Nick Dunne este un soț fericit și împlinit. La cea de-a cincea aniversare a căsătoriei sale cu Amy, viața sa ia o întorsătură tragică, căci Amy dispare fără urmă din locuința lor de pe râul Mississippi. Asaltat de presă, poliție și de către părinții lui Amy, Nick pare să afișeze un comportament ciudat, alimentat de minciuni și atitudini inadecvate. Acuzațiile se strâng împotriva lui Nick, iar aproape fiecare cuplu din oraș începe să se întrebe cât de bine își cunoaște partenerul sau partenera de viață. Ajutat doar de sora sa vitregă, Margo, Nick încearcă să își dovedească nevinovăția. Dar cum poate fi totuși explicată dispariția lui Amy?
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.
John Dromoor este un detectiv care își îneacă amarul în alcool pentru a mai uita de probleme. Devine interesat de cazul unei mame singure, atacate în mod brutal de patru bărbați în fața fiicei sale de 12 ani. În timp ce femeia atacată, Teena, se recuperează în spital, Droomor încearcă să îi găsească pe făptași. Însă, un judecător incompetent și un avocat sunt deciși să îi pună bețe în roate. Droomor ia atitudine și începe o investigație pe cont propriu.
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler accepts the defense of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. At the trial he must face the tenacious police inspector Peter Nadler.
in 1957, black lawyer defends his nephew, who faces the death penalty for murdering a white boy.
Rosario was unjustly condemned for a robbery committed in the theater where she worked as secretary of producer Gaston Leducq. When she leaves prison, she tries to prove her innocence to Gaston, but things do not happen as she expected.
Some 20 years ago, two sex workers were murdered in an upper-class Brussels neighborhood. Celebrated Belgian magistrate Anne Gurwez decides to revisit this cold case, pouring over the evidence with the use of new technologies and tracking down then-suspects.
A female lawyer who specialises in defending suspected rapists is left traumatised after she herself is assaulted in her own home.
The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.
A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
When a young girl is kidnapped, ruthless police inspector Peter Nadler embarks on a race against time to rescue her.
Police detective Lanny resents the ongoing interference of the local FBI branch. Hoping to show up the feds, Lanny tackles a baffling espionage case. Things heat up when reporter sweetheart Ollie is framed for murder.
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.
The story is the search of the young Moszkowicz looking for his identity within his Jewish family, he wants to part with his inner demons and wants to break with the negative patterns in his life. In a country where 75 percent of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, the Moszkowicz family of lawyers stood out as a unique Jewish success story.
Veteran defense attorney Konrad Biegler and tenacious police inspector Peter Nadler face off in the trial of a man accused of kidnapping a young girl. (Abridged version of Enemies: Against the Clock and Enemies: The Confession, focusing on the ins and outs of the judicial process.)
Chadrasekhar alias Chandru, is a graduate but he cannot find a job so he often goes to jail for earning a living. He lives with his friend Jeeva. Jothi, a fearless criminal lawyer, fights against injustice. Chandru falls in love with Devi while Jothi is in love with Chandru.
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
The young lawyers Wolfgang Heer, Wolfgang Stahl and Anja Sturm are Beate Zschäpe's defence lawyers. "Die Story" has accompanied the lawyers over the past five years. A documentary from the depths of the NSU trial.