Law Library Movies

	12 Angry Men (1957) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    95 min.  B&W Plot: A deadlocked jury struggles to a verdict in the murder trial of a young man accused of killing his father. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Sr., E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Robert Webber, George Voskovec, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney. Directed by Sidney Lumet. Categories: Jury  Criminal Procedure  Evidence
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	Bad Boys (1995) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    118 min.   Plot: When confiscated heroin is stolen from the Miami Police Department, two detectives must find the missing drugs before Internal Affairs shuts down the narcotics division. Cast: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Tea Leoni. Directed by Michael Bay. Categories: Evidence  Law Enforcement  Comedy
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	Big Sleep, The (1946) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    114 min.  B&W Plot: A private-eye is hired to keep an eye on General Sternwood's philandering daughter, Carmen, who has fallen in with bad company. Based on Raymond Chandler's classic novel. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone. Directed by Howard Hawks. Categories: Mystery/Suspense  Evidence  Romance
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	Blow-Up (1966) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    111 min.   Plot: After taking a closer look at some negatives, London fashion photographer realizes that he inadvertently photographed a murder. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings, Sarah Miles. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Categories: Drama  Evidence  Mystery/Suspense
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	Bone Collector, The (1999) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    118 min.   Plot: A quadriplegic homicide cop enlists the help of a young rookie to catch a deranged serial killer that abducts his victims in a yellow taxi and leaves a collection of peculiar scraps at the scene of each crime. Cast: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Ed O'Neil. Directed by Phillip Noyce. Categories: Law Enforcement  Mystery/Suspense  Evidence
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	Chinatown (1974) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    131 min.   Plot: A private eye is hired to investigate the extra-marital affair of a Los Angeles socialite, but ends up investigating a murder relating to a battle for the city's water rights. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, John Huston. Directed by Roman Polanski. Categories: Evidence  Mystery/Suspense  Land Use
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	Conspiracy Theory (1997) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    129 min.   Plot: A man who sees conspiracies everywhere publishes his theories on the internet. Trouble follows when one of his theories proves correct. Cast: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts. Directed by Richard Donner. Categories: Government  Evidence  Action
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	Conversation, The (1974) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    113 min.   Plot: A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Categories: Mystery/Suspense  Drama  Evidence
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	Crossfire (1947) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    85 min.  B&W Plot: A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Categories: Criminal Law  Evidence  Drama
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	Dead Man Walking (1996) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    122 min.   Plot: A convicted killer is sentenced to death and when th date is set for his execution, he asks a nun to be his spiritual advisor. Cast: Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky. Directed by Tim Robbins. Categories: Sentencing  Death Penalty  Evidence
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	Dressed to Kill (1980) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    105 min.   Plot: A mysterious woman murders a psychiatrist's patient with a razor stolen from his office and then sets her sites on the only witness to the crime. Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen. Directed by Brian De Palma. Categories: Mystery/Suspense  Criminal Law  Evidence
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	Fracture (2007) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    113 min.   Plot: An attorney intent on climbing the career ladder toward success, finds an unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he's trying to prosecute. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike. Directed by Gregory Hoblit. Categories: Evidence  Trial  Criminal Law
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	Fugitive, The (1993) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    127 min.   Plot: Based on the classic TV series, a Chicago surgeon falsely accused of killing his wife undertakes to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the actual murderer. Cast: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore, Joe Pantoliano. Directed by Andrew Davis. Categories: Law Enforcement  Action  Evidence
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	In Cold Blood (1967) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    134 min.  B&W Plot: Two ex-convicts break into a Kansas farmer's home, and try to avoid being caught. Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Jeff Corey. Directed by Richard Brooks. Categories: Documentary  Evidence  Sentencing
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	Jacket, The (2005) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    103 min.   Plot: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves. Cast: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brad Renfro. Directed by John Maybury. Categories: SciFi/Fantasy  Medical  Evidence
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	JFK (1991) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  206 min.   Plot: A New Orleans District Attorney takes it upon himself to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, 1963. Cast: Kevin Costner, Sally Kirkland, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Joe Pesci, Walter Matthau, Sissy Spacek. Directed by Oliver Stone. Categories: Government  Evidence  Drama
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	L.A. Confidential (1997) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    136 min.   Plot: A shooting at an all-night diner is investigated by three Los Angeles detectives in their own unique ways. Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russel Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito. Directed by Curtis Hanson. Categories: Law Enforcement  Justice  Evidence
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	Law & Order: The First Year (2002) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD  6 disc set  17 hours, 40 min.   Plot: Television drama depicting both halves of the criminal justice system: the investigating police detectives, and the prosectuting district attorneys. Cast: Jerry Orbach, Paul Sorvino, George Dzundza, Jesse L. Martin, Benjamin Bratt, Chris Noth. Directed by John P. Whitesell II, E.W. Swackhamer, Vern Gillum. Categories: Television  Evidence  Criminal Procedure
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	Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD  (6 disc set)  22 hours, 0 min.   Plot: All 22 episodes of the first season of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit Cast: Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, Mariska Hargitay, Michelle Hurd, Ice-T, Stephanie March, Christopher Meloni, Dean Winters, B.D. Wong. Directed by Dick Wolfe. Categories: Television  Evidence  Criminal Procedure
