Movies from Guy Ritchie

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. A giant battle occurs when 40 bandits attack the village.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
That’s very interesting. I love "Seven Samurai."
Movies from Guy Ritchie

Once Upon a Time in the West

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
It was brilliant the first time I saw it.
Movies from Guy Ritchie

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
I felt those films were fucking fantastic.
Movies from Guy Ritchie

The Long Good Friday

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
The Long Good Friday was cool, man, and it was edgy, and I couldn’t have made that film.
Movies from Guy Ritchie

Public Enemies

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
he likes Michael Mann films and thinks Public Enemies may be Johnny Depp's best movie yet, that he admires a man who leaves his work area clean, and that he prefers breadth of knowledge to depth.
Movies from Guy Ritchie

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James, their murderous action elevates their target to near mythical status.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
[In conversation with Brad Pitt] Obviously you’ve worked with Andrew Dominik before on Jesse James. It’s interesting, because I have about 10 of my mates who I really trust creatively, and all of them—without any ambiguity at all—rank Jesse James in their top 10 films.
Movies from Guy Ritchie

Killing Them Softly

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
RITCHIE: So Killing Them Softly is a political film. PITT: Yes, it is a political film. RITCHIE: But it’s also fun.
Movies from Guy Ritchie

Excalibur

A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
I saw John Boorman's Excalibur in 90s and I was an impressionable young man of 10 and it was the first like knights in shining armour film that ever spoke to me. I wasn't particularly interested in Errol Flynn or any incarnation that they did in the 50s in this genre but John Boorman's one was rather good. It is very aggressive and no one spoke to one another they all shouted at one another
Movies from Guy Ritchie

Inglourious Basterds

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
RITCHIE: You’ve done some interesting things, though, over the last several years. There’s Aldo Raine in Inglourious Basterds . . . PITT: Good fun. RITCHIE: Some fucking master strokes in that film.
Movies from Guy Ritchie

Kung Fu Hustle

Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. Sing's actions eventually cause the Axe Gang and the slumlords to engage in an explosive kung-fu battle. Only one side will win and only one hero will emerge as the greatest kung-fu master of all.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
Yeah, I did like Kung Fu Hustle. Then I saw it again. It tickled me the first time.
Books from Guy Ritchie

Outwitting the Devil

Napoleon Hill wrote this book in 1938, just after publication of his all-time bestseller, Think and Grow Rich. This powerful tale has never been published, considered too controversial by his family and friends. Using his legendary ability to get to the root of human potential, Napoleon Hill digs deep to identify the greatest obstacles we face in reaching personal goals: fear, procrastination, anger, and jealousy, as tools of the Devil. These hidden methods of control can lead us to ruin, and Hill reveals the seven principles of good that will allow us to triumph over them and succeed. Annotated and edited for a contemporary audience by Rich Dad, Poor Dad and Three Feet from Gold co-author Sharon Lechter, this book is profound, powerful, resonant, and rich with insight.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
I’d recommend Outwitting the Devil, by Napoleon Hill. It’s an interview with the devil, and at the time it was written it was considered to be too controversial to publish. Read it and you’ll understand why. It’s mad as a snake and worth it.
Books from Guy Ritchie

The Hero's Journey

The author of Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God series, and The Power of Myth here turns his powers of observation and analysis on his own life's journey and conveys the excitement of his life-long exploration of mythic traditions, which he called "the one great story of mankind." In conversations with poets, anthropologists, and philosophers such as Robert Bly, Angeles Arrien, David Kennard, John Densmore, Stanislov Grof, and Roger Guillemen, Campbell reflects on subjects ranging from the origins and functions of myth, the role of the artist and the need for ritual, to the ordeals of love and romance. Illustrated throughout with photographs from Joseph Campbell's family archive and with a new, revised introduction, The Hero's Journey introduces the reader first-hand to Joseph Campbell the man, his discoveries, his terminology, and his thinking.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
I'm Joseph Campbell fan. I mean all the stories from whatever period I'm sympathetic to this particular to Joseph Campbell's philosophy on this but he's not the only one.
Books from Guy Ritchie

Extreme Ownership

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.” In gripping firsthand accounts of heroism, tragic loss, and hard-won victories in SEAL Team Three’s Task Unit Bruiser, they learned that leadership—at every level—is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails. Willink and Babin returned home from deployment and instituted SEAL leadership training that helped forge the next generation of SEAL leaders. After departing the SEAL Teams, they launched Echelon Front, a company that teaches these same leadership principles to businesses and organizations. From promising startups to Fortune 500 companies, Babin and Willink have helped scores of clients across a broad range of industries build their own high-performance teams and dominate their battlefields.Now, detailing the mind-set and principles that enable SEAL units to accomplish the most difficult missions in combat, Extreme Ownership shows how to apply them to any team, family or organization. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic such as Cover and Move, Decentralized Command, and Leading Up the Chain, explaining what they are, why they are important, and how to implement them in any leadership environment.A compelling narrative with powerful instruction and direct application, Extreme Ownership revolutionizes business management and challenges leaders everywhere to fulfill their ultimate purpose: lead and win.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
- Did you ever read a book called extreme ownership? - Important book.
TV Shows from Guy Ritchie

The Crown

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
I like The Crown. I very much liked the writer Peter Morgan and his objective perspective of Imperial England — it’s smart, witty, elegant, and refreshing. I love Jared Harris, who’s the King, but I’ve got to say I’m just very impressed with the whole series. It’s quality.
Music from Guy Ritchie

The Rocky Road To Dublin

Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
At one point, on a dare, Ritchie sings every word of every verse of an Irish folk song called "The Rocky Road to Dublin." The crowd grows. When tourists approach for a photograph, Ritchie puts on his stay-off stare, goes cold.
Music from Guy Ritchie

The Wild Wild Berry

Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
Some of the songs we used, like one called “Wild Berry”, were a thousand years old. And then we made a contemporary sound to that, but the instruments that we used were still old instruments. It was an enormous narrative that goes into the music.
Goods from Guy Ritchie

Blok Knives Handmade



Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
I do a lot of knife-porning on Instagram. Last month I stumbled across Blok Knives. and ordered a whole set, and I’m impressed. They’re carbon steel. Good handles. Not lazy. Knives become infinitely more interesting when you’re into cooking meat.
Goods from Guy Ritchie

Haibike | XDURO FatSix 9.0



Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
I recently rode an electric bike for the first time, a Haibike XDuro FatSix, and it’s fucking genius — the perfect balance between some form of exercise and artificial assistance. They’re quiet, and if you reach a fence, you can chuck your bike over, unlike a motorbike.
Goods from Guy Ritchie

MORTLACH 16 Year Old Speyside Malt Whisky 70cl Bottle



Guy Ritchie
Director, Entrepreneur, Producer
Right now I’m into Mortlach 16 [single-malt]. It’