Movies about lawyers and lawyers

Movies about lawyers and lawyers
List of the best movies about lawyers selected by visitors to our site: Laws of Attraction, The Lincoln Lawyer, Dark Waters, The Firm, A Few Good Men, Erin Brockovich, A Time to Kill, Big Stan, Truth, The Devil's Advocate.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, USA
Duration01:27

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

    A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA

    A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. She starts investigating and soon exposes a monumental cover-up.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

      Rob Schneider writes and stars in this comedy about a nerdy con man whose swindling ways land him a stiff prison sentence. Terrified at the prospect of being raped in prison he enlists the aid of a mysterious kung-fu expert to teach him how to fight.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration02:06

      A behind-the-scenes look at news anchor Dan Rather during his final days at C.B.S. News when he broadcast a damaging report about how President Bush relied on privilege and family connections to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:24

      A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Elle Woods has it all. She's the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde. She dates the cutest fraternity boy on campus and wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But, there's just one thing stopping Warner from popping the question: Elle is too blonde.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:30

      A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA

      The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      A law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      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 wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his mouth has suddenly become his biggest liability.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      A rising young attorney successfully defends a man accused of murder, only to have the same type of murder then happen again. Right away the previously defended man hires the attorney again, and although the attorney is quite certain that he is the killer, he agrees to again defend him... much to the consternation of his friends. However, he explains that by being his attorney he will be better able to catch the man in a mistake... and on this the rest of the film develops, with the killer playing a cat and mouse game with the attorney until, at last, they both must recognize that they are not all that different.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA

      The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a 3rd person in the room. The intensity builds when a surprise twist alters everyone's perception of the crime.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, musical, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom
      Duration01:53

      Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:33

      Raiders are the hunters for a big business and Spirsky is probably the best of them...

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA, China, Canada
      Duration01:55

      Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:10

      When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of bland, civil suits – but the lure of the criminal courts is too much for him, especially when the case is so difficult.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend , to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

      A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, crime, detective, biography
      CountryUSA, China, Hong Kong
      Duration02:30

      Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:34

      Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:48

        A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:36

        Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes rightfully belongs to her family. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:15

        Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredocumentary, biography, history
        CountryFrance

        A documentary on Jacques Vergès, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryGermany, USA
        Duration01:39

        Serving Sara is a 2002 romantic comedy film which stars Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley and Bruce Campbell. Joe Tyler (Perry) is a process server who is given the assignment to serve Sara Moore (Hurley) with divorce papers.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryIndia

        Three girls find themselves accused of attempt to murder after escaping molestation. Their only hope is an alcoholic lawyer who agrees to take up the case.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryFrance
        Duration02:06

        Victoria Spick, a criminal lawyer who is single, turns up at a wedding and meets three men there: David, the father of her daughters; Vincent, a friend of hers; and Sam, a former drug dealer who she bailed out. The next day, Vincent is accused of attempted murder by his partner.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA

        Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. Encouraged in his attempts by his strategically chosen (and much older) wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht, Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore. The only one seemingly immune to his charms is Elsa's daughter Amanda, who might simply disapprove of her mother marrying a much younger man - or perhaps she senses something more sinister beneath the smooth-talking surface?

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he doesn't do it, the judge will have him disbarred.

        Markimdb: 9
        Genredrama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        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 shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

        Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:50

        Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything—including his career and his clients' goals—in order to continue the case against all odds.

        Markimdb: 8.3
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        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.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrethriller, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        A David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
        Duration01:45

        A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:22

          A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.




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