Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "1950s", "district-attorney"

1. Perry Mason (1957–1966)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The trials of a master criminal defense attorney handling the most difficult cases in support of the innocent.

Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, Ray Collins

Votes: 11,857

2. L.A. Confidential (1997)

R | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger

Votes: 618,274 | Gross: $64.62M

3. The Irishman (2019)

R | 209 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An illustration of Frank Sheeran's life, from W.W.II veteran to hit-man for the Bufalino crime family and his alleged assassination of his close friend Jimmy Hoffa.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 431,462 | Gross: $7.00M

4. A Place in the Sun (1951)

Passed | 122 min | Drama, Romance

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere

Votes: 24,805

5. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Mystery

An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell

Votes: 71,397 | Gross: $11.90M

6. Magic City (2012–2013)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama

Centers on Miami mobsters and other characters from Miami Beach in the late 1950s.

Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Olga Kurylenko, Steven Strait, Jessica Marais

Votes: 13,290

7. The Killer Inside Me (2010)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty

Votes: 35,746 | Gross: $0.21M

8. Infamous (2006)

R | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

While researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

Director: Douglas McGrath | Stars: Toby Jones, Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock, Sigourney Weaver

Votes: 18,224 | Gross: $1.15M

9. Hollywoodland (2006)

R | 126 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).

Director: Allen Coulter | Stars: Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane, Bob Hoskins

Votes: 35,966 | Gross: $14.42M

10. Middle Men (2009)

R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of Internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of con men, mobsters, drug addicts, and porn stars.

Director: George Gallo | Stars: Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht, James Caan

Votes: 38,376 | Gross: $0.72M

11. I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)

60 min | Drama

Forrest Bedford is a Southern lawyer in the late 1950s, generally content with his privileged life.

Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch

Votes: 1,037

12. Unmasked (1950)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Roger Lewis, publisher of a vicious scandal sheet, is in the habit of tricking wealthy, gullible women into investing in his ventures. His latest conquest is a shapely ex-showgirl, Doris ... See full summary »

Director: George Blair | Stars: Robert Rockwell, Barbra Fuller, Raymond Burr, Hillary Brooke

Votes: 114

13. The Enforcer (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

Directors: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane

Votes: 5,649

14. Tight Spot (1955)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A female inmate is whisked out of prison and into a police-guarded hotel until the district attorney can convince her to testify against the mob.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lucy Marlow

Votes: 2,543

15. The Garment Jungle (1957)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.

Directors: Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone

Votes: 1,222

16. The Family Secret (1951)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama

A lawyer faces a difficult decision when his son accidentally kills his best friend with no witnesses present, and a rift develops when his mother and father offer contradictory solutions to their son's dilemma.

Director: Henry Levin | Stars: John Derek, Lee J. Cobb, Jody Lawrance, Erin O'Brien-Moore

Votes: 386

17. Slaughter on 10th Avenue (1957)

Passed | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A brave longshoreman lingers on after being gunned down by 3 racketeers, as a determined assistant D.A. searches hard for fearful witnesses against the men.

Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Richard Egan, Jan Sterling, Dan Duryea, Julie Adams

Votes: 476

18. Cafe Society (1995)

R | 107 min | Drama, Mystery

A society playboy with a taste for the lowlife is set up for exploitation by an unscrupulous undercover cop and his shadowy political masters.

Director: Raymond De Felitta | Stars: Frank Whaley, Peter Gallagher, Lara Flynn Boyle, John Spencer

Votes: 425 | Gross: $0.01M

19. The Human Jungle (1954)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Police procedural film about a police captain assigned to take over a demoralized police precinct and turn it around by solving all the unsolved cases as well as some new tough ones.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Gary Merrill, Jan Sterling, Regis Toomey, Lamont Johnson

Votes: 239

20. Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)

Passed | 86 min | Family

A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Yvette Duguay, Gene Lockhart, Nancy Guild

Votes: 390

21. Count the Hours! (1953)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Lawyer defends migrant worker falsely accused of two murders.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran, Adele Mara

Votes: 605

22. The Unknown Man (1951)

Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An attorney successfully defends a young hoodlum charged with murder but later has doubts about his client's innocence and starts investigating his background and associations.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Ann Harding, Barry Sullivan, Keefe Brasselle

Votes: 456

23. Criminal Lawyer (1951)

Approved | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Alcoholic lawyer sobers up to defend friend in murder case.

Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Jane Wyatt, Carl Benton Reid, Mary Castle

Votes: 129

24. Headline Hunters (1955)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

City Editor Ned Powers assigns student reporter David Flynn to veteran newsman Hugh Woodruff, primarily to get on Woodruff's nerves. David has long admired Woodruff, but is saddened to see ... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: Rod Cameron, Julie Bishop, Ben Cooper, Raymond Greenleaf

Votes: 192

25. Scandal Incorporated (1956)

Passed | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When movie actor Brad Cameron is at Federated Studios in Hollywood for wardrobe fittings, he learns that Scandal magazine has published a false cover story about him being "caught in the ... See full synopsis »

Director: Edward Mann | Stars: Robert Hutton, Patricia Wright, Paul Richards, Robert Knapp

Votes: 21

26. I Cover the Underworld (1955)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A priest is about to see his twin brother, whom he hasn't seen in a long time--because his brother, a gang leader, has been serving a stretch in prison.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Sean McClory, Joanne Jordan, Ray Middleton, Jaclynne Greene

Votes: 46

27. A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002)
Episode: Immune to Murder (2002)

TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Arriving at a remote lodge at the request of the State Department and a South American diplomat, a reluctant Wolfe prepares to cook trout for an oil tycoon's fishing party when Archie discovers one of the men dead in the river.

Director: John R. Pepper | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, David Schurmann, Robert Bockstael

Votes: 103

28. Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode: Sleight of Hand (1958)

TV-PG | Adventure, Drama, Family

Sky starts to hear tales of dishonesty about the people who run gambling operations in nearby Center City. Sky decides to kook into the matter but it brings danger to the pilot and his young friend Davey Wilson.

Director: Clark L. Paylow | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ewing Mitchell, Terry Kelman

29. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 31 October 1951 (1951)

News, Talk-Show

Huie, Donald I. Rogers, financial editor of the New York Tribune, and Ed Reed, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, interview Miles F. McDonald, the District Attorney for New York's Kings County. ... See full summary »

Stars: William Bradford Huie, Miles F. McDonald, Ed Reed, Donald I. Rogers

30. The Murders at Starved Rock (2021)
Episode: Part 1: The Boogeyman (2021)

TV-14 | 59 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

In 1961, 22-year-old Chester Weger is charged with the brutal murder of three women in Starved Rock State Park. Decades later, David Raccuglia, the son of the prosecutor who put Chester ... See full summary »

Director: Jody McVeigh-Schultz | Stars: Johnny Cannizzaro, Crystal Lujan, Geoffrey Dean Mallard, Rod Thorson

Votes: 76

31. Scary Tales of New York (2023– )
Episode: Haircut for a Mob Boss (2023)

Crime

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, once the chief of the notorious "Murder Incorporated" crime firm, winds up the target of a mob hit in a barber shop chair.

Director: Steve Maher | Stars: Frank DiMatteo, Michael Cannell, Colm Meaney, Shane Serrano