A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.
Earl Rogers
Nora Rogers
Rev. Rogers
Belle Rogers
Bill Jory
Neighbor
Al Boyd
Harry Johnson
Pearl Morton
Queenie
Francy
C.C. McComas
Mootry
Doyle Bains
Jim Davin
J. Richard Finn
The Louisville Sport
Aunt Blanche
Don Brown
17 Dec 1957
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
06 Jan 1974
A prosecutor must try his friend, a deputy district attorney, who has been charged with murdering his wife and her lover.
21 May 1975
The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.
03 Aug 2014
A woman accused of murdering her husband is found innocent, only to be terrorized by the real killer once she is set free.
18 Jan 1998
The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wrongly convicted of murder.
17 Apr 2015
A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
04 Dec 2025
Jonathan has to fight to save the life of his son, David Ozora, who was assaulted by the son of a High-Ranking Government Official, until he fell into a Coma. David Ozora’s condition then becomes Viral, and together with all the people of Indonesia of various Religions and beliefs, they hold a Prayer together hoping for a miracle for the recovery of the Child. Along with his two friends, Mellissa and Rustam, Jonathan continues to fight for justice, where Dennis, the assailant, continues to receive help and leniency from a system whose integrity is questioned in enforcing the Law, due to the role and position of his father who claims to be the Ruler of South Jakarta.
08 Dec 1982
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 case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
06 Feb 1987
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.
21 May 1995
Dempsey Cain is an honored cop, a loving husband and father, and mentor to his handsome younger brother. Then a drug dealer's bullet paralyzes him for life and Dempsey's world is shattered. Suddenly, his wife and brother seem to care less about him than for each other, and a million-dollar insurance.
27 Oct 1947
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
28 Oct 1958
Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
30 Oct 1980
Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with raping her.
15 Mar 1991
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
15 Oct 2009
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
09 Sep 2003
Psychologist Dr. Brennac is asked by a colleague to help with the case of Claude, a patient on trial for multiple murders. Is Claude really guilty of the crimes, or is he a victim of his own mind?
06 May 1933
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.
13 Apr 2002
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
19 Oct 1979
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
16 May 1936
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.