Posts Tagged ‘courtroom’

Presumed Innocent (1990)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Presumed Innocent
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Brian Dennehy | Raul Julia | Bonnie Bedelia | Paul Winfield | Greta Scacchi | John Spencer | Joe Grifasi | Tom Mardirosian | Anna Maria Horsford | Sab Shimono | Bradley Whitford | Christine Estabrook | Michael Tolan | Madison Arnold
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
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When a female D.A. is killed, the D.A. assigns his assistant to handle the investigation. Only problem is that he was having an affair with her. And the evidence reveals that he is the killer. So he suspects that the man who wants his boss’ job is trying to frame him. He turns to Sandy Stern a highly celebrated defense attorney to represent him.

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Good Will Hunting
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Matt Damon | Ben Affleck | Stellan Skarsgård | Minnie Driver | Casey Affleck | Cole Hauser | John Mighton | Rachel Majorowski | Colleen McCauley | Matt Mercier | Ralph St. George | Rob Lynds | Dan Washington | Alison Folland
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rob Schneider | William Forsythe | Eddie Griffin | Arija Bareikis | Oded Fehr | Gail O'Grady | Richard Riehle | Jacqueline Obradors | Big Boy | Amy Poehler | Dina Platias | Torsten Voges | Deborah Lemen | Bree Turner | Andrew Shaifer
Directors: Mike Mitchell
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Deuce Bigalow is a fish tank cleaner until he gets a temporary job watching over a gigolo’s house. But when Deuce accidentally wrecks the house, he is forced to compensate by becoming a gigolo himself! He takes on interesting clients (a tall Norwegian woman, a rotund eater in drag, a roommate who curses every five seconds, a nurse)…and together with a detective chasing Deuce down…

The Gift (2000)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Gift, The
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Giovanni Ribisi | Keanu Reeves | Katie Holmes | Greg Kinnear | Hilary Swank | Michael Jeter | Kim Dickens | Gary Cole | Rosemary Harris | J.K. Simmons | Chelcie Ross | John Beasley | Lynnsee Provence | Hunter McGilvray
Directors: Sam Raimi
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When a local woman (Katie Holmes) disappears and the police can’t seem to find any leads, her father (Chelcie Ross) turns to a poor young woman (Cate Blanchett) with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the arrest of an abusive husband (Keanu Reeves), but did he really do it? Greg Kinnear is the missing woman’s fiancee, Hilary Swank plays Reeve’s abused wife, and Gary Cole is a sleazy attorney with ties to the missing woman.

Freeway (1996)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Freeway
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kiefer Sutherland | Reese Witherspoon | Wolfgang Bodison | Dan Hedaya | Amanda Plummer | Brooke Shields | Michael T. Weiss | Bokeem Woodbine | Guillermo Díaz | Brittany Murphy | Alanna Ubach | Susan Barnes | Conchata Ferrell | Tara Subkoff | Julie Araskog
Directors: Matthew Bright
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Little Red Riding Hood for the 1990’s: After her mom and step-dad are arrested, 15-year-old Vanessa Lutz decides that instead of once again being put into a foster home, she’d rather go and search for the grandmother she’s never met, and live with her. “On the way to grandma’s house,” (actually a trailer park) Vanessa’s car breaks down, and she’s picked up from the side of the road by Bob Wolverton, a counselor at a school for troubled boys. Bob slowly earns Vanessa’s trust, and eventually convinces her to talk about her sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. When Vanessa realizes that Bob is enjoying what she’s saying, she realizes that he’s “The I-5 Killer,” from the news. She tries to get out of his truck, but the inside door handle has been removed…

