Films like Just Cause
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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Anatomy of a Murder
Film · 1959 · also drama and mysterySemi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of a...
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Blood Work
Film · 2002 · also action and dramaStill recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
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The Whisper Man
Film · 2026 · also drama and thrillerWhen his young son vanishes, a widower enlists help from his estranged father, a retired detective who put away the serial killer now linked to the case.
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Mystic River
Film · 2003 · also drama and mysteryThe lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Film · 1940 · also drama and mysteryNewspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Cape Fear
Film · 1991 · also drama and thrillerSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was...
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Dead Man Down
Film · 2013 · also action and dramaIn New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Film · 1976 · also drama and mystery13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's...
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The Ritual Killer
Film · 2023 · also action and dramaUnable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person w...
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
Film · 2014 · also drama and mysteryPrivate investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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