Collected and Ranked: Legal/Courtroom Films

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Rating: 97/100
Percentile: 99th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1928
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Language: No Language

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Paths of Glory

Rating: 95/100
Percentile: 97th
Times Seen: 2
Year: 1957
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Language: English

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Witness for the Prosecution

Rating: 94/100
Percentile: 96th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1957
Director: Billy Wilder
Language: English

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12 Angry Men

Rating: 93/100
Percentile: 95th
Times Seen: 2
Year: 1957
Director: Sidney Lumet
Language: English

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A Matter of Life and Death

Rating: 92/100
Percentile: 93rd
Times Seen: 2
Year: 1946
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Language: English

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The Ox-Bow Incident

Rating: 90/100
Percentile: 90th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1943
Director: William A. Wellman
Language: English

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Mangrove

Rating: 90/100
Percentile: 90th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2020
Director: Steve McQueen
Language: English

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Judgment at Nuremberg

Rating: 89/100
Percentile: 89th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1961
Director: Stanley Kramer
Language: English

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JFK

Rating: 88/100
Percentile: 87th
Times Seen: 2
Year: 1991
Director: Oliver Stone
Language: English

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Philadelphia

Rating: 88/100
Percentile: 87th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1993
Director: Jonathan Demme
Language: English

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The Verdict

Rating: 88/100
Percentile: 87th
Times Seen: 2
Year: 1982
Director: Sidney Lumet
Language: English

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Dark Waters

Rating: 87/100
Percentile: 85th
Times Seen: 3
Year: 2019
Director: Todd Haynes
Language: English

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The Insider

Rating: 86/100
Percentile: 83rd
Times Seen: 3
Year: 1999
Director: Michael Mann
Language: English

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My Cousin Vinny

Rating: 86/100
Percentile: 83rd
Times Seen: 2
Year: 1992
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Language: English

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Court

Rating: 86/100
Percentile: 83rd
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2015
Director: Chaitanya Tamhane
Language: Marathi

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The Trial of the Chicago 7

Rating: 85/100
Percentile: 80th
Times Seen: 2
Year: 2020
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Language: English

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The Life of David Gale

Rating: 85/100
Percentile: 80th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2003
Director: Alan Parker
Language: English

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10 Rillington Place

Rating: 85/100
Percentile: 80th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1971
Director: Richard Fleischer
Language: English

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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Rating: 84/100
Percentile: 78th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1988
Director: Robert Altman
Language: English

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The People vs. Larry Flynt

Rating: 84/100
Percentile: 78th
Times Seen: 2
Year: 1996
Director: Miloš Forman
Language: English

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Young Mr. Lincoln

Rating: 84/100
Percentile: 78th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1939
Director: John Ford
Language: English

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Bridge of Spies

Rating: 84/100
Percentile: 78th
Times Seen: 3
Year: 2015
Director: Steven Spielberg
Language: English

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A Cry in the Dark

Rating: 83/100
Percentile: 75th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1988
Director: Fred Schepisi
Language: English

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…And Justice for All

Rating: 83/100
Percentile: 75th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1979
Director: Norman Jewison
Language: English

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Kramer vs. Kramer

Rating: 82/100
Percentile: 73rd
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1979
Director: Robert Benton
Language: English

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Argentina, 1985

Rating: 82/100
Percentile: 73rd
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2022
Director: Santiago Mitre
Language: Spanish

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A Soldier’s Story

Rating: 82/100
Percentile: 73rd
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1984
Director: Norman Jewison
Language: English

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Inherit the Wind

Rating: 81/100
Percentile: 72nd
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1960
Director: Stanley Kramer
Language: English

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A Civil Action

Rating: 80/100
Percentile: 69th
Times Seen: 2
Year: 1998
Director: Steven Zaillian
Language: English

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Music Box

Rating: 80/100
Percentile: 69th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1989
Director: Costa-Gavras
Language: English

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You Don’t Know Jack

Rating: 80/100
Percentile: 69th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2010
Director: Barry Levinson
Language: English

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The Rainmaker

Rating: 79/100
Percentile: 67th
Times Seen: 3
Year: 1997
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Language: English

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A Few Good Men

Rating: 79/100
Percentile: 67th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1992
Director: Rob Reiner
Language: English

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Compulsion

Rating: 78/100
Percentile: 64th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1959
Director: Richard Fleischer
Language: English

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Find Me Guilty

Rating: 78/100
Percentile: 64th
Times Seen: 2
Year: 2006
Director: Sidney Lumet
Language: English

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Anatomy of a Murder

Rating: 77/100
Percentile: 62nd
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1959
Director: Otto Preminger
Language: English

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Anatomy of a Fall

Rating: 77/100
Percentile: 62nd
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2023
Director: Justine Triet
Language: French

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Legally Blonde

Rating: 77/100
Percentile: 62nd
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2001
Director: Robert Luketic
Language: English

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Miracle on 34th Street

Rating: 76/100
Percentile: 60th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1947
Director: George Seaton
Language: English

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Changing Lanes

Rating: 76/100
Percentile: 60th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2002
Director: Roger Michell
Language: English

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The Judgement

Rating: 76/100
Percentile: 60th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2021
Director: Sander Burger
Language: Dutch

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Rating: 76/100
Percentile: 60th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1962
Director: Robert Mulligan
Language: English

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Primal Fear

Rating: 75/100
Percentile: 58th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1996
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Language: English

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Juror #2

Rating: 75/100
Percentile: 58th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2024
Director: Clint Eastwood
Language: English

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Guilty as Sin

Rating: 75/100
Percentile: 58th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1993
Director: Sidney Lumet
Language: English

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American Violet

Rating: 74/100
Percentile: 56th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 2009
Director: Tim Disney
Language: English

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Erin Brockovich

Rating: 74/100
Percentile: 56th
Times Seen: 2
Year: 2000
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Language: English

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The Talk of the Town

Rating: 74/100
Percentile: 56th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1942
Director: George Stevens
Language: English

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I Want to Live!

Rating: 74/100
Percentile: 56th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1958
Director: Robert Wise
Language: English

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Libel

Rating: 74/100
Percentile: 56th
Times Seen: 1
Year: 1959
Director: Anthony Asquith
Language: English