If You Liked The Trial, Watch These Next
Finished The Trial (1962) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Trial, most of them are crime, drama, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life(1995)
7.6DramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment.…
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2.The Pelican Brief(1993)
6.6ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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4.They Made Me a Fugitive(1947)
6.6DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and crime
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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5.Brute Force(1947)
7.3CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
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6.The Limits of Control(2009)
6.0CrimeDramaMysteryAlso crime and drama
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
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7.The Rainmaker(1997)
7.0DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrappy, unlicensed paralegal, he finds himself in a David-versus-Goliath courtroom battle that tests his ethics, courage, and belief in justice.
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8.Just Mercy(2019)
7.8DramaCrimeHistoryAlso drama and crime
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
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9.The Parts You Lose(2019)
6.7DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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10.The Caveman's Valentine(2001)
5.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and mystery
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but…
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11.Ministry of Fear(1944)
6.9CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and mystery
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and doesn't quite know to whom to turn.
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12.Riot in Cell Block 11(1954)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
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13.The File on Thelma Jordon(1949)
6.6ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Cleve tries to clear her name.
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14.The Detective(1968)
5.9CrimeMysteryDramaAlso crime and mystery
New York City Police detective Joe Leland investigates the grisly murder of Teddy Leikman, the gay son of a politically influential department store owner. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in NYC in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs, homophobia, homosexuality and…
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15.F.I.S.T.(1978)
6.5DramaActionCrimeAlso drama and crime
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
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17.Cry of the City(1948)
6.7CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella must check Niles' allegation; a friend of the Rome family, he walks a tightrope between sentiment and cynicism.…
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18.The Seven-Ups(1973)
6.4ThrillerCrimeMysteryAlso crime and mystery
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
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19.Killer's Kiss(1955)
6.3ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced…
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20.The Sense of an Ending(2017)
6.3MysteryDramaAlso mystery and drama
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
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