Best Courtroom Movies Of All Time

A lawyer is forced to defend a judge, while defending other clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.

An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

Defence lawyer Mick Haller lands a case defending a wealthy realtor's son who is accused of raping a prostitute. Believing his client to be innocent, Haller soon finds evidence that proves otherwise.

An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

As a lawyer investigates the murder of a colleague, he finds himself more connected to the crime than anyone else.

A military lawyer intends to prove that two US Marines charged with murdering a fellow Marine were only following their base commander's orders.

A young Mississippi lawyer defends a black man who killed the two white men that raped his preteen daughter.

Two New Yorkers accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college call in the help of one of their cousins, a loudmouth lawyer with no trial experience.

A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.

At the risk of bankrupting his firm and career, lawyer Jan Schlichtman takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's contaminated water supply.

When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small-time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

After shooting his wife, Ted confesses his crime and asks the court to move his case to trial. He represents himself against Willy, a successful lawyer. But there's more to the case than meets the eye.

A high-profile murder intrigues a publicity hungry lawyer.

After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.

A reporter and a District Attorney help childhood friends who killed a sadistic guard.

An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.

A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.

Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision.

The story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.

A lawyer uses his power to help his lover put her father behind bars, but when he escapes, they are all in danger.

When prosecutor Elliot Rosen leaks to naive, but well-meaning, Miami reporter Megan Carter that liquor wholesaler Mike Gallagher is suspected in the murder of the local longshoreman union president, Gallagher's life begins to unravel.

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.