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1) Red dust
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A political thriller set in a small South African town during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. Human rights lawyer Sarah Barcant must represent Alex Mpondo, a former political activist, who was held captive and sadistically tortured by a police officer under the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper....
5) The judge
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
English
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.
6) Runaway jury
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
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...
8) From the hip
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The unconventional behavior of a young lawyer leads to his promotion to Junior partner at his Boston law firm, but when he is assigned to a high profile case he begins to question his client's innocence and his choice of career.
9) Difret
Publisher
Truth Aid Media
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From executive producer Angelina Jolie Pitt comes the award-winning drama based on the inspirational true story of a young Ethiopian girl and a tenacious lawyed embroiled in a life-or-death clash between cultural traditions and their country's advancement of equal rights. When 14-year-old Hirut is abducted in her rural village's tradition of kidnapping women for marriage, she fights back, accidentally killing her captor and intended husband.
10) Saint Omer
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Appears on list
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...
11) The verdict
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A down-and-out lawyer takes on the system against impossible odds.
12) Music box
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1989, 2003
Language
English
Description
In this courtroom thriller, Chicago attorney Ann Talbot (Jessica Lange) agrees to defend her Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) against accusations of heinous war crimes committed 50 years earlier. As the trial unfolds, Ann probes for evidence that will not only establish his innocence but also lay to rest her own agonizing doubts about his past.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Swedish
Description
This extended edition contains more than two hours of additional footage not seen in the theatrical versions of the original Swedish films (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest). Amassing a total of 9 hours of story content and presented in 6 parts, this complete video version of the international hit series restores notable characters and subplots from Steig Larsson's best-selling...
Publisher
Gaiam Americas Inc
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Christmas shoes -- A workaholic attorney crosses paths with a young boy on Christmas Eve and rediscovers the true meaning of love, life, and the holiday season.
Christmas blessing -- When a medical resident loses a patient, he moves back home with his father to rethink his career. His visit is a bittersweet one, overshadowed by memories of the mother he lost 18 years earlier on Christmas Eve. Nathan accepts a coaching position at a local elementary...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Mickey Haller is L.A.'s top criminal defense lawyer - a fast-living, freewheeling pro who does business out of the back seat of his classic Lincoln town car. He knows all the ins and outs of the legal system and how to exploit them to his clients' advantage. But after agreeing to defend a wealthy young man accused of rape and murder, Mickey suddenly finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of violence, vengeance and deception that threatens to not...
Publisher
Ultra Media Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Hindi
Description
The story of the blunt, abrasive and yet oddly compassionate Jagdishwar Mishra, aka Jolly, a small-time, struggling lawyer who has moved from Kanpur to the city of Nawabs to pursue his dream of becoming a big-time lawyer.
Jolly LLB 2 tells the story of a small-time lawyer who is faced with a pivotal case in his career..
19) Sommersby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©1999
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran returns to his hometown a changed man-- leading his wife and others who knew him to doubt his identity.
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