List of trial films

Following is a list of trial films, containing films which center on the legal process of a trial, usually a trial by jury.

Title Director Date Actor Actor Miscellaneous
Judge Priest John Ford 1934 Will Rogers
The Prisoner of Shark Island John Ford 1936 Warner Baxter Gloria Stuart
The Caine Mutiny Edward Dmytryk 1954 Humphrey Bogart José Ferrer military court, from novel by Herman Wouk
Young Mr. Lincoln John Ford 1939 Henry Fonda
The Return of Frank James Fritz Lang 1940 Henry Fonda Gene Tierney
The Paradine Case Alfred Hitchcock 1947 Gregory Peck Alida Valli
12 Angry Men Sidney Lumet 1957 Henry Fonda Lee J. Cobb
The Boys (1962 British film) Sidney J. Furie 1962 Richard Todd Robert Morley
A Man for All Seasons Fred Zinnemann 1966 Paul Scofield Orson Welles from play by Robert Bolt
Anatomy of a Murder Otto Preminger 1959 James Stewart Lee Remick from novel by John D. Voelker
Inherit the Wind Stanley Kramer 1960 Spencer Tracy Fredric March
Judgment at Nuremberg Stanley Kramer 1961 Spencer Tracy Maximilian Schell military court
Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick 1957 Kirk Douglas Adolphe Menjou military court
The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928 Renée Jeanne Falconetti Eugène Silvain
The Trial Orson Welles 1962 Anthony Perkins Akim Tamiroff from novel by Franz Kafka
The Wrong Man Alfred Hitchcock 1957 Henry Fonda Vera Miles
To Kill a Mockingbird Robert Mulligan 1962 Gregory Peck Mary Badham
The Verdict Sidney Lumet 1982 Paul Newman Charlotte Rampling
Town Without Pity Gottfried Reinhardt 1961 Kirk Douglas Christine Kaufmann military court; theme song sung by Gene Pitney, lyrics by Ned Washington, music by Dimitri Tiomkin
King and Country Joseph Losey 1964 Dirk Bogarde Tom Courtenay military court
Breaker Morant Bruce Beresford 1980 Bryan Brown Edward Woodward military court
A Few Good Men Rob Reiner 1992 Jack Nicholson Demi Moore military court
Rules of Engagement William Friedkin 2000 Tommy Lee Jones Samuel L. Jackson military court
The Passion of the Christ Mel Gibson 2004 Jim Caviezel Maia Morgenstern
The Devil and Daniel Webster William Dieterle 1941 Edward Arnold Walter Huston
The Man Who Sued God Mark Joffe 2000 Billy Connolly Judy Davis
The Exorcism of Emily Rose Scott Derrickson 2005 Laura Linney Tom Wilkinson
The Crucible (1957 film) Raymond Rouleau 1996 Simone Signoret Yves Montand
JFK Oliver Stone 1991 Kevin Costner Kevin Bacon
My Cousin Vinny Jonathan Lynn 1992 Joe Pesci Marisa Tomei Marisa Tomei won an Oscar
...And Justice for All Norman Jewison 1979 Al Pacino Jack Warden
Painted Faces 1929
Amistad Steven Spielberg 1997 Morgan Freeman Anthony Hopkins
The Ox-Bow Incident William A. Wellman 1943 Henry Fonda Dana Andrews
The Wreck of the Mary Deare Michael Anderson 1959 Gary Cooper Charlton Heston
A Time to Kill Joel Schumacher 1996 Sandra Bullock Samuel L. Jackson
The Client Joel Schumacher 1994 Susan Sarandon| Brad Renfro from the novel by John Grisham
Presumed Innocent Alan J. Pakula 1990 Harrison Ford Raúl Juliá from the novel by Scott Turow
Primal Fear Gregory Hoblit 1996 Richard Gere Edward Norton from the novel by William Diehl
A Civil Action Steven Zaillian 1998 Robert Duvall John Travolta
Miracle on 34th Street George Seaton 1947 Edmund Gwenn
The Trial David Jones 1993 Kyle MacLachlan Anthony Hopkins novel by Franz Kafka, screenplay by Harold Pinter
Trial Mark Robson 1955 Glenn Ford Dorothy McGuire from the novel by Don Mankiewicz
The Trial Gary Wheeler 2010 Matthew Modine Randy Wayne from the novel by Robert Whitlow
Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer Nick Searcy 2018 Earl Billings Dean Cain
Witness for the Prosecution Billy Wilder 1957 Tyrone Power Marlene Dietrich
In the Name of the Father Jim Sheridan 1993 Daniel Day-Lewis Pete Postlethwaite
Compulsion Richard Fleischer 1959 Dean Stockwell Orson Welles
Runaway Jury Gary Fleder 2003 John Cusack Rachel Weisz
Fracture Gregory Hoblit 2007 Anthony Hopkins Ryan Gosling
The Lincoln Lawyer Brad Furman 2011 Matthew McConaughey Marisa Tomei from the novel by Michael Connelly
Murder in the First Marc Rocco 1995 Christian Slater Kevin Bacon
Music Box Costa-Gavras 1989 Jessica Lange Armin Mueller-Stahl
The Last Wave Peter Weir 1977 Richard Chamberlain Olivia Hamnett
The Accused Jonathan Kaplan 1988 Kelly McGillis Jodie Foster
I Confess Alfred Hitchcock 1953 Montgomery Clift Anne Baxter
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing Richard Fleischer 1955 Joan Collins Farley Granger fictionalized account of the Harry Kendall Thaw murder trial
Knock on Any Door Nicholas Ray 1949 Humphrey Bogart John Derek
Boomerang! Elia Kazan 1947 Dana Andrews Jane Wyatt
Suspect Peter Yates 1987 Cher Dennis Quaid
The Trial of Joan of Arc Robert Bresson 1962 Florence Delay Jean-Claude Fourneau
The Tattered Dress Jack Arnold 1957 Jeff Chandler Jeanne Crain
The Rainmaker Francis Ford Coppola 1997 Matt Damon Danny DeVito
Q & A Sidney Lumet 1990 Nick Nolte Timothy Hutton
The Judge David Dobkin 2014 Robert Downey Jr. Robert Duvall
Flash of Genius Marc Abraham 2008 Greg Kinnear fictionalized account of the Robert Kearns patent case against the Ford Motor Company
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