Courtroom Dramas on Netflix
Last updated March 09, 2025
The Rainmaker
1997 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsWhen young attorney Rudy Baylor goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy sue their insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.
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Breaker Morant: Masterworks Edition
1980 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsThree Australian soldiers (Edward Woodward, Bryan Brown and Lewis Fitz-Gerald) find themselves court-martialed for murder in 1901, at the end of South Africa's bloody Boer War. With just one day to prepare a defense, attorney major J.F. Thomas (Jack Thompson) must retrace his clients' steps -- and prove they acted under orders. Based on a play by Kenneth Ross, the film won 10 Australian Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
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Conviction
2010 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsConvinced that her brother, Kenneth (Sam Rockwell), has been unjustly convicted of murder and incompetently defended by court-ordered attorneys, high school dropout Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) puts herself through law school in order to represent him in his appeal. Inspired by a true story, director Tony Goldwyn's stirring drama also stars Melissa Leo, Minnie Driver, Peter Gallagher and Clea DuVall.
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Brokedown Palace
1999 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsBest friends Alice (Claire Danes) and Darlene (Kate Beckinsale) journey to Thailand to celebrate their high school graduation. But after falling in with a charming con artist (Daniel Lapaine), they're busted at the Hong Kong airport for smuggling narcotics they didn't know they were carrying. Their only hope: the dazzling skills of lawyer "Yankee" Hank Greene (Bill Pullman), whose connections might help them beat impossible odds.
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No One Killed Jessica
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis political thriller tells the true story of model Jessica Lall -- who was shot dead while tending bar in a New Delhi restaurant -- and the lengthy campaign waged by her sister (Vidya Balan) and a news reporter (Rani Mukherjee) to deliver Jessica's killer to justice. Although a trial is conducted and dozens of witnesses testify, the suspected gunman is acquitted, but media outcry and petitions to the president lead to a reopening of the case.
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Guilty
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this gripping drama based on a true story, family man Alain Marécaux battles to prove his innocence after he's wrongly accused of an unspeakable crime. Jailed and entangled in a legal morass, Marécaux sees his whole life turned upside down.
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The Winslow Boy
1999 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen his 14-year-old son is expelled from the Royal Naval College for stealing, bank manager Arthur Winslow launches a long and costly effort to clear the boy's name. But in the process, the determined Arthur may destroy his family.
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The Crucible
1996 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsPlaywright Arthur Miller's parable of the 1950s anti-communist crusade (thinly veiled here as the Salem, Mass., witch trials of 1692) receives lush treatment in this Oscar-nominated film adaptation from director Nicholas Hytner. After being spurned by her married lover (Daniel Day-Lewis), young Abigail Williams (Winona Ryder) stirs up a frenzy of hysteria and fear with accusations of witchcraft. Joan Allen earned an Oscar nod for her role.
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Suspect
1987 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen a Supreme Court justice commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all signs point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But the public defender assigned to his case soon begins to believe Anderson may be innocent.
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Hart's War
2002 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen an African-American pilot (Terrence Howard) in a German POW camp is accused of murdering one of his fellow inmates, Lt. Tommy Hart (Colin Farrell) must defend him. But Hart's superiors (including Bruce Willis) caution that digging too deep could expose secrets that would mean death to all prisoners. In a place where lies keep men alive, one young officer must uncover the truth -- whatever the cost.
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The Chicago 8
2011 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe political turmoil of 1968 leads to several days of rioting in Chicago, after which eight notorious political activists, including Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, are arrested for conspiracy and tried in a case that rivets the nation.
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsNotorious pornographer Larry Flynt carries his free-speech campaign from lowly strip clubs to the U.S. Supreme Court in this Oscar-nominated biopic, which blends details of the publisher's legal battles with scenes from his personal life.
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Howl
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsJames Franco steps into the shoes of famed Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in this star-studded biopic centered around Ginsberg's poem "Howl" and the widely publicized obscenity trial that followed its publication in 1957.
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Leslie, My Name Is Evil
2009 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsSheltered, sexually frustrated chemist Perry is thrust headlong into the wildness of the 1960s when he is selected as a jury member in the infamous trial of Charles Manson and becomes obsessed with one of Manson's followers, Leslie Van Houten.
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