| Primal Fear (1996) | 7.7 | |
| Bernie (2011) | 6.8 | |
| The Judge (2014) | 7.4 | |
| Murder in the First (2014) | 7.3 | |
| The Twelve (2022) | 7.0 |
Murder trial movies and TV shows – page 5
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
See what Suzane von Richthofen, Daniel Cravinhos and Cristian Cravinhos did in the days following the brutal crime that led to the Richthofen couple's death. This film reveals crucial moments of the police investigation, testimonies and the ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, true crime, confession, homicide, murder, manipulation, crime solving, uncover truth, secret, murder mystery, murder investigation, crime investigation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The birth of the Basque terrorist gang ETA and its first attack, of which José Antonio Pardines, a Guardia Civil traffic officer, was the victim.
Style:
political thriller, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
terrorism, ideology, violence, political propaganda, murder, family problems, repression, eta terrorist group, assassination, spanish history, secret organization, franco regime (francoism) ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
basque country, spain, europe, south of france, iberian peninsula ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style:
disturbing, harsh, bleak, brutal, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, true crime, torture, captivity, murder, threat, dysfunctional family, children, court, courtroom drama, domestic violence, trial ...
Time:
year 2007, 60s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, Monier takes up the case, convinced of his innocence.
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
gendarmerie, funeral, accused of murder, flashback, plot twist, prison, cemetery, witness, police station, lawyer, voice over narration, police arrest ...
Time:
year 2017, 2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An ex-convict's mother's worst suspicions about her son are confirmed when he is implicated in a murder
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot:
ex convict, social problems, problem, family problems, life is a bitch, relationships, prisoner, family relations, murder suspect, prison, jail, murder trial ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Callie was a teenage mother in trouble. Fresh out of the delivery room, her son was taken from her and sold on the black-market. Vowing to find him some day, this is her story.
Style:
period drama, eighties
Plot:
love, lawyer, execution, wrongful conviction, husband wife relationship, politician, adoption, murder, prison, jealousy, waitress, revenge ...
Time:
1950s, 60s
Place:
texas, dallas texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 206 min.
Story:
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, detective, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, native american, courtroom, genocide, fbi, interracial marriage, greed, true crime, serial murder, american indian, oil, oil field ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, washington d.c.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the crime. A chance meeting with a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, psychological, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, couples, haunted by the past, wrestling, obsessive quest, vengeance, tragedy, depression, fall in love, friendship, mature woman, support group ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Despite her husband's doubts, a woman reaches out to her dead daughter with a psychiatrist's help.
Style:
serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
ghost, uncover truth, supernatural, dealing with death, solace, family relations, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, afterlife, strangulation, smoking ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a loving wife murders a blackmailer to protect her husbands flourishing law career, she must watch as he prosecutes another for her crime.
Plot:
ruthlessness, lawyer, courtroom, alibi, perjury, blackmail, ruins, honesty, reconciliation, guilt, lie, manipulation ...
Place:
savannah georgia
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jane Alexander's idyllic life in San Francisco is shattered when her beloved, elderly aunt is brutally murdered. But when her fiancé, Tom O'Donnell, becomes the main suspect, Jane must put aside her grief to aid the police before the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
Plot:
murder, amateur detective, shrewd, violent content, investigation, biopic, strong female presence, homicide detective, courtroom, strong female lead, judge, prosecutor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Political thriller is based on a true story about a young student beaten to death by the police in 1980s Communist Poland.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, thought provoking, tense, captivating
Plot:
police brutality, police corruption, anti communist, brutality, political unrest, fight for justice, social injustice, wartime, witnessing a crime, corrupt politician, political conspiracy, violence ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: France, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the ...
Style:
period piece, tense, exciting, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
three musketeers, sword fight, musketeer, sword, campfire story, conspiracy, king of france, castle, horse, fight, forest, captain ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, paris france, england
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an affair. Lisa kills her current boyfriend in self-defense and Jack witnesses the whole thing. Lisa ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, psychological ...
