10 of the Best Courtroom Movies Ever: Taste of Cinema

Since the beginning of cinema, the courtroom has been an (often climatically) important setting for the action to take place. Courtroom monologues stick out and stick with us – for instance, who could forget Jack Nicholson's famous 'You can't handle the truth!'. Academy Awards have been won and careers have been made from courtroom monologues. It's one of those real world settings that is perfectly set up for writers; long instances of intense back-and-forth dialogue in a place where we can suspend our disbelief, often knowing full well that what flies in a cinematic courtroom would never fly in the real world. Either way, some of the best performances have taken place in or surrounding a courtroom. Here is our list: