Courtroom Movies

This film recounts the murder of Vincent Chin, an automotive engineer mistaken as Japanese who was slain by an assembly line worker who blamed him...

A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.

Moe is on trial for assaulting Curly and Larry with an ax. Moe relates how Curly and Larry took him on a hunting trip for his nerves. Out in the...

Documentary covering the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist and journalist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, convicted of killing a...

1960s Japan—economic boom, Olympic pride, and a crackdown on “public morals.” An anti-prostitution law targets women but spares...

Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the altar – the trial bubbles over with...

In this short film, Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen preside over the courtroom for a day, dispensing their own comic brand of justice.

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

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

A grieving defense attorney gets caught in a twisted game of who-done-it when he takes on the case of a beautiful socialite who is accused of murder.

In a small town in Patagonia (Southern Argentina), a Mapuche Indian chief sets a tourist complex under construction on fire. He denies all attempts...

Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly...

The events of a woman thought to have died in a plane crash when she returns five years later.

At the request of his colleague, the young lawyer goes to the courtroom to replace her, but he mixes up the rooms and ends up defending a brutal...

A survey of the wide range of work police are asked to perform: enforcing the law, maintaining order, and providing general social services. The...

The Dallas trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, President John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, is enacted as it might have occurred. After the defense enters...

Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment. He apparently...

The true story of Derek Bentley, whose conviction and execution for a murder committed by someone else provoked a public revulsion.

A divorced husband and wife reunite to fight the release of their daughter's murderer.