Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like A Civil Action

If you loved A Civil Action, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for A Civil Action.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich

2000★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civil Action for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across...

#2
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civil Action for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#3
Marshall

Marshall

2017★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civil Action for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases....

#4
True Colors

True Colors

1991★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civil Action for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics....

#5
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civil Action for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

#6
Reversal of Fortune

Reversal of Fortune

1990★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Civil Action for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal....

Advertisement