Crooked lawyer movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant crooked lawyer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out clever, entertaining, suspenseful, realistic, suspense and humorous films and TV shows about / with crooked lawyer, lawyer, murder, death, chase, violence, storytelling, dialogue, corruption and runaway plots mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Ireland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as crooked lawyer: The Devil's Advocate (1997), The Apprentice (2024), The Ice Harvest (2005), The Fortune Cookie (1966), Carlito's Way (1993), Better Call Saul (2015), Framed By My Fiancé (2017), Fair Game (1995), The Fire (1999), Deep Cover (1992).
Best films
New films
| Evol (2010) | 6.6 | |
| Certain Prey (2011) | 5.5 | |
| Promising Young Woman (2020) | 7.5 | |
| The Apprentice (2024) | 7.1 | |
| K-11 (2012) | 5.1 |
List of crooked lawyer movies
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
devil, lawyer, supernatural, pact with the devil, deal with the devil, satan, law firm, plot twist, trial, courtroom, demon, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada, Denmark, Ireland, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect ...
Style:
independent film, absurd, controversial, f word, period drama ...
Plot:
lawyer, aids, corruption, marriage, crooked lawyer, father son relationship, politics, mentor protege relationship, based on real people, female nudity, sex scene, real estate ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 70s, year 1986, year 1983 ...
Place:
atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city, florida, north america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
Style:
dark comedy, neo noir, black comedy, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
stripper, christmas, strip club, femme fatale, robbery, murder, gangster, mobster, dark humor, organized crime, voyeur, crooked lawyer ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa, kansas
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see ...
Style:
humorous, witty, talky, cynical, black and white ...
Plot:
american football, lawyer, surveillance, insurance fraud, crooked lawyer, lawsuit, insurance, friendship, hospital, cons and scams, odd couple, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place:
cleveland ohio, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, tense, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, nightclub, tragic hero, drug dealing, voyeurism, violence, drug, gunfight, drug lord, prison ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1993
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, south america, harlem ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 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, captivating, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
lawyer, workplace situations, family relations, hotshot lawyer, legal, criminal lawyer, dark humor, dishonesty, moral dilemma, money, organized crime, lawyer client relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, syria, north america
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Daniel, a brilliant lawyer who is about to become one of the state's youngest judges, is driving with his fiancé Jenny when they hit another car. She wakes up to learn the other driver is dead and she's being charged with manslaughter. ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
false accusation of murder, false accusation, relationship vs career, framed for murder, deception, frame up, accident, falsely accused, accused of murder, accusation, murder, lie ...
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Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her
Style:
sexy, suspense, detective, erotic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police protection, hostage, conspiracy, female lawyer, chase, gunfight, sex scene, car chase, lawyer, female killer, female assassin, lust ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, miami, usa
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887
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Karan is a former soldier. One day when Karan finds out that his father committed suicide in prison after he is falsely charged with a crime, he suspects Ravi Verma, a city attorney who has a wife and a kid. When Karan spots Ravi on the street with ...
Plot:
grief, guilt, redemption, murder disguised as suicide, crooked lawyer, shootout, soldier, corruption, courtroom, violence, revenge, love ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The black policeman Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA: the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, suspense, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
undercover, undercover cop, blaxploitation, murder, police investigation, gangster, drug, betrayal, organized crime, racial slur, black, urban ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, year 1972, 70s
Place:
los angeles, cleveland ohio, ohio, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style:
serious, captivating, atmospheric, epic, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, revenge, crime family, betrayal, mob boss, wedding, greed, pride and honor, cosa nostra, violence ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place:
italy, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, sicily ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ida Red may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, f word
Plot:
female prisoner, terminal illness, criminal, prison, criminal gang, crime boss, money, robbery, armed robbery, money problems, needing money, confined ...
Time:
year 2010
Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, not serious, fairy tale, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
little people, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, mischievous children, kids and family, greed, good versus evil, disorder, danger, rescue, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Sung (Chow) is by far the best lawyer in Guangdong and the outlying areas of Southeast China. His skills have earned his family an excellent living, albeit his habit of winning all his cases by whatever means necessary. Because of his shyster ways, ...
Style:
crying, costume drama, slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot:
husband and wife, qing dynasty, husband wife relationship, corruption, false accusation, justice, lawyer, crooked lawyer, chinese emperor, reform, corrupt official, dead child ...
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
Style:
suspenseful, clever, suspense, political thriller, disturbing ...
