A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The ...
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes ge...
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what trul...
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually...
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
A Javanese royal and half-Dutch woman fall in love as Indonesia rises to independence from colonial ...
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in ...
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the...
Fritz Haarmann, who has killed at least 27 boys, is questioned by a psychology professor in order to...
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
A knife-scarred victim must identify her assailant beyond a reasonable doubt. Meanwhile the accused ...
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accu...
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their un...