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10 Best Movies Like The Defense

If you loved The Defense, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Red Corner

Red Corner

1997★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defense for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country....

#2
Just Mercy

Just Mercy

2019★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defense for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 sent...

#3
Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret

Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret

2013★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defense for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

True story based on Jodi Arias, a seductive 28-year-old aspiring photographer found guilty of killing her former lover, Travis Alexander, who was found nude in his home shower with...

#4
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defense for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#5
Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor

1940★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defense for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death....

#6
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

1957★ 8.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Defense for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begi...

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