Best Lawyer movies of 1980s

Actors : Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp, Kenneth Mars, Kim Myers,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a ...

Actors : Thomas Algren, Simone Bendix, Susse Wold, Allan Olsen,
Directors : Edward Fleming,

For Janus his friend Tore is his big ideal: pretty, intelligent and self-confident. Janus is grateful for his friendship even though he is considered the court jester. When Tore falls in ...

Actors : Virginia Penta, Mark Mikulski, Irwin Corey, Albert Pia,

A couple with marriage problems goes to Family Court, where a judge takes them back in time to view lovers through the ages.

Actors : Deborra-Lee Furness, Simone Buchanan, Tony Barry, Gillian Jones,
Directors : Steve Jodrell,

Asta Cadell, a lawyer traveling through the Australian Outback on holiday, stops in a small Western Australian town after her motorcycle breaks down and shacks up with Tim Curtis, the local...

Actors : Alix de Montaigu, François Michel, Katja Rupé, Jean-Pierre Beauviala,
Directors : Otar Iosseliani,

Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 41st Venice International Film Festival, this absurdist comedy, with its sprawling cast of crooks, thieves, anarchists, prostitutes, chief inspectors, ...

Actors : Irene Cara, Nicholas Campbell, George Murdock, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Stephen Gyllenhaal,

During a shooting in court young prostitute Scarlet manages to flee. In a state of confusion, the black Tracy, who was arrested for a minor delict, follows her. When she decides to leave ...

Actors : Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.

Actors : Jean Yanne, Jill Clayburgh, Gabriel Byrne, Mohammad Bakri,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.

Actors : Sümer Tilmaç, Haluk Kurtoglu, Murat Soydan, Ümit Acar,
Directors : Mesut Uçakan,

A pitiless judge makes a wrong judgement and makes an innocent man sentenced to death. After, with the help of his conscience he changes his view of law and his whole life.

Actors : Harriet Walter, Anthony Hopkins, Jim Broadbent, Frances Viner,
Directors : Mike Newell,

Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife, so that she can enter into a lesbian ...

Actors : Ugo Tognazzi, Lello Arena, Alberto Sordi, Maurizio Nichetti,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

The story of a farmer that succeeded to contest the king Alboino in front of all his Royal court, in the Verona (Italy) of the 12th century, using just his cunning. He will risk several ...

Actors : Tsui Ling Yu, Jason Pai Piao, Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

Director Kuei Chih Hung was famous for his modern day crime thrillers, his horror flicks, and even his comedies. But if the only kung-fu film he ever made was this one, he'd still be spoken...

Actors : Julian Sands, Ned Beatty, Stacey Dash, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

A British attorney on vacation in Tennessee is blamed for a local murder.

Actors : Perry Lang, Mariette Hartley, Edward Asner, Jodie Foster,
Directors : William Bartman,

A mourning workaholic's deceased wife comes back to haunt him, but in a benevolent way, trying to get him to change his dreary attorney life into a life where he has a relationship with his children and is happier with himself.

Actors : Liddy Clark, Angela Punch McGregor, Monica Maughan, Drew Forsythe,
Directors : Gil Brealey,

In the 1970s, Jessica Hathaway (Angela Punch McGregor) joins the staff of Brentwood Hospital, a government facility for handicapped children in Melbourne, Australia. One of her patients is ...

Actors : Carol 'Do Do' Cheng, Bo-Bo Fung, Raymond Bak-Ming Wong, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Johnnie To,

Three brothers try to make ends meet when they concoct plans to be one big family of eight. Cooking expert Mr. Fong goes through high and low to court Opera performer Wu Hsiu-Fang, Gigolo ...

Actors : Ka-Yan Leung, Kuan-Chen Hu, Tony Liu, Feng Ku,
Directors : Chin-Ku Lu,

The late Ming Dynasty is the time period when the influence and power of the court Eunuchs are at their peak... See full synopsis »

Actors : Luciano Pavarotti, Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova, Ferruccio Furlanetto,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Ponnelle,

This summary contains the complete plot of the opera Rigoletto by Guiseppi Verdi. Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive,...

Actors : Freark Smink, Joke Tjalsma, Peter Tuinman, Huub Stapel,
Directors : Pieter Verhoeff,

On the turn of the 20th century, in Netherlands, three socialist activists and brothers are imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit. The prosecutor tries to get to the truth, but their comrades and others betray them.

Actors : Ned Beatty, Lisa Howard, Don Michael Paul, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : Steven Hilliard Stern,

A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family and raped his girlfriend.