Movies like 12 Angry Men (1957)

Name: 12 Angry Men
Released: 1957

10 films to watch after 12 Angry Men, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

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 begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

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Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Fit 80%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
2

I Want to Live! (1958)

Fit 66%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
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Just Mercy (2019)

Fit 66%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

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.
4

The Winslow Boy (1999)

Fit 65%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
5

Let Him Have It (1991)

Fit 65%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
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Juror #2 (2024)

Fit 63%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.
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The Star Chamber (1983)

Fit 60%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
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The Rainmaker (1997)

Fit 58%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

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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Knock on Any Door (1949)

Fit 57%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
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The Lost Weekend (1945)

Fit 42%

Shares Drama with 12 Angry Men.

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.