Movies and TvShows featuring "trial-judge" theme.
Cate McCall, a former successful lawyer who lost everything due to alcohol and personal issues, takes on the case of a woman who has been wrongfully convicted of murder. As she investigates the case, she must confront her own demons and fight for justice.
A female police officer investigates a decades-old murder case in a small village, uncovering dark secrets and facing resistance from the tight-knit community.
In Taxi!, a taxi driver finds himself wrongly accused of a murder and must navigate the dangerous underworld of 1930s New York City to find the real killer and clear his name. Along the way, he discovers a web of deceit, betrayal, and secrets that put his life in danger.
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis takes on his new stay-at-home role, Claire's furniture design business takes off. Just as she's beginning to master the art of balancing her home and work life, Dennis serves her with divorce papers and charges her with being an unfit mother. Claire discovers that in a modern courtroom there are still traditional biases unsympathetic to the idea of a woman working three jobs, as a wife, an entrepreneur and a mother.
A young boy in Alabama witnesses the struggles of his free-spirited aunt as she fights for justice and liberation in the racially-divided society of the 1960s.
A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he's incompetent.
Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.
The popular Alfred Ollivant novel "Bob, Son of Battle" is the source for this drama about sheep dogs in the Scottish highlands, filmed in mountains in Utah’s Garfield County. Gwenn is a crusty shepherd whose struggling relationship with his son McCallister is complicated by a predatory animal that is attacking the flocks of local shepherds.
In this fictionalized retelling of Jesse James' life, Bob Ford forms a close friendship with the infamous outlaw before ultimately betraying him and shooting him in the back. The film explores themes of treachery, vengeance, and the mythologizing of historical figures.
Daisy Kenyon is a commercial artist in love with a married man. She has an affair with a World War II veteran and struggles with her feelings as she navigates through a dysfunctional marriage and a divorce settlement. The love triangle becomes even more complicated when the married man proposes to Daisy.
In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
In the fine tradition of And Sudden Death, Columbia's The Devil is Driving tabulates the dangers of drunken driving in an exciting, unabashedly melodramatic fashion. In his first true portrayal of a "little creep," Elisha Cook Jr. stars as Tony, the spoiled-rotten son of the wealthy and influential Mr. Stevens.
In The Unholy Wife, a cheating wife gets involved in a murder and deception. She must navigate through a web of lies and betrayal to escape the consequences of her actions.
In the small town of Pineview, Dr. John Evans is accused of malpractice after an incident with an elephant from a traveling medicine show. The trial becomes a spectacle, with sight gags and slapstick comedy. As the defense attorney defends Dr. Evans, tensions rise and the town gossip spreads. Will justice prevail in this hilarious court case?
After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
A legal secretary with a loving family who is happily engaged to a successful young attorney receives a surprise visit from her bad-news former boyfriend, a jewel thief just released on parole who has no intention of going straight. The visit triggers a series of events resulting in a trial for attempted murder.
Hoping to bury her criminal past, Jenny Hadley settles into a comfortable existence as Gina, the wife of the politician Clinton Crane. When her former associate Floyd Durant shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder him. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold is charged with Durant's murder and Gina is selected to serve on the jury.
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.