Movies Like The Defenders: Choice of Evils
If you liked The Defenders: Choice of Evils (1998), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Andy Wolk, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Knock on Any Door (1949)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaAn attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and tv movieJesse investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the police force deals with the arrogant new police chief who is the son-in-law of a town councilman.
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Inherit the Wind (1999)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieTwo great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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Stone Cold (2005)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movieJesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. Stone's old habits die hard as he continues to…
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Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaHard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm's frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon…
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...And Justice for All (1979)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaAn ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
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A Fall from Grace (2020)
★ 7/10Also dramaWhen a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
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True Colors (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaTwo law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
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Tyler Perry's Duplicity (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaHigh-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned…
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Gang Related (1997)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaAfter murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.
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Confirmation (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and tv movieJudge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.
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The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaIn order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movieThe true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and tv movieWhen Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and into the affluent world of a bestselling writer who exploits troubled…
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Righteous Kill (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaTwo veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the…
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Faster (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaAfter 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
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Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv moviePolice Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and…
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The Christmas Shoes (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movieTwo separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second…
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TalhotBlond (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieThomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
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Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movieDefiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.