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1. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Mystery
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 71,613 | Gross: $11.90M
2. Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover
Votes: 24,963
3. Certain Women (2016)
R | 107 min | Drama
The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, James Le Gros
Votes: 15,731 | Gross: $1.03M
4. The Scandalous Lady W (2015 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, History, Romance
An 18th-century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley.
Director: Sheree Folkson | Stars: Jessica Gunning, Natalie Dormer, Aneurin Barnard, Thomas Coombes
Votes: 2,859
5. The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
The lives of Escondido, California residents Cheryl and Stephen Crowe change one morning when they find their twelve year old daughter Stephanie Crowe stabbed to death in her bedroom. As ... See full summary »
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Mark Rendall, John Bourgeois, Hannah Lochner
Votes: 1,185
6. Die Wannseekonferenz (1984 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Heinz Schirk | Stars: Dietrich Mattausch, Gerd Böckmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Robert Atzorn
Votes: 1,271
7. Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
Not Rated | 123 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is told he doesn't have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms.
Director: Jeremy Sims | Stars: Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Mark Coles Smith, Emma Hamilton
Votes: 4,232 | Gross: $0.03M
8. The Furies (1950)
Passed | 109 min | Western
A firebrand heiress clashes with her tyrannical father, a cattle rancher who fancies himself a Napoleon, but their relationship turns ugly only when he finds himself a new woman.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson
Votes: 3,914
9. In the Custody of Strangers (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it.
Director: Robert Greenwald | Stars: Martin Sheen, Jane Alexander, Emilio Estevez, Kenneth McMillan
Votes: 465
10. The Deep End (2010)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
Follows four young new lawyers who enter one of the most prestigious law firms in Los Angeles, Sterling Law.
Stars: Matt Long, Norbert Leo Butz, Ben Lawson, Tina Majorino
Votes: 798
11. Colonel Chabert (1994)
110 min | Drama, History, Romance
Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory... See full summary »
Director: Yves Angelo | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier
Votes: 2,078 | Gross: $0.73M
12. Nancy Grace (2005–2016)
60 min | News
Former prosecutor, Nancy Grace, covers current trials and legal issues, talking to defense attorneys and giving her take on the issue at hand.
Stars: Nancy Grace, David Caplan, Steve Helling, David Lohr
Votes: 486
13. An Act of Murder (1948)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks
Votes: 879
14. Unlocking the Cage (2016)
TV-14 | 91 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Between 2013 and 2015, a group of nonprofit attorneys seek nonhuman clients for whom they can advocate in two U.S. territories, in order to establish legal personhood for elephants, cetaceans and nonhuman apes in the U.S.
Directors: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Barbara Jaffe, Elizabeth Stein, Steven M. Wise
Votes: 422 | Gross: $0.03M
15. Shafted (I) (2009)
10 min | Short, Comedy
When Femme lesbian Lindsay realizes her butch ex-lover took all her sex toys she will stop at nothing to seek justice.
Directors: April Faith Hirschman, Allegra Hirschman | Stars: Princess Donna, Brian Lilla
16. Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
The story of two Italian immigrant radicals who were executed in 1927 offers insights into present-day issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.
Director: Peter Miller | Stars: Anton Coppola, Henry Fonda, Arlo Guthrie, David Kaiser
Votes: 328 | Gross: $0.03M
17. Redeem Her Honor (1995)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama
The melding together of two separate stories that share a similar premise - each detail the account of a young Filipino woman who becomes a victim of sexual violence and takes her attacker to court.
Director: Marilou Diaz-Abaya | Stars: Chin Chin Gutierrez, Sharmaine Arnaiz, Nida Blanca, Gina Alajar
Votes: 25
18. To Find My Son (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with the government bureaucracy and ... See full summary »
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Richard Thomas, Molly Cheek, Julie Cobb, Steve Kanaly
Votes: 119
19. Maple Palm (2006)
R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lesbian couple of fifteen years lives with the secret that one is an illegal immigrant. With no legal way to protect their relationship, the couple lives in fear of deportation. After an ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Torjan | Stars: Deborah Stewart, Taymour Ghazi, Andrea Carvajal, Robert J. Feldman
Votes: 409
20. Tattooed Tears (1979)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
An intimate, hands on encounter with a maximum security juvenile correctional facility in Chino California.
Directors: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill | Stars: Brian, Marcus, Pedro, Ronnie
Votes: 174
21. Prince of Pot: The U.S. vs. Marc Emery (2007)
53 min | Documentary
Marc Emery runs a hugely successful marijuana seed mail-order business. But now the world renowned"The Prince of Pot" faces a lifetime in jail if the US Drug Enforcement Administration get their way.
Director: Nick Wilson | Stars: Chris Bennet, Rodney Benson, Pierre-Yves Bourduas, Jerry Cameron
Votes: 66
22. Marijuana (1968)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Sonny Bono appears onscreen to tell kids that marijuana is a "bummer" that turns you into a "weedhead" and will make you "trip out" (the fact that, based upon his performance, Sonny appears... See full summary »
Director: Max Miller | Star: Sonny Bono
Votes: 152
23. Lost in a Turkish Bath (1953)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Comedy
Slim Harris is proud of his new job as a canary salesman, and visits his fiancée, Peggy, at her office. While there , one of the birds flies into the office of a lawyer, A. J. Corbett, ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Yates | Stars: Gil Lamb, Carol Hughes, Claire Carleton, Emory Parnell
Votes: 14
24. Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair (1984)
59 min | Documentary, Biography
The story of Dr. Henry Morgentaler's fight to provide safe abortions in Canada and the right to challenge a law's validity in Canada.
Director: Paul Cowan | Stars: Henry Morgentaler, Claude-Armand Sheppard, Mike Morgentaler, Michael Rudder
25. The Temptress (1951)
105 min | Drama, Mystery
The young Lut Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot his mistress making it then end up ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Leonviola | Stars: Anna Maria Ferrero, Michel Auclair, Michel Simon, Valentine Tessier
Votes: 28
26. The Cwmbran 10 (2010 Video)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Ten men claiming Common Law Jurisdiction come together to support a Freeman in South Wales in his Council Tax Liability Order court hearing.
29. Bee in Your Bonnet (2004– )
30 min | Reality-TV
Amanda Platell, a former political spin doctor, offers advice on strategy and tactics to small time campaigners in an attempt to make their campaign more effective and get their message across to either local or central government.
Star: Amanda Platell
30. Holocaust Denial vs. Freedom of Speech (1994)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
31. 'Taint Legal (1940)
Approved | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wife Vivien who tell him about their ... See full summary »
Director: Harry D'Arcy | Stars: Edgar Kennedy, Vivien Oakland, Billy Franey, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 13
32.
So You Think You Can Dance (2005– )
Episode:
Top Four Perform
(2010)
TV-PG | 120 min | Music, Reality-TV
The top 4 contestants dance a group performance and with two different all-stars. Clips of their life, before they auditioned for the show, are shown.
Stars: Cat Deeley, Nigel Lythgoe, Mia Michaels, Adam Shankman
Votes: 18
33.
Proper Manors (2012–2017)
Episode:
Caught on Camera - Morris Finkleman
(2014)
2 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Morris Finkleman is one of Proper's few Attorneys and, as a result, often ends up working on projects for both Blanche and Alessandro Sorrento, who aren't always working towards the same ... See full summary »
Director: Kelly Adolphson | Star: Ira Popper