Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by its
comparative realism. Law school graduate Carroll Aiken (Claire Trevor) is idealistic; her colleague Barry Conant (Michael Whalen) is cynical and mercenary. Despite their ethical differences, ...
A German woman named Katja (Diane Kruger) is devastated when her Kurdish husband and son
are killed in a bombing. Later, she seeks justice in the Hamburg courts against the neo-Nazis who orchestrated the attack. Directed by Fatih Akin (Head-On). ...
Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse
of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who ...
Fans love TV legend Andy Griffith as Benjamin Matlock, the southern defense attorney who may
charge big prices but always outsmarts the city slicker attorneys with his homespun tactics. Whenever someone needs protection, Atlanta's most brilliant legal mind will do ...
Director Nick Cassavetes collaborates with screenwriter Jeremy Leven (The Notebook) for this drama about a
pair of parents who resort to unorthodox methods in order to save their young daughter's life, only to find their decision coming back to haunt ...
This film is a darkly humorous, determinedly ambiguous adaptation of Alan Dershowitz's book about his
successful legal appeal of Claus von Bulow's conviction for the attempted murder of his wife, Martha Sunny von Bulow. Sunny (Glenn Close) -- who remains ...
In this legal-thriller based on the novel by John Grisham, several people involved in a
court case against a gun manufacturer attempt to manipulate the jury for different reasons. Featuring a film transfer that preserves the original widescreen aspect ratio ...
Inspired by the Herman Melville novel Billy Budd, writer Charles Fuller created the Pulitzer Prize-winning
A Soldier's Play, which he then adapted into this film drama in 1984, for socially conscious, liberal director Norman Jewison. In the racially-divided 1940s, Fort ...