Best new Courtroom movies in 2024 & 2023 (Netflix, Prime, Hulu & Cinema List)



List of the latest legal movies in 2024 and the best legal movies of 2023 & the 2010's. Top legal movies to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ & other Streaming services, out on DVD/Blu-ray or in cinema's right now.

New legal movies in 2024 in Cinema & on VOD

Top movies up for release in 2024 in cinema and on VOD


Best legal movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+ or DVD in 2024

2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and the 2010's best rated legal movies out on DVD, Bluray or streaming on VOD (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Disney+ & More).
  • Anatomy of a Fall

    DIRECTOR: Justine Triet
    CAST: Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado-Graner & Swann Arlaud
    Director Justine Triet (In Bed with Victoria, Age of Panic) brings the thrills in this award-winning thriller. The film follows Sandra, a German writer trying to prove her innocence. She’s been accused of the murder of her husband and finding it difficult to convince others she is not the killer. The only key witness is her blind son, who faces a moral problem of trying to figure out if his mother committed murder. This fascinating mystery stars the talents of Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Antoine Reinartz, and Samuel Theis. Read more

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  • The Crime is Mine

    DIRECTOR: François Ozon
    CAST: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder & Isabelle Huppert
    The poor actress Madeleine Verdier is accused of murdering a famous producer. She seeks her best friend's help to help prove her innocence in the courts. While she manages to be acquitted, the life that follows turns out to be one of glory but with an ugly truth that bubbles under the surface. Written and directed by François Ozon (Peter von Kant, Everything Went Fine, Summer of 85), this dramatic mystery stars Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Madeleine Verdier, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Dany Boon, Fabrice Luchini, Felix Lefebvre, Rebecca Marder, Michael Fau, and Edouard Sulpice. Read more

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  • The Mauritanian

    DIRECTOR: Kevin Macdonald
    CAST: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster & Shailene Woodley
    Mohamedou Ould Salahi (Tahar Rahim) finds himself without charges or trial when he is taken in by the US government and imprisoned within the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Coming to his defense is defense attorney Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and Teri Duncan (Shailene Woodley) who try to restore some hope for the prisoner in despair. But they’re in for one rocky cast of conspiracies and injustice in this biting legal thriller, based on the memoir Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Salahi himself. Read more

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  • The Trial of the Chicago 7

    DIRECTOR: Aaron Sorkin
    CAST: Sacha Baron Cohen, Eddie Redmayne & Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Based on true events, 'The Trial of the Chicago 7' tells the story of seven people from entirely different backgrounds standing trial after the notorious 1968 uprising during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Read more

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  • Worth

    DIRECTOR: Sara Colangelo
    CAST: Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci & Amy Ryan
    After the September 11th attacks of 2001, many victims now seek help that the government doesn’t seem to be providing. Washington D.C. attorney Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) continues to fight for the rights of those seeking legal assistance amid a political system that is plagued with cynicism and bureaucracy within the law that refuses to offer support. Based on the true story of Feinberg, this legal drama boasts an all-star cast that includes Amy Ryan, Stanley Tucci and Tate Donovan. Read more

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  • Just Mercy

    DIRECTOR: Destin Daniel Cretton
    CAST: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx & Brie Larson
    Based on a true story, the young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) seeks to legally fight the many death row cases in Alabama. While taking on numerous cases at once, Bryan is particularly intrigued by the case of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), a man wrongfully accused of a murder he did not commit. The evidence seems against him but the more that Bryan digs into this case, the more the guilty verdict seems baffling. But Bryan will also have to contend with a corrupt and racist community to finally have the charges dropped for Walter in this stirring courtroom drama. Read more

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  • On the Basis of Sex

    DIRECTOR: Mimi Leder
    CAST: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer & Justin Theroux
    The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the judge who, after a long struggle for equal rights, became the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more

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  • The Judge

    DIRECTOR: David DobkinDavid Dobkin
    CAST: Robert Downey Jr. Robert Duvall Vera Farmiga
    A successful lawyer has to return to his home town when his father who is the town judge is charged of murder; he investigates the case to get to the truth and in the... Read more

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    RATING: 74/100

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  • Loving

    DIRECTOR: Jeff Nichols
    CAST: Ruth Negga Joel Edgerton Will Dalton
    An inter-racial couple faces a court trial for miscegenation as their marriage is discarded by the Virginia state law hence forcing them into a legal battle for their... Read more

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    RATING: 71/100

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  • Denial

    DIRECTOR: Mick Jackson
    CAST: Rachel Weisz Tom Wilkinson Timothy Spall
    A highly popular and acclaimed writer and historian is sued for libel by a denier when she claims in her writings that holocaust had actually taken place; now she has to... Read more

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    RATING: 66/100

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  • Lucia de B

    DIRECTOR: Paula van der Oest
    CAST: Marwan Kenzari Barry Atsma Fockeline Ouwerkerk
    A young attorney puts a nurse who is accused of serial killings, behind the bars but then she finds evidence that states her innocence and puts the attorney in dilemma. Read more

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    RATING: 7.1/100

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  • Hannah Arendt

    DIRECTOR: Margarethe von Trotta
    CAST: Barbara Sukowa Axel Milberg Janet McTeer
    The film provides an outlook to the life and profession of Hannah Arendt; a philosopher and a Political theorist who reported the war crime trials of Nazi Adolf Eichman... Read more

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    RATING: 7.2/100

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  • Bernie

    DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater
    CAST: Jack Black Shirley MacLaine Matthew McConaughey
    An amiable undertaker develops a fond friendship with a wealthy widow but soon realizes her controlling manners and so he goes great distances to get rid of this... Read more

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    RATING: 6.8/100

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  • The Lincoln Lawyer

    DIRECTOR: Brad Furman
    CAST: Matthew McConaughey Marisa Tomei Ryan Phillippe
    A lawyer is appointed to defend a wealthy realtor in a case of assault against him; the accused claims that the victim was fabricating the charges to get money from him... Read more

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    RATING: 7.3/100

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  • Marshall

    DIRECTOR: Reginald Hudlin
    CAST: Dan Stevens Sterling K. Brown Kate Hudson
    Upcoming biopic about the first Afro-American Supreme Court Judge, Thurgood Marshall. Read more

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    RATING: 75/100

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  • Dark Waters

    DIRECTOR: Todd Haynes
    CAST: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway & Tim Robbins
    Mark Ruffalo at the top of his game in this gripping true story about a corporate lawyer who, against all odds, takes on a case against a chemical company that's... Read more

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  • RBG

    DIRECTOR: Julie Cohen, Betsy West
    CAST: Bill Clinton, Sharron Frontiero, James Steven Ginsburg, Jane C. Ginsburg
    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal... Read more

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  • The Insult

    DIRECTOR: Ziad Doueiri
    CAST: Adel Karam, Kamel El Basha, Camille Salameh, Diamand Bou Abboud
    After a fight that got out of hand, a Christian and a Muslim Lebanese end up in court. Read more

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    RATING: 83/100

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