The Reader (
2008) | IMDb:
7.6
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Michael Clayton (
2007) | IMDb:
7.2
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.
Starring:
George Clooney
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Tilda Swinton
,
Michael O'Keefe
,
Sydney Pollack
,
Danielle Skraastad
The Interpreter (
2005) | IMDb:
6.4
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Starring:
Nicole Kidman
,
Sean Penn
,
Catherine Keener
,
Jesper Christensen
,
Yvan Attal
,
Earl Cameron
The Quiet American (
2002) | IMDb:
7
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Starring:
Michael Caine
,
Brendan Fraser
,
Do Thi Hai Yen
,
Tzi Ma
,
Rade Šerbedžija
,
Robert Stanton
Directed by:
Phillip Noyce