Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Courtroom: 100 Films to Rent on DVD
- QB VII (TV Mini-Series) (1974)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Ben Gazzara, Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Caron…
- A multiple Emmy–winning adaptation of the novel by Leon Uris (best known for "Exodus") detailing the gripping court battle between a…
- Crown Court (TV Series) (1972)
- "Water cooler" British courtroom drama that used fictional cases, but presented them before a jury comprised of members of the actual public. Cases…
- Madame X (1966)
- Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban…
- Sudsy melodrama with Turner as a woman with a past who's dalliance with a wealthy politician leads to murder. Superior weepie, lushly mounted and…
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- Dir. Robert Mulligan
Feat. Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
- Moving adaptation stars Gregory Peck in an Oscar–winning performance as the genial lawyer who defends an innocent Negro accused of rape in the…
- Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximilian Schell…
- Dramatisation of the trial of the Nazi judges at Nuremberg, facing the patient integrity of Judge Spencer Tracy. Epic, gripping courtroom drama, with…
- Town Without Pity (1961)
- Dir. Gottfried Reinhardt
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Robert Blake, Richard Jaeckel…
- Bitter legal drama with Kirk Douglas defending four American soldiers charged with the gang rape of a young German woman.
Somewhat sluggish in its…
- Inherit the Wind (1960)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly
- The Evolutionist vs Creationist debate is encapsulated in this courtroom recreation of the Monkey Trial of the 1920s (a Tennessee schoolteacher was…
- Time Without Pity (1957)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Ann Todd…
- Nervy noir has Michael Redgrave in top form as an alcoholic father racing against time to save his son from the gallows.
Somewhat dated thriller…
- Place in the Sun, A (1951)
- Dir. George Stevens
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters…
- Montgomery Clift excels as a penniless youth whose determination to win the heart of socialite Elizabeth Taylor (in her debut as an adult actress) is…
- Rashomon (1951)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori…
- The film that brought Kurosawa to the attention of the world, and an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film.
Four wildly varying perspectives on a…