Legal Thriller

The legal thriller subgenre features a blend of mystery and suspense with legal procedure, creating narratives that emphasize thrills, with legal settings and cases serving as a backdrop. These stories often center on lawyers, prosecutors, or legal professionals as they uncover hidden evidence, confront unexpected twists, and face threats or danger around every corner.

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1. Honor

Jul 29, 2023  •  TV Shows
After his son runs over the member of a family from the mafia, an honest and reputed judge does everything in his power to protect him, putting his own professional and moral convictions to the test.
7.1
Generally favorable

2. Black Earth Rising

Sep 9, 2018  •  TV Shows
Kate is a survivor of the Rwandan genocide whose adoptive mother, an international lawyer, faces a case that will shake their lives.
7.5
Generally favorable

3. The Escape Artist

Oct 28, 2013  •  TV Shows
A junior barrister celebrated for spiriting people out of tight legal corners represents an accused murderer.
7.5
Generally favorable

4. Anatomy of a Scandal

Apr 14, 2022  •  TV Shows
A sexual consent scandal amongst British privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake.
7
Generally favorable

5. Já, spravedlnost

Mar 31, 1968  •  TV Shows
At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in whom he, to his horror, recognizes Hitler (Fritz Diez).
6.3
Generally favorable

6. Bleed Out

Dec 16, 2018  •  TV Shows
After a routine partial hip replacement operation leaves his mother in a coma with permanent brain damage, what starts as a son's video diary becomes a citizen's investigation into the future of American health care. Using undercover footage, court testimony, verité scenes shot over several years and interviews with people on all sides of the story, the film goes deep inside a flawed healthcare system. Part medical mystery and legal thriller, part investigative journey and meditation on family, this personal story is a cautionary tale.
8.1
Generally favorable

7. Kasoor

Feb 1, 2001  •  TV Shows
Shekhar appoints Simran, a lawyer with an impeccable record, to represent him as he was accused of murdering his wife and soon she starts falling in love with him. Little she knows that Shekhar has some darker intentions.
6.1
Generally favorable

8. Cry, the Beloved Country

Oct 26, 1995  •  TV Shows
A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.
6.8
Generally favorable

9. Class Action

Mar 14, 1991  •  TV Shows
An attorney representing a traumatized accident victim finds that his opponent is a very familiar defense attorney - his own daughter.
6.4
Generally favorable

10. Jagged Edge

Oct 3, 1985  •  TV Shows
A wealthy woman is murdered in her beach house. The husband is allegedly knocked out first. He inherits all. He has a female ex criminal prosecutor represent him in court.
6.5
Generally favorable

11. The Trial

Dec 21, 1962  •  TV Shows
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
7.6
Generally favorable

12. Murder in the First

Jan 19, 1995  •  TV Shows
An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.
7.3
Generally favorable

13. JFK

Dec 19, 1991  •  TV Shows
New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
8
Generally favorable

14. The Firm

Jun 29, 1993  •  TV Shows
A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.
6.9
Generally favorable

15. The Secret in Their Eyes

Aug 12, 2009  •  TV Shows
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
8.2
Generally favorable
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