Martin Ritt

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5 Branded Women
6.7

5 Branded Women

Mar. 15, 1960

5 Branded Women

Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various ...
The Outrage
6.3

The Outrage

Oct. 07, 1964

The Outrage

Transposing Akira Kurosawa’s classic “Rashomon” to the American Southwest in the 1870s, this remake begins as three travelers ...
Back Roads
5.6

Back Roads

Mar. 13, 1981

Back Roads

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. ...
Stanley & Iris
6.4

Stanley & Iris

Feb. 09, 1990

Stanley & Iris

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 ...
Cross Creek
7.0

Cross Creek

Sep. 21, 1983

Cross Creek

In 1930’s Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida’s backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor ...
Norma Rae
7.3

Norma Rae

Mar. 02, 1979

Norma Rae

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the ...
Pete ‘n’ Tillie
6.3

Pete ‘n’ Tillie

Dec. 17, 1972

Pete ‘n’ Tillie

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she ...
The Long, Hot Summer
7.4

The Long, Hot Summer

Apr. 03, 1958

The Long, Hot Summer

Ben Quick arrives in Frenchman’s Bend, MS after being kicked out of another town for allegedly burning a barn for revenge. Will Varner owns ...
Paris Blues
6.7

Paris Blues

Sep. 27, 1961

Paris Blues

Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and ...
Murphy’s Romance
7.0

Murphy’s Romance

Dec. 25, 1985

Murphy’s Romance

Emma is a divorced woman with a teen aged boy who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the town druggist ...
The Sound and the Fury
6.2

The Sound and the Fury

Mar. 27, 1959

The Sound and the Fury

The lives and passions of the Compsons, a once proud Southern family caught in a tragic spiral of loss and misfortune. Based on the novel by ...
Sounder
7.6

Sounder

Sep. 24, 1972

Sounder

The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, ...
The Brotherhood
6.1

The Brotherhood

Dec. 01, 1968

The Brotherhood

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 ...
No Down Payment
7.1

No Down Payment

Oct. 30, 1957

No Down Payment

Set in a California subdivision, the story follows four couples who have bought homes and are neighbors. Among the problems facing the couples ...
Conrack
7.3

Conrack

Mar. 27, 1974

Conrack

A young, white teacher is assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that ...
The Molly Maguires
6.9

The Molly Maguires

Feb. 08, 1970

The Molly Maguires

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless ...
The Front
7.3

The Front

Sep. 17, 1976

The Front

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. ...
The Black Orchid
6.4

The Black Orchid

Sep. 03, 1958

The Black Orchid

An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster’s widow. Release: The Black Orchid – (1958) – ...
Casey’s Shadow
6.2

Casey’s Shadow

Jan. 01, 1978

Casey’s Shadow

Casey’s family raises and trains race horses, and their latest undersized foal named Casey’s Shadow does not seem to have a lot going ...
Nuts
6.6

Nuts

Nov. 20, 1987

Nuts

A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping ...