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Even a Just Man Falls. Crime Drama. When an inner-city priest has his gambling debt bought by a childhood bully, now gangster and can't pay up, the gangster turns his abuse towards the only source of light in the priest's disillusioned life, his friendship with a prostitute. Director. Mark Christopher Boyd.
- Mark Christopher Boyd
- Andre Royo, Glenn Plummer, Abdoulaye NGom
- Crime, Drama
- Mark Christopher Boyd, Timothy Donovan
- A Perfect Murder (1998) Serving as a remake of the 1954 film ‘Dial M for Murder’ by Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Davis aims to keep the audience on their toes with this crime drama. ‘
- Double Jeopardy (1999) With Bruce Beresford at the helm, this crime drama takes a layered route to get to the bottom of its underlying theme – justice. ‘
- Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story (2022) Entertainment becomes a given when a story based on the ‘suitcase murders’ of 2004 is brought to the big screen.
- Beautiful & Twisted (2015) Based on the Novack Murders of 2009, director Christopher Zalla attempts to reveal the ugly truth behind the life of a millionaire. ‘
Mar 4, 2024 · The Best Legal and Courtroom Dramas. Ashley Merryman. March 4, 2024. 9 min read. Movies set in a law or court-based arena are ripe for potent cinematic drama. After all, there’s some sort of conflict—often an actual lawsuit—at the center. But the great films have more than that.
- Lost in Perfection
- Liar Liar
- Vaashi
- Unspeakable Acts
- Shastry Virudh Shastry
- Yara
- In Defense of A Married Man
- The Laundromat
- A Fall from Grace
- Seeing Allred
A Chinese crime drama with intrinsically woven legal aspects, ‘Lost in Perfection’ is directed by Sung Hsin-ying. It follows Huang Li Mei (Ivy Shao), a gorgeous news anchor whose life begins to unravel after a woman named Ho Xiu Lan (Lin Mei Xiu) walks into her life in the form of her widowed father’s fiancée. Soon, the discovery of a dead body mak...
This one is a comedy film that centers on a lawyer and his latest case. So, in essence, it is a courtroom drama. We have Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey), an attorney whose lie-filled exploits in the courtroom are renowned and have earned him quite a reputation. But after he misses his son’s birthday and the kid wishes for his father to speak only the t...
Penned and directed by Vishnu G. Raghav, ‘Vaashi’ is a captivating drama featuring Tovino Thomas and Keerthy Suresh. The plot unfolds as a courtroom drama, pitting two skilled, self-made lawyers against each other in a high-stakes case. Their determination to win takes center stage as the legal battle intensifies, providing a riveting narrative tha...
Starring Jill Clayburgh, Brad Davis, Season Hubley, and Gary Frank, ‘Unspeakable Acts’ is a biographical drama directed by Linda Otto. Based on the 1986 book of the same name by Jan Hollingsworth, the film showcases one of the worst cases of child abuse in the United States, the child abuse in Country Walk daycare in Miami, Florida, in 1984. It was...
Directed by Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, ‘Shastry Virudh Shastry’ is an Indian Hindi-language film that is a remake of the Bengali film ‘Posto’ (2017) that is also directed by the same duo. It pins Manohar (Paresh Rawal) against his son Malhar (Shiv Panditt) in an emotional custody battle for the former’s grandson, 7-year-old Yaman Shastr...
An exhilarating courtroom drama, ‘Yara,’ directed by Marco Tullio Giordana, follows the aftermath of the murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio. The shocking murder ends up dividing the town of Brembate di Sopra into two as people clamor for the murderer to be brought to justice. In such a tumultuous setting, prosecutor Letizia Ruggeri has no leads ...
This one is an oldie but goodie. The premise is so interesting – a man having an extra-marital affair becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his girlfriend and has to lawyer up. Who’s the lawyer? The very wife he was cheating on. ‘In Defense of a Married Man’ is a satisfyingly soapy, made-for-TV movie that features some brilliant acting and a s...
This star-studded film about the real-life scandal of the Panama Papers and a money manipulation scam is headed by Meryl Streep. But even the legendary Streep’s presence is not enough to elevate a dry script and make this appear as an entry much higher on this list. The story, direction, and acting jobs are all well done, but the film’s narrative l...
When a woman is jailed for the murder of her husband, a rookie lawyer believes that things just don’t add up and starts an investigation of her own. When the woman denies killing her husband, the lawyer knows she has to find out the truth at all costs. The truth is something entirely different, and her client is being framed, especially since the d...
‘Seeing Allred’ is an interesting documentary that follows women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred and documents her firebrand court performances as she fights famous people charged with sexual misconduct and assault. The attorney, who is considered a stalwart in her field, undertook various controversial cases and has fought for women’s rights again...
Aug 8, 2022 · If you're in the mood for some mystery, check out these great murder mysteries and crime dramas streaming on Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Acorn TV, BritBox, and more.
Dec 28, 2023 · Anatomy of a Fall is one of the most talked about 2023 films having won the top prize at Cannes with the Palme d’Or. It deserves a spot in the best films of the year, turning a courtroom drama into a heartwrenching tale and a study of love-hate relationships.
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Sep 4, 2024 · From gritty crime stories to sweeping romance, here is EW's latest must-watch list of the best drama films on Netflix right now.
