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Color of Justice (1997)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four young black men kill a white woman, the D.A. is very cautious in how to proceed...
Style:
psychological, tense, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, law enforcement, courtroom drama, dishonesty, hotshot lawyer, dedicated lawyer, lawyer, nypd, racism, interracial relations, legal action, politics, life is a bitch, injustice, vigilantism, legal, vengeance, rivalry, society, legal investigation, courtroom, violent content, teenager, police, african american ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about life is a bitch, legal, dishonesty, courtroom drama, society, dedicated lawyer and rivalry mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Color of Justice: One Angry Juror (2010), Inherit the Wind (1999), Court (2014), Dancing in the Dark (1995), Smoking Nonsmoking (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Anna Forbes suffers an attack and sexual abuse by her father-in-law. But when she overcomes her fear and tells her husband Mark what happened he does not believe her, choosing instead to believe his father who denies everything. As Anna becomes ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
lawyer, terrorism, law, professor, trial, power relations, injustice, confined, danger, politics, hotshot lawyer, legal investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man testifies against his mother for killing the father with secondhand smoke.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, murder, legal investigation, legal action, society, couple relations, legal, rivalry, dishonesty, jury, evidence, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, who done it, courtroom, hostage, injustice, legal investigation, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, false accusation, murder, confined, legal ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, rome italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Rookie lawyer Alec Brno has just been assigned the case of his career: exposing a billion-dollar oil scam led by a ruthless mafia boss. When he reluctantly falls for the gangster's beautiful but drug-addicted wife - also his key witness - Alec ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
gangster, courtroom, fall in love, dangerous attraction, criminal's revenge, legal investigation, hitman, addiction, drug abuse, courtroom drama, danger, law enforcement ...
Time:
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44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
journalism, police corruption, amateur detective, murder, legal investigation, media, fighting the system, uncover truth, wrongful conviction, police brutality, state affairs, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot:
courtroom drama, rebellion, hotshot lawyer, aborigine, racism, illiteracy, injustice, legal investigation, fighting the system, social differences, price of justice, false accusation ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
Style:
touching, political, thought provoking, captivating, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apartheid, racism, interracial relations, self discovery, politics, racial tension, priest, third world, racial discrimination, afrikaans, narration, psychology ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1946, 19th century
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, courtroom, courtroom drama, price of justice, rebellion, rivalry, society, false accusation, dedicated lawyer, hopes, righting the wronged ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
in 1957 an African-American criminal lawyer (Courtney B. Vance) defends his nephew, who faces the death penalty for murdering a white boy. Charles S. Dutton, Kadeem Hardison, Garland Whitt and Lonette McKee costar in this drama of racial and social ...
Style:
thought provoking, independent film, realistic, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, serious, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
jury, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal investigation, media, rebellion, state affairs, legal, law enforcement, life is a bitch, society, fighting the system ...
Place:
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40%
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
40%
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Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he killed his superior who sacked him, he kills the man who replaced him, and he kills his own wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks ...
Style:
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Plot:
courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, legal, murder, injustice, life is a bitch, courtroom, judge, lawyer, italian fascism, sicilian, court case ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
38%
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Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
709
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
asia, korea, south korea
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An innocent man framed for murder, and the system that just wants another minority conviction.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, london, england
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three women, all strangers to each other, meet in a dress boutique. One of the three is approached by the male proprietor as she is shoplifting a garment. When he approaches her the other two join her in beating the man to death. Other female ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, mind bending, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
holland
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes) dies while at ...
Style:
talky, tense, thought provoking, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
colorado, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
conspiracy, interracial relations, social relations, dishonesty, society, law enforcement, lifestyle, murder, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
35%
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