Hotshot lawyer movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant hotshot lawyer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, clever and tense films and TV shows about / with hotshot lawyer, legal, lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, law, murder, rivalry, dedicated lawyer and power relations plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hotshot lawyer: Reckless (2014), Suits (2011), The Escape Artist (2013), Shark (2006), Damages (2007), Boston Legal (2004), The Judge (2014), A Few Good Men (1992), Proven Innocent (2019), Better Call Saul (2015).

List of hotshot lawyer movies

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 7.0
 3K
Reckless (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city of Charleston, S.C. apart.  
Style: realistic, tense, serious, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: hotshot lawyer, courtroom, opposites attract, lawyer, lawyers and clients, courtroom drama, legal, love and romance, friendship, dishonesty, friends, high priced lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina, charleston south carolina
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 8.4
 473K
Suits (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by ...
Style: stylized, captivating, witty, serious, talky ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night, family outing
Plot: lawyer, legal, law firm, photographic memory, hotshot lawyer, ambition, boss, success, corporate world, workplace situations, lawsuit, ambitious ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, syria
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The Escape Artist (2013)
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: serious, tense, suspenseful, intellectual, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: legal, lawyer, lawsuit, hotshot lawyer, courtroom drama, lawyers and clients, law firm, murder, revenge, danger, jury, mistrust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, scotland, london
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 7.1
 12K
Shark (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Notorious Los Angeles defense attorney Sebastian Stark becomes disillusioned with his career after his successful defense of a wife-abuser results in the wife's death. After more than a month trying to come to grips with his situation, he is ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Plot: trial, lawyer, murder, legal, hotshot lawyer, team, prosecutor, law enforcement, false accusation, evidence, uncover truth, testimony ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 8.1
 32K
Damages (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes and her protégée, ...
Style: rough, clever, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: trial, lawyer, legal investigation, female lawyer, hotshot lawyer, workplace, legal action, dishonesty, power relations, corporate crime, manipulation, intrigue ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 8.5
 50K
Boston Legal (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Boston Legal is an American legal dramedy created by David E. Kelley and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3, 2004, to December 8, 2008. Boston Legal is a spin-off of long-running Kelley ...
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: law firm, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, courtroom drama, partner, friendship between men, society, workplace, idealism, trial, civil rights, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, las vegas, massachusetts, usa
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 7.4
 201K
The Judge (2014)
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: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: indiana, boston, peru, massachusetts, usa ...
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 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
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Proven Innocent (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Madeline Scott, a fierce and uncompromising lawyer with a hunger for justice, runs an underdog criminal defense firm. There is no one who understands the power of setting an innocent person free more than Madeline. At age 18, she was wrongfully ...
Style: realistic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: wrongful conviction, women's prison, lawyer, hotshot lawyer, innocent, evidence, help, ex convict, career, legal, society, court ...
Place: usa
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Better Call Saul (2015)
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: 2010s, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, syria, albuquerque new mexico
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 7.7
 10K
The Practice (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. Running for eight seasons on ABC from 1997 to 2004, the show won the Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series, and ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, clever, thrilling ...
Plot: lawyer, law firm, courtroom drama, legal, hotshot lawyer, courtroom, moral dilemma, social problems, workplace, dedicated lawyer, dishonesty, injustice ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: boston, las vegas, massachusetts, usa
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 7.0
 1K
Conviction (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A fast-paced character-oriented story, focuses on the lives and loves of the young assistant district attorneys in New York, following their career paths as these passionate but naive ADAs are confronted with tough, emotional cases that challenge ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, thought provoking
Plot: legal, lawyer, law enforcement, courtroom drama, police detective, fighting the system, hotshot lawyer, rivalry, fighting crime, sexual abuse, society, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
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
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 7.2
 218K
Fracture (2007)
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: year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
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Laws of Attraction (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
Style: romantic, light, not serious, talky, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: lawyer, workplace romance, opposites attract, divorce lawyer, couples, middle age romance, unlikely couple, legal, battle of the sexes, hotshot lawyer, urban, love story ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: ireland, new york, usa, yale university
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 6.8
 2K
The Client (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Elite attorney Kang Seong-Hee goes up against a top prosecutor over a case involving a man accused of killing his wife.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: courtroom drama, who done it, hotshot lawyer, rivalry, legal, murder, twists and turns, courtroom, lawyer, attorney, legal investigation, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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The Winslow Boy (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies ...
