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Outstanding Films About the Law and Lawyers(1) |
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| YEAR | FILM | DIRECTOR |
| 1928 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | (Carl Dreyer) |
| 1936 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | (Frank Capra) |
| 1937 | The Life of Emile Zola | (William Dieterle) |
| 1947 | Miracle On 34th Street(2) | (George Seaton) |
| 1948 | The Winslow Boy(3) | (Anthony Asquith) |
| 1950 | Adam's Rib | (George Cukor) |
| Madeleine | (David Lean) | |
| 1951 | A Place In The Sun | (George Stevens) |
| 1954 | The Caine Mutiny | (Edward Dmytryk) |
| 1957 | Paths of Glory | (Stanley Kubrick) |
| Witness For The Prosecution | (Billy Wilder) | |
| Twelve Angry Men | (Sidney Lumet) | |
| 1958 | Touch of Evil | (Orson Welles) |
| 1959 | Anatomy Of A Murder | (Otto Preminger) |
| Compulsion | (Richard Fleischer) | |
| 1960 | Inherit The Wind | (Stanley Kramer) |
| 1961 | Judgment At Nuremberg | (Stanley Kramer) |
| 1962 | To Kill A Mockingbird | (Robert Mulligan) |
| Billy Budd | (Peter Ustinov) | |
| 1963 | The Trial | (Orson Welles) |
| 1966 | A Man For All Seasons | (Fred Zinnemann) |
| The Fortune Cookie | (Billy Wilder) | |
| 1969 | Z | (Constantin Costa-Gavras) |
| 1971 | Sacco & Vanzetti | (Giuliano Montaldo) |
| 1973 | The Paper Chase | (James Bridges) |
| 1977 | The Last Wave | (Peter Weir) |
| 1979 | And Justice For All | (Norman Jewison) |
| Kramer vs. Kramer | (Robert Benton) | |
| 1980 | Breaker Morant | (Bruce Beresford) |
| 1981 | Whose Life Is It Anyway | (John Badham) |
| 1982 | The Verdict | (Sidney Lumet) |
| 1983 | The Return Of Martin Guerre(4) | (Daniel Vigne) |
| 1984 | A Passage To India | (David Lean ) |
| A Soldier's Story | (Norman Jewison) | |
| 1985 | The Jagged Edge | (Richard Marquard) |
| 1988 | A Cry In The Dark | (Fred Schepisi) |
| The Accused | (Jonathan Kaplan) | |
| A Short Film About Killing | (Krzysztof Kieslowski) |
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| 1989 | A Dry White Season | (Euzhan Palcy) |
| The Music Box | (Constantin Costa-Gavras) | |
| 1990 | Reversal of Fortune | (Barbet Schroeder) |
| Presumed Innocent | (Alan J. Pakula) | |
| Close-Up | (Abbas Kiarostami) | |
| 1992 | A Few Good Men | (Rob Reiner) |
| My Cousin Vinny | (Jonathan Lynn) | |
| 1993 | The Boys of St. Vincent | (John Smith) |
| The Story of Qui Ju | (Zhang Yimou) | |
| In the Name of the Father | (Jim Sheridan) | |
| Philadelphia | (Jonathan Demme) | |
| 1995 | Dead Man Walking | (Tim Robbins) |
| 1996 | The Crucible | (Nicholas Hytner) |
| The People vs. Larry Flynt | (Milos Forman) | |
| Primal Fear | (Gregory Hoblit) | |
| 1997 | Amistad | (Steven Spielberg) |
| The Sweet Hereafter | (Atom Egoyan) | |
| The Rainmaker | (Francis Ford Coppola) | |
| 1998 | A Civil Action | (Steve Zaillian) |
| 1999 | The Hurricane | (Norman Jewison) |
| The Insider | (Michael Mann) | |
| Snow Falling on Cedars | (Scott Hicks) | |
| A Map of the World | (Scott Elliot) | |
| 2000 | Erin Brockovich | (Steven Soderbergh) |
| 2001 | Legally Blonde | (Robert Luketic) |
| 2002 | Chicago | (Rob Marshall) |
| Evelyn | (Bruce Beresford) | |
| 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | (Joel Coen) |
| 2004 | Vera Drake | (Mike Leigh) |
| 2005 | North Country | (Niki Caro) |
| The Exorcism of Emily Rose | (Scott Derrickson) | |
| 2006 | Sophie Scholl: The Last Days | (Marc Rothemund) |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton |
(Tony Gilroy) |
| Rendition | (Gavin Hood) | |
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1. Documentaries not included. 2. Remade in 1994 - inferior to 1947 version 3. Remade in 1999 by David Mamet 4. Remade in 1993 as U.S. Civil War Movie - Sommersby (Jon Amiel) |
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