Martin Ritt

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the ...

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.