Sadakat Kadri
For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom-and in this fascinating book, Sadakat Kadri surveys four thousand years of courtroom drama. A ... [... more]
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Amistad (Widescreen)
 Amazon.com essential video: Steven Spielberg's most simplistic, sanitized history lesson, Amistad, explores the symbolic 1840s trials of 53 West Africans following their bloody rebellion aboard a slave ship. For most of Schindler's List (and, later, [... more]
CDN$15.95
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Primal Fear (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Clever twists and a bona fide surprise ending make this an above-average courtroom thriller, tapping into the post-O.J. scrutiny of our legal system in the case of a hotshot Chicago defense attorney (Richard Gere) whose latest client is [... more]
CDN$12.99
Amazon CA |
Philadelphia: 10th Anniversary Edition
Amazon.com Essential Video: Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS (it followed such worthy independent films as Parting Glances and Longtime Companion), but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that [... more]
CDN$26.95
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Criminal Justice
Surprisingly Realistic and Thoughtful Entertainment: I too stumbled across this movie on the Lifetime channel, and was taken by how many aspects of the system it got right. I am a public defender, and I was drawn in by details as small as the lawyers [... more]
CDN$11.98
Amazon CA |
Sleepers (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: The first thing you need to know about Sleepers is that it's based on a novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra that was allegedly based on a true story. The movie repeats this bogus claim, which was attacked and determined by a wide majority to be [... more]
CDN$18.70
Amazon CA |
Jagged Edge (Widescreen/Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: Before screenwriter Joe Eszterhas wrote the ridiculous Showgirls, he crafted some entertaining if porous thrillers along the lines of the 1985 Jagged Edge, a taut mystery about an attorney (Glenn Close) who defends a newspaper publisher ( [... more]
CDN$14.95
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Anatomy of a Murder (Full Screen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Otto Preminger turned this 1959 courtroom drama, based on the popular novel, into terrific adult drama. James Stewart stars as a small-town lawyer who defends an army officer (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a bartender who [... more]
CDN$26.95
Amazon CA |
Nuts
From Amazon.com: Barbra Streisand is a mad high-priced "escort" accused of murder, but whether she's mad as hell or mad as a hatter is the question in this courtroom drama, adapted from the play by Tom Topor. While her doting, willfully [... more]
CDN$9.93
Amazon CA |
12 Angry Men (Widescreen)
Amazon.com Essential Video: Sidney Lumet's directorial debut remains a tense, atmospheric (though slightly manipulative and stagy) courtroom thriller, in which the viewer never sees a trial and the only action is verbal. As he does in his later [... more]
CDN$15.98
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Breaker Morant (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Before coming to America to make such acclaimed films as Tender Mercies and Driving Miss Daisy, Australian director Bruce Beresford made a lasting impression with this compelling courtroom drama, considered one the finest films of the [... more]
CDN$39.95
Amazon CA |
Eureka
From Amazon.com: Anyone expecting conventional storytelling from director Nicolas Roeg will be disappointed by this tale of fate, wealth, greed, and obsession, but if you're familiar with Roeg's work, you'll know that Eureka deserves a place among such [... more]
CDN$25.98
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