Classic legal movie recommendations
# Liar Liar
Ano: 1997 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Tom Shadyac
Elenco: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Cary Elwes, Jennifer Tilly, Swoosie Kurtz
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Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish - that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's w
# Murder in the First
Ano: 1995 | País: France, United States of America
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Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19
# A Few Good Men
Ano: 1992 | País: US
Diretor: Rob Reiner
Elenco: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland
Sinopse
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.
# Legally Blonde
Ano: 2001 | País: US
Diretor: Robert Luketic
Elenco: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber
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Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all, but, she wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to Harvard Law School. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just good looks.
# Enemy of the State
Ano: 1998 | País: GB
Diretor: Tony Scott
Elenco: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean
Sinopse
The life of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert 'Bobby' Dean is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy while holiday shopping. Unbeknownst to Dean, he's just been burdened with a videotape of a congressman's assassination. Hot on the trail of this tape is a ruthless group of National Security Agents commanded by a belligerently ambitious NSA official named Reynolds. Using satellite surveillance, bugs, and other sophisticated snooping devices, the NSA infiltrates every facet of Dean's existence, tracing each physical and digital footprint he leaves while also framing him for murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, he attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.
# The Trial of the Chicago 7
Ano: 2020 | País: US
Diretor: Aaron Sorkin
Elenco: Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Rylance, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Frank Langella
Sinopse
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
# The Reader
Ano: 2008 | País: DE
Diretor: Stephen Daldry
Elenco: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz
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The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
# JFK
Ano: 1991 | País: US
Diretor: Oliver Stone
Elenco: Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon, Michael Rooker
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Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
# In the Name of the Father
Ano: 1993 | País: United Kingdom, Ireland
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A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police
# Judgment at Nuremberg
Ano: 1961 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Stanley Kramer
Elenco: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell
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In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not
# 12 Angry Men
Ano: 1957 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Sidney Lumet
Elenco: Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall
Sinopse
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and sh
# To Kill a Mockingbird
Ano: 1962 | País: US
Diretor: Robert Mulligan
Elenco: Mary Badham, Gregory Peck, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton
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Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.