Legal system movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant legal system movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, serious and realistic films and TV shows about / with legal system, legal, lawyer, courtroom, court case, hotshot lawyer, attorney, murder, society and courtroom drama plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as legal system: Miranda's Victim (2023), Afterimage (2016), Injustice (2011), The Escape Artist (2013), Garrow's Law (2009), Burden of Truth (2018), Scared Silent (2002), Run for Your Life (2014), Guilt by Association (2002), I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989).

List of legal system movies

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Miranda's Victim (2023)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The true story of Trish Weir who in 1963 was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. Committed to putting her assailant in prison, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the nation.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious
Plot: rape, rape victim, legal, legal system, true crime, kidnapping, kidnapped woman, fight for justice, violence, abduction, criminal justice, kidnapper ...
Time: 60s
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 7.0
 3K
Afterimage (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the ...
Style: avant garde, twist ending, educational, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: art, artist, painting, painter, communism, legal system, father daughter relationship, professor, teacher student relationship, loss of mother, one legged man, art history ...
Time: 50s, year 1948, year 1950, year 1952, 1940s ...
Place: poland
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 7.3
 2K
Injustice (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: On the surface William Travers is a picture of success. An accomplished criminal barrister happily living with his wife in rural Suffolk. However, Travers is still recovering from a traumatic series of events that have shaken his belief in the legal ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, rough, captivating ...
Plot: legal, courtroom drama, murder, lawsuit, courtroom, police investigation, legal system, law enforcement, police detective, police brutality, injustice, vicious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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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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 1K
Garrow's Law (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
TV show
Story: The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, period piece, dark ...
Plot: judge, legal, uncover truth, lawyer, social problems, injustice, society, life is a bitch, idealism, rivalry, treason, hopes ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era
Place: london, england, europe
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Burden of Truth (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: A big city lawyer returns to her hometown to take the case of a group of girls suffering from a mysterious illness.
Style: talky, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: legal investigation, legal, court case, lesbian, legal system, attorney, female protagonist, female lawyer, small town, getting home, law and order, fight for justice ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada
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 5.7
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Scared Silent (2002)
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: serious, tense, realistic
Plot: violence against women, rape, injustice, life is a bitch, society, law enforcement, sexual abuse, strong female presence, deception, husband wife relationship, justice, legal system ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
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Run for Your Life (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A journalist must make a decision to flee with her two children from her abusive ex-husband or kill him before he kills her.
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: abusive husband, domestic violence, violence against women, journalist, battered wife, false identity, starting over, legal system, trial, emotional abuse, hitman, intrigue ...
Place: seattle
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Guilt by Association (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug dealer. Realising the danger this could bring to her family she tells him to leave. Suddenly her house ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: false accusation, drug dealing, injustice, wrongful conviction, prison, fighting the system, righting the wronged, protagonist as suspect, society, life is a bitch, hopes, dishonesty ...
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I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: 7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, emotional, sad ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing child, child abuse, pedophile, child molestation, captivity, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, danger, parents and children, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1980, year 1974, year 1972
Place: northern california
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To Kill a Man (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: How far will you go to protect your family? Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: revenge, family in danger, couples, couple relations, danger, rivalry, vigilante, police, legal system, murder, justice, diabetic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile
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The Witch Trial (2009)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Toru is a young part-timer who has no interest in social issues. He gets called in as a juror in the trial of a woman labeled as a "witch", charged with a murder over an enormous inheritance. Though it appears that she is definitely ...
Style: detective, captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: duty, courtroom, court, trial, legal system, suspect, conspiracy, mysticism, courtroom drama, legal action, lawyer, japanese woman ...
Place: japan
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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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Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, clever ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: vengeance, prison, vigilantism, justice, investigation, master criminal, twists and turns, lawyer, fighting the system, rape and revenge, murder, revenge ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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 6.4
 2K
Vaashi (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Ebin Mathew, a budding lawyer ambitiously joins hands with his advocate friend Madhavi Mohan, to share a new office space in order for them to start their independent careers. Their relationship gets strained when they land on opposite ends of a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: lawyer, court, legal system, attorney, legal action, court case, courtroom, rivalry, legal investigation, rivals, competitor, courtroom drama ...
Place: india
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 7.2
 193
New Street Law (2006)
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: captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: legal, lawyer, judge, courtroom, legal system, judiciary, courtroom drama, court case, court, workplace, dedicated lawyer, legal action ...
