

7. The Practice (1997–2004)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

We follow the exploits and cases of defense attorneys of a Boston law firm. Bobby Donnell is the senior defense attorney and founder of the firm.

Stars: Dylan McDermott, Kelli Williams, Lara Flynn Boyle, Steve Harris

Votes: 10,451

8. Conviction (II) (2010)

R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.

Director: Tony Goldwyn | Stars: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Melissa Leo, Thomas D. Mahard

Votes: 46,081 | Gross: $6.78M

9. And Justice for All (1979)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A lawyer is forced to defend a judge, while defending other clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg

Votes: 39,775

10. Air Bud (1997)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

An unexpected player joins the school basketball team - a circus dog who escaped from a cruel master.

Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Michael Jeter, Kevin Zegers, Wendy Makkena, Bill Cobbs

Votes: 19,540 | Gross: $24.63M

11. The Firm (2012)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Defense Attorney Mitch McDeere is targeted for execution by the Chicago Mob in retaliation for bringing down a profitable Mob-operated Memphis law firm ten years earlier.

Stars: Josh Lucas, Callum Keith Rennie, Molly Parker, Juliette Lewis

Votes: 6,151

12. Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

PG | 145 min | Biography, Drama, History

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle

Votes: 8,131 | Gross: $2.07M

13. Marshall (2017)

PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown

Votes: 26,855 | Gross: $10.05M

14. Breaker Morant (1980)

PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown

Votes: 14,455 | Gross: $7.14M

15. The Traitor (2019)

R | 153 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.

Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi

Votes: 13,024

16. Happy Hour (2015)

Not Rated | 317 min | Drama

A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.

Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura

Votes: 2,963

17. Criminal Law (1988)

R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Boston defense attorney gets his wealthy client off for murder, then suspects him of killing again.

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Tess Harper, Karen Young

Votes: 4,633 | Gross: $9.97M

18. Twisted (I) (2004)

R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jessica, whose father killed her mother and committed suicide, is a police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start being murdered.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia, David Strathairn

Votes: 23,124 | Gross: $25.20M

19. The Trial (2010)

PG-13 | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for a small town attorney, until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life.

Director: Gary Wheeler | Stars: Larry Bagby, Matthew Modine, Clare Carey, Robert Forster

Votes: 1,691 | Gross: $0.02M

20. The Third Murder (2017)

Not Rated | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A courtroom drama centered around the murder of a factory president.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Koji Yakusho, Suzu Hirose, Shinnosuke Mitsushima

Votes: 8,019 | Gross: $0.09M

21. Compulsion (1959)

Approved | 103 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 7,519

22. Tribunal Justice (2023– )

13+ | Reality-TV

Features a panel of three judges collectively adjudicating real cases.

Stars: Tanya Acker, Patricia DiMango, Adam Levy, Cassandra Britt

Votes: 212

23. 8 (2012 TV Movie)

91 min | Drama, History

Live chronicle of the landmark federal trial of California's Prop. 8 using the actual court transcripts and first-hand interviews.

Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Dustin Lance Black, David Boies, Matt Bomer

Votes: 610

24. King & Country (1964)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, War

During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster

Votes: 2,496

25. The Whole Truth (2010–2012)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Legal drama about the prosecution's and the defense team's take on each criminal case.

Stars: Rob Morrow, Maura Tierney, Eamonn Walker, Anthony Ruivivar

Votes: 727

26. Shepherds and Butchers (2016)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

Director: Oliver Schmitz | Stars: Steve Coogan, Andrea Riseborough, Garion Dowds, Eduan van Jaarsveldt

Votes: 3,138

27. The Stranger Beside Me (2003 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s, aspiring crime writer, Ann Rule, unwittingly becomes friends with serial killer Ted Bundy.

Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Billy Campbell, Barbara Hershey, Suki Kaiser, Brenda James

Votes: 1,037

28. Not With My Daughter (2014 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 90 min | Thriller

A high-profile defense attorney determined to change her image takes on a pro bono case, which soon threatens both her and her family.

Director: Penelope Buitenhuis | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Rhys Ward, Annie Clark, Erik Knudsen

Votes: 209

29. The Trial (2023)

177 min | Documentary

Argentina, 1985, at the trial of the last dictatorship's military juntas. On the stand, the six judges; on one side, the prosecution, and on the other, the military personnel accused of genocide.

Director: Ulises de la Orden | Stars: Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Massera, Orlando Agosti, Roberto Eduardo Viola

Votes: 78

30. WRAL Murder Trials (2003– )

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Stars: Howard Cummings, Donald Stephens, Paul Gessner, Becky Holt

31. The Andersonville Trial (1970 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama

A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.

Director: George C. Scott | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, William Shatner, Jack Cassidy, Wright King

Votes: 495

32. Chala Mussaddi - Office Office (2011)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

A recently widowed and retired school-teacher must prove to corrupt government officers that he is alive, so he can receive his pension.

Director: Rajiv Mehra | Stars: Deven Bhojani, Makrand Deshpande, Vinay Jain, Farida Jalal

Votes: 381

33. We the People with Gloria Allred (2011– )

TV-PG | Crime, Reality-TV, Talk-Show

Courtroom show that features famous attorney Gloria Allred in the judge's seat.

Stars: Gloria Allred, Brian Isom, Brent Duffey, Melody Baha

Votes: 114

34. The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)

PG | 85 min | Drama, History

The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.

