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52 films tagged law, showing 50
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2023 · Drama
A man falls from the top floor of a chalet in the Alps and his wife goes on trial, with their partly sighted son the only other person in the house. Most of it is courtroom argument about a marriage.
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2025 · Drama
Two Delhi lawyers who share a nickname and cannot stand each other end up on opposite sides of a case about farmers losing their land to a huge development. A long courtroom comedy, and the sparring is the point.
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2025 · Drama
A woman in 1970s India is set aside when her lawyer husband takes a second wife, and she goes to court for the maintenance he promised her. The case climbs to the Supreme Court and becomes a national argument.
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2025 · Mystery
A lawyer takes on the case of her friend's husband, an unarmed Black man shot dead, and works it with her boyfriend, who is a detective. It plays as a mystery, with the two of them turning over what everyone involved is hiding.
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2025 · Drama
A lawyer takes on the case of a young woman from Tucuman, jailed after being accused of an illegal abortion, and runs into a legal system that wants her to lose. Court, paperwork, and a protest movement growing outside.
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2025 · Crime
Someone is badly hurt by a police projectile during the yellow vest protests, and an internal affairs investigator is put on the case. Most of the film is the investigation itself.
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2025 · Drama
A buttoned-up lawyer is called in by his boss to account for the client he has been helping, and the conversation ends with him in a prison cell. Adapted from a Mamet play, and it is two men talking at a time.
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2025 · Drama
An American army psychiatrist is sent to assess Hermann Goering and the other Nazi leaders held for trial at Nuremberg. Long and talky, built around the conversations between the two men.
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2025 · Documentary
A documentary built almost entirely from police bodycam footage of the neighbourhood disputes that ended when a Florida woman shot the mother next door. It runs in order, with almost no narration.
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2025 · Drama
In French Algeria a young Frenchman buries his mother without visibly feeling much, and is later accused of killing an Arab man. Slow and cool, and more about his indifference than about the crime.
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2025 · Drama
An income tax officer with a record of enormous seizures is transferred yet again, this time to a town run by a corrupt politician whose hidden money he cannot find. Mostly raids, courtrooms and the two men circling each other.
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2025 · Drama
In 1937, at the height of Stalin's purge, a newly qualified Soviet prosecutor reads a letter smuggled out by a prisoner, goes to see the man, and sets off for Moscow to report what he was shown. Slow and formal: prison offices, a train, a lot of waiting.
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2025 · Crime
A drug informant and the ambitious prosecutor he feeds cases to have built their careers on each other, until a bust involving a presidential candidate's son puts them on opposite sides. Fast, and full of people turning on each other.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Drama
An insurance lawyer is handed the defence of a captured Soviet spy, then sent to a divided Berlin to trade him for a downed American pilot. Mostly negotiation, in cold rooms with careful men.
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2026 · Science fiction
In a Los Angeles where an artificial intelligence tries violent crimes, a detective is strapped into a chair and given ninety minutes to argue it out of executing him for his wife's murder. Mostly one room and a clock.
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2026 · Family
Wile E. Coyote hires a small-time lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation over every device that ever blew up in his face. Half cartoon and half courtroom, aimed at the whole family.
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2018 · Drama
A twelve-year-old boy living rough in Beirut takes his parents to court for having him. Most of it follows him around the city day to day, shot hand-held with people who had not acted before.
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2026 · Drama
A Romanian-Norwegian couple move to her remote home village in Norway, and when the authorities take an interest in how they raise their children their lives come apart. Based on a real case.
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2026 · Drama
The president of Italy, a devout Catholic and a career lawyer, has to decide whether to sign a law legalising euthanasia before his term ends, with two pardon requests also on his desk. Offices, talk, and a decision taken slowly.
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2026 · Drama
In Rwanda in 2012, a survivor of the genocide works in community justice and reconciliation while the pressure builds at work and something goes wrong at home. Slow and serious, close to one woman.
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2026 · Horror
The ghosts living in a hotel ask a lawyer to sue its owner for building on their graveyard, and in return they will help him find his missing grandmother. A courtroom haunting played for laughs.
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2026 · Crime
A boy vanishes without a trace from a small town in northern Poland, and a prosecutor starts looking for him. It follows on from an earlier film about the same man.
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2026 · Drama
A pianist gives up her career and moves the family to the countryside for her partner's sake, and then he is arrested over child abuse images. The investigator on the case is caring for her own father.
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2025 · Drama
In 2014, a woman waits on the legal process that would recognise her as a parent to the daughter her wife is carrying, and patches things up with her own mother meanwhile. Small, slow and French.
