“Monstruo” es lo que el abogado de la acusación llama al joven de 17 años Steve Harmon, un brillante estudiante de Harlem y aspirante a director de cine. Acusado de asesinato por un crimen que él asegura no haber cometido, la película se centra en la compleja batalla legal que determinará si pasa el resto de su vida en la cárcel.
Colette Hughes, abogada de los derechos de los pacientes, va a defender a nueva cliente, Eleanor Riese, una paciente de la unidad psiquiátrica de un hospital de San Francisco. Hughes no se imagina que, además de emprender una batalla legal para mejorar el tratamiento de los enfermos mentales en los hospitales, transformará su vida.
La periodista Jenny Eliscu y la cineasta Erin Lee Carr investigan la lucha por la libertad de Britney Spears a través de entrevistas exclusivas e informes confidenciales.
A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the wishes of her mother, Alma, and rejects the plea-bargain that would free her from jail, but brand her as a felon for life. As word begins to spread that similar incidents are occurring in poor communities all across the country, Dee realizes that there are more mothers out there like her, and decides to take a stand against powerful district attorney Calvin Beckett. Now, despite being well aware of District Attorney Beckett's fierce reputation, Dee enlists the aid of ACLU attorney David Cohen and former narcotics officer Sam Conroy in overcoming the seemingly insurmountable obstacles that, if not navigated with the greatest of caution, now threaten to destroy her life. With the custody of her children on the line, one brave mother wages a valiant battle to strike at the very heart of the corrupt Texas justice system.
Drama biográfico sobre la breve pero intensa vida del cantante Frankie Lymon que formó el efímero grupo Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. Con sólo trece años alcanzó un gran éxito en las listas radiofónicas de 1956 con su tema "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?". Sin embargo su carrera tocó a su fin con tan sólo 18 años y tuvo continuos problemas de drogas.
A searing examination of the contamination that sparked an international catastrophe and the decades’ long battle with some of the world’s largest chemical companies for justice and compensation.
Un publicista le pide a su secretaria que se case con ella, por pura conveniencia, para poder cerrar un negocio que tiene entre manos. El pacto conlleva el divorcio inmediato, una vez cerrado el asunto. El problema viene cuando ella rehúsa cumplir con su parte, quiere seguir casada con su 'maridito'.
A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with the government bureaucracy, and particularly with a power-hungry administrator. After many delays, they deny his application. Then, he finds a way to turn the tables on them for the boy's own good.
Documental que relata los hechos relacionados con el asesinato y secuestro de dos hermanas sucedido en Filipinas en 1997, por el que fue condenado el estudiante de 19 años Paco Larrañaga.
A compelling call for justice, Stolen Time follows charismatic elder rights lawyer Melissa Miller as she takes on the corporate for-profit nursing-home industry—an industry notorious for its lack of transparency and accountability. As the legal battle unfolds, families, frontline caregivers and change-makers chronicle an urgent crisis with ramifications—and inspiration—for us all.
El 23 de diciembre de 2015 el Ministerio de Hacienda publicó su primera ‘Lista de morosos’. En el número 1 figuraba un completo desconocido: Agapito García Sánchez. Ésta es su historia... la de todo un país. El documental revela a García Sánchez como una versión moderna del protagonista de ‘El proceso’ de Kafka; un ciudadano frente a la tiranía de los mecanismos del Estado y su administración, gracias a lo cual, su caso acaba por convertirse en hilo conductor de un análisis detallado acerca del alarmante envilecimiento de las garantías ciudadanas.
You've read the stories, you've seen the documentaries. Now see the movie that brings it all to life.
Basheer (Jagathy) is rescued by a cargo ship while lost at sea. Basheer has had a partial memory loss and he struggles to find out what has happened to him. The captain of the ship (Lalu Alex) tries to get him back to land, but he runs into several legal troubles due to the lack of documents with Basheer to prove his identity. Bhaskara Pillai (Mamootty), a lawyer decides to help out Basheer seeing his plight. The plot thickens when there's an attempted murder on Basheer.
Almost four decades as the Princess of Pop, superstar Britney Spears, continues to be in the public eye on the brink of winning a legal battle with her father that would end a conservatorship and at long last give her control of her life.
“In God We Teach” is the story of Matthew LaClair, a student at Kearny (NJ) public high school who secretly recorded his history teacher, David Paszkiewicz in class, and accused him of proselytizing for Jesus.
The Steven Avery case has become a national obsession. ID Front Page brings you the story of the man who served 18 years in prison for a crime he never committed... only to find himself back behind bars just two years later, charged in a brutal murder.