Plot:
femme fatale, investigation, murder, betrayal, love and romance, legal investigation, manipulation, power relations, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When his former secretary (Barbara Hale) is accused of a murder, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) gives up a judgeship to defend her.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, hardboiled detective ...
Plot:
courtroom, false accusation, private detective, boss and employee, law enforcement, dishonesty, legal action, legal, courtroom drama, lawyer, murder, inheritance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because ...
Style:
crime thriller
Plot:
serial killer, killing spree, cremation, racist, disposing of a dead body, fortune teller, racial slur, death penalty, crime boss, murder trial, reward, corruption ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
georgia, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Katja's life collapses after a senseless act impacts her life. After a time of mourning and injustice, she seeks revenge.
Style:
suspense, tense, art house, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, terrorist, lawyer, racism, terrorist attack, conspiracy, trial, policewoman, drug use, suicide attempt, suspect, courtroom ...
Time:
year 2017, year 2013, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
germany, greece, hamburg germany, turkey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot:
murder of parents, true crime, murder, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, murderer, dysfunctional family, parents and children, parent child relationship, family problems, killing ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The adventures of a family who head west to the California gold fields in the 1850s.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage life, family problems, estrangement, hopes, family life, social relations, mother daughter relationship, prejudice, woman dressed as man, prairie ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
california, new england, utah
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.
Style:
romantic, period piece, atmospheric, visual, light ...
Plot:
hollywood, new year, party, cinema, letter, twists and turns, beach, socialite, gangster, relationships, dialogue, storytelling ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 1900s, 1930s
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, beverly hills, bronx new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director, Seven Beauties stars Giancarlo Giannini (Swept Away) as Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties." A petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven ...
Style:
black comedy, humorous, disturbing, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
world war two, prison, dark humor, concentration camp, nazi, survival, mental disorder, pow, prisoners of war, prostitution, male nudity, nazi concentration camp ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 1930s
Place:
italy, naples italy, europe, southern italy, russia ...
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who ...
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
lawyer, lynch mob, courtroom, legal action, courtroom drama, murder, false accusation, power relations, heroes, legal, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
texas
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Style:
captivating, exciting, rough, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
father son relationship, society, murder, rivalry, death, hopes, parents and children, violence, vengeance, friendship, heroes, redemption ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson (Liam Neeson), a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley (Cher) is assigned to his case, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, murder mystery, twists and turns, lawyer, courtroom, justice, murder, legal investigation, court, mute or deaf, false accusation, manipulation ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
usa, persia, washington d.c., vietnam
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
false accusation, legal, law enforcement, crime and punishment, injustice, ultimatum, society, murder, extramarital affair, teacher, political activism, school teacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
copenhagen, denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story:
The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, the smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald ...
Style:
crime drama, tension, atmospheric, suspense, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, deception, british, seducer, manipulation, revenge, betrayal, moral ambiguity, character study, adaptation, obsession, serial killer ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job too well. Tom Horn finds that the simple skills he knows are of no help in dealing with the ...
Style:
tense, spaghetti western, funny, retro, cult classic ...
Plot:
apache, justice, brutality, hanging, heroes, murder, old west, violence, gunfight, maverick, geronimo, apache territory ...
Time:
19th century, year 1980, 1900s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
arizona, california, mexico, vienna, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
Style:
scary, grindhouse, horror comedy, classic horror, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, werewolf, time portal, black magic, vampire, ghost, satanic ritual, supernatural, changing the past or future, time traveler, hanged woman, evil dead ...
Time:
90s, medieval times, middle ages
Place:
england
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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
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
unrequited love, mother daughter conflict, casino, suicide attempt, lawyer, forbidden love, rivalry, intrigue, fall in love, love affair, obsession, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, year 2014, 70s, 2000s
Place:
nice france, south of france, geneva switzerland, france, french riviera ...
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