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6.2

♡ 8

60%

Martin Ritt Director

Margaret Leighton as Caddy Compson

Stuart Whitman as Charlie Busch

Joanne Woodward as Quentin Compson / Narrator

William Challee as Roustabout

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.

Back Roads

1981

5.7

♡ 11

40%

Martin Ritt Director

Sally Field as Amy Post

Tommy Lee Jones as Elmore Pratt

John M. Jackson as Merle

Nell Carter as Waitress

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.

No Down Payment

1957

7.1

♡ 3

81%

Drama

racial prejudice

Martin Ritt Director

Sheree North as Isabelle Flagg

Joanne Woodward as Leola Boone

Robert H. Harris as Markham

Cameron Mitchell as Troy Boone

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 Boone and her sadistic husband Troy, hard-working Herman Kreitzer and his understanding wife Betty, and newlyweds Jean and David Martin.

Murphy's Romance

1985

7.0

♡ 10

72%

Martin Ritt Director

Sally Field as Emma Moriarity

Georgann Johnson as Margaret

James Garner as Murphy Jones

Bruce French as Rex Boyd

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 her ex-husband shows up.

Edge of the City

1957

7.2

♡ 5

75%

Martin Ritt Director

Val Avery as Brother

Jack Warden as Charlie Malick

Robert F. Simon as George Nordmann

Ruth White as Katherine Nordmann

A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection blossoms they must face the oppressive and morally decaying city they live in.

The Black Orchid

1958

6.4

♡ 8

17%

Martin Ritt Director

John Indrisano as Hood

Frank Richards as Hood

Peter Mark Richman as Noble

Sophia Loren as Rose Bianco

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

Paris Blues

1961

6.7

♡ 15

71%

Martin Ritt Director

Joanne Woodward as Lillian Corning

Paul Newman as Ram Bowen

André Luguet as René Bernard

Louis Armstrong as Wild Man Moore

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.

Conrack

1974

7.3

♡ 2

71%

Martin Ritt Director

Paul Winfield as Mad Billy

Madge Sinclair as Mrs. Scott

Jon Voight as Pat Conroy

Hume Cronyn as Skeffington

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 basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.

The Molly Maguires

1970

6.8

♡ 4

90%

61%

based on a true story

co-worker relationship

Martin Ritt Director

Richard Harris as Detective James McParlan

Sean Connery as Jack Kehoe

Chuck Hicks as Policeman

Ian Abercrombie as Stock Actor

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 facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.

The Brotherhood

1968

6.0

♡ 6

60%

Martin Ritt Director

Luther Adler as Dominick Bertolo

Susan Strasberg as Emma Ginetta

Murray Hamilton as Jim Egan

Alex Cord as Vince Ginetta

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 older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world.

Stanley & Iris

1990

6.3

♡ 17

29%

Martin Ritt Director

Zohra Lampert as Elaine

Stephen Root as Mr. Hentley

Robert De Niro as Stanley Cox

Jack Gill as The Pursesnatcher

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 he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

1965

7.5

♡ 18

86%

Martin Ritt Director

Geoffrey Keen as British sentry

Walter Gotell as Holten

Warren Mitchell as Mr. Zanfrello - Grocery Customer

Sam Wanamaker as Peters

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.

Sounder

1972

7.5

♡ 5

91%

79%

Martin Ritt Director

Janet MacLachlan as Camille

Kevin Hooks as David Lee

Taj Mahal as Ike

James Best as Sheriff Young

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.

Norma Rae

1979

7.3

♡ 15

91%

79%

alabama

based on a true story

Martin Ritt Director

Gail Strickland as Bonnie Mae

James Luisi as George Benson

Noble Willingham as Leroy Mason

Sally Field as 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 gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.

Hombre

1967

7.4

♡ 21

94%

Martin Ritt Director

Cameron Mitchell as Braden

Fredric March as Favor

Paul Newman as John Russell

Martin Balsam as Mendez

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.

Pete 'n' Tillie

1972

husband wife relationship

6.2

♡ 7

67%

san francisco, california

Martin Ritt Director

Barry Nelson as Burt

Kent Smith as Father Keating

Ray Ballard as Party Guest

Don Diamond as Policeman

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.

The Long, Hot Summer

1958

7.3

♡ 16

85%

82%

Martin Ritt Director

Robert Adler as Ambulance Driver

Paul Newman as Ben Quick

Joanne Woodward as Clara Varner

Bill Walker as Lucius

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

Cross Creek

1983

6.9

♡ 6

61%

77%

1930s

based on memoir or autobiography

Martin Ritt Director

Dana Hill as Ellie Turner

Mary Steenburgen as Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Malcolm McDowell as Max Perkins

Joanna Miles as Mrs. Turner

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 The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Hud

1963

7.8

♡ 18

86%

89%

alcoholism