Lawsuit movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant lawsuit movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating, dramatic and interesting films and TV shows about / with lawsuit, lawyer, legal, courtroom, judge, court, courtroom drama, husband wife relationship, power relations and dishonesty plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lawsuit: Dark Waters (2019), North Country (2005), Flash of Genius (2008), A Civil Action (1998), The Rainmaker (1997), Philadelphia (1993), Erin Brockovich (2000), Puncture (2011), The Devil's Advocate (1997), The Escape Artist (2013).
Best films
List of lawsuit movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against the DuPont chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, factual, motivational ...
Plot:
lawyer, contamination, lawsuit, corruption, environmental, fighting the system, legal investigation, corporate crime, courtroom drama, investigation, price of justice, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 2000s, year 1998, 20th century ...
Place:
cincinnati ohio, usa, ohio, west virginia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Style:
rough, sincere, emotional, dramatic, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, sexual harassment, lawsuit, small town, rape, feminism, sexism, against the odds, lawyer, labor union, women, court ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place:
minnesota, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit for inventing intermittent windshield wipers. Kearns doggedly ...
Style:
thought provoking, inspirational, sentimental, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
business, inventor, lawsuit, underdog, lawyer, courtroom, inventions and discoveries, corruption, court, betrayal, nervous breakdown, legal action ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
michigan, usa, detroit, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to "get rid of" a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything - including his career and ...
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom drama, court, legal, courtroom, suspense, lawsuit, law firm, environmental, justice, investigation, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new york, washington d.c., new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy ...
Style:
exciting, intense, thought provoking, tense, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom drama, legal, justice, courtroom, lawsuit, suspense, insurance company, legal investigation, domestic violence, self defense, hopes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, memphis
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247K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, lawyer, courtroom drama, gay, lgbt, hiv, court, lawsuit, judiciary, homosexual, prejudice, courtroom ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. ...
Style:
inspirational, factual, touching, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
environmental, lawyer, court, justice, contamination, small town, investigation, corporate crime, against the odds, single mother, corruption, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place:
california, new jersey, los angeles, usa
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24K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.
Style:
thought provoking, suspenseful, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, lawyer, drugs, lawsuit, aids, courtroom drama, law firm, life & death, twists and turns, suspense, courtroom ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995, year 1999, year 1998
Place:
washington d.c., usa, houston texas
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, 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, suspenseful, twist ending, surprise ending, clever ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
lawyer, devil, supernatural, deal with the devil, law firm, demon, greed, courtroom, satan, ambition, hotshot lawyer, temptation ...
Time:
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: 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, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lawyer, legal, hotshot lawyer, courtroom drama, lawyers and clients, lawsuit, law firm, murder, revenge, mistrust, jury, legal system ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, scotland, london
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93K
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style:
social, sad, thought provoking, rough, cynical ...
Plot:
poverty, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, refugee, neglected child, child protagonist, child labor, low lives, life is a bitch, child neglect ...
Time:
2010s, future
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon
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477K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters ...
Style:
factual, thought provoking, emotional, intellectual, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
journalism, investigation, lawyer, conspiracy, investigative journalism, sexual abuse, catholic church, newspaper, catholicism, child abuse, cover up, journalist ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 70s, 2000s, year 2002 ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, new england, florida
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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:
captivating, stylized, witty, serious, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night, family outing
Plot:
lawyer, law firm, legal, hotshot lawyer, photographic memory, boss, ambition, success, mastermind, corporate world, workplace situations, ambitious ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Style:
disturbing, serious, captivating, thought provoking, erotic ...
Plot:
museum, art, lawsuit, courtroom, jury, politics, courtroom drama, fighting the system, against the rules, perversion, righting the wronged, legal ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, 80s
Place:
usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio
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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:
witty, humorous, cynical, talky, melancholic ...
Plot:
american football, lawyer, insurance fraud, surveillance, lawsuit, friendship, hospital, insurance, cons and scams, odd couple, workplace, crooked lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new jersey, cleveland ohio, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An affable underachiever finds out he's fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity.
