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15 films tagged law
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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