Movies like Red Corner
If Red Corner's mix of death penalty, china and businessman stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Red Corner's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Just Mercy
2019 · Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton · 137 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: death penalty, justice · Also drama and crime
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…
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The Rainmaker
1997 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 135 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: legal thriller · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
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.
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Mulan
1998 · Directed by Tony Bancroft · 88 min7.9
Why you'll like itWith James Hong · Shares: china · From the same decade (1990s)
When Imperial China calls one man from every family to defend the empire from invading Huns, a young woman disguises herself as a soldier to take her ailing father’s place.
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Michael Clayton
2007 · Directed by Tony Gilroy · 120 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: legal thriller · Also drama and thriller
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
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The Pelican Brief
1993 · Directed by Alan J. Pakula · 141 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: legal thriller · Also thriller and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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Kung Fu Panda
2008 · Directed by Mark Osborne · 90 min7.3
Why you'll like itWith James Hong · Shares: china
Chosen by prophecy but doubted by all, Po is an unlikely choice for the mystical title of the Dragon Warrior—a clumsy panda thrust into the world of kung fu as a deadly enemy threatens the Valley of Peace.
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Mulan
2020 · Directed by Niki Caro · 115 min6.8
Why you'll like itWith Tzi Ma · Shares: china
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the…
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Directed by Billy Wilder · 116 min8.2
Why you'll like itAlso drama and crime
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a…