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Postman Always Rings Twice, The
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Jessica Lange | John Colicos | Michael Lerner | John P. Ryan | Anjelica Huston | William Traylor | Thomas Hill | Jon Van Ness | Brian Farrell | Raleigh Bond | William Newman | Albert Henderson | Ken Magee | Eugene Peterson
Directors: Bob Rafelson
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This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Mrs. Doubtfire
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Sally Field | Pierce Brosnan | Harvey Fierstein | Polly Holliday | Lisa Jakub | Matthew Lawrence | Mara Wilson | Robert Prosky | Anne Haney | Scott Capurro | Sydney Walker | Martin Mull | Terence McGovern | Karen Kahn
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Daniel Hillard likes to entertain children. Currently his job, is providing voices for cartoons, but when he disagrees with the image that the studio wants to convey to children, he loses his job. It is also his son’s birthday and feling down and wanting to do something special for him, he throws a wild children’s party. When his wife Miranda comes home and finds the house in shambles and after everything settles, she tells Daniel that they are on different paths and thinks that they should separate. Because Daniel’s unemployed the judge feels that it’s best if Daniel get his life in order first, so he allows Daniel to see his children just one day a week. But Daniel can’t bear to be away from his children so long; so when Miranda decides to hire a housekeeper, Daniel alters the ad and answers it himself and pretends to be Mrs. Doubtfire, donning a disguise he becomes the new housekeeper.

JFK (1991)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
JFK
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Costner | Tommy Lee Jones | Gary Taggart | Kevin Bacon | Anthony Ramirez | Ray LePere | Laurie Metcalf | Gary Oldman | Michael Rooker | Jay O. Sanders | Sissy Spacek | Jack Lemmon | Joe Pesci | Sally Kirkland | E.J. Morris
Directors: Oliver Stone
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Part fact and part opinion, mainly of Jim Garrison and director Oliver Stone, as to the events surrounding the proposed conspiracy of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison began a probe into the actions of the F.B.I. and other officials of whom he suspected where covering up information that could lead to evidence of multiple shooters. The motive is believed to be to escalate the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. President Kennedy was attempting to prevent any further involvement in this situation, but which Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson supposedly promised the United States government that he would “give them the war”. Thus, the motive for eliminating President Kennedy. The movie also details the events of many people involved in the assassination, from Lee Harvey Oswald to Clay Shaw, a prominent figure in New Orleans.

Civil Action, A (1998)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Civil Action, A
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Robert Duvall | Tony Shalhoub | William H. Macy | Zeljko Ivanek | Bruce Norris | John Lithgow | Kathleen Quinlan | Peter Jacobson | Mary Mara | James Gandolfini | Stephen Fry | Dan Hedaya | David Thornton | Sydney Pollack
Directors: Steven Zaillian
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Jan Schlichtmann is a successful lawyer whose practically his own entrepreneur. He’s a humble bachelor with a nice car, a nice house, and a career that has amassed huge rewards. Not to mention being the founder and practice of the lucrative law firm he runs with his Boston partners, all in a case’s settlement. However, when the families of deceased children sue a giant food conglomerate, with the accusation of their companies are responsible for poisoning their children and afflicting them fatally with cancer. Jan cames to the rescue, thinking it’s one more case he can easily knock out of the park and make a fortune, as well as a name for he and his firm. With a class action lawsuit to file, Jan willingly puts himself and his firm as representatives of those families. However, it’s one case that could ruin Jan: his pride, his ambition, and ultimately, his career. As the pressures of the case begin to take their turn on both the prosecution, the defense, as well as the families, Jan is about to realize that he has taken on the biggest case of his life, and there is a price to pay.

Dangerous Beauty (1998)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Dangerous Beauty
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Catherine McCormack | Rufus Sewell | Oliver Platt | Moira Kelly | Naomi Watts | Fred Ward | Jacqueline Bisset | Jeroen Krabbé | Joanna Cassidy | Melina Kanakaredes | Daniel Lapaine | Justine Miceli | Jake Weber | Simon Dutton | Grant Russell
Directors: Marshall Herskovitz
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In 16th century Venice, courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red, they read, compose poetry and music, and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart, and with beauty and intelligence becomes the best. She’s a heroine when she helps convince France to aid Venice in war with Turkey, but when plague descends, the Church charges her with witchcraft. At her inquisition, she must match wits with an old rival, speak for all women, and call courage from Venier.

Young and Innocent (1937)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Young and Innocent
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nova Pilbeam | Derrick De Marney | Percy Marmont | Edward Rigby | Mary Clare | John Longden | George Curzon | Basil Radford | Pamela Carme | George Merritt | J.H. Roberts | Jerry Verno | H.F. Maltby | John Miller
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to be one such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. He runs to call the police, however, two witnesses think that he is the escaping murderer. Robert is arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and goes on the run with a police constable’s daughter Erica, determined to prove his innocence.

