Roman J. Israel, Esq.(2017)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Roman J. Israel, Esq., a driven, idealistic defense attorney, finds himself in a tumultuous series of events that lead to a crisis and the necessity for extreme action.



Argentina, 1985(2022)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.



Becket(1964)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 50

King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas à Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.



The Tempest(2010)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.



To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.



Absence of Malice(1981)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 49

When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.



The Firm(1993)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.



A Dry White Season(1989)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...



Elizabeth: The Golden Age(2007)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.



Midnight Express(1978)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.



The Verdict(1982)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.





Inherit the Wind(1960)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.



A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Ghosts of Mississippi(1996)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.



Valley of the Dolls(1967)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.



Agnes of God(1985)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 19

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.



The Accused(1988)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.



El Cid(1961)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.



Ridicule(1996)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.




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