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Nuts (1987)
 6.6
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Nuts (1987)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is very disruptive during her court hearings.
Style: psychological, hilarious, psychological thriller, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, crying ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, courtroom, murder, court, self defense, flashback, women, mental illness, prostitution, psychiatrist, child abuse, insanity, mental health, prostitute, justice, adaptation, law, sex, psychopath, stripper, feminism, therapy, hearing, criminal justice ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about legal, courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, life is a bitch, law and murder mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Nuts: Night Falls on Manhattan (1996), Jagged Edge (1985), Murder in the First (1995), Return to Sender (2004), Philadelphia (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Night Falls on Manhattan (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Style: suspense, talky, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: courtroom drama, police, police corruption, corruption, police investigation, nypd, district attorney, courtroom, lawyer, murder, legal action, jury ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 17K
Jagged Edge (1985)
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: neo noir, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, court, legal, murder, twists and turns, surveillance, danger, women, murder mystery, trial ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Murder in the First (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19 days, but Henri spends years alone, cold and in ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, emotional, depressing, period piece ...
Plot: prison, courtroom, alcatraz, lawyer, courtroom drama, court, legal, justice, murder, escape attempt, prisoner, politics ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1938
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Return to Sender (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client
Style: suspenseful, psychological, sincere, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: uncover truth, dedicated lawyer, false accusation, death sentence, redemption, confined, prison life, legal, life is a bitch, dishonesty, letter, execution ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.7
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Philadelphia (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style: touching, sad, tear jerker, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: aids, courtroom drama, lawyer, hiv, gay, lgbt, discrimination, lawsuit, medical, courtroom, trial, judiciary ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 8K
Class Action (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Liberal activist lawyer Jedediah alienated daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto ...
Style: suspense, thought provoking, serious, touching, talky ...
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, legal, court, father daughter relationship, father daughter conflict, parents and children, uncover truth, hopes, righting the wronged, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 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 cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of ...
Style: depressing, political, realistic, serious, talky ...
Audience: preschool
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, pedophilia, law, journalism, criminal justice, politics, sex crime, gender, sexual abuse, hysteria, false accusation ...
Time: 80s
Place: tahiti, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.7
 285K
A Few Good Men (1992)
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 ⇓
37%
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 6.2
 3K
Rampage (1987)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he ...
Style: christmas horror, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, courtroom, killer, true crime, lawyer, courtroom drama, death sentence, hunting, murderer, art, criminal mind, crime investigation ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Confession (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After his young son dies from the negligience of medical professionals at a hospital, Harry Fertig (Kinglsey) takes matters into his own hands and kills the negligent doctors responsible. Slick lawyer Roy Bleakie (Baldwin), looking only to win a ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: legal, lawyer, faith, courtroom, hotshot lawyer, redemption, death in the family, murder, law enforcement, moral dilemma, dishonesty, legal investigation ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
...and justice for all. (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he doesn't do it, the judge will have him disbarred.
Style: suspense, realistic, disturbing, cynical, clever ...
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, fighting the system, legal, court, justice, corruption, rape, trial, hotshot lawyer, law ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, baltimore, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.5
 180K
A Time to Kill (1996)
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 ⇓
32%
 6.6
 12K
Suspect (1987)
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 ⇓
31%
 6.0
 3K
The Trial (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, tense, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, criminal, legal action, prison, fighting the system, lawyer, police investigation, murder, law, writers, courtroom, bureaucracy ...
Time: turn of the century
Place: czech republic, europe, czechoslovakia, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The lives of Escondido, California residents Cheryl and Stephen Crowe change one morning when they find their twelve year old daughter Stephanie Crowe stabbed to death in her bedroom. As procedure dictates, the police take each member of the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: false accusation, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, coming of age, interrogation, injustice, fighting the system, law enforcement, teenage life, courtroom drama, suspect ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.6
 952
Mistrial (1996)
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: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, hostage, injustice, legal investigation, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, murder, false accusation, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.3
 18K
Red Corner (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, political, psychological ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, death penalty, courtroom, justice, political corruption, frame up, lawyer, court, conspiracy theory, false accusation, legal ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Dry White Season (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Style: talky, disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: racism, lawyer, fighting the system, society, legal, injustice, rebellion, discrimination, social commentary, women, slavery, children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Perfect Witness (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom, witness, law, kidnapping, injustice, power relations, restaurant, murder, prison, law enforcement, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Trial and Error (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall (Sellers) is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle (Attenborough) who is accused of murdering his wife (Beryl Reid). Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall ...
Style: black comedy, black and white, semi serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, law, bird, legal, murder, murder trial, satire, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 16K
The Chamber (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only ...
Style: suspense, emotional, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom drama, racism, legal, courtroom, murder, prison, ku klux klan, death sentence, haunted by the past, anti semitism, lawyer, politics ...
Time: 90s, year 1967, 60s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Reversible Errors (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story: A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot: legal, false accusation, investigation, frame up, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, lovers reunited, dedicated lawyer, police detective, law enforcement, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Trial by Jury (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, legal investigation, who done it, lawyer, legal, gangster, law, law enforcement, society, idealism, rivalry ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 1940s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Star Chamber (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: vigilante, conspiracy, murder, judge, political corruption, legal, vengeance, justice, lawyer, assassin, hitman, courtroom ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Killer Within (2004)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered ...
Style: suspenseful, mind bending, tense, serious, rough ...
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26%
Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 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, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: lawyer, terrorism, law, professor, trial, power relations, injustice, hotshot lawyer, confined, danger, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker (1994)
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: courtroom drama, racism, courtroom, lawyer, american civil war, fighting the system, life is a bitch, legal, legal investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty, military ...
Time: 19th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Night of the Wilding (1990)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Joseph Gainer is a high priced attorney, notorious for getting guilty criminals off the hook. But Gainer is forced to take another look at the price you pay for defending the guilty when he takes on a case of three young men accused of a heinous ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, disturbing, rough
Plot: gang rape, courtroom, gang, power relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, legal, law enforcement, legal action, rivalry, urban ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.
Style: tense, suspenseful, erotic, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot: courtroom, lawyer, legal investigation, murder, obsession, law, womanizer, psychopath, courtroom drama, uncover truth, woman in danger, guilt ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.7
 32K
Cape Fear (1962)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspense, disturbing, black and white ...
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Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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