Legal battle movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant legal battle movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out emotional, tense, captivating, suspenseful, realistic and psychological films and TV shows about / with legal battle, courtroom, justice, investigation, courtroom drama, human rights, female protagonist, biopic, lawyer and moral dilemma plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, India, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as legal battle: Bastard Boys (2007), Tow (2025), Any Day Now (2012), La Fortuna (2021), Trial by Fire (1995), She Said No (1990), Legal High Special 2 (2014), My Son Is Innocent (1996), Roe vs. Wade (1989), A Proper Scandal (1984).
Best films
New films
| Idol I (2025) | 7.3 | |
| Shivangi Lioness (2025) | 7.0 | |
| Tow (2025) | 6.5 | |
| Borbaad (2025) | 7.0 | |
| Mercy Killing (2024) | 8.7 |
List of legal battle movies
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:
period piece, realistic, thrilling, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
female lawyer, legal battle, lawyer, courtroom, legal, attorney, female protagonist, true crime, legal system, murder investigation, investigation, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
italy, turin italy, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute. The script, published by Currency Press, won the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
labor strike, labor union, australian history, blue collar, union, political unrest, legal battle, workplace, political scandal, government corruption, political party, problem ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After her car is towed and she is left with a shocking $21,634 tow bill, an unhoused woman wages a relentless fight to reclaim her car—and her life—exposing a broken system and redefining what it means to persevere against all odds.
Style:
inspirational, realistic, emotional, tension, independent film
Plot:
homelessness, legal battle, female protagonist, resilience, perseverance, economic inequality, social justice, empowerment, survival, class conflict, poverty, human rights ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal ...
Style:
sincere, sad, uplifting, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay adoption, gay parent, gay, gay couple, closeted homosexual, lgbtq, homosexuality, couples, lgbt, gay slur, male male relationship ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, year 2012, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Young diplomat Álex Ventura teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
adventurer, treasure hunter, treasure hunt, hidden treasure, relic, legal battle, sunken ship, diplomat, historian, shipwreck, international law, moral dilemma ...
Place:
madrid, spain
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Paulette Gil is a very engaged teacher. When she realizes that her pupil Kip has problems she takes special care for him. But Kip interprets it in the wrong way and tells his mates that he had an affair with Paulette. Then he commits suicide and the ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
abuse, high school, trial, school, suicide, legal battle, courtroom drama, teacher, student, misunderstanding, scandal, education ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court, it results in a hung jury. When the DA's office declines to retry the case, the lawyer opts to sue the woman for malicious prosecution and ...
Style:
realistic, intense, suspense, tension
Plot:
rape, trauma, legal battle, courtroom drama, sexual assault, anger, female protagonist, psychological abuse, testimony, sexism, courtroom, public humiliation ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Janaki, an IT professional from Bangalore, returns to her hometown in Kerala for a quiet vacation. But her peace is shattered when she becomes the victim of a horrific incident. As she begins her fight for justice, the case takes an unexpected turn ...
Style:
bleak, dramatic, tense, realistic
Plot:
justice, female protagonist, courtroom drama, legal battle, women's rights, social commentary, sexual abuse, advocate, social justice, human rights, female empowerment, investigation ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Attorneys Kensuke Komikado and Machiko Mayuzumi receive a request from a general hospital. They go up against veteran attorney Kazuma Kujou who is trying to extract money from the general hospital by a medical malpractice lawsuit.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, medical malpractice, legal battle, professional rivalry, teamwork, female lawyer, attorney, medicine, money, intrigue, money problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money ...
Style:
serious, dark, emotional, tense, period drama
Plot:
women in prison, prison, corruption, abuse of power, oppression, justice, human rights, legal battle, maximum security prison, social justice, resistance, rape ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After a brutal nighttime attack on a woman alone in her suburban home, police investigators zero in on teenager Eric Sutter. When the victim identifies Sutter as her attacker, the legal system closes in on the boy as friends, neighbors and the media ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, tense, emotional, crime thriller
Plot:
rape, false accusation, courtroom, justice, innocence, mother son relationship, investigation, legal battle, alibi, moral dilemma, attempted murder, police procedural ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead ...
Style:
thought provoking, controversial, bleak, tense, political ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
abortion, courtroom, supreme court, social commentary, women's rights, court case, moral dilemma, social issues, poverty, legal battle, female protagonist, character study ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather ...
Style:
historical drama, surprise ending
Plot:
amnesia, courtroom drama, memory loss, character study, impostor, mistaken identity, identity crisis, media sensation, legal battle, mental health, investigation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1920s, 19th century
Place:
italy, turin italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, sentimental
Plot:
family drama, brothers, brotherhood, legal battle, courtroom drama, sibling rivalry, wrongful accusation, betrayal, redemption, acquittal, social injustice, crime and punishment ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
True story about James Thornwell, who was serving the Army in Europe when some military documents went missing.
Style:
historical drama
Plot:
biopic, u.s. army, wrongful accusation, psychological torture, legal battle, political scandal, courtroom drama, human rights, conspiracy, trauma, investigative journalism, civil rights ...
