Mississippi Burning

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 8 Dec 1988 · English

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

The Chamber

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 11 Oct 1996 · English

Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

Cape Fear

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 13 Nov 1991 · English

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

The Whole Truth

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 25 Mar 2016 · English

A defense attorney works to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.

Sleepers

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 18 Oct 1996 · English

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

Dark Places

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 8 Apr 2015 · English

A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

In the Heat of the Night

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 2 Aug 1967 · English

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Shaft

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 25 Jun 1971 · English

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Desperation Road

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 19 Oct 2023 · English

Ex-con Russell Gaines is attempting to rebuild his life with the help of his father, Mitchell. However, the arrival of Maben sends his new life into chaos, leading the pair to go on the run - as their violent pasts catch up to them, the pair must learn to trust each other if they hope to live out the rest of their days.

Primal Fear

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 3 Apr 1996 · English

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect.

Shot Caller

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 7 Jul 2017 · English

A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.

A Murder of Crows

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 6 Jul 1999 · English

In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list—and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.