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The Reader (2009)
THE READER opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarle...
Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure (1995)
A criminal defense attorney falls prey to the wiles of a beautiful sex psychologist who's accused of murder, threatening his career, his marriage and his life...
The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
Based on Sidney Sheldon's bestseller, "The Other Side of Midnight" is the story of Noelle, a naïve young French woman who falls for a handsome American aviato...
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer. When Vinny ar...
Ted 2 (2015)
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a you...
My Stepson, My Lover (1997)
A kind nurse finds herself embroiled in a tense and potentially deadly family affair when she falls for the son of her ruthless new husband.
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
This film depicts the final hours of Jesus Christ, starting from His prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane and His betrayal at the hands of Judas Iscariot. It go...
A Time to Kill (1996)
In Canton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks -- James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Almost i...
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (2009)
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With...
Rules of Engagement (2000)
Colonel Terry Childers is a 30-year Marine veteran: a decorated officer with combat experience in Vietnam, Beirut and Desert Storm. But now, the country he ser...
Planet of the Apes (1968)
An astronaut (Charlton Heston) goes by time warp to a future planet ruled by smart apes who keep humans as slaves.
In Cold Blood (1967)
Truman Capote wrote the 'non-fiction novel' from which the film is drawn, using the novelist's craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on Nov...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1998)
This panoramic tale of Savannah's eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, b...
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Mystic, maiden, martyr - whatever you choose to call her, it is difficult to dispute that Joan of Arc led a remarkably accomplished life for a...
Walking Tall (2004)
When a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces returns to his small hometown in rural Washington State hoping to realise a childhood dream of working in ...
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
A documentary that explores a bizarre triple murder in a quiet Arkansas suburb. Three eight-year-old boys are found brutally murdered; a ment...
Helter Skelter (1976) (1976)
Chilling story of the investigation and trial of Charles Manson, leader of a strange cult which under his direction and 'control' committed numerous murders.
12 Angry Men (1957)
The defence and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering ...
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfr...
Pretty Persuasion (2006)
In Beverly Hills, the fifteen years old evil manipulative aspirant actress Kimberly Joyce convinces her friends Randa and Brittany to falsely accuse their Lite...
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
Ghosts of Mississippi is a drama covering the final trial of the assassin, Bryon De La Beckwith (Woods), of the 60s civil rights leader Medgar Evers. It begins...
The Judge (2014)
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, a...
When You're Strange (2010)
A chronological look at The Doors, focusing on lead singer, Jim Morrison (1943-1971), from the formation of the band in 1965, it's first gigs, and first album, ...
Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013)
Reveals Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing ...
Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe (2011)
This movie explores the complicated life of the title character in 2005; this is a couple of years before the events take place in the first season of Burn N...
Peyton Place (1957)
Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior ...
Tom Horn (1980)
A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well...
Imprint (2007)
Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dyi...
A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne (2009)
THE death of Sydney model Caroline Byrne set the lives of those closest to her on a devastating roller-coaster ride which continues to this day.
The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)
In 1998, a young gay man by the name of Matthew Shepard was robbed, viciously beaten and left tied to a fence to die. Although he was soon found by the police a...
The Gauntlet (1977)
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness named Gus Mally from Vegas. Mally turns out to be...
Blue Eyed Butcher (2012)
Based on a true story, the film follows the story of Susan Wright, a beautiful young wife and mother of two wjo violently kills her husband in their Houston hom...
Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007)
This shocking story of multiple murders is that much creepier because it's true. In 1966, Richard Speck terrorized nine nurses, raping and killing them in a br...
My Favorite Wife (1940)
When his wife is believed dead after seven years missing at sea, a dashing attorney marries again only to have his first wife return on his honeymoon night.
Aurore (2005)
The year is 1909. In the village of Sainte-Philom?ne de Fortierville, Marie-Anne Caron, wife to T?l?sphore Gagnon, gives birth to their second daughter, Aurore....
Reversal of Fortune (1991)
Alan Dershowitz a brilliant professor of law is hired by wealthy socialite Claus von Bulow to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of h...
To Kill a King (2003)
Set at the end of the Civil War in 1645, TO KILL A KING is a stirring period piece that follows the relationship between Lord General Fairfax (Dougray Scott) ...
The Conspirator (2010)
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced ...
Howl (2010)
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuou...