Time:
60s, year 1961
Place:
france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A mother fights to prove her 14-year-old son is innocent of a murder he confessed to under hypnosis.
Style:
emotional, tension, psychological, dramatic, detective ...
Plot:
hypnosis, false confession, justice, mother, confession, motherhood, family drama, protective parent, wrongful conviction, courtroom, true crime, suspect ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mr. Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy) and Mrs. Mermelstein (Blythe Danner) a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. He is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, political
Plot:
holocaust, anti semitism, courtroom drama, world war two, memory, biopic, legal battle, justice, defamation, auschwitz, family life, activism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Set in 1970s Karnataka, during the land reforms era, poor farmers are denied their rightful land by a powerful feudal lord, Varadiaha, who controls it through exploitation. Rajan, an educated lawyer seeking justice.
Style:
serious, tense, bleak, grim, inspirational ...
Plot:
social commentary, land dispute, social justice, corruption, exploitation, power struggle, legal battle, resistance, feudalism, class struggle, class conflict, courtroom ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
Miren goes to the police station with her lawyer and denounces her husband for continuous rape during a marriage, perfect for everyone who knows them, which has lasted more than 30 years. Her husband claims not to have done anything wrong and feels ...
Style:
tense, heartbreaking, intense, dark
Plot:
domestic abuse, marital rape, psychological trauma, survivor, family drama, legal battle, social commentary, reputation, intimate, moral ambiguity, courtroom, household ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Mercy Killing is the fight for justice according to the Constitution of India. The sets are in the coastal village of Kakinada. An unforgettable and heart-wrenching love story that happened in the life of a fisherman's family 14 years ago. ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
moral dilemma, justice, male female relationship, love affair, murder, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love, murderer, female protagonist, relationships ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A man wrongly accused of murder is helped by Advocate Mahesh Das, despite the increasing threats they face during the investigation.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, crime thriller, tense, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
justice, evidence, investigation, murder mystery, wrongful accusation, legal battle, crime scene, urban, courtroom drama, corruption, innocence, police procedural ...
Place:
kannada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Carmen spends 40 years of her life seeking for justice after the murder of her husband.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, historical drama ...
Plot:
dictatorship, investigation, human rights, repression, justice, military coup, activism, authoritarianism, testimony, trauma, problem, attorney ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, year 1973, 70s
Place:
chile, bolivia, south america, venezuela, brazil ...
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Genre: Biography
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, parody, poignant ...
Plot:
playwright, theater, biopic, theatre play, courtroom drama, actor, stage actor, fictional biography, lifestyle, comedian, legal battle, historical figure ...
Place:
naples italy, napoli italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Marnie has a life-threatening condition. The doctors believe it is in her best interests to be allowed to die, but her loving family disagree. And so begins a fight that will take them through every stage of a legal process, as they struggle to ...
Style:
suspenseful, medical drama, emotional, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parenting, euthanasia, illness, parents, family drama, life & death, ethical dilemma, terminal illness, parents and children, kids and family, children ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
Anne Williams, from Formby, near Liverpool, was devastated by the loss of her son, 15-year-old Kevin, who was tragically killed at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989 between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Anne stood defiantly alongside other parents ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, grief, determination, loss of family member, private investigation, tragedy, loss of child, tragic event, female protagonist, legal battle, family tragedy, resilience ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
liverpool
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 220 min.
TV show
Story:
13 year old British film star Isaac Mensah was sexually abused by a producer on the set of a Hollywood film, the family decide to take action after learning the truth and Deal with US Lawyers who offer the family 3 million to stay silent.
Style:
dark, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
bribery, child abuse, sexual assault, abuse of power, cover up, protective father, legal battle, silence, moral dilemma, family drama, justice, trauma ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Its 1959. German Public Prosecutor Bauer is convinced he has found the long sought Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. This tense drama shows his struggle to have him brought to justice against the power jielded by old Nazi functionaries in ...
Style:
serious, historical drama, bleak, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
mossad, post war germany, investigation, justice, cold war, realism, legal battle, biopic, nazi, courtroom, conspiracy, investigative journalism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
west germany
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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, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, defense attorney, court case, legal system, hotshot lawyer, businessman, manipulation, rivalry, friendship, escapades, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate (also known as the Bikrampur Estate), was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment along with his wife, Chandrabati Devi, brother-in-law, Satya, and a family ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
prince, impostor, royalty, secret, heir, intrigue, biopic, legal battle, courtroom drama, social commentary, grief, investigation ...
Place:
kolkata, india
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Story:
Based on the best-selling book 'My Story' this feature length drama goes beyond the headlines to tell an intimate story about secrets and one woman's struggle to have them heard. In 1993 Louise Nicholas made her first shocking ...
Style:
emotional, serious, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
rape, rape victim, accusation, rape accusation, sexual assault, trauma, social problems, tragic past, sexual abuse, rape and revenge, traumatic memory, female protagonist ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand
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