Style:
feel good, light, humorous, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
sperm donor, children, cheerleading, debt, lawsuit, pregnancy, redemption, relationships, adulthood, life turned upside down, adolescence vs adulthood, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Deep End is an American television series created by David Hemingson and produced by 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC television network. Starring Mehcad Brooks, Matt Long, Tina Majorino, Clancy Brown, and Billy Zane, the show follows ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
lawyer, law firm, corporate world, lawsuit, rivalry, lifestyle, workplace, lawyers and clients, ambition, legal, boss and employee, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994.
Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, clever
Plot:
lawyer, legal, law firm, courtroom drama, lawsuit, hypocrisy, workplace situations, office, partners, womanizer, hotshot lawyer, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A cabbie and businessman both in need of big money partake in a two-hour adventure together.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, remake of american film
Plot:
taxi, taxi driver, attempted murder, police station, lawsuit, buddies, passenger, disorder, rivalry, unlikely partners, insurance, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, mumbai india, india
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for ...
Style:
sexual, controversial, factual, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, free love, legal, lawyer, courtroom, court, drug addiction, rebellion, fighting the system, love, eroticism, lawsuit ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 50s
Place:
kentucky, usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio, beverly hills ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law features ex-superhero Harvey T. Birdman of Birdman and the Galaxy Trio as an attorney working for a law firm alongside other cartoon stars from 1960s and 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series. Similarly, Harvey's ...
Style:
humorous, adult animation, sitcom, not serious, anime ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
superhero, law firm, jury, courtroom, lawyer, judge, lawsuit, injustice, confession, disorder, superhuman powers, workplace ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A young working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete among her pedigreed Manhattan colleagues at a prestigious New York law firm.
Style:
realistic, serious, talky, captivating
Plot:
lawyer, law firm, workplace, lawsuit, jury, ambition, workplace situations, legal, rivalry, society, strong female presence, unsupportive coworkers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Delving into the extraordinary world of the Department of Public Prosecutions and its young, eager lawyers, Crownies follows five young solicitors as they face the pressures and endearing madness of modern single life - in a fast paced workplace ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
legal, courtroom drama, lawyers and clients, dedicated lawyer, ambition, workplace, workplace situations, lawsuit, moral dilemma, boss and employee, power relations, courtroom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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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:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, legal, murder, lawsuit, police investigation, courtroom, legal system, police brutality, haunted by the past, vicious, law enforcement, injustice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A newcomer to the Supreme Court finds himself a pivotal force on an often deadlocked bench, frequently at odds over hot-button cases in this earnest but brief legal drama.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
legal, supreme court, legal action, workplace, power relations, lawsuit, workplace situations, courtroom, politics, life is a bitch, judiciary, liberal ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin, Val Avery, Bobby Cannavale, Joel de la Fuente and Paula Devicq.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot:
legal, courtroom, legal action, law enforcement, workplace, dedicated lawyer, lawsuit, workplace situations, cop witness relations, jury, lawyer, nypd ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ed Altman is a psychiatrist who relocates to Palm Springs, Calif., in order to avoid a lawsuit. However, he happens to wander directly into more trouble when he begins an affair with the rich and beautiful Ally Mercer (Annabel Schofield), who has ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, sexy ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, murder, sexuality, power relations, love affair, lawsuit, manipulation, infidelity, frame up, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, femme fatale ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
The Good Wife is a legal drama starring Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies as a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption ...
Style:
serious, captivating, clever, political, entertaining ...
Plot:
legal, politics, lawyer, workplace situations, dedicated lawyer, law firm, lawyers and clients, court, self discovery, female protagonist, working mom, justice ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's a movie for everyone, period. Set in suburban Long Island in the summer of 2002, with the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lie, single parent, dishonesty, lifestyle, infidelity, family problems, family relations, couples, love and romance, lawsuit, island, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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404
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Philly is an American television series created by Steven Bochco that focused on criminal defense attorney Kathleen Maguire. It lasted a full season and was canceled due to low ratings. The final episode was advertised heavily as the series finale, ...
Style:
serious, touching, captivating, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, legal, legal action, dedicated lawyer, lawyers and clients, single mother, reluctant partners, power relations, law firm, lawsuit, workplace situations, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
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