Hannah Arendt (2012)
A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
Jodi Arias - Dirty Little Secret (2013)
Based on the disturbing murder trial that gripped the nation, this Lifetime Original Movie tells the story of a seductive, aspiring photographer found guilty of...
Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004)
An uproar is caused when some mutilated cadavers are discovered, giving way to the legend of the "Werewolf of Allariz". A traveling vendor rolls through the for...
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
"Judgment at Nuremberg" explores the post-World War II war crimes committed by the Third Reich through a series of trials held in 1948 Nuremberg, Germany. Jud...
The Laramie Project (2002)
Moisés Kaufman and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of Matthew Shepard. This is a film version of ...
Breaker Morant (1980)
One of a crop of impressive films to arrive from Australia in the late 1970s and early 1980s, BREAKER MORANT marked Bruce Beresford as a director to watch. Ba...
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
"Where the Green Ants Dream" is the incredible story of an Aboriginal tribe's struggle to save their sacred grounds from encroaching civilization. They believ...
Once Upon a Girl.... (1976)
Mother Goose is on trial for obscenity because she wants to tell the "real" versions of her tales. Jack explores the Giant's wife, the Prince checks if "he" fit...
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Lizzie Borden, a 19th-century Massachusetts woman, who is put on trial for the brutal slaughter of her father and step-mother in t...
Inherit the Wind (1960)
The real conflict between science and religion flares into open war in this fictionalised account of the famous 1925 'Monkey Trial'. Schoolteacher John Scopes...
Toy Soldiers (1992)
Billy Tepper is the leader of a group of rebellious guys at The Regis School. He has already been expelled from three prominent private schools. His best friend...
The Wrong Man (1956)
A New York nightclub musician (Henry Fonda) and his wife (Vera Miles) endure an ordeal of mistaken identity.
Suing the Devil (2011)
How do you go about suing Satan himself for 8 trillion dollars? Very carefully. You would think that Satan would be his usual self and somehow skip town, but in...
The Advocate (1994)
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigu...
Compulsion (1959)
In 1924 Chicago, two rich college students, Judd Steiner and Arthur Strauss, decide they can commit the perfect murder and get away with. They kill a young tee...
Desperate Hours (1990)
Michael Bosworth is a psychotic criminal who is about to go on trial however, he seduces his lawyer into helping him escape. But as they try to make their geta...
Four Nights with Anna (2008)
A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton was the black urban dream and a hero to youngsters Wilford Robinson and Earl Carter. Shortly before he would have become the fir...
Manson, My Name Is Evil (2009)
A straight-laced chemist begins questioning society's standards and confronting his own darkest desires after falling for the all-American homecoming queen who...
Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)
Kevin Sorbo stars in this action-packed sequel to the hit film, Walking Tall: The Payback. After cleaning up his hometown, Nick (Kevin Sorbo) retires as count...
The Wind in the Willows (1949)
Disney "Mini-Classic" version of the tale. First released as a double-feature: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
Undertrial (2007)
Sagar Hussain lives a poor lifestyle in India. He relocates to Mumbai in order to better his prospects and finds work at a factory that only hires male employee...
Lake of Fire (2006)
Imagine, working in a profession where doctors get murdered on the regular. Working at an abortion clinic is never easy on conscious mind. It simply can't be ex...
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
A French peasant girl (Renee Falconetti) opposing occupying British forces is tried for heresy and witchcraft, and burned at the stake. ...
The Ordeal of Dr Mudd (1980)
This is the story of the doctor whose farm John Wilkes Booth went to after assassinating Abraham Lincoln. Eventually he was wrongfully accused and tried and con...
Madame Bovary (1949)
A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.
Trial by Fire (2007)
While Stark and Raina were pleading the death sentence for multiple murderer Paul Masters, they, the judge and audience are all taken hostage when a bailiff's g...
House of Strangers (1949)
Max Monetti is consumed with vengeance against his brothers after their betrayal of his father Gino. But after remembering his past, especially his relationshi...
Video Voyeur The Susan Wilson Story (2002)
A Louisiana woman discovers that a trusted neighbor has installed video surveillance equipment in her home to spy on her family. As a result, the real-life Wils...
Madame X (1929)
Young Raymond Floriot, following in his father Louis Floriot's professional footsteps, he now France's attorney general, has just passed the bar exam. Raymond's...
Garv: Pride and Honour (2004)
Bombay's Senior Police Inspector, Samar Singh, tenders his resignation when he finds out that Kashinath Trivedi, who is known to have connections with the under...
