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.

Red Corner
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....

Just Mercy
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...

Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret
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...

All Day and a Night
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....

Stranger on the Third Floor
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....

12 Angry Men
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...