The Christmas Orange (2002)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Christmas Orange, The
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny McKinnon | Don Brown | French Tickner | Scott McNeil | Ellen Kennedy
Directors: Ian Freedman
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The Juror (1996)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Juror, The
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Demi Moore | Alec Baldwin | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Anne Heche | James Gandolfini | Lindsay Crouse | Tony Lo Bianco | Michael Constantine | Matt Craven | Todd Susman | Michael Rispoli | Julie Halston | Frank Adonis | Matthew Cowles | Polly Adams
Directors: Brian Gibson
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When Annie Laird is selected as a juror in a big Mafia trial, she is forced by someone known as “The Teacher” to sursuade the other jurors to vote “not guilty”. He threatens to kill her son if she doesn’t commit. When the trial is over, he can’t let her go…

Vera Drake (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Vera Drake
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Imelda Staunton | Richard Graham | Eddie Marsan | Anna Keaveney | Alex Kelly | Daniel Mays | Philip Davis | Lesley Manville | Sally Hawkins | Simon Chandler | Sam Troughton | Marion Bailey | Sandra Voe | Chris O'Dowd | Adrian Scarborough
Directors: Mike Leigh
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Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England, Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need, and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authorities finally find her out, Vera’s world and family life rapidly unravel.

The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
People vs. Larry Flynt, The
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Woody Harrelson | Courtney Love | Edward Norton | Brett Harrelson | Donna Hanover | James Cromwell | Crispin Glover | Vincent Schiavelli | Miles Chapin | James Carville | Richard Paul | Burt Neuborne | Jan Triska | Cody Block | Ryan Post
Directors: Milos Forman
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Strip club owner Larry Flynt and his wife, Althea, create a pornographic magazine that ignores society’s morals and taboos. “Hustler” magazine brings the Flynts not only millions in profit but also the wrath of “decent” people. Flynt and his overburdened attorney find themselves in courtrooms all over the nation defending Larry against criminal and civil charges. In the meantime, Flynt is beset by paralysis, the result of an assassination attempt, drug addiction, mental illness, and Althea’s failing health.

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Dancer in the Dark
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Stormare | Vincent Paterson | Vladica Kostic | Cara Seymour | Joel Grey | Bjork | Catherine Deneuve | Siobhan Fallon | David Morse | Jean-Marc Barr | Udo Kier | Zeljko Ivanek
Directors: Lars von Trier
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Selma has emigrated with her son from Central Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life feels tough she can pretend that she is in the wonderful world of musicals…just for a short moment. All happiness life is not able to give her she finds there…

The Crucible (1996)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Crucible, The
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Winona Ryder | Paul Scofield | Joan Allen | Bruce Davison | Rob Campbell | Jeffrey Jones | Peter Vaughan | Karron Graves | Charlayne Woodard | Frances Conroy | Elizabeth Lawrence | George Gaynes | Mary Pat Gleason | Robert Breuler
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America.

On the Waterfront (1954)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
On the Waterfront
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Karl Malden | Lee J. Cobb | Rod Steiger | Pat Henning | Leif Erickson | James Westerfield | Tony Galento | Tami Mauriello | John F. Hamilton | John Heldabrand | Rudy Bond | Don Blackman | Arthur Keegan | Abe Simon
Directors: Elia Kazan
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

Primal Fear (1996)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Primal Fear
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Gere | Laura Linney | Edward Norton | John Mahoney | Frances McDormand | Alfre Woodard | Terry O'Quinn | Andre Braugher | Steven Bauer | Joe Spano | Tony Plana | Stanley Anderson | Maura Tierney | Jon Seda | Reg Rogers
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
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Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer (Richard Gere) who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy (Edward Norton) accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.

The Client (1994)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Client, The
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Susan Sarandon | Tommy Lee Jones | Mary-Louise Parker | Anthony LaPaglia | J.T. Walsh | Anthony Edwards | Brad Renfro | Will Patton | Bradley Whitford | Anthony Heald | Kim Coates | Kimberly Scott | David Speck | William H. Macy | Ossie Davis
Directors: Joel Schumacher
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A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry ‘The Blade’ Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of Senator Boyd Boyette is buried. Mark escapes, and Clifford shoots himself. Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says. Mark decides he needs a lawyer, and goes looking for one. He finds Reggie Love, who also becomes convinced that Mark knows more than he says, but Mark isn’t talking…