The Onion Field (1979)
Guilt follows a policeman after two crooks kill his partner. Directed by Harold Becker. From the Joseph Wambaugh book.
Bardaasht (2004)
Aditya Shrivastav is a deserted army officer. He has a brother, Anuj. Anuj gets angry at Aditya one day and runs away. ACP Yashwant Thakur helps Aditya in findi...
La condanna (1991)
A girl and her art professor get trapped inside a castle-museum after it closes at night. After a little resistance she agrees to have sex with him, but then sh...
Agnes of God (1985)
When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.
The Narrow Margin (1952)
When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he's coming to trial she has to be escourted...
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advant...
The Case for Christmas (2011)
A lawyer finds himself defending Santa Claus in the biggest trial in history.
Murder Most Foul (1964)
Although the evidence appears to be overwhelming in the strangulation murder of a blackmailer, Miss Marple's sole 'not guilty' vote hangs the jury 11-1. She be...
Steal This Movie (2002)
The life and times of 60's counterculture icon Abbie Hoffman- founder of the Yippie Party, street theater maven, and leader of more protests t...
Teacher's Crime, A (2008)
Carrie is an attractive high school history teacher who one day decides to help a troubled student, taking an special interest for him, unaware of the ruthless ...
Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
Nancy Drew is one of six teenagers competing in the local newspaper's amateur reporter contest. The editor is treating the contest more of a chore and issues t...
The Man who Crossed Hitler (2011)
On November 1930 brownish colored dressed assault troops of Hitler's SA attacked the club of Communist Eden Palace and killed many people. Jewish attorney Hans ...
In the Fade (2017)
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Sin retorno (2010)
A thriller centered on a man who is accused of a crime he didn't commit.
The Trial of Jeffrey Dahmer (1992)
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Where Love Has Gone (1964)
After his teenage daughter Danny is arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's current lover, Luke Miller recalls his marriage to Valerie Hayden and the subseque...
InAlienable (2008)
Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica stars as Dr. Eric Norris, a brilliant researcher guilt-ridden over a family tragedy. But when an extraterrestrial parasi...
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child...
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)
A look behind the curtain rare Liberation Front of the Earth, the radical environmental FBI calls the "number one national terrorism threats." along with the ex...
The Trial of Old Drum (2000)
Inspired by a true story set in Missouri, "The Trial of Old Drum" tells the story of a valiant golden retriever, Old Drum, an orphan dog that becomes a boy's be...
Scenes of a Crime (2011)
Explores a nearly 10-hour interrogation that culminates in a disputed confession, and an intense, high-profile murder trial in New York state. Police video-reco...
The Cheshire Murders (2013)
In the quiet suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, Jennifer Petit and her two young daughters were killed in a horrific home invasion; husband and father William Pet...
The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2006)
"The Trials of Darryl Hunt" is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in ...
The People vs Jean Harris (1981)
No plot available for The People vs Jean Harris
Pink (2016)
When three young women are implicated in a crime; a retired lawyer steps forward to help them clear their names.
Escape: Human Cargo (1998)
An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due to the US p...
Gambler (1971)
Raja has been abandoned by his biological mother at a very young age, and grows up with Master, a criminal don and card-sharp, who would like Raja to continue w...
They Killed Sister Dorothy (2008)
In February of 2005, Sister Dorothy Stang, a 73-year-old Catholic nun and activist, is killed in the Brazilian rain forest where she fought agai...
Sabse Bada Khiladi (1995)
A police inspector discovers evidence that the top ranking criminal lawyer was responsible for his brother's death twenty years ago...
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
In British colonial America, Captain Swanson's adherence to the rules results in Trader Callendar's selling to the Indians under cover of a government permit. J...
Chicago 10 (2007)
Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Conve...
Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer (2013)
Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial in a case that has gripped ...
The Clairvoyant (1935)
Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader, has frightening flashes of precognition; but he cannot predict or control them ...until he realizes he has them in...
12 Angry Men (1997)
Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision.
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the gi...
Remember the Night (1940)
Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard ...
This Is My Affair (1937)
Navy Lt. Richard Perry becomes an undercover man out to discover the leaders of a group of well connected men who pull off bank robberies during the McKinley ad...
Plus tard (2008)
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Tears of April (2008)
1918 Miina fighting in the Finnish Civil War to the Communists in a poorly-armed women's battalion. So her group defeated by the superior northern troops and it...
