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1) Runaway jury
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
After a man dies in a shooting incident, his wife files a lawsuit against the company that manufactured the gun. Her lawyer argues that the firm in question knew the shop which sold the weapon was not following federal regulations. As the case goes to trial, the firearm manufacturer takes no chances on the outcome, and they hire Rankin Fitch, a jury consultant who makes it his business to see that he knows enough about the jurors to be able to guarantee...
2) Class action
Publisher
20th Century Fox Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Crusading lawyer takes on a class-action suit against a negligent auto company while his feisty daughter represents the other side.
3) Nuts
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The pending case: The People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she's shocking, outspoken, explosive. But is she "nuts?" Claudia holds nothing back as she takes on the judicial system, modern psychiatry, personal demons and anyone in her way.
Publisher
New Line Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Though equally respected in their field, divorce lawyers Audrey and Daniel are opposites inside and out of the courtroom. Audrey is meticulous and by the book, while Daniel relies on personality and luck to get by. Neither have lost a case and neither intends to now, but a celebrity power couple gone wrong will end one of their winning streaks.
6) QB VII
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A Polish expatriate doctor living in England sues an American writer for libel when the writer accuses him of carrying out criminal medical activities for the Nazis during World War II.
7) The judge
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
8) The firm
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer takes a dream job only to find out he is working for the mob and that the Feds want to use him to destroy the firm.
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
The true story of an epic courtroom showdown in which two corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children. Representing the parents is a young flamboyant lawyer who hopes to win millions, but he ends up losing nearly everything, including his sanity.
11) Gideon's trumpet
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Clarence Gideon, a prisoner who wrote a letter to the Supreme Court to ask them to hear his case, and ended up making groundbreaking legal changes.
12) Suspect
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
A judge commits suicide, and his secretary is found murdered. A homeless deaf-mute man, Carl Anderson is arrested for her murder. Public defender Kathleen is assigned by the court as his lawyer. She sets to find the real killer, and gets help from the congressional advisor, Eddie Sanger who is called to be on the jury panel. Together they discover a dangerous circle of corruption in high places.
13) High crimes
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Claire is a high-powered attorney whose perfect life comes crashing down around her when her husband is charged with high crimes of murder. Enlisting the aid of a shrewd military attorney, Claire will risk her career and even her life to find out the truth.
Series
Criterion collection volume 600
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding supporting cast and influential jazz score by Duke Ellington,...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When a Southern white woman accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Peck will defend him. Peck's defense costs him friendships but earns him the respect of his two children.
Series
American film theatre volume 2
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Millionaire Jewish entrepreneur Arthur Goldman (Schell) rules a financial empire from his Manhattan penthouse. He is given to passionate and capricious ravings on a variety of subjects. His growing paranoia, dismissed by those close to him, is confirmed when he is kidnapped by Israeli agents and brought to trial in Israel for crimes against humanity. Is he Arthur Goldman or is he Adolph Dorf, former SS colonel who headed a Nazi concentration camp?...
17) Compulsion
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Two wealthy law students go on trial for murder in this fictionalized version of the Leopold and Loeb case.
18) Saint Omer
Series
Criterion collection volume 1212
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Bringing a documentarian's sense of open-ended inquiry to her first narrative feature, writer-director Alice Diop constructs a morally and emotionally layered courtroom drama unlike any other. When she travels to Saint-Omer, France, to attend the trial of a young Senegalese woman accused of murdering her infant daughter, novelist Rama finds herself shaken to the core by a case that proves to have profound resonances with her own life. Interweaving...
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Wendy is finally settling into the single life after struggling with the death of her husband. After a difficult season of grief, she's taken over the family business of coordinating the town's most beautiful and memorable weddings with the help of her friend and co-worker Roseanne. Wendy's business and values are challenged, however, when the charming and incredibly irritating Marco opens shop as a divorce attorney right next to her wedding chapel....
20) Evelyn
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1953, Desmond Doyle takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children. Despite a strong work ethic, Desmond has a hard time holding on to steady work. Desmond's wife walks out on the relationship and his sporadic employment eventually attracts the attention of the law. A court order sends his two sons and young daughter to separate Catholic orphanages until Desmond can prove he's capable of properly...
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