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Outstanding Films About the Law and Lawyers(1) |
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| YEAR | FILM | DIRECTOR |
| 1928 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | (Carl Dreyer) |
| 1936 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | (Frank Capra) |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola | (William Dieterle) |
| 1942 | Roxie Hart | (William Wellman) |
| 1947 | Miracle On 34th Street(2) | (George Seaton) |
| Shoeshine | (Vittorio De Sica) | |
| Boomerang | (Elia Kazan) | |
| 1948 | The Winslow Boy(3) | (Anthony Asquith) |
| I, Jane Doe | (John Auer) | |
| 1949 | Pinky | (Elia Kazan) |
| Adam's Rib | (George Cukor) | |
| 1950 | Madeleine | (David Lean) |
| 1951 | A Place In The Sun | (George Stevens) |
| 1952 | Angel Face | (Otto Preminger) |
| 1954 | The Caine Mutiny | (Edward Dmytryk) |
| 1956 | The Wrong Man | (Alfred Hitchcock) |
| 1957 | Paths of Glory | (Stanley Kubrick) |
| Witness For The Prosecution | (Billy Wilder) | |
| Twelve Angry Men | (Sidney Lumet) | |
| 1958 | Touch of Evil | (Orson Welles) |
| I Want To Live | (Robert Wise) | |
| 1959 | Anatomy Of A Murder | (Otto Preminger) |
| Compulsion | (Richard Fleischer) | |
| 1960 | Inherit The Wind | (Stanley Kramer) |
| The Trials of Oscar Wilde | (Ken Hughes) | |
| 1961 | Judgment At Nuremberg | (Stanley Kramer) |
| Town Without Pity | (Gottfried Reinhardt) | |
| 1962 | To Kill A Mockingbird | (Robert Mulligan) |
| Billy Budd | (Peter Ustinov) | |
| The Trial | (Orson Welles) | |
| 1964 | Man in the Middle | (Guy Hamilton) |
| Dry Summer | (Metin Erksan) | |
| 1966 | A Man For All Seasons | (Fred Zinnemann) |
| The Fortune Cookie | (Billy Wilder) | |
| 1967 | The Stranger | (Luchino Visconti) |
| In Cold Blood | (Richard Brooks) | |
| 1969 | Z | (Costa-Gavras) |
| 1970 | The Confession | (Costa-Gavras) |
| 1971 | Sacco & Vanzetti | (Giuliano Montaldo) |
| 1973 | The Paper Chase | (James Bridges) |
| 1974 | QB VII(5) | (Tom Gries) |
| 1975 | Love Among the Ruins | (George Cukor) |
| 1976 | Helter Skelter | (Tom Gries) |
| 1977 | The Last Wave | (Peter Weir) |
| 1979 | And Justice For All | (Norman Jewison) |
| Kramer vs. Kramer | (Robert Benton) | |
| 1980 | Breaker Morant | (Bruce Beresford) |
| 1981 | Whose Life Is It Anyway | (John Badham) |
| Body Heat | (Lawrence Kasdan) | |
| 1982 | The Verdict | (Sidney Lumet) |
| 1983 | The Return Of Martin Guerre(4) | (Daniel Vigne) |
| Daniel | (Sidney Lumet) | |
| Danton | (Andrzej Wajda) | |
| 1984 | A Passage To India | (David Lean ) |
| A Soldier's Story | (Norman Jewison) | |
| 1985 | The Jagged Edge | (Richard Marquard) |
| 1988 | A Cry In The Dark | (Fred Schepisi) |
| The Accused | (Jonathan Kaplan) | |
| A Short Film About Killing | (Krzysztof Kieslowski) | |
| A World Apart | (Chris Menges) | |
| 1989 | A Dry White Season | (Euzhan Palcy) |
| The Music Box | (Costa-Gavras) | |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | (Barbet Schroeder) |
| Presumed Innocent | (Alan J. Pakula) | |
| Close-Up | (Abbas Kiarostami) | |
| 1991 | Separate But Equal | (George Stevens, Jr.) |
| 1992 | A Few Good Men | (Rob Reiner) |
| My Cousin Vinny | (Jonathan Lynn) | |