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2025 · Drama
A woman and her ex-husband share custody of their son quite civilly until she tells him she is seeing a woman, and the fight over the boy starts to escalate. Long, and close to one person throughout.
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2026 · Drama
A professor calls the police on her step-father after finding him in bed with her mother, who has dementia, then moves home to look after her. It is slow and stays inside the family house.
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2017 · Drama
During the 1967 riots, police pull a group of young Black men and two women out of a motel annexe and question them through the night. The middle hour stays in that corridor and does not let up.
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2018 · Romance
A young couple in 1970s Harlem are pulled apart when he is jailed for something he did not do, and her family sets about proving it. Slow, warm, and full of long held looks.
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2016 · Drama
A white bricklayer and a Black woman marry in Virginia in 1958, where that is against the law, and are arrested in their own bedroom. Quiet and undramatic, with far more kitchen than courtroom.
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2019 · Drama
A theatre director and the actor married to him are separating, and what starts as a decent, agreed split turns into lawyers on two coasts. Mostly conversations, and a few of them are very long.
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2007 · Thriller
A law firm's fixer is sent to clean up after their star litigator falls apart in the middle of defending a chemical company. Grown-ups in offices talking, and it tightens slowly.
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2017 · Drama
A former skier ends up running the highest-stakes private poker game in America, and years later has to explain herself to a lawyer and the FBI. Fast, dense talk and voiceover, almost non-stop.
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2024 · Action
A former Marine cycling into a small Southern town to post his cousin's bail is knocked off his bike by police who take his cash and dare him to argue. He tries the front counter and the paperwork first.
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2010 · Drama
A Harvard undergraduate builds a website that spreads from campus to campus, and is sued by the friend who funded it and by classmates who say he took their idea. Told through the two depositions, with a great deal of fast talking.
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2017 · Drama
In 1971 the Washington Post gets hold of a secret government history of the Vietnam war, and its owner has to decide whether to print with the courts already involved. Rooms, phones and deadlines, and no action at all.
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2004 · Drama
A Spanish man who has been paralysed from the neck down for nearly thirty years fights in court for the right to end his life, from a bed in his brother's farmhouse. Slow, true, and mostly people talking in one room.
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2009 · Mystery
A retired Buenos Aires court investigator starts writing a novel about the 1974 murder case he never let go of. It moves between the two times, and the case is only half of what it is about.
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2025 · Drama
A philosophy professor is caught between a star student and a colleague when one accuses the other, and her own past sits close to the surface. Talky and cold, mostly two people at a time.
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2002 · Musical
Two women on Chicago's murderers' row in the 1920s compete for the same lawyer and the same headlines. The numbers happen in her head, cut against the courtroom.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Drama
A corporate defence lawyer takes a favour case for a West Virginia farmer and ends up spending twenty years suing a chemical company. Paperwork, depositions and a lot of waiting.
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2020 · Drama
A home birth in Boston goes wrong, and the year afterwards pulls a couple and a family apart. It opens with a half-hour unbroken take and never gets lighter.
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1950 · Drama
A killing in a wood is described four times by four people who were there, and no two accounts agree. Short, and the arguing happens under a ruined gate in the rain.
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2022 · Drama
A novelist attends the trial of a woman accused of leaving her baby on a beach, and finds her own life in it. Almost entirely static shots of people giving testimony.
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2016 · Documentary
An argument that American mass incarceration runs directly from slavery through the wording of one constitutional amendment. Archive footage and interviews throughout.
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1999 · Drama
Guards on a 1930s death row take charge of an enormous condemned man who turns out to be able to do things nobody can explain. Very long, and openly sentimental.
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1999 · Drama
A tobacco company scientist agrees to talk to a television producer about what the industry knows, and the network gets nervous. Long, tense and almost entirely conversation.
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2016 · Mystery
A businessman accused of killing his lover spends one night with a defence lawyer going over what happened. Almost entirely one room, and the account keeps changing.
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2011 · Drama
A Tehran wife wants to leave the country and her husband will not leave his father, and the woman they hire to mind him ends up taking them to court. Almost all of it is people arguing, and everyone has a point.
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2019 · Drama
A Senate staffer spends five years in a basement writing the report on CIA torture, and five more trying to get it published. Documents, meetings and a lot of arguing.
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2024 · Drama
A Tehran investigating judge's gun goes missing at home during the 2022 protests, and he starts interrogating his wife and daughters. Nearly three hours, mostly one flat.
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