Director: Gordon Davidson | Stars: Gwen Arner, Ed Flanders, Barton Heyman, Mary Jackson

Votes: 49 | Gross: $0.11M

35. Operation Carwash: A Worldwide Corruption Scandal Made in Brazil (2017)

107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Based on the true story of Operation Carwash, the largest and most successful corruption investigation ever seen in the world, "No One is Above the Law" tells, through the eyes of Detective... See full summary »

Director: Marcelo Antunez | Stars: Antonio Calloni, Marcelo Serrado, Ary Fontoura, Flávia Alessandra

Votes: 3,545

36. Advocate (2019)

114 min | Documentary, Biography

A look at the life and work of Jewish-Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel who has represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years.

Directors: Philippe Bellaiche, Rachel Leah Jones | Stars: Lea Tsemel, Yasser Joubeh, Suheila Dweik, Ossama Amro

Votes: 382

37. Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Robin is crooning to a Mae West-like Jenny Wren when he is shot with an arrow. A court is convened; the judge, an owl, keeps singing the title. A variety of birds are brought to the witness stand, but nobody knows a thing.

Director: David Hand | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Don Brodie, Leo Cleary, Pinto Colvig

Votes: 878

38. The Electric Chair (1976)

R | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The murder of an innocent, happy couple leads to a courtroom trial that would sentence the killer to death, but who really did it?

Director: J.G. Patterson Jr. | Stars: Katherine Cortez, Barry Bell, Juanita Patterson, Don Cummins

Votes: 154

39. L'affaire Dumont (2012)

121 min | Drama

Michel Dumont is a delivery boy for a grocery store. Divorced and father of two young children, is accused and condemned for a Sexual aggression that he refuses to acknowledge.

Director: Daniel Grou | Stars: Marc-André Grondin, Marilyn Castonguay, Sarianne Cormier, Kathleen Fortin

Votes: 527

40. Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes (1991 TV Short)

23 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Bugs has been selected to defend the Earth in an Intergalactic court, in order to stop Marvin the Martian from blowing it up - can he succeed?

Directors: Nancy Beiman, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Robert McKimson, Maurice Noble | Stars: Jeff Bergman, Joe Alaskey, Katy Dierlam, June Foray

Votes: 81

41. You Are the Jury (1984–1987)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Viewers watch a reenactment of an actual courtroom trial and then call a special 900-telephone number to vote whether the defendant is innocent or guilty.

Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Robert Vaughn, Peter Graves, Joe Regalbuto

Votes: 19

42. The Nuremberg Trials (1958)

78 min | Documentary

Documentary with recordings from the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

Director: Félix Podmaniczky | Stars: Karl Hermann Frank, Joe J. Heydecker, Johannes Leeb, Jochen Wilke

Votes: 15

43. The 10th Judicial Court: Judicial Hearings (2004)

Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary

The proceedings of a Paris courtroom are the grist for this documentary. Drawn from over 200 appearances before the same female judge, the director chooses a dozen or so varied misdemeanor ... See full summary »

Director: Raymond Depardon | Star: Michèle Bernard-Requin

Votes: 638

44. Beschuldigde sta op (1966–1980)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

The title, Dutch for "Accused, rise!", is a typical phrase from the opening scenes, as in each episode a trial is held before the Belgian Assize court, the highest criminal court (for one ... See full summary »

Stars: Thieu Croonenberghs, Jos de Man, Frans de Clerck, Bert Aerts

Votes: 9

45. O petheropliktos (1968)

83 min | Comedy

To cope with the incessant nagging of his meddling mother-in-law, a young lawyer seeks solace in poetry, only to end up in a psychiatric clinic after an unforeseen complication in court. Will she try to make amends by apologising to him?

Director: Hristos Kyriakopoulos | Stars: Giannis Gionakis, Despoina Stylianopoulou, Vasilis Avlonitis, Kleo Skouloudi

Votes: 95

46. The Blame Game (1999– )

30 min | Comedy, Game-Show, Romance

Contestants go head-to-head against an ex-lover, defending their side of the story from the real life disaster relationship. In a mock courtroom setting, they are provided witty council, ... See full summary »

Stars: Christopher Reed, Jason Winer, Kara Jane McNamara, Adam Zuvich

Votes: 37

47. Sinking Sand (2016)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a loving wife murders a blackmailer to protect her husband's flourishing law career, she must watch as he prosecutes another for her crime.

Director: Brian Yarbrough | Stars: Jenn Gotzon, Tom Clark, Jim E. Chandler, Kevin Sizemore

Votes: 65

48. Trial by Jury (2005 TV Movie)

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Director: Andrew Lord | Stars: Anthony Warlow, Ali McGregor, David Hobson, John Bolton-Wood

Votes: 45

49. Rosenbaum (1993)

90 min | Crime, Drama

Holocaust survivor Samuel Rosenbaum works as a defence barrister. Aided by a young relative he solves murder cases.

Stars: Erland Josephson, Charlotte Sieling, Lasse Pöysti, Jan Mybrand

Votes: 17

50. Madame Behave (1925)

Passed | 55 min | Comedy, Romance

A cross-dressing farce, adapted from "Madame Lucy" by Jean Arlette, in which to help a friend in a lawsuit, Jack Mitchell disguises himself as the mysterious "Madame Brown," a missing ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Sidney | Stars: Julian Eltinge, Ann Pennington, Lionel Belmore, David James

Votes: 39