COURT DRAMAS - LAW and LAWYER movies

Un jury réfractaire tente d'empêcher une erreur judiciaire en forçant les autres jurys à réexaminer les preuves.

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

L'histoire de 7 personnes jugées à la suite de diverses accusations autour de la révolte qui eu lieu à la Convention nationale du parti démocrate de 1968 à Chicago.

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

Un avocat qui défend un homme riche commence à croire que son client est coupable de plus d'un crime.

L'avocat militaire et lieutenant Daniel Kaffee défend les Marines accusés de meurtre, qui disent avoir agi sous ordres.

En 1948, un tribunal américain en Allemagne occupée juge quatre nazis jugés pour crimes de guerre.

Une mère dont l'enfant a été tué lors d'une attaque de dingo en Australie, se bat pour prouver son innocence lorsqu'elle est accusée de meurtre.

Dans un procès pour meurtre, l'accusé avoue avoir souffert de folie passagère après que la victime ait violé sa femme. Quelle est la vérité, et va-t-il gagner son procès ?

Après qu'un vol bâclé ait abouti au meurtre brutal d'une famille rurale, deux vagabonds échappent à la police, finissant par accepter leur propre mortalité et les répercussions de leur horrible atrocité.

Un avocat britannique chevronné doit défendre son client dans un procès pour meurtre qui ne cesse de surprendre.

La femme de Ted Kramer le quitte, ce qui lui permet de renouer des liens avec son fils, Billy. Mais il s'ensuit une lutte acharnée pour la garde du fils du couple divorcé, aggravant la douleur causée par la séparation.

Un avocat voit la possibilité de sauver sa carrière et sa dignité en poussant une affaire de négligence médicale jusqu'au procès plutôt que d'accepter un règlement à l'amiable.

Atticus Finch, un avocat du sud des États-Unis pendant la Grande Dépression, défend un homme noir d'une accusation de viol non méritée, et ses enfants des préjugés.

Une avocate défend son père accusé de crimes de guerre, mais l'affaire est bien plus compliquée qu'elle ne pense.

A woman's life falls apart after she's blamed for an accident on her property.

A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.

Un jeune avocat enthousiaste et idéaliste défend un prisonnier d'Alcatraz accusé d'avoir assassiné un codétenu. Il peut invoquer des circonstances atténuantes : son client vient de passer plus de trois ans en isolement.

A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.

La riche Sunny von Bülow est en état de mort cérébrale, son mari Claus coupable de tentative de meurtre, mais il affirme être innocent et engage l'avocat Alan Dershowitz pour prouver son innocence.

Un avocat enquête sur le meurtre d'un collègue et se retrouve plus lié au crime que quiconque.

Les avocats et les médias soutiennent les allégations de maltraitance d'enfants à l'école maternelle McMartin à Manhattan Beach, en Californie.

Après plus de vingt ans d'un mariage sans amour, une femme fait appel à la compassion de son mari pour obtenir l'acte de divorce tant désiré devant un tribunal, ce qui se révèle plus difficile qu'elle pourrait s'y attendre.

A wealthy old alchemist and inventor has just perfected a motion picture camera with which he hopes to revolutionize the art of animated photography, and our story opens with the old man in his library studying out the plans of his invention. A telegram calls him hurriedly away. He replaces the papers in his safe, but, in his haste, neglects to lock it, which oversight is pardonable, as his wife and daughter are in the room at the time. The daughter's hand is sought in marriage by a worthy young man, whose attentions are looked upon with favor by herself and her parents. But he has a rival in the person of a contemptible villain, whose motives are purely mercenary, reasoning that this new invention will greatly enhance the father's already ample wealth. He has met with little or no encouragement from the girl, but is determined to have her at any hazard, so calling at the house shortly after the old man departs, is ushered into the library by the maid, who goes to inform her mistress of his arrival. While left alone in the room he espies the door of the safe ajar. Making sure that he will suffer no interruption, he goes through the safe and secures the coveted plans, secreting them in his pocket just as the girl enters. He renews his protestations, of love, but is again repulsed, and when he becomes insultingly persistent, receives a blow in the face and is ordered from the house by the incensed girl. He goes, but swears vengeance. The father now returns and goes to his laboratory to make a final test of his invention. Threading the camera with photographic film, he starts the motor, when the villain enters to lay his proposal for the girl's hand before him. It is, of course, rejected, and the villain threatens the old man, flaunting before his very face the cherished designs, of his invention. The old man, white with rage, leaps at the throat of the villain, forgetting about the camera, which is whirling through its mechanism yard after yard of negative film. During this scene the young girl is in the library relating to her fiancé her experience with the odious suitor, and upon leaving he is assured that there is nothing to fear in that direction. She then goes to the laboratory, and the horrible sight that greets her freezes the blood in her veins, for there upon the floor lays her dear old father cold in death. Bending over his lifeless body she picks up a dagger papercutter which the murderer, whoever he be, had taken from her father's desk. There she kneels beside the prostrate form transfixed with horror, with this poniard tightly clutched in her nerveless hand, when the villain enters with, others and boldly accuses her of parricide. Appearances are unfortunately against her, so she is led away to prison. Circumstantial evidence is so strong that the world believes her guilty and all desert her except her poor old mother and her faithful lover, who visits and consoles her in her prison cell, vowing he will leave no stone unturned to run to earth the real culprit. Visiting the laboratory, the young man makes a startling discovery. While rummaging through the old alchemist's effects, his attention is drawn towards the new camera and although having but a vague knowledge of the art of animated photography, he has, through his association with the old inventor, a limited idea of its importance, and some little talent in chemistry, so he examines the camera and finds that one of the film boxes contains film. This he take into the "dark room" and develops a short strip sufficiently to see a faint outline of a scene. "My God! Just as I thought!" He hurries with the box of film to the old mans assistant, who develops it and prints a positive. Armed with this convincing evidence, he rushes into the courtroom, and with the permission of the presiding judge, sets up a moving picture machine and projects the result of his discovery upon the wall. The scene here pictured completely exonerates the young girl by showing the actual murder of the old man by the villain, who, during this exposition tries to bolt, but his escape is cut off, and he is taken into custody for the- heinous crime he committed. -- The Moving Picture World, January 18, 1908

Small Axe is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community between 1969 and 1982.