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  • The Verdict

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    Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the…

  • Verdict at hearing’s end

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    The lawyer, Buthaina, reveals for the descriptions of her brother’s wife, Saeed, that the disease of madness is rampant in her father’s family. Hammam is opening the descriptions of her husband’s desire to get rid of the fetus. She is a doctor. She conducts the operation on the advice of her teacher. Her husband revolts…

  • Evil Angels

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    Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria’s body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.

  • JFK

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    Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

  • My Cousin Vinny

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    Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who’s a lawyer – Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with…

  • Philadelphia

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    Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

  • The Juror

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    With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as “the Teacher” tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he’ll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, but, when it becomes clear that the mobsters might want to silence…

  • A Time to Kill

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    A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

  • After the Truth

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    Famous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele — the ‘Death Angel of Auschwitz’, who killed more than 300.000 people — emerges from his hideout in Argentina to Germany as a 87-year-old man, and must stand for his crimes in court. The young solicitor Peter Rohm is assigned to defend him, but Rohm himself — an expert on…

  • Runaway Jury

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    After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering…

  • Find Me Guilty

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    Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.

  • 12

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    A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to…

  • The Reader

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    The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war.…

  • Doubt

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    A successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm becomes romantically involved with a client who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime.

  • 8

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

  • The Judge

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    A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother’s funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town’s judge, is suspected of murder.

  • Pink

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    A sexual assault victim, unjustly tried for the attempted murder of her attacker, is defended by a retired lawyer who challenges India’s rape culture.

  • Denial

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    Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

  • God’s Not Dead 2

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    When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her reasoned response lands her in deep trouble and could expel God from the public square once and for all.

  • The Third Murder

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    A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

  • Marshall

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    Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.