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Martin Ritt

Martin Ritt

American film director
March 2, 1914 (December 8, 1990)

Lie with Me

V.O.: Arrête avec tes mensonges
Fr. 2022. Drama by Olivier Peyon with Guillaume De Tonquédec, Victor Belmondo, Jéremy Gillet. While visiting the provincial town where he grew up, a famous Parisian writer meets the son of the man who was his first great love in his youth.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1989. Psychological drama by Martin Ritt with Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Martha Plimpton. A recently widowed worker befriends an illiterate cook and teaches him to read and write.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1987. Court drama by Martin Ritt with Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton. A lawyer defends a call girl accused of manslaughter whose parents wish her to be treated in a psychiatric institution.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1985. Dramatic comedy by Martin Ritt with Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin. Settled with her young son on a small ranch in Arizona, a divorcee befriends a middle-aged widower.
Runtime: 108 min.
U.S. 1985. Sentimental comedy by Hal Ashby with Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Ritt. A young rock singer, married to a baseball player, finds it difficult to sacrifice her career and play the role of the faithful wife.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1983. Chronicle by Martin Ritt with Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote. In 1928, a woman leaves her husband and moves to an orange grove in Florida to pursue her career as a writer.
Runtime: 122 min.
U.S. 1981. Dramatic comedy by Martin Ritt with Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1979. Social drama by Martin Ritt with Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 1977. Dramatic comedy by Martin Ritt with Walter Matthau, Andrew A. Rubin, Michael Hershewe. A Louisiana horse breeder trains a colt with special abilities to race.
Runtime: 116 min.
U.S. 1976. Satire by Martin Ritt with Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Andrea Marcovicci. A man gets into trouble after agreeing to lend his name to a writer friend who is boycotted by television.
Runtime: 95 min.

End of the Game

V.O.: Der Richter und sein henker
All. 1975. Crime drama by Maximilian Schell with Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt. A commissioner finds an opportunity to punish a murderer who had escaped justice.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1974. Social drama by Martin Ritt with Jon Voight, Madge Sinclair, Hume Cronyn. A young teacher uses an unusual approach to teach Black children.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1972. Dramatic comedy by Martin Ritt with Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett, Geraldine Page. The joys and trials of a couple who married at an already mature age.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1972. Drama by Martin Ritt with Kevin Hooks, Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson. In the early 1930s, the difficulties of a Black family in Louisiana.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1970. Social drama by Martin Ritt with James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris. A champion Black boxer gets into legal trouble because of his affair with a young white girl.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1969. Social drama by Martin Ritt with Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar. In the nineteenth century, a police officer infiltrates a secret society of Pennsylvania miners who are fighting against unfair living conditions.
Runtime: 124 min.
U.S. 1968. Mores drama by Martin Ritt with Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irène Papas. Two brothers involved in the affairs of a crime syndicate come into conflict with each other.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1967. Western by Martin Ritt with Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone. A white man raised among the Apaches confronts the criminals who attacked his stagecoach, with the complicity of one of the passengers.
Runtime: 110 min.
G.-B. 1965. Spy drama by Martin Ritt with Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner. In order to complete a mission, a British spy pretends to be ready to hand over his secrets to the Communists.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 1964. Psychological drama by Martin Ritt with Paul Newman, Claire Bloom, Laurence Harvey. Four people involved in a murder give different versions of the case.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1963. Western by Martin Ritt with Paul Newman, Brandon de Wilde, Patricia Neal. The son of a Texas rancher lives selfishly in pursuit of pleasures.
Runtime: 112 min.
U.S. 1962. Drama by Martin Ritt with Richard Beymer, Susan Strasberg, Arthur Kennedy. The experiences of a young man who left his father's home to become a journalist.
Runtime: 145 min.
U.S. 1961. Musical drama by Martin Ritt with Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward. Two American jazz musicians living in Paris each have a romance with a fellow compatriot.
Runtime: 98 min.
It. 1960. War drama by Martin Ritt with Van Heflin, Silvana Mangano, Jeanne Moreau. Five women, driven out of their village for having given themselves to German soldiers, collaborate in resistance actions.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1959. Psychological drama by Martin Ritt with Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman. The tragedies that plague a large, broke family in the American South.
Runtime: 114 min.
U.S. 1958. Psychological drama by Martin Ritt with Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles. A bold young man enlists with a tyrannical planter in the American South.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1958. Drama by Martin Ritt with Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Ina Balin. The daughter of a widower opposes her father's remarriage.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1957. Moral study by Martin Ritt with Joanne Woodward, Tony Randall, Cameron Mitchell. The problems of four young couples living in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
U.S. 1957. Psychological drama by Martin Ritt with John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Kathleen Maguire. A deserter working as a labourer has a wake-up call when he meets a Black man.
Runtime: 85 min.

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