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Summary: James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.
Runtime: 1 h 25 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 450,000
Summary: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: 14A

Movie budget: $ 38,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,955,598
International: $ 19,000,000
Summary: The murder of a high and mighty archbishop leads to the involvement of Martin Vail, Chicago's best attorney. As he studies the suspects, he becomes convinced of certain aspects, but there's more to the story than meets the eye.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 56,116,183
International: $ 46,500,000
Summary: Defence lawyer Mick Haller lands a case defending a wealthy realtor's son who is accused of raping a prostitute. Believing his client to be innocent, Haller soon finds evidence that proves otherwise.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: 14A

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 58,009,200
International: $ 28,743,152
Summary: A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.
Runtime: 2 h 34 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 42,000,000
Domestic: $ 158,348,367
International: $ 111,900,000
Summary: A military lawyer is tasked with defending two US Marines charged with murdering a fellow Marine and intends to prove they were only following their base commander's orders.
Release Date: December 11, 1992
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Runtime: 2 h 18 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 41,000,000
Domestic: $ 141,340,178
International: $ 101,900,000
Summary: After shooting his wife, Ted confesses his crime and asks the court to move his case to trial. He represents himself against Willy, a successful lawyer. But there's more to the case than meets the eye.
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Domestic: $ 39,015,018
International: $ 52,996,543
Summary: A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 45,000,000
Domestic: $ 92,115,211
International: $ 25,500,000
Summary: A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 60,000,000
Domestic: $ 49,443,628
International: $ 30,710,512
Summary: 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 multibillion-dollar class action suit.
Release Date: October 12, 2007
Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 49,033,882
International: $ 43,957,953
Summary: A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min
MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros.
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 45,000,000
Domestic: $ 100,768,056
International: $ 94,500,000
Summary: A young Mississippi lawyer defends a black man who killed the two white men that raped his preteen daughter.
Runtime: 2 h 29 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 108,766,007
International: $ 43,500,000
Summary: A successful lawyer's husband is arrested for murdering nine villagers in El Salvador in 1988 as a US soldier under a different name. She decides to defend him in military court and find out the truth about what happened.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 42,000,000
Domestic: $ 41,543,917
International: $ 22,237,893
Summary: Remake of the 1956 film noir film "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" in which a writer's plan to expose a corrupt district attorney takes an unexpected turn.
Runtime: 1 h 46 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 32,917
International: $ 4,482,341
Summary: As a lawyer investigates the murder of a colleague, he finds himself more connected to the crime than anyone else.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 86,303,188
International: $ 135,000,000
Summary: A wealthy woman is murdered in her beach house. The husband is allegedly knocked out first. He inherits all. He has a female ex criminal prosecutor represent him in court.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 40,491,165
Summary: A juror in a Mafia trial is forced to convince the other jurors to vote not guilty by an obsessive mob enforcer.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: 14A

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 44,000,000
Domestic: $ 22,754,725
Summary: An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.
Release Date: January 20, 1995
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Runtime: 2 h 02 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United States, France
Language: English
Domestic: $ 17,381,942
Summary: Frustrated with a legal system gone haywire, a secret society of judges hires hitmen to snuff out criminals who escape courtroom justice - but one young judge questions the ethics of their vigilante system.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 5,555,305