Films like Knock on Any Door

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   Roman J. Israel, Esq.

   Film · 2017 · also crime and drama

   Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart atta...

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   The Enforcer

   Film · 1951 · also drama

   After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to t...

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   Let Him Have It

   Film · 1991 · also drama

   In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and...

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   Cry of the City

   Film · 1948 · also crime and drama

   Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to a...

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   Just Mercy

   Film · 2019 · also crime and drama

   The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian,...

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   The Rainmaker

   Film · 1997 · also crime and drama

   Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up wit...

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   Juror #2

   Film · 2024 · also drama

   While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury ve...

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   The Killer Is Loose

   Film · 1956 · also crime

   A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally k...

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   Michael Clayton

   Film · 2007 · also crime and drama

   A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion d...

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    Crime Wave

    Film · 1953 · also crime

    Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him in...

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