Schoolteacher John Scopes is placed under close arrest for advocating Darwin's theory of evolution to his pupils in violation of a stifling Tennessee law banning anything that 'denies the divine creation of man as taught by the Bible'. The case is taken up by a cynical newspaper-man who takes an interest when the champion of the Fundamentalists and three-time presidential candidate is named prosecutor. A fascinating and absorbing dramatisation of the famous 1925 'Monkey Trial'. find out more...

Under Islamic law it's illegal for Iranian females to attend football/soccer matchs, but in this film a number attempt to smuggle themselves into a crucial World Cup qualifier against Bahrain. We follow the fortunes of a group who are caught, placed in a compound inside the stadium and guarded by a group of somewhat unsophisticated male army conscripts. The guards are totally terrified by the red tape of the situation they are in, for example, and most hilariously, when one of the girls needs to find out more...

This hit series stars Gabriel Macht as one of Manhattan's top corporate lawyers who sets out to recruit a new hotshot associate but winds up hiring the only guy that impresses him--a brilliant but unmotivated college dropout (Patrick J. Adams). Though he isn't actually a lawyer, this legal prodigy has the book smarts of a Harvard law grad and the street smarts of a hustler. However, in order to serve justice and save their jobs, both these unconventional thinkers mus find out more...

A career CIA operative begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to; an oil broker faces tragedy and finds redemption through an idealistic Gulf prince; a corporate lawyer faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the merger of two powerful US oil companies; while across the globe, a disenfranchised Pakistani teenager falls prey to the recruiting efforts of a charismatic cleric. Each character provides one of the many layers to this intelligent and thought provokin find out more...

As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle. 

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Arthur Goldman, a rich Jewish industrialist who lives in luxury in Manhattan and is irreverent about many things Jewish, is arrested by Israeli secret agents for, allegedly, being a Nazi war criminal. Robert Shaw turned playwright to create this brilliant drama, inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann, concerned with guilt, paranoia, conspiracy theories and martyrdom. Directed by Arthur Hiller, Maximilian Schell was deservedly Oscar-nominated for his tour-de-force central performance. find out more...

Concentrating on the trial and torture of the young French warrior who provoked such fear in the church and state, a zealot in the eyes of those in power and one whose fate was sealed as soon as her capture was assured. Using historical records as the basis for the film, Bresson's The Trial Of Joan Of Arc has the feeling of a docu-drama and is reminiscent of the claustrophobic intensity of Arthur Miller's ‘The Crucible'. An emotionally harrowing and rewarding observation of untouchable faith and find out more...