Search results for "Martin Ritt"
Stanley & Iris

Stanley & Iris

Stanley & Iris
IMDb: 6.3
104

An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Nuts

Nuts

Nuts
IMDb: 6.6
116

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Genre: Drama
Murphy’s Romance

Murphy’s Romance

Murphy’s Romance
IMDb: 7
107

Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cross Creek

Cross Creek

Cross Creek
IMDb: 6.9
127

In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida’s backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Back Roads

Back Roads

Back Roads
IMDb: 5.7
94

A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Norma Rae

Norma Rae

Norma Rae
IMDb: 7.3
110

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to…

Genre: Drama
Casey’s Shadow

Casey’s Shadow

Casey’s Shadow
IMDb: 6.1
117

Young Casey comes from a family of racehorse trainers, and his best friend, a foal called Casey’s Shadow, may just be a champion.

Genre: Drama, Family
The Front

The Front

The Front
IMDb: 7.3
95

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Conrack

Conrack

Conrack
IMDb: 7.3
106

A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the…

Genre: Drama
Sounder

Sounder

Sounder
IMDb: 7.5
105

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Genre: Drama
Pete ‘n’ Tillie

Pete ‘n’ Tillie

Pete ‘n’ Tillie
IMDb: 6.2
100

A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren’t strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Molly Maguires

The Molly Maguires

The Molly Maguires
IMDb: 6.8
120

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining…

The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope
IMDb: 6.9
103

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Genre: Drama
The Brotherhood

The Brotherhood

The Brotherhood
IMDb: 6
96

The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his…

Hombre

Hombre

Hombre
IMDb: 7.4
111

John Russell, disdained by his “respectable” fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Genre: Western
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
IMDb: 7.5
112

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Outrage

The Outrage

The Outrage
IMDb: 6.2
96

At a disused railway station, three men — a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector — discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Hud

Hud

Hud
IMDb: 7.8
112

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the…

Genre: Drama, Western
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
IMDb: 6.3
145

Young and restless Nick Adams, the only son of a domineering mother and a weak but noble doctor father, leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Paris Blues

Paris Blues

Paris Blues
IMDb: 6.7
98

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Five Branded Women

Five Branded Women

Five Branded Women
IMDb: 6.6
115

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.

Genre: Drama, War
The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury
IMDb: 6.2
110

Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fortunes and respect.

Genre: Drama
The Black Orchid

The Black Orchid

The Black Orchid
IMDb: 6.4
94

An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster’s widow.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer

The Long, Hot Summer
IMDb: 7.3
115

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

Genre: Drama
No Down Payment

No Down Payment

No Down Payment
IMDb: 7.1
105

The marital difficulties of four couples living in a southern California housing development become intertwined. Among the unhappy couples are ne’er-do-well Jerry Flagg and his long-suffering wife Isabelle, flirtatious Leola…

Genre: Drama
Edge of the City

Edge of the City

Edge of the City
IMDb: 7.2
85

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

Genre: Drama