Best Lawyer Movies List

Bridge of Spies (2015)

Aggregate Rating: 190 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $72.31M

Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan, | Director: Steven Spielberg,

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Aggregate Rating: 183 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 0 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, | Director: Robert Mulligan,

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

In the Name of the Father (1993)

Aggregate Rating: 178 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $25.01M

Lead Role: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie, Philip King, | Director: Jim Sheridan,

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.

Michael Clayton (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 176 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $49.02M

Lead Role: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Michael O'Keefe, | Director: Tony Gilroy,

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.

Leviafan (2014)

Aggregate Rating: 171 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 92 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, | Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev,

In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

Aggregate Rating: 170 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $4.31M

Lead Role: Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Caerthan Banks, Tom McCamus, | Director: Atom Egoyan,

A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.

Enchanted (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 169 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $127.71M

Lead Role: Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey, | Director: Kevin Lima,

A young maiden in a land called Andalasia, who is prepared to be wed, is sent away to New York City by an evil queen, where she falls in love with a lawyer.

The Devil's Advocate (1997)

Aggregate Rating: 167 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 60 | Earnings: $60.98M

Lead Role: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, | Director: Taylor Hackford,

An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job to work in New York City for a high-end law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date.

Liar Liar (1997)

Aggregate Rating: 166 | Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $181.40M

Lead Role: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper, Cary Elwes, | Director: Tom Shadyac,

A fast-track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after he turns his son down for the last time.

Quiz Show (1994)

Aggregate Rating: 166 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $24.82M

Lead Role: Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Paul Scofield, | Director: Robert Redford,

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

A Few Good Men (1992)

Aggregate Rating: 166 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $141.34M

Lead Role: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, | Director: Rob Reiner,

Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.

The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 166 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $57.98M

Lead Role: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, | Director: Brad Furman,

A lawyer defending a wealthy man begins to believe his client is guilty of more than just one crime.

Philadelphia (1993)

Aggregate Rating: 163 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $77.32M

Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman, | Director: Jonathan Demme,

When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.

Cape Fear (1962)

Aggregate Rating: 163 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, | Director: J. Lee Thompson,

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

Enemy of the State (1998)

Aggregate Rating: 160 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $111.54M

Lead Role: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, | Director: Tony Scott,

A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime.

Cape Fear (1991)

Aggregate Rating: 160 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $79.10M

Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, | Director: Martin Scorsese,

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Aggregate Rating: 159 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $32.00M

Lead Role: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Linda Faye Farkas, | Director: Martin Scorsese,

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

The Last Wave (1977)

Aggregate Rating: 158 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: null

Lead Role: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, | Director: Peter Weir,

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aborigines in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Aggregate Rating: 155 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $52.93M

Lead Role: Joe Pesci, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio, Mitchell Whitfield, | Director: Jonathan Lynn,

Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners--comes in to defend them.

Win Win (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 155 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $10.18M

Lead Role: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor, Bobby Cannavale, | Director: Tom McCarthy,

A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.