law student
28 movies and shows
The Reader
Wed, 10 Dec 2008
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Rounders
Fri, 11 Sep 1998
A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Hillbilly Elegy
Mon, 09 Nov 2020
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Reversal of Fortune
Fri, 19 Oct 1990
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
The Paper Chase
Tue, 16 Oct 1973
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
From Prada to Nada
Fri, 28 Jan 2011
Two spoiled Beverly Hills sisters who have been left penniless after their father's sudden death are forced to move in with their estranged aunt in East Los Angeles.
Side Out
Fri, 30 Mar 1990
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
Detour
Fri, 20 Jan 2017
A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
The Cousins
Wed, 11 Mar 1959
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
Class
Sat, 14 Aug 2010
When a privileged law student gets a homework assignment to help a disadvantaged single mother find—and keep—a job, he learns that some of the greatest lessons aren’t taught in school.
Crime and Punishment USA
Sun, 01 Nov 1959
Believing he can elude justice, a California law student murders an elderly pawnbroker, then matches wits with the detective on the case.
The Student
Mon, 20 Mar 2017
After leading a jury to wrongly sentence a man, Abigail enters her new teaching job at the law school with a newfound commitment to ethics. When she takes over her new class, it includes Vincent, an intensely ambitious student who will do anything for an A. When Abigail fails him for academic dishonesty, Vincent threatens that he will stop at nothing to get what he wants. As Vincent's devious plot begins to unravel, she must take her life into her own hands, or Vincent will take it himself.
Bordertown
Wed, 23 Jan 1935
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.
Withdrawal
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Artistic lovers, Viv and Jay, have become trapped in a vicious cycle of codependent heroin addiction. But when Viv’s wealthy parents hire an interventionist to take Viv to rehab, the couple decides to set off on their own with the help of a suboxone prescription... all they have to do is survive a harrowing night through drug withdrawal.
I, Desire
Mon, 15 Nov 1982
A coroner's assistant, who is also a law student, gets involved in a strange case involving his girlfriend's place of employment (a hospital), prostitutes, a defrocked priest, and vampires.
The Young Lawyers
Tue, 28 Oct 1969
Attorney Michael Cannon leaves his Boston law firm to become director of the Neighborhood Law Office, where he guides three law students on a case involving two visiting musicians accused of robbing and beating up a cab driver. TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week in October of 1969 and then became a TV-series as part of the 1970-71 season.
Die Informantin
Sat, 19 Mar 2016
The young law student Aylin knows exactly what she wants: Become a lawyer. To finance her studies, she works as an escort girl. Because she had to defend herself against a pushy businessman, now threatened five years in prison. From the police comes an offer that she embarks on in her distress: As a decoy Aylin can avert her punishment and even continue to study law. Drug investigator Jan and his boss Hannah use them on the smuggler Musab to arrest him in the act. How dangerous the clever Clan chief can be, but they both do not say.
Agony
Fri, 29 Jul 2016
On the 3rd of October a twenty-four-year-old student from Vienna kills his lover and chops up her corpse. Her torso is found in a dumpster, other body parts and the head are missing. There is no clue about the motive of the murder. A silent chronology of the events.
Ana by Day
Tue, 19 Jun 2018
Ana, a young Spanish woman from a bourgeois family, is about to finish her studies and get married, but she is not happy. After a very unlikely event happens, her life turns around and everything changes.
Everything Must Go
Wed, 04 Dec 1996
Tony is a homosexual law student who quits his studies. With a van and a handful of cash, he hits the road hoping to become a salesman. This, however, turns out to be harder than he expected.