Mercy

Ninety minutes, one defendant, and an artificial intelligence holding the verdict: the premise here is a pressure cooker with the lid welded shut. A detective stands accused of murdering his wife and must argue his innocence before the advanced AI Judge he once championed, which turns the trial into a reckoning with his own faith in the machine. The setup is science fiction shaped as courtroom thriller, all confinement and countdown.

If you like near-future stories that ask hard questions about automated justice while still delivering genre thrills, this is aimed squarely at you. Expect tight pacing, interrogation-driven tension, and an atmosphere that constricts as the clock runs down. Viewers who want sprawling world-building may find it deliberately narrow, but the constraint is precisely the appeal. An easy recommendation for a night when you want a thriller that keeps you arguing with the screen.