| 1993 | The Boys of St. Vincent | (John Smith) |
| The Story of Qui Ju | (Zhang Yimou) | |
| In the Name of the Father | (Jim Sheridan) | |
| Philadelphia | (Jonathan Demme) | |
| The Advocate | (Leslie Megahey) | |
| The Firm | (Sydney Pollack) | |
| 1995 | Dead Man Walking | (Tim Robbins) |
| Before and After | (Barbet Schroeder) | |
| Colonel Chabert | (Yves Angelo) | |
| 1996 | The Crucible | (Nicholas Hytner) |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt | (Milos Forman) | |
| Primal Fear | (Gregory Hoblit) | |
| Ghosts of Mississippi | (Rob Reiner) | |
| Andersonville | (John Frankenheimer) | |
| 1997 | Amistad | (Steven Spielberg) |
| The Sweet Hereafter | (Atom Egoyan) | |
| The Rainmaker | (Francis Ford Coppola) | |
| The Devil's Advocate | (Taylor Hackford) | |
| 1998 | A Civil Action | (Steve Zaillian) |
| 1999 | The Hurricane | (Norman Jewison) |
| The Insider | (Michael Mann) | |
| Snow Falling on Cedars | (Scott Hicks) | |
| A Map of the World | (Scott Elliot) | |
| The Confession | (David Jones) | |
| Brokedown Palace | (Jonathan Kaplan) | |
| The Confession | (David Jones) | |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | (Steven Soderbergh) |
| Nuremberg | (Yves Simoneau) | |
| Rules of Engagement | (William Friedkin) | |
| 2001 | Legally Blonde | (Robert Luketic) |
| 2002 | Chicago | (Rob Marshall) |
| Evelyn | (Bruce Beresford) | |
| 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | (Joel Coen) |
| Runaway Jury | (Gary Fleder) | |
| 2004 | Vera Drake | (Mike Leigh) |
| 2005 | North Country | (Niki Caro) |
| The Exorcism of Emily Rose | (Scott Derrickson) | |
| Hunt for Justice | (Charles Binamé) | |
| 2006 | Sophie Scholl: The Last Days | (Marc Rothemund) |
| Comedy of Power | (Claude Chabrol) | |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | (Tony Gilroy) |
| Rendition | (Gavin Hood) | |
| Steel Toes | (David Goev & M. Adams) | |
| Eichmann | (Robert Young) | |
| 2008 | The Reader | (Stephen Daldry) |
| Changeling | (Clint Eastwood) | |
| Flash of Genius | (Marc Abraham) | |
| Nothing But The Truth | (Rod Lurie) | |
| American Violet | (Tim Disney) | |
| An American Crime | (Tom O'Haver) | |
| 2009 | Provoked | (Jag Mundhra) |
| 2010 | The Social Network | (David Fincher) |
| You Don't Know Jack | (Barry Levinson) | |
| Conviction | (Tony Goldwyn) | |
| Lemon Tree | (Eran Riklis) | |
| The Stoning of Soraya M. | (Cyrus Nowrasteh) | |
| Storm | (Hans Christian Schmid) | |
| The Chicago 8 | (Pinchas Perry) | |
| 2011 | The Conspirator | (Robert Redford) |
| Win Win | (Tom McCarthy) | |
| In the Family | (Patrick Wang) | |
| 2012 | Lincoln | (Steven Spielberg) |
| Flight | (Robert Zemeckis) | |
| A Separation | (Asghar Farhadi) | |
| Bernie | (Richard Linklater) | |
| Margaret | (Kenneth Lonergan) | |
| 2013 | Phil Spector | (David Mamet) |
| Closed Circuit | (John Crowley) | |
| The Citizen | (Sam Kadi) | |
| 2014 | Belle | (Amma Asante) |
| The Judge | (David Dobkin) | |
| Gone Girl | (David Fincher) | |
| In the Name of My Daughter | (André Téchiné) | |
| Big Eyes | (Tim Burton) | |
| To Kill A Man | (Alejandro F. Almendras) | |
| 2015 | Bridge of Spies | (Steven Spielberg) |
| Woman in Gold | (Simon Curtis) | |
| Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem | (Renit and Shlomi Elkabetz) | |
| Leviathan | (Andrey Zvyagintsev) | |
| Timbuktu | (Abderrahmane Sissako) | |
| Black or White | (Mike Binder) | |
| True Story | (Rupert Goold) | |
| Labyrinth of Lies | (Giulio Ricciarelli) | |
| Misconduct | (Shintaro Shimosawa) | |
| 2016 | A War | (Tobias Lindholm) |
| Loving | (Jeff Nichols) | |
| Freeheld | (Peter Sollett) | |
| Court | (Chaitanya Tamhane) | |
| Confirmation | (Rick Famuyiwa) | |
| 2017 | The Night Of(5) | (Steve Zaillian) |
| The People vs Fritz Bauer | (Lars Kraume) | |
| The Post | (Steven Spielberg) | |
| Molly's Game | (Aaron Sorkin) | |
| Gifted | (Marc Webb) | |
| Marshall | (Reginald Hudlin) | |
| Roman J. Israel, Esq. | (Dan Gilroy) | |
| Little Pink House | (Courtney M. Balaker) | |
| The Third Murder | (Hirokazu Kore-eda) | |
| Who We Are Now | (Matthew Newton) | |
| 2018 | Manhunt: Unabomber(5) | (Greg Yaitanes) |
| On the Basis of Sex | (Mimi Leder) | |
| The Insult | (Ziad Doueiri) | |
| In the Fade | (Fatih Akin) | |
| 22 July | (Paul Greengrass) | |
| Lizzie | (Charles W. MacNeil) | |
| Sweet Country | (Warwick Thornton) | |
| 2019 | When They See Us(5) | (Ava DuVernay) |
| Marriage Story | (Noah Baumbach) | |
| The Best of Enemies | (Robin Bissell) | |
| Richard Jewell | (Clint Eastwood) | |
| Brian Banks | (Tom Shadyac) | |
| Official Secrets | (Gavin Hood) | |
| The Children Act | (Richard Eyre) | |
| Trial By Fire | (Edward Zwick) | |
| Saint Judy | (Sean Hanish) | |
| Bombshell | (Jay Roach) | |
| A Regular Woman | (Sherry Hormann) | |
| The Collini Case | (Marco Kreuzpainter) | |
| 2020 | Just Mercy | (Destin Daniel Cretton) |
| The Trial of the Chicago 7 | (Aaron Sorkin) | |
| Dark Water | (Todd Haynes) | |
| The Comey Rule(5) | (Billy Ray) | |
| The Traitor | (Marco Bellocchio) | |
| The Last Vermeer | (Dan Friedkin) | |
| Defending Jacob(5) | (Martin Tyldum) | |
| 2021 | The Last Duel | (Ridley Scott) |
| An Act of Defiance | (Jean van de Velde) | |
| The Mauritanian | (Kevin Macdonald) | |
| Worth | (Sara Colengelo) | |
| Mangrove | (Steve McQueen) | |
| Percy vs Goliath | (Clark Johnson) | |
| 2022 | Till | (Chinonye Chukwu) |
| The Duke | (Roger Michell) | |
| Argentina, 1985 | (Santiago Mitre) | |
| The Good Nurse(5) | (Tobias Lindholm) | |
| Where the Crawdads Sing | (Olivia Newman) | |
| Goliath | (Frédéric Tellier) | |
| Saint Omer | (Alice Diop) | |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | (Justine Triet) |
| Killers of the Flower Moon | (Martin Scorsese) | |
| Kompromat | (Jérôme Salle) | |
| The Burial | (Maggie Betts) | |
| The Pain Hustlers | (David Yates) | |
| 2024 | Miranda’s Victim | (Michelle Danner) |
Juror #2 |
(Clint Eastwood) | |
| Wicked Little Letters | (Thea Sharrock) | |
| Emilia Pérez | (Jacques Audiard) | |
| Kidnapped: the Abduction of Edgardo Mortara | (Marco Bellocchio) | |
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1. Documentaries not included. 2. Remade in 1994 - inferior to 1947 version 3. Remade in 1999 by David Mamet 4. Remade in 1993 as U.S. Civil War Movie - Sommersby (Jon Amiel) 5. TV miniseries in which all episodes have the same director and writer. Equivalent to a long movie. |
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