Movies and TV shows like Just Cause
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Just Cause (2001)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Just Cause is an award-winning Canadian legal drama television series produced by Mind's Eye Entertainment. Filming was done in Vancouver, British Columbia but the series is set in San Francisco, California.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
legal, law firm, lawyer, parole officer, legal investigation, righting the wronged, wrongful conviction, dishonesty, legal action, missing person, life is a bitch, rivalry, starting over, justice, female lawyer, ex convict, warden, wrongfully committed
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
san francisco, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films and TV series with plots about legal, lawyer, courtroom, legal action, courtroom drama, rivalry and legal investigation mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Just Cause: Justice (2006), In Justice (2006), The Jury (2004), Dark Justice (1991), Family Law (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
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Justice is an American legal drama produced by Jerry Bruckheimer that aired on Fox in the USA and CTV in Canada. The series also aired on Warner Channel in Latin America, Nine Network in Australia, and on TV2 In New Zealand.
It first was broadcast ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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In Justice is an American television police procedural created by Michelle King and Robert King. The series began airing on Sunday, January 1, 2006 on ABC as a midseason replacement and assumed its regular night and time on Friday, January 6, 2006 ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological
Plot:
attorney, lawyer, legal, wrongful conviction, evidence, false accusation, courtroom, witness, murder, released from prison, righting the wronged, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, oakland california
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Set in New York City, the series brings the viewer into the jury room to watch the deliberators try to answer the many questions posed during a trial. As facts are exposed through flashbacks of testimony and crime footage, viewers will form their ...
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Time:
21st century
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78%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 60 min.
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Dark Justice is an American crime drama about a judge that turns into a vigilante by night in order to bring to justice high-level offenders that use technicalities to "escape" the legal system. The role of Judge Nicholas Marshall was ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
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Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Family attorney and mom Lynn Holt has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick. Arrested for drug use, he's sentenced to do 1,500 hours of community service, somehow to ...
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lawyer, legal, law firm, child in peril, friendship, rivalry, society, father son relationship, social worker, dysfunctional family, law, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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 ...
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Place:
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61%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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As District Attorney Kathryn Peale and defense attorney Jimmy Nolan rally their teams around their arguments and prepare to go head-to-head in the the courtroom, they make frantic moves and countermoves of complex legal wrangling to tilt justice in ...
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The Client is an American television series that aired on CBS from September 18, 1995 to August 16, 1996. The series was based on the 1994 film The Client, itself adapted from the 1993 John Grisham novel also of the same name.
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serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
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90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin, Val Avery, Bobby Cannavale, Joel de la Fuente and Paula Devicq.
Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
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Oskyldigt dömd is a Swedish drama television series from 2008. The first season was recorded in twelve episodes during February 2008 to be aired later during the fall. It premiered on the Finnish TV channel FST5 on September 24, 2008 and later the ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Elizabeth Canterbury is a force of nature. An attorney on the rise, she puts her career on the line to take on risky and unpopular cases, even when they take a toll on her personal life. Elizabeth and her law professor husband, Matt Furey, haunted ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening... He is going to take justice into his own hands and will then compete with the constitutional state which let him ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 240 min.
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43%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Duration: 60 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Duration: 60 min.
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Duration: 60 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
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Style:
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