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	Letter, The (1940) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    96 min.  B&W Plot: A woman kills a close family friend, claiming that he attacked her. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard. Directed by William Wyler. Categories: Evidence  Ethics  Drama
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	Life of David Gale, The (2003) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    130 min.   Plot: A respected professor and anti-death penalty activist is charged with a brutal murder. Cast: Kate Winslet, Cleo King, Constance Jones, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney. Directed by Alan Parker. Categories: Death Penalty  Evidence  Drama
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	Memento (2001) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    113 min.   Plot: A man with no short-term memory attempts to track down his wife's killer. Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Categories: Mystery/Suspense  Witness  Evidence
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	Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil (1997) Rated:   Stars: ***1/2 Format: DVD    155 min.   Plot: A New York reporter is dispatched to cover an A-list Christmas party in Savannah, Georgia, but when the host is accused of murder, the real story unfolds. Cast: Kevin Spacey, John Cusack, Jude Law, Jack Thompson, Alison Eastwood, Irma P. Hall, Lady Chablis. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Categories: Criminal Law  Evidence  Drama
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	Murder by Numbers (2002) Rated:   Stars: **1/2 Format: DVD    120 min.   Plot: Two gifted high school students execute a "perfect" murder, then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt. Directed by Barbet Schroeder. Categories: Criminal Procedure  Evidence  Law Enforcement
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	My Cousin Vinny (1992) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    120 min.   Plot: Two youths accused of murder in a small Alabama town are represented by a relative who has never won a case. Cast: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne. Directed by Jonathon Lynn. Categories: Comedy  Criminal Procedure  Evidence
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	Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    150 min.   Plot: A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence. Cast: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, Jessie Miskelly, Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols. Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. Categories: Juvenile  Evidence
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	Passage to India, A (1984) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    163 min.   Plot: The romantic adventures of a young Englishwoman in 'the mysterious East' culminate in a court trial for attempted rape. Cast: Judy Davis, Alec Guiness, Victor Banerjee. Directed by David Lean. Categories: Criminal Procedure  Evidence  International
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	Rashomon (1951) Rated:   Stars: ***** Format: DVD    83 min.  B&W Plot: Four people involved in the murder of a gentleman in feudal Japan and the seduction of his wife give differing accounts of what actually happended. Subtitled in English. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Categories: Witness  Evidence  Foreign
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	Red Dragon (2002) Rated:   Stars: *** Format: DVD    124 min.   Plot: An FBI agent seeks the help of Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter to help catch the serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy." Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson. Directed by Brett Ratner. Categories: Law Enforcement  Criminal Law  Evidence
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	Reversal of Fortune (1990) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    109 min.   Plot: Alan Dershowitz, a brilliant professor of law, is hired by a wealthy socialite to attempt to overturn his two convictions for the attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife. Cast: Glen Close, Jeremy Irons, Ron Silver. Directed by Barbet Schroeder. Categories: Mystery/Suspense  Criminal Law  Evidence
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	Seven (1996) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    127 min.   Plot: Two homicide detectives desperately hunt for a serial killer who chooses seven victims, one by one, each representing egregious examples of transgressions of the Seven Deadly Sins. Cast: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt. Directed by David Fincher. Categories: Law Enforcement  Mystery/Suspense  Evidence
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	Smokin' Aces (2006) Rated:   Stars: **1/2 Format: DVD    109 min.   Plot: A Las Vegas magician finds himself the target of professional hit men after he snitches on the Mob. Cast: Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds. Directed by Joe Carnahan. Categories: Organized Crime  Evidence  Law Enforcement
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	Stir Crazy (1980) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    108 min.   Plot: Framed for a bank robbery, two innocent greenhorns have a difficult time adjusting to life in a Western prison. Cast: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, George Stanford Brown, JoBeth Williams. Directed by Sidney Poitier. Categories: Comedy  Sentencing  Evidence
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	Thin Blue Line (1988) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    90 min.   Plot: This documentary recounts the investigation of a criminal case of a man falsely accused of murdering a Dallas police officer. Cast: Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson. Directed by Errol Morris. Categories: Documentary  Law Enforcement  Evidence
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	Trial, The (1963) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    118 min.  B&W Plot: A young man is mysteriously arrested for an unspecified crime and is put on trial. Based on the novel by Franz Kafka. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Elsa Martinelli, Akim Tamiroff. Directed by Orson Welles. Categories: Criminal Procedure  Evidence
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	Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD  (2 disc set)  103 min.   Plot: When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, his only hope to be proven innocent is a toon-hating private detective. Cast: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Categories: Animation  Evidence  Comedy
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	Wrong Man, The (1957) Rated:   Stars: **** Format: DVD    105 min.  B&W Plot: An innocent man's life is ruined when he is arrested, jailed, and brought to trial for crimes committed by someone who resembles him. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Nehemiah Persoff. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Categories: Evidence  Criminal Procedure  Drama
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The W&M Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to our Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you think the library should own, please submit a suggestion form at the circulation desk, or send us an email at [[lawcir]]. You can see a list of all Law Library movies in the online catalog.