Plot:
lawyer, legal, business, twists and turns, conspiracy, guilt, character study, divorce, nervous breakdown, law firm, courtroom, trial ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, wisconsin, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, Hungary
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Bella Baxter is brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, surreal ...
Plot:
young girl, scientist, female protagonist, absurdism, surrealism, doctor, brothel, jealousy, voyeurism, masturbation, animal cruelty, female nudity ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
lisbon portugal, london, paris france, alexandria egypt, france ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
As the story unfolds, we meet the three main monsters: Frank, the monster from Frankenstein; Drac, the vampire, and Wolf, the werewolf. They were once the scariest of monsters, but now they have become associated with "fun." That's ...
Style:
humorous, funny, captivating, entertaining, horror comedy
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
halloween, wolfman, mummy, frankenstein, monster, frankenstein's monster, multiple monsters, scared, monster versus monster, ambition, rivalry, skeleton ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Charles McCarter and his wife Helen are about to celebrate their 18th-wedding anniversary when Helen comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing Her. Helen moves in with her grandmother ...
Style:
entertaining, inspirational, humorous, intense, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
women, african american, hopes, happy ending, female protagonist, life turned upside down, storytelling, family problems, starting over, black, breakup, madea ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa, florida
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad ...
Style:
suspense, stylized, suspenseful, cynical, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, chase, twists and turns, vengeance, lawyer, robbery, greed, cons and scams, criminal heroes, dishonesty, siblings relations, frame up ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
australia, melbourne, sydney australia, new zealand, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.
Style:
poliziottesco, cult classic, grindhouse, f word
Plot:
rape, police, italian police, revenge, police officer, organized crime, shootout, female pubic hair, sex with prostitute, rape and revenge, suicide, gunfight ...
Place:
italy
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103K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.
Style:
road movie, funny, cult classic, talky, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
road trip, on the road, bounty hunter, chase, race against time, hitman, train, buddy cop, odd couple, partner, chases and races, mafia ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, new york, manhattan new york city, chicago ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Philippines, UK, South Korea, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
tom and jerry, cartoon mouse, male protagonist, dogcatcher, female villain, chase, talking cat, talking mouse, puppet, runaway, female antagonist, parrot ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
tibet
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style:
epic, captivating, neo noir, saga, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, gangster, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, literary, immigration, crime boss, assassination, melancholy ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
cuba, sicily, new york, las vegas, italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, dark comedy ...
Plot:
teenager, police brutality, murder, business, family relations, mother, cover up, corruption, lawyer, police, money, love ...
Place:
basque country, spain
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses the young crook of having participated in a robbery at a gas station in which a murder has ...
Style:
hood, social, poliziottesco
Plot:
juvenile delinquent, rape, female nudity, ghetto, nazi, gangster, gang, gulag, falsely accused, prison, pursuit, prison riot ...
Place:
barcelona
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly ...
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prostitute, french police, female nudity, female pubic hair, police, sex, older man younger woman relationship, big breasts, hooker, immigrant, machismo, tough cop ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Bumbling Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, where a crooked lawyer notices a resemblance with crime boss Mr. Nash, and arranges a switch. Nash assumes Ernest's job as a bank employee, while Ernest undergoes Nash's sentence to the ...
Style:
humorous, surreal, melancholic, funny, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
prison, crime gone awry, electric chair, dysfunctional family, escapades, mistaken identity, cons and scams, prison life, false accusation, dishonesty, misfit, criminal heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
tennessee
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Donnie Yen Chi-Tan, a hair-trigger cop, goes on the lam with Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lum, a prim lawyer, after they witness a botched robbery attempt. The police think they're the perpetrators, while the real crooks (including Mortal Kombat star ...
Style:
cult classic, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, lawyer, fight, heroic bloodshed, fight scenes, mistaken identity, murder, gangster, disorder, police detective, chases and races ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the ...
Style:
humorous, funny, light, absurd, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, nobility, british, monty python, farce, indians, inheritance, disorder, dishonesty, switching roles, nothing goes right, comedy of errors ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 60s, 80s
Place:
england, london, ireland
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief, Lucas Davenport, has to face off against a duo unlike any he's ever encountered; a lethal hit woman and a ferociously cunning killer determined to hunt him down.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
police detective, female detective, police investigation, rivalry, danger, hitman, blackmail, male rape, woman with a gun, evil woman, exodus, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
minnesota, usa
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