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Unbowed (2011)
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Original name: 부러진 화살
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal.
Style:
thought provoking, rough, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological
Plot:
legal, mathematics, life is a bitch, legal investigation, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, legal action, injustice, society, courtroom, law, archer, judge, court, professor, lawsuit, rivalry, uncover truth, lawyer, prisoner, criminal, prison rape, prison visit, prison guard, true crime ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
asia, korea, south korea
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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 courtroom drama, legal, life is a bitch, lawyer, courtroom, legal action and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Unbowed: Court (2014), The Pursuit of Happiness (1971), Scared Silent (2002), The Attorney (2013), Common (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, psychological, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, social differences, courtroom, trial, court, musician, injustice, power relations, society, legal, discrimination, lawyer ...
Time:
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Place:
india
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the ...
Style:
non fiction, serious, realistic, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot:
abusive husband, domestic violence, woman in danger, marital abuse, abusive relationship, feminism, strong female presence, society, legal action, fighting the system, life is a bitch, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, psychological, serious, bleak
Plot:
escape, prison, on the run, college, law, college student, alienation, murder, prisoner, accident, car accident, manslaughter ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When the newlywed wife of a Minnesota police chief accuses a new officer on his force of raping her several years earlier, it sets the stage for a tense confrontation in this riveting story. Penelope Ann Miller and Reed Diamond star as Kathy and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
violence against women, rape, rape victim, injustice, life is a bitch, society, sexual abuse, law enforcement, strong female presence, husband wife relationship, justice, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
minnesota, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful attorney in Busan specializing in tax law. His views regarding civil liberties are changed by student ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, thought provoking
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, fighting the system, against the odds, hotshot lawyer, false accusation, lawyer, rivalry, dedicated lawyer, righting the wronged, injustice, legal action ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south korea, busan, korea
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Multi-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law. Jimmy McGovern's gritty drama stars Nico Mirallegro as guileless 17 year old Johnjo O'Shea, who goes from innocent ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, thought provoking, crime drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder, courtroom drama, courtroom, legal, parents and children, injustice, family relations, false accusation, lawyer, law, murder mystery, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, ireland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama
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:
suspenseful, serious, disturbing, suspense, political ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, legal, murder, injustice, life is a bitch, courtroom, judge, lawyer, italian fascism, sicilian, court case ...
Time:
year 1990, 80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1937
Place:
italy, palermo italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A taxi driver is found dead, and Hyun-woo, the only witness, charged with a murder and serves 10 years in prison. While offering pro bono services, a lawyer Junyoung meets Hyun-woo, and they begin their journey to prove his innocence.
Style:
serious, intense, suspense, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
lawyer, trial, friendship, false accusation, crime investigation, justice, prosecutor, investigation, society, legal action, moral dilemma, hopes ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
36%
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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:
tense, thought provoking, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom drama, dedicated lawyer, hotshot lawyer, dishonesty, law enforcement, lawyer, nypd, interracial relations, racism, injustice, courtroom ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
36%
175
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Untouched is the story of a reluctant attorney's struggle with inner demons while defending a teenage girl accused of murdering her newborn. When the "Hostess City of the South" is rocked by the horrific crime, Mitchell Thomas III ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot:
dedicated lawyer, uncover truth, haunted by the past, courtroom drama, legal, legal investigation, life is a bitch, courtroom, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, usa, savannah georgia
Similarity:
34%
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:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, mind bending, talky ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, murder, legal investigation, lawyer, court, murder mystery, legal, power relations, couples, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
34%
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:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Style:
serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
courtroom, false accusation, racism, interracial relations, discrimination, injustice, human spirit, politics, hopes, society, against the odds, fighting the system ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, alabama, new york
Similarity:
33%
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 ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
justice, courtroom, trial, courtroom drama, murder, vigilante, lawyer, legal, legal action, injustice, lawyers and clients, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
32%
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.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective
Plot:
murder, courtroom, intelligence agency, advocate, lawyer, false accusation, frame up, dedicated lawyer, injustice, righting the wronged, who done it, legal investigation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Marcia Gay Harden (Academy Award winner for Pollock) star in the Lifetime Original Movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy based on the ...
Style:
tense, contemplative, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
legal investigation, unlikely criminals, college, courtroom drama, murder, partner, law enforcement, police investigation, legal action, murderous pair, prison, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom, courtroom drama, homecoming, friendship, legal, lawyer, family relations, danger, rivalry, law, 16 year old ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ohio
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.
Style:
detective, serious, realistic, mind bending, clever ...
Plot:
amateur detective, intelligence agency, courtroom, murder, advocate, law, lawyer, courtroom drama, who done it, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
31%
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, dialogue ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
31%
490
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A young law student finds his strongly held ideals clashing with the work he has to undertake, leading to a crisis of confidence in this 2001 Bollywood feature from director Ashok Mehta.
Style:
serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
false accusation, protagonist as suspect, fighting the system, hotshot lawyer, frame up, dishonesty, legal investigation, legal, rivalry, law enforcement, dedicated lawyer, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
31%
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:
bleak, serious, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, frame up, false accusation, investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, rebellion, power relations, state affairs, murder ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
prison, confined, uncover truth, courtroom drama, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement, society, legal, legal action, prison life, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
31%
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:
emotional, thought provoking, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, racism, legal, death sentence, courtroom, ku klux klan, murder, prison, anti semitism, haunted by the past, politics, lawyer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1967, year 1996
Place:
mississippi, usa
Similarity:
30%
909
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Torchwood) stars as Rusty Sabich, a judge charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During this latest trial, a secret affair from ...
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
lawyer, legal, murder, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal investigation, uncover truth, father son relationship, law, court case, couple relations, adaptation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
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:
legal investigation, courtroom drama, murder, frame up, vietnam veteran, false accusation, law enforcement, dishonesty, legal action, life is a bitch, legal, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino ...
Style:
cult classic, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, hitman, crime family, gang, courtroom drama, gangsta, italian mafia, organized crime, cosa nostra, professional killer, italian gangster ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
courtroom drama, trial, killing spree, crooked cop, lawyer, serial killer, kidnapping, life is a bitch, uncover truth, confined, rebellion, rivalry ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The exploits and cases of two rival barristers' chambers with very different attitudes to justice.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
legal, court case, lawyer, court, judiciary, judge, courtroom drama, courtroom, legal system, problem, lawsuit, advocate ...
Place:
manchester
Similarity:
30%
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:
30%
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