Films like The Whole Truth
A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
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A Murder of Crows
Film · 1999 · also thrillerIn the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell bo...
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A Time to Kill
Film · 1996 · also drama and thrillerA young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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A Fall from Grace
Film · 2020 · also drama and thrillerWhen a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
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The Client
Film · 1994 · also drama and thrillerA street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Befor...
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No Mercy
Film · 1986 · also drama and thrillerAn unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
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Moonrise
Film · 1948 · also dramaStigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As th...
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Jagged Edge
Film · 1985 · also thrillerAfter a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and...
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House by the River
Film · 1950 · also drama and thrillerWealthy writer Stephen Byrne tries to seduce the family maid, but when she resists, he kills her. Long jealous of his brother John, Stephen does his best to pin the blame...
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Reasonable Doubt
Film · 2014 · also thrillerWhen up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the...
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...And Justice for All
Film · 1979 · also dramaAn ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
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