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The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
253K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
Style:
clever, serious, captivating, psychological, twisted, suspense, tense, suspenseful, entertaining, detective ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, court, courtroom drama, legal, twists and turns, trial, murder, legal investigation, mind game, hotshot lawyer, jury, arrest, betrayal, defense attorney, dishonesty, judge, scheme, lawyers and clients, investigation, gangster, conspiracy, career, cop, murder mystery ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, peru, beverly hills, san francisco, las vegas ...
Keyword:
gangsters, attack, challenge, change
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, tense and suspenseful films with plots about lawyer, murder, courtroom, law, twists and turns, courtroom drama and court mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Lincoln Lawyer: Fracture (2007), Primal Fear (1996), A Time to Kill (1996), The Client (1994), Michael Clayton (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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218K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, intellectual, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
twists and turns, courtroom drama, lawyer, murder, adultery, manipulation, investigation, murder mystery, mind game, obsession, perfect crime, police investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, trial, courtroom drama, psychology, lawyer, murder, courtroom, psychopath, corruption, manipulation ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style:
sincere, suspense, serious, thought provoking, political ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
courtroom drama, racism, court, justice, lawyer, courtroom, murder, trial, small town, rape, injustice, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, america, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, serious, tense, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, mafia, boy, witnessing a crime, lawyers and clients, conspiracy, investigation, witness protection, courtroom, court, courtroom drama, legal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, tennessee, memphis, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, political thriller ...
Plot:
lawyer, business, legal, conspiracy, guilt, mental illness, law firm, twists and turns, divorce, courtroom, trial, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, wisconsin, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
Style:
touching, serious, suspenseful, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, small town, trial, jury, courtroom drama, homecoming, legal, judge, court, murder trial, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
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Place:
indiana, boston, peru, massachusetts, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, talky, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lawyer, serial killer, rape, police investigation, murder, murder mystery, twists and turns, investigation, psychology, plot twist, mind game, pedophile ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
426K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style:
tense, political thriller, political, suspense, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
political conspiracy, state affairs, investigation, politics, conspiracy, reporter, lawyer, courtroom, corruption, conspiracy theory, political corruption, murder ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, washington d.c., new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
237K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Style:
disturbing, sadistic, harsh, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom drama, child abuse, vengeance, friendship, childhood, rape, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, pedophilia, pedophile, murder trial ...
Time:
90s, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
147K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the ...
Style:
suspense, tense, surprise ending, clever, psychological ...
Plot:
lawyer, corruption, law firm, murder, conspiracy, surveillance, investigation, legal, chase, seduction, blackmail, courtroom ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
memphis, boston, tennessee, usa, harvard university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
66K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, twisted, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, military, army investigation, life philosophy, corruption, secrets, murder mystery, investigation, conspiracy, missing person, plot twist, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
atlantic city, panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, rough, political, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
investigation, conspiracy, private detective, infidelity, betrayal, politics, mayor, political corruption, twists and turns, corruption, ex law enforcer, blackmail ...
Time:
year 2013, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
Style:
political, suspense, clever, tense, intellectual ...
Plot:
twists and turns, politics, lobbyist, career woman, courtroom, determination, lawyer, female protagonist, strong female lead, world politics, strong female character, fighting the system ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., maryland, chicago, charleston south carolina, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices. The film is adapted by Reginald Rose from his own 1957 ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, captivating, talky, clever ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, jury, legal action, argument, trial, murder, court, courtroom, lawyer, uncover truth, legal, society ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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TV series similar to How to Get Away with Murder
197K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, clever ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, psychiatrist, depression, murder, patient, sleepwalking, deception, twists and turns, mental institution, life turned upside down, psychiatry, doctor ...
Time:
year 2013, future, 2010s, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Style:
surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending ...
Plot:
investigation, twists and turns, fatal attraction, female protagonist, mind game, uncover truth, writers, obsessive love, seduction, hacking, obsession, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, realistic, tricky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, military, trial, army investigation, justice, u.s. navy, court martial, suicide, marines, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
washington d.c., cuba, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Style:
clever, suspense, tense, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lawyer, court, courtroom drama, corruption, courtroom, trial, jury, legal, lobbyist, justice, twists and turns, society ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, indiana, ohio, cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot:
lawyer, defense attorney, mother son relationship, murder, legal action, legal, courtroom, courtroom drama, death of father, trial, widow, lie ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder mystery, legal, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, murder, law student, defense attorney, court case, college, lgbt, teachers and students, courtroom ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, idaho, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
A chilling and bloody legal thriller that explores the line between law and justice. Will Burton, a talented junior barrister of peerless intellect and winning charm, specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal corners. He is in high demand ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military ...
Style:
clever, suspenseful, twist ending, serious, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lawyer, twists and turns, justice, murder, fbi, false accusation, marines, legal, army investigation, courtroom, life turned upside down, fighting the system ...
Time:
year 2002, 80s, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, los angeles, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
lawyer, devil, supernatural, satan, deal with the devil, law firm, courtroom, greed, demon, law, courtroom drama, ambition ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3154 min.
TV show
Story:
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, ...
Style:
witty, stylized, tense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
lawyer, workplace situations, legal, hotshot lawyer, criminal lawyer, family relations, dark humor, moral dilemma, anti hero, dishonesty, lawyer client relationship, cons and scams ...
Time:
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Place:
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83%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
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girls' night
Plot:
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83%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson (Liam Neeson), a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley (Cher) is assigned to his case, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, murder mystery, courtroom, murder, twists and turns, legal investigation, court, mute or deaf, false accusation, manipulation, police corruption ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
usa, persia, washington d.c., vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, intense, tense, thought provoking ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, legal, courtroom, justice, lawsuit, insurance company, legal investigation, domestic violence, self defense, law, business ...
Time:
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Place:
memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Life takes a nasty twist for D.A. Rusty Sabich when the woman he has been romantically involved with is murdered. He is assigned to investigate the case, but is soon charged with the murder.
Style:
surprise ending, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, murder, adultery, mistress, infidelity, legal, investigation, court, twists and turns, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
michigan, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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