Movies like Murder in the First

A Time to Kill

1996

lawyer, courtroom · Drama, Crime · Warner Bros. Pictures

Brubaker

1980

prison, prisoner abuse · Drama, Crime

The Life of David Gale

2003

prison, death row · Drama, Crime

True Crime

1999

death row · Drama, Crime · Warner Bros. Pictures

Argentina 1985

2022

lawyer, courtroom · Drama, Crime

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

1932

prison · Drama, Crime · Warner Bros. Pictures

A Soldier's Story

1984

1940s · Drama, Crime

Roman J. Israel, Esq.

2017

lawyer, courtroom · Drama, Crime

No Man of God

2021

prison, death row · Drama, Crime

The Client

1994

lawyer · Drama, Crime · Warner Bros. Pictures

I Confess

1953

murder trial, lawyer · Drama, Crime · Warner Bros. Pictures

Mississippi Burning

1988

Drama, Crime · with Stephen Tobolowsky and Brad Dourif

Sleepers

1996

Drama, Crime · with Kevin Bacon

Citizen X

1995

Close on feel, same era · Drama, Crime

An American Crime

2007

mistreatment · Drama, Crime

Edge of Darkness

2010

Drama, Crime · Warner Bros. Pictures

The Mauritanian

2021

prisoner, lawyer · Drama

Papillon

1973

prison · Drama, Crime

The Third Murder

2017

murder trial, lawyer, courtroom · Drama, Crime

Cop Land

1997

Close on feel, same era · Drama, Crime

The Goldman Case

2023

murder trial · Drama, Crime

In Her Name

2016

Close on feel · Drama, Crime

True Story

2015

prison, prisoner · Drama, Crime

Cool Hand Luke

1967

prison · Drama, Crime