Movies and TvShows featuring "trial-judge" theme.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his daughter, Moira, believes she is dead. Moira falls in love with Hugh Dillon, a handsome young attorney, and Devens gets him a job in the district attorney's office. One night, Devens' wife, now an old, decrepit woman known as Aileen Clayton, returns to ask forgiveness.
After being convicted of stealing some jewels, Annette Eldrige is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt female warder. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.
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.
A silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama about a man who gets out of prison after ten years and discovers that his wife has divorced him and married the man who sent him to prison. Worse yet, she fears he will want to exact revenge, so she sets up her new husband to frame her first husband, so he will be sent back to prison!
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?
When a newspaper reporter is framed for murder, he must navigate a web of deception and false alibis to prove his innocence and save himself from the electric chair.
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.
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife., and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.
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.
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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.
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband.
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.