Drama
A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
Acrimony
Queen
Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Count the Hours!
The Woman in the Hall
The Law in Her Hands
The Story of Temple Drake
Compulsion
The People Against O'Hara
Ridicule
Suspect
Felon
Class Action
Oppenheimerin tapaus
Midnight Express
Runaway Jury
The Rainmaker
Miracle on 34th Street
My Cousin Vinny
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
IMDB 3.4 | Jan , 1998
The Defenders are a crack team of lawyers dedicated to one principle - the accused is innocent untill proven guilty. This time, they defend a man wrongly convicted of murder.Acrimony
IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 2018
Faithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now she cannot let it go.Queen
IMDB 6.6 | Jan , 2018
The story starts with the inauguration of the first-ever Mechanical batch in an engineering campus. The batch consists of boys only. Later in the second year of the department, a girl joins and becomes the only girl to be a part of their batch. As the story evolves, the girl grabs all their love and attention and becomes the QUEEN of the batch.Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
IMDB 5.5 | Oct , 1980
Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with raping her.Count the Hours!
IMDB 5.5 | Apr , 1953
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.The Woman in the Hall
IMDB 6 | Oct , 1947
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.The Law in Her Hands
IMDB 5 | May , 1936
A female lawyer sets up her own practice but only achieves success as an attorney for the mob.The Story of Temple Drake
IMDB 6.5 | May , 1933
The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to swallow her up completely.Compulsion
IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 1959
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.The People Against O'Hara
IMDB 5.7 | Sep , 1951
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.Ridicule
IMDB 7 | May , 1996
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.Suspect
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 1987
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.Felon
IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 2008
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.Class Action
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 1991
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.Oppenheimerin tapaus
IMDB 8 | Oct , 1967
A television play adaptation of the trial against Robert Oppenheimer.Midnight Express
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 1978
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".Runaway Jury
IMDB 6.9 | Jan , 2003
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.The Rainmaker
IMDB 7 | Nov , 1997
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.Miracle on 34th Street
IMDB 7.4 | Jun , 1947
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.My Cousin Vinny
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 1992
Two carefree pals from Brooklyn traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend, to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!