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Fr. 2025. Drama by Samuel Theis with Julien Ernwein, Marie Masala, Marina Foïs. A forty-something man with no life plan, who finds solace in alcohol, receives a summons to serve as a juror in the trial of a young arsonist.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 2024. Court drama by Clint Eastwood with Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons.
Runtime: 94 min.

Anatomy of a Fall

V.O.: Anatomie d'une chute
Fr. 2023. Drama by Justine Triet with Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado Graner, Swann Arlaud. A visually impaired boy attends the trial of his mother, accused of murdering his father, who was found dead in the snow near the mountain chalet where they lived.
Runtime: 151 min.

The Goldman Case

V.O.: Le Procès Goldman
Fr. 2023. Court drama by Cédric Kahn with Arieh Worthalter, Arthur Harari, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié. In 1975, in Amiens, the second trial of a Jewish far-left activist, who claims to be unjustly accused of the murder of two pharmacists during a robbery.
Runtime: 115 min.

Red Rooms

V.O.: Les Chambres rouges
Can. 2023. Thriller by Pascal Plante with Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Elisabeth Locas. In Montreal, a thirty-something tech-savvy woman has an unbounded fascination for a man accused of kidnapping, raping and killing three teenage girls.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 2022. Drama by Alice Diop with Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Salih Sigirci. An author attends the trial of a young woman who drowned her 15-month-old daughter, with the intention of making it the subject of her next book.
Runtime: 122 min.
U.S. 2020. History by Aaron Sorkin with Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Rylance. In 1969, eight left-wing activists are tried for inciting a riot and assaulting police during the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago.
Runtime: 128 min.
U.S. 2019. Court drama by Todd Haynes with Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins. After an epiphany, a chemical industry defense lawyer turns against his employers.
Runtime: 127 min.
Can. 2012. Drama by Daniel Grou-Podz with Marc-André Grondin, Marilyn Castonguay, Sarianne Cormier. Despite claiming his innocence, a separated convenience store delivery person and father of two is sentenced to prison for the sexual assault of a woman.
Runtime: 121 min.
U.S. 2007. Thriller by Tony Gilroy with George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson. A lawyer working for a large firm is assigned a case that puts him into a moral dilemma.
Runtime: 129 min.
U.S. 2003. Court drama by Gary Fleder with John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman. A lawsuit against a major arms manufacturer becomes the plaything of a manipulative juror and his mysterious girlfriend.
Runtime: 127 min.
U.S. 2000. Court drama by Steven Soderbergh with Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart. An uneducated single mother, working as an assistant in a law office, sues the big company that contaminated the drinking water of a small community.
Runtime: 131 min.

The Rainmaker

V.O.: John Grisham's the Rainmaker
U.S. 1997. Court drama by Francis Ford Coppola with Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes.
Runtime: 135 min.
U.S. 1993. Court drama by Jonathan Demme with Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Mary Steenburgen. A lawyer is suing his former bosses who fired him after learning he was gay and had AIDS.
Runtime: 122 min.
Irl. 1993. Court drama by Jim Sheridan with Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson. Unjustly accused of participating in a terrorist attack, a young Irishman and his father serve a long prison sentence.
Runtime: 133 min.
U.S. 1992. Court drama by Rob Reiner with Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson. The lawyer for marines on trial for murder is trying to show that the defendants were obeying an order given by one of their superiors.
Runtime: 138 min.
U.S. 1990. Crime drama by Alan J. Pakula with Harrison Ford, Greta Scacchi, Brian Dennehy. Suspected of having killed a colleague with whom he was in love, a married lawyer seeks to prove his innocence.
Runtime: 127 min.
U.S. 1988. Court drama by Jonathan Kaplan with Jodie Foster, Kelly McGillis, Bernie Carlson. A lawyer takes on the defense of a young girl who was raped in a bar under the encouragement of the customers.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1982. Court drama by Sidney Lumet with Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason. A disgraced lawyer is entrusted with an important case that will allow him to regain control of his career.
Runtime: 129 min.

The Trial

V.O.: Le Procès
Fr. 1962. Drama by Orson Welles with Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau. A man under arrest can?t figure out what crime he is being accused of.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1962. Social drama by Robert Mulligan with Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford. In 1932, in a village in Alabama, a humanist lawyer defends a Black man unjustly accused of raping a white woman.
Runtime: 123 min.
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U.S. 1961. Social drama by Stanley Kramer with Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell. The fictionalized story of a trial brought by Americans against Nazi leaders.
Runtime: 189 min.
U.S. 1959. Court drama by Otto Preminger with James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara. A lawyer defends a lieutenant accused of committing a murder out of jealousy.
Runtime: 159 min.
U.S. 1957. Court drama by Billy Wilder with Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich. An elderly lawyer accepts to argue a lost cause, convinced of his client's innocence.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1957. Court drama by Sidney Lumet with Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam. A jury?s discussion in a murder case.
Runtime: 94 min.
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