Style: costume drama, period piece, talky, clever, witty ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, legal, morality, courtroom, law, justice, hotshot lawyer, catholic, father, world war one, integrity ...
Time: 1910s, year 1998, edwardian era, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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Black and White (2002)
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, serious, realistic
Plot: courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, aborigine, racism, illiteracy, injustice, legal investigation, fighting the system, price of justice, false accusation, social differences, society ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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 7.7
 7K
The Attorney (2013)
Genre: Drama
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, realistic, serious, thought provoking
Plot: courtroom drama, legal, courtroom, against the odds, fighting the system, hotshot lawyer, false accusation, lawyer, rivalry, dedicated lawyer, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: south korea, busan, korea
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 5.9
 374
Deadlocked (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Portugal, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man is accused of rape and murder and placed on trial. His father doesn't believe that he is guilty, so in act of desperation he grabs the bailiff's guns and takes the whole jury hostage and insists that the prosecuting attorney ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: hotshot lawyer, hostage, courtroom, uncover truth, false accusation, legal action, legal investigation, injustice, price of justice, legal, dishonesty, society ...
Time: 90s
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 8.2
 2K
Murder One (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Theodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Having successfully defended the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a much-publicised murder trial, he is now involved in the ...
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, detective, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: legal, lawyer, law, murder, courtroom, couples, boss and employee, investigation, hotshot lawyer, couple relations, workplace situations, trial ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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 7.7
 245K
Primal Fear (1996)
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: 90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
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 8.0
 6K
Silk (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written by Peter Moffat, the series follows a set of barristers, and what they do to attain the rank of Queen's Counsel, known as "taking silk."
Style: clever, serious, realistic, captivating, costume drama ...
Plot: legal, lawyer, lawyers and clients, courtroom drama, rivalry, workplace, success, workplace intrigue, uninhibited rivalry, courtroom, hotshot lawyer, lawsuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 7.0
 60
A.U.S.A. (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A.U.S.A. is an American sitcom television series that aired in 2003 on NBC, starring Scott Foley.
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot: workplace intrigue, hotshot lawyer, rivalry, lifestyle, relationship vs career, boss and employee, ambition, workplace, legal, friendship, society, prosecutor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 7.1
 996
Open Doors (1990)
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, legal, hotshot lawyer, murder, life is a bitch, injustice, courtroom, judge, lawyer, troubled, politics, italian fascism ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 1930s, year 1937
Place: italy, palermo italy
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Pride & Loyalty (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jake DeMitro cannot maintain his relationship with his girlfriend Kelly Francini or concentrate on his prestigious position with the Prosecutor's Office. He suffers from an obsessive-compulsive personality and fights on a regular basis with his ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, introspection, hotshot lawyer, moral dilemma, injustice, life is a bitch, drug dealing, rivalry, obsession, parallel world, legal ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.2
 455
Salvation (2001)
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: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: false accusation, hotshot lawyer, fighting the system, protagonist as suspect, frame up, society, law enforcement, life is a bitch, rebellion, legal investigation, dishonesty, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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 7.1
 9K
Matlock (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount ...
Style: suspenseful, witty, realistic, serious, clever ...
Plot: lawyer, legal, hotshot lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, uncover truth, legal action, power relations, legal investigation, jury, lawyers and clients, false accusation ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa, atlanta georgia
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The Whole Truth (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot: lawyer, legal action, district attorney, lawyers and clients, rivalry, courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, hidden truth, jury, ego clash, legal, courtroom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 7.6
 7K
Ed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After his wife leaves him and he's fired from his job at a high-profile New York city law firm, Ed Stevens moves back to his small hometown of Stuckeyville where he buys the local bowling alley and attempts to win the heart of his high school ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, funny ...
Plot: bowling, small town, homecoming, looking for love, starting over, working class, old love, workplace situations, social relations, couples, old friend, workplace ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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