Place: manchester
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 6.5
 49
The D.A. (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The D.A. is an American legal drama television series that aired from March 19 until April 9, 2004.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: legal, lawyer, district attorney, legal action, workplace, judiciary, legal system, attorney, court, criminal justice, judge, courtroom drama ...
Place: los angeles
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Juvenile Justice (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A tough judge balances her aversion to minor offenders with firm beliefs on justice and punishment as she tackles complex cases inside a juvenile court.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: judge, court, courtroom, police, legal system, criminal justice, law enforcement, law enforcer, female judge, court case, lawsuit, lawman ...
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 9K
For Life (2020)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A prisoner becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, inspirational
Plot: wrongful conviction, confined, lawyer, prison, prisoner, mind game, attorney, life sentence, legal, jail, jailed, confinement indoors ...
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The Law According to Lidia Poët (2023)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, ...
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot: female lawyer, legal battle, legal, courtroom, lawyer, female protagonist, true crime, advocate, attorney, murder investigation, investigation, legal system ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: italy
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Breaking the Silence (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sophie Humbert - a famous criminal attorney who heads a prestigious law firm that does a good deal of work for the Police Commission - decides to take over the pro bono defense of Gabriel Etchegaray, a petty criminal who's just confessed to ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: lawyer, court case, legal, defense attorney, hotshot lawyer, society, legal system, murder suspect, female protagonist, affair, manipulation, courtroom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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In Defense Of (2018)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
TV show
Story: This series gives viewers a unique perspective on some of the most high profile cases as they turn the lens on the top defense lawyers who represented them. The attorneys will share riveting details from the most personal moments between attorney ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological
Plot: lawyer, court case, manipulation, rivalry, legal system, courtroom, hotshot lawyer, murder mystery, legal, society, defense attorney, attorney ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Kodathi Samaksham Balan Vakeel (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Balakrishnan is a lawyer who hasn't been able to achieve much in his professional life due to his stammer. His life takes an interesting turn when his brother-in-law entrusts him with a complex case involving a rich businessman.
Style: humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense
Plot: lawyer, court case, manipulation, family relations, businessman, courtroom, defense attorney, escapades, friendship, rivalry, hotshot lawyer, legal system ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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The Knight (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: De Ridder is a Flemish crime series that is broadcasted by the network één since 2013. The series is set in the court of Ghent where Helena De Ridder, played by Clara Cleymans, is a public prosecutor.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Plot: prosecutor, lawyer, rivalry, courtroom, female protagonist, defense attorney, legal system, manipulation, legal, murder suspect, true crime, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
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 7.2
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Crime Stories (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A respected small-town physician has brutally killed his wife, thus ending a four-year martyrdom from which he could not escape by any other means...
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: criminal lawyer, court, murder, attorney, lawyer, court case, hotshot lawyer, escapades, violence, legal system, society, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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 7.2
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Defendant (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Six stories about six people facing accusations in court.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Plot: legal, courtroom, court case, murder mystery, society, law student, murder, youth, death, friends, escapades, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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You Don't Know Me (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Accused of murder, Hero shouldn't stand a chance in court. He swears he's innocent. But in the end, all that matters is this: do you believe him?
Style: talky, touching, psychological, crime drama
Plot: murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder trial, jury, love, courtroom, evidence, murder suspect, legal, legal system, hotshot lawyer, court case ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: britain, united kingdom
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Super Troopers 2 (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers- Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva, are called in to set up a new Highway Patrol station in the disputed area.
Style: absurd, semi serious, captivating, funny
Plot: police, highway patrol, friendship, smuggling, corruption, gunfight, law enforcement, stoner, law enforcer, weed, legal, legal system ...
Place: boston
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 7.7
 3K
The Collapse (2019)
Genre: Adventure
Country: France
TV show
Story: What if the terrible general "collapse" of our civilization, the collapse everyone is talking about right now, really happened soon? Several destinies of individuals and families, at different times of the collapse, trying to survive as ...
Style: apocalyptic, tense, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: human existence, society, humanity, fate of humanity, post apocalypse, social problems, legal system, social issues, social relations, judiciary, lifestyle, human relationship ...
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Bluff City Law (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The lawyers of an elite Memphis law firm specializing in the most controversial landmark civil rights cases and led by legendary lawyer Elijah Strait and his brilliant daughter, Sydney Keller, take on the toughest David-and-Goliath cases while ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot: lawyer, legal, court case, courtroom drama, father daughter relationship, alienation, legal system, parents and children, sibling relationship, estrangement, family reunited, family relations ...
Place: memphis
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