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  1. 112 Angry Men (1957)12 Angry Men (1957) 9.0/10 on IMDbReleased Apr 10, 1957The argument starts before the credits: is Juror 8 a hero of reasonable doubt, or simply the most persuasive man in the room? Sidney Lumet keeps almost the whole story inside one jury room, and Henry Fonda's calm refusal to vote guilty without a discussion turns a murder trial into a study of…0
  2. 2Two Days, One Night (2014)Two Days, One Night (2014) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased May 21, 2014Would you give up a 1,000-euro bonus so a colleague could keep her job? That is the whole film, and it is plenty. Marion Cotillard's Sandra, returning to the factory after depression, spends one weekend visiting the coworkers who voted against her before a second, secret ballot on Monday morning.…0
  3. 3Force Majeure (2014)Force Majeure (2014) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased Aug 15, 2014A father's split-second reaction to an apparent avalanche at a resort in the French Alps becomes the question that eats his family's ski vacation: can you hold someone responsible for an instinct? Ruben Östlund plays it as a deadpan comedy of embarrassment, which makes the debate easy to start and…0
  4. 4Gone Baby Gone (2007)Gone Baby Gone (2007) 7.6/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 18, 2007Ben Affleck's directing debut, adapted from Dennis Lehane's novel, begins as a missing-child case in Boston's Dorchester and builds to one of the hardest choices in modern American crime cinema. Without giving it away, the film asks whether doing what the law requires and doing what is best for a…0
  5. 5Do the Right Thing (1989)Do the Right Thing (1989) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased Jun 14, 1989Spike Lee wrote, directed and plays Mookie, the delivery man at Sal's pizzeria in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and the film still puts its title question to every audience that sees it. Over one hot summer day, small grievances about respect, ownership and policing build toward a decision people have argued…0
  6. 6Eye in the Sky (2015)Eye in the Sky (2015) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased Sep 7, 2015A drone strike on militants in a Nairobi safe house is ready to go, until a young girl sets up near the target to sell her mother's bread. Gavin Hood's thriller then becomes a real-time seminar on risk, law and political cover, as Helen Mirren's colonel pushes for the strike and officials keep…0
  7. 7The Hunt (2012)The Hunt (2012) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased Oct 25, 2012Mads Mikkelsen won Best Actor at Cannes as Lucas, a divorced kindergarten teacher whose small Danish community turns on him after a false accusation. Because the audience knows he is innocent, the debate moves somewhere more uncomfortable: what should his neighbors have done with what they…0
  8. 8Doubt (2008)Doubt (2008) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 12, 2008At a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a strict principal becomes convinced that a popular priest has behaved improperly with a student, and she has no proof. John Patrick Shanley adapted his own play, and Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis all earned Oscar nominations.…0
  9. 9A Separation (2011)A Separation (2011) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased Feb 15, 2011Asghar Farhadi's drama starts with a couple at a stalemate: Simin wants to leave Iran with their daughter, and Nader will not abandon his father, who has Alzheimer's. The caregiver he hires, a devout woman from a poor suburb, brings a second family into the story, and a confrontation between the…0
  10. 10Dead Man Walking (1995)Dead Man Walking (1995) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased Dec 29, 1995Tim Robbins adapted Sister Helen Prejean's book about her spiritual work with a man on death row, and the film's great strength is that it argues with itself. Sean Penn's Matthew Poncelet is neither easy to pity nor simple to condemn, and the victims' parents are given real weight rather than a…0