The Unknown Man (1951)
Prominent attorney Brad Mason takes on the defense of Rudi Walchek, a young hit-man hoodlum accused of murder. Convinced of the youthful thug's innocence, Mason...
The Eichmann Show (2015)
The behind-the-scenes true life story of a groundbreaking producer, Milton Fruchtman, and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz who...
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X (2012)
A truly mad concoction, blending 1950s juvenile delinquents, sci-fi melodrama, song-and-dance, and a touch of horror, everything in just the right combination t...
The Lucky Texan (1934) (1934)
Wayne and his mining partner strike it rich when they find a vein of gold but tragedy ensues when one of them is murdered and Wayne finds himself as the accus...
Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
Oscar-winning documentary that documents a murder trial in which a 15-year-old African-American is wrongfully accused of a 2000 murder in Jacksonville, Florida.
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982)
A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.
The Children Act (2017)
As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.
Brother's Keeper (1992)
This documentary by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky details the murder trial of Delbert Ward. Delbert was a member of a family of four elderly brothers, workin...
Jump! (2008)
Photographer Philippe Halsman became one of the most sought-after celebrity portrait artists of his generation, creating memorable images of famous personalit...
The Traitor (2019)
The real life of Tommaso Buscetta the so called "boss of the two worlds", first mafia informant in Sicily 1980's.
Aabroo (1968)
Manish is a newly-qualified doctor. He meets Neena in Kashmir and they fall in love. Manish's brother is a lawyer who is a very close friend of Shekhar who live...
Easy Virtue (1928)
A music-score-enhanced silent film follows the circuitous path of a woman's love life beginning with an older abusive husband. After divorcing the rogue, she c...
Sweet Country (2017)
Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man...
The Pardon (2013)
The true story of Toni Jo Henry, a woman tried for the crime of murder in 1942 in the state of Louisiana. Toni Jo, a product of childhood abuse and neglect, bri...
Dirty Pictures (2010)
Fact-based story about the court proceedings that followed Cincinnati art museum director Dennis Barrie (James Woods) after his decision to display a controvers...
The Letter (1982)
The wife of a Malaysian planter kills an employee of her husband one night, but her motive begins to appear not entirely truthful.
The Dock Brief (1962)
Peter Sellers starts out with one role and ends up with three in The Dock Brief (U.S. title Trial and Error), a satirical comedy based on the television play b...
They Meet Again (1941)
In the sixth entry of this series, Dr. Paul Christian is giving a party for Janie Webster, a motherless little girl of nine, with a fine singing voice. But, as ...
Pluto's Judgement Day (1935)
Pluto chases a kitten through a window and right into Mickey's lap. Mickey scolds him, and goes off to wash the kitten. Pluto falls asleep in front of the fire,...
Two Men in Town (1973)
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Thought Crimes (2015)
Dubbed "The Cannibal Cop," Gilberto Valle was convicted in March 2013 of conspiring to kidnap and eat young women. Valle argued it was all a fantasy; the prosec...
Cause of Death (2001)
A deputy-district attorney, assigned to investigate the murder of the mayor's cousin, finds himself falling for the victim's wife.
A Murderous Affair The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
Without Her Consent (1990)
Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance.
Trial by Fire (2018)
The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert tes...
Party Girl (1958)
Lawyer Thomas Farrell is a defender of crooks. Vicki Gayle encourages him improve his reputation, but mob king Rico Angelo insists otherwise.
Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil (2018)
"Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil" pulls back the curtain on the now imprisoned religious prophet to an estimated 15,000 followers of the FLDS Church who, before g...
The Seven Minutes (1971)
The Seven Minutes is a steamy book written in 1969. To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material and most of th...
Jon Venables: What Went Wrong? (2011)
What Went Wrong?: What should we do with children who commit serious crime? Following the recall of Jon Venables who, along with his friend Robert Thompson, mu...
My Husband My Killer (2001)
New South Wales detective sergeant Bob 'Snake' Inkster almost immediately suspects highly respected ethnic Croation businessman Andrew Kalajzich of the murder o...
Bis nichts mehr bleibt (2010)
A film based on a true story about former Scientologists
Cries from the Heart (1994)
Michael is an autistic 7 year old child. He cannot speak or write. His mother, Karen, sends him to a special school to help him learn. Michael is taught to use ...
The Witness Files (1999)
A former actress, unjustly sent to prison eight years earlier, is forced to testify against a mafia hit man.
Seminole (1953)
A calvary Lt. on trial for murder, recounts his efforts make peace with the Siminole Indian tribe, under an evil major.
A Mothers Revenge (1993)
A girl is beaten and raped by someone from the school, but he doesn't go to prison because there is no proof about it. Now, the girl's mother tries to reveal th...
The Crucible (1996)
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 h...
Juninatten (1940)
Young Kerstin Norbäck lives in a small town. She has a relationship with a sailor, but when she tries to leave him, he shoots her. She survives and begins a new...
A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
Country squire Henry Maurier is patient with his wife Emily, a neurotic invalid, but her brother surprises Henry with his young mistress Doris. The same night, ...
Men of Boys Town (1941)
Mr. and Mrs. Maitland invite Whitey to their home on a trial basis. Whitey tries to visit a friend in reform school and inmate Flip is hiding in car as Whitey l...
They Won't Believe Me (1947)
During courtroom drama, philandering California stockbroker Larry Balantine, on trial for murdering his wife and girlfriend, takes the stand to explain those de...
The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
Lawyer Man (1932)
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown attracts the ...
Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
A prosecutor trying a case where a husband shot his adulterous wife begins to suspect that his own wife is having an affair, and starts to have his own thoughts...
After the Fox (1966)
Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he...
Silent Witness (1985)
The marriage of a young working-class woman is jeopardized when she witnesses her brother-in-law's participation in a gang rape of an intoxicated woman in a nei...
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn (1985)
Presumably this is an adaptation of Australian actor Errol Flynn's autobiography, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways."
Jaded (1998)
At the local bar, one drink leads to another, and Megan ends up skinny-dipping with Pat and Alex. And then, comes the rape. Now, she wants justice; but is she a...
The Story on Page One (1959)
When Jo Morris' marriage turned sour and heartless, she found sympathy and companionship with widower Larry Ellis. After Jo's husband is accidentally killed in ...
Killing for Love (2016)
The gruesome murders of Nancy and Derek Haysom in 1985 were an international media sensation. The Haysoms were wealthy, respected members of Virginia society, a...
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
Peter Carter meets official resistance when he finds his 9 year old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
Hell's Kitchen (1939)
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution...
One Hot Summer Night (1998)
When a wealthy businessman is murdered by a hired assassin, suspicion falls on the victim's abused wife and her lover.
Ignatius of Loyola (2016)
'If you could hear the voice of God, would you want to keep it secret?' A historical drama based on the memoirs of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit...
Hooligan Sparrow (2016)
State surveillance. Harassment. Imprisonment. Human rights activist Ye Haiyan, AKA Sparrow, knew she faced these risks when she went to Hainan Province to seek ...
Black Widow Murders The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (1993)
A woman marries her boyfriend on his deathbed for his money so she can move on to the next guy. When he turns up mysteriously ill the police step in and investi...
Lies of the Heart The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)
This is the fact-based made-for-TV movie of Laurie Kellog, who was accused of the murder of her husband Bruce in May 1992, told in flashbacks while she's wa...
A Little Thing Called Murder (2006)
Based on the true story of mother/son tag-team Sante Kimes and her offspring, Kenny, who crisscrossed the country and committed a string of crimes, among them r...
The Preppie Murder (1989)
This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when ques...
Moment of Truth: A Child Too Many (1993)
A woman wholly devoted to pregnancy, having raised many children already, decides to become a surrogate for a wealthy couple, but when she discovers she's havin...
House of Secrets (2014)
A recently divorced woman must figure out who keeps breaking into her home.
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himse...
Signed Sealed Delivered (2013)
A two-hour backdoor pilot of the TV series with the same name that focuses on four postal workers who take it upon themselves to track down intended recipients ...
The Rendering (2002)
Ten years after being molested in art school by habitual rapist Theodore Gray, who is serving 25 years but eligible for parole, Sarah Reynolds leads a happy lif...
The Secret Fury (1950)
A woman preparing to marry her fiance is accused of bigamy by a stranger but she fights back by trying to prove she's the victim of a conspiracy designed to dis...
Death Sentence (1974)
A juror on a murder case begins to believe that the man on trial is innocent of the crime - and then discovers that the real killer is her own husband.
It Rains on Our Love (1946)
Maggi meets David after having missed her train, and they spend the night together. Penniless, the young lovers break into a summer cottage. The owner, Håkansso...
As Summers Die (1986)
The plot centers around a large area of land owned by an old black lady, Elvira Backus. It had been given to her by her one time employer and secret father of h...
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