Subgenre Sampler
Courtroom: 208 Films to Buy & Rent
Court (2014)
- Dir. Chaitanya Tamhane
Feat. Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber
- A strikingly confident directorial debut that exposes the antiquity of the Indian legal system through the court trial of an ageing protest singer…
How to Get Away with Murder (TV Series) (2014)
- Feat. Viola Davis
- Legal drama centred around a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant criminal defense professor who become involved in a twisted murder…
Judge, The (2014)
- Dir. David Dobkin
Feat. Robert Downey Jnr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga…
- Big city lawyer Robert Downey Jnr. returns to his childhood home where his father (Robert Duvall), the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets…
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)
- Dir. Joe Berlinger
- The director of PARADISE LOST helms this multi–faceted documentary that uses the trial of infamous gangster James "Whitey" Bulger to examine…
Closed Circuit (2013)
- Dir. John Crowley
Feat. Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent…
- A dangerous conflict of interest arises when two ex–lovers end up on opposite sides of a high profile terrorism trial in this probing courtroom…
Devil's Knot (2013)
- Dir. Atom Egoyan
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth, Alessandro Nivola…
- Solid dramatisation of the long–running West Memphis Three case covered in depth by several documentaries, with dir. Egoyan weaving a typically…
Phil Spector (2013)
- Dir. David Mamet
Feat. Al Pacino, Helen Mirren, Chiwetel Ejiofor…
- David Mamet brilliantly dramatises Phil Spector's trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson in this self–proclaimed "work of fiction", in which the…
Ace Attorney (2012)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Hiroki Narimiya, Takumi Saito
- Takashi Miike churns out this preposterous video game adaptation, about a cocksure lawyer who agrees to defend his courtroom rival in a murder trial,…
Mystery of a Hansom Cab, The (2012)
- This costume drama is based on the international best–selling crime novel by Fergus Hume. Set on the grimy streets of Melbourne during the…
Shahid (2012)
- Dir. Hansal Mehta
Feat. Rajkummar Rao, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Kay Kay Menon
- Indian biopic about the life of lawyer and human rights activist Shahid Azmi, who was assassinated in 2010 by four right wing assailants.
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