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Martin Ritt - filmography

Stanley And Iris on DVD (1989)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Martha Plimpton
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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An illiterate cook tries for the attentions of a recently widowed woman. When sh finds out about his inability to read, she takes it upon herself to teach him.

63% from 481 members

Nuts on DVD (1987)
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Karl Malden
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

64% from 413 members

Murphy's Romance (1985)
Starring: Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Just when you think you've found the right guy, someone even worse comes along.

65% from 19 members
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Norma Rae on DVD (1979)
Starring: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Pat Hingle
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman), ..read more »

66% from 328 members

The Front on DVD (1976)
Starring: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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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.

68% from 224 members

Conrack (1974)
Starring: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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White Pat Conroy was born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina. In March, 1969 under the Beaufort School District, he starts a job teaching at a small poor school located on Daufuskie Island, an island in a South Carolina river delta, the island accessible only by boat. The island is inhabited ..read more »

70% from 1 member
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Sounder (1972)
Starring: Carl Lumbly, Cecily Tyson, Kevin Hooks
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black share-croppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the ..read more »

100% from 1 member
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The Great White Hope (1970)
Starring: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

41% from 7 members
Currently unavailable

The Molly Maguires on DVD (1969)
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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This grim historical drama from director Martin Ritt was loosely based on real-life events. Richard Harris stars as James McParlan, an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency in 1876. The Pinkertons have been hired by a major coal company to infiltrate and expose an underground terrorist ..read more »

62% from 317 members

Hombre (1967)
Starring: Val Avery, Paul Newman
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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An Indian policeman travels by stagecoach and encounters more than his share of trouble. Filled with hard looks, calmly delivered threats and lots of gun play.

68% from 107 members
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold on DVD (1965)
Starring: Claire Bloom, Richard Burton, Oskar Werner
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Martin Ritt's adaptation of the John Le Carre bestseller THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD stars Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, a burnt-out spy soon to retire from British Intelligence. For his final assignment, Alec must pose as a drunk who wants to defect to East Germany, where the chief of ..read more »

73% from 1,505 member

Hud on DVD (1962)
Starring: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Martin Ritt's HUD is an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel HORSEMAN, PASS BY, successfully transformed into an entertaining and ambitious contemporary Western. Set on a Texas ranch where Cadillacs, cattle, and transistor radios coexist uneasily, the film stars Paul Newman as the hedonistic, ..read more »

72% from 1,069 member

Adventures Of A Young Man on DVD (1962)
Starring: Richard Beymer, Diane Baker
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Nick Adams leaves his rural Michigan home to embark on an eventful cross-country journey. He is touched and affected by his encounters with a punch-drunk ex-boxer, a sympathetic telegrapher, and an alcoholic advanceman for a burlesque show. After failing to get a job as reporter in New York, he ..read more »

55% from 16 members

Paris Blues on DVD (1961)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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The second film of director Martin Ritt with both Paul Newmanand Sidney Poitier, it's set in a city that has long been a haven for black musicians eager to escape the racism of the U.S. Newman is Ram Bowen, a trombone player who makes his living in a jazz group, which also includes tenor man Eddie ..read more »

67% from 161 members

Five Branded Women (1960)
Starring: Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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The savagery of the Yugoslav partisans as they fight off Nazi occupation forces is also vented on five women accused of Nazi sympathies because of their sexual association with one German officer. The women (played by Silvana Mangano, Vera Miles, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jeanne Moreau, and Carla Gravina)..read more »

13% from 3 members
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The Long Hot Summer on DVD (1958)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Accused barn burner and con man Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

70% from 125 members

The Black Orchid (1958)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Peter Mark Richman
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Some suspect that Rose's demand for a lavish lifestyle, pushed her husband to a life of crime, and they blame her for his death. Widower Frank Valente is attracted to Rose, and ..read more »

68% from 11 members
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Edge of the City (1957)
Starring: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier
Director: Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier tackle race relations and worker rights in this classic drama.

38% from 9 members
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Ernest Hemingway Collection - A Farewell... (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Richard Beymer
Director: Charles Vidor, Martin Ritt, Martin Ritt
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Features the following films based on stories by Ernest Hemingway: A FAREWELL TO ARMS, HEMINGWAY'S ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG MAN, THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARA, and UNDER MY SKIN.

52% from 4 members

Martin Ritt facts

5 most recent films

Stanley And Iris - 3.0 stars
Nuts - 3.0 stars
Murphy's Romance - 3.0 stars
Norma Rae - 3.5 stars
The Front - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - 3.5 stars
Hud - 3.5 stars
The Long Hot Summer - 3.5 stars
Hombre - 3.5 stars
The Front - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Five Branded Women - 1.0 stars
Edge of the City - 2.0 stars
The Great White Hope - 2.0 stars
Ernest Hemingway Collection - A Farewell To Arms/Hemingway's Adventures Of A Young Man/The Snows Of - 2.5 stars
Adventures Of A Young Man - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Newman - 4 times - show films
Anthony Quinn - 2 times - show films
Peter Mark Richman - 2 times - show films
Joanne Woodward - 2 times - show films
Sally Field - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Martin Ritt - 20 times - show films
Jean - 1 times - show films
hen - 1 times - show films
Henry King - 1 times - show films
Charles Vidor - 1 times - show films