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Courtroom dramas

Over 1,000 narrative features that can be considered courtroom or legal dramas, sorted by release date. The American Film Institute defines 'courtroom drama' as a genre of film in which a system of justice plays a critical role in the film's narrative. For documentaries about court cases, see this list: boxd.it/ldlk

  • Where Are My Children?
  • Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
  • The People vs. John Doe
  • The Beilis Case
  • Le Coupable
  • The Witness for the Defense
  • Madame X
  • Orphans of the Storm
  • The Woman on the Jury
  • The Woman on Trial
  • The 13th Juror
  • Chicago
  • Dawn
  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • Court Martial
  • On Trial
  • The Bellamy Trial
  • The Letter
  • The Kiss
  • Dynamite
  • The Case of Sergeant Grischa
  • Hokuspokus
  • The Temporary Widow
  • For the Defense
  • Manslaughter
  • Dreyfus
  • Scarlet Pages
  • The Front Page
  • A Woman Branded
  • Dreyfus
  • M
  • A Free Soul
  • An American Tragedy
  • Ladies of the Jury
  • The Silent Witness
  • Cross-Examination
  • The Mouthpiece
  • In the Name of the Law
  • Night Court
  • State's Attorney
  • Attorney for the Defense
  • Two Seconds
  • The Last Mile
  • One Way Passage
  • False Faces
  • Lawyer Man
  • The Kiss Before the Mirror
  • The Nuisance
  • Ann Carver's Profession
  • Loyalties
  • The Private Life of Henry VIII
  • The Women in His Life
  • Counsellor at Law
  • Henry the Ache
  • Ein Mädchen mit Prokura
  • The Witching Hour
  • Manhattan Melodrama
  • Liliom
  • Judge Priest
  • The Case of the Howling Dog
  • Evelyn Prentice
  • The Great Defender
  • The Case of Gabriel Perry
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Mazurka
  • The Prisoner of Shark Island
  • The Walking Dead
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • The Witness Chair
  • The Law in Her Hands
  • Fury
  • Winterset
  • Career Woman
  • Accused
  • We Who Are About to Die
  • Culprit
  • We're on the Jury
  • The Devil Is Driving
  • They Won't Forget
  • Action for Slander
  • The Life of Emile Zola
  • Counsel for Crime
  • The Broken Jug
  • Portia on Trial
  • The Rat
  • True Confession
  • The Jury's Secret
  • Wives Under Suspicion
  • Marie Antoinette
  • The Deruga Case
  • Angels with Dirty Faces
  • On Trial
  • Young Mr. Lincoln
  • Stronger Than Desire
  • Dust Be My Destiny
  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
  • Imputato, alzatevi!
  • Sued for Libel
  • We Are Not Alone
  • The Earl of Chicago