10. Judgment at Nuremberg

• Harold Miller
• Spencer Tracy

As the world tries to move on from the devastation wreaked by Nazi Germany, a military tribunal is held to pass judgment on four Nazi judges who have aided and abetted inhumane practices during their...Read more tenure on the bench.

9. A Cry in the Dark

• Meryl Streep
• Sam Neill

The true story of Lindy Chamberlain who was accused of murdering her nine-week-old daughter Azaria when she and her family went camping in the Australian Outback.

8. Anatomy of a Murder

• James Stewart
• Joseph Kearns

A soldier who claims that he killed an innkeeper because the victim had raped his wife and that drove him temporarily insane is being defended by an attorney from upstate Michigan.

7. Philadelphia

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  • PG-13

• Tom Hanks
• Denzel Washington

Fearing his HIV diagnosis might get him fired from his Philadelphia law firm, Andrew Beckett strives to keep it hidden. But when it's revealed, his worst fears come true as he gets fired and hires a...Read more lawyer to sue his firm for discrimination and wrongful dismissal.

6. To Kill a Mockingbird

• Gregory Peck
• John Megna

In a city torn apart by racism, when a respected lawyer and father to two children chooses to defend a black man wrongfully accused of rape, his kids get to experience horrors as racism bears its...Read more teeth, and he struggles to educate them about prejudice.

5. 12 Angry Men

• Martin Balsam
• John Fiedler

As jurors convene for deliberation on a murder case, one juror tries to convince the rest of them that the man they are about to condemn might not be guilty.

4. The Accused

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  • R

• Kelly McGillis
• Jodie Foster

Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster) is assaulted by three men in a bar one night. Prosecutor Catherine Murphy (Kathryn Murphy) is in charge of the case. Catherine tries to prove that there is no...Read more justification for this assault, even if Sarah was under the influence of drugs, and was acting provocatively.

3. The Judge

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  • R

• Robert Downey Jr.
• Leighton Meester

When Henry “Hank” Palmer, a lawyer, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral, he discovers that his estranged father, Joseph Palmer, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank must...Read more now defend his father in court against a prosecutor determined to have him put away.

2. I Am Sam

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  • PG-13

• Sean Penn
• Michelle Pfeiffer

As he tries to regain custody of his daughter, the mentally disabled Sam ends up teaching his cynical lawyer what it means to have unconditional love for someone.

1. Primal Fear

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  • R

• Richard Gere
• Laura Linney

Martin Vail, a defense attorney, takes on a case where an altar boy is accused of brutally murdering an archbishop. When Martin starts investigating the case, he learns that it is more complicated and...Read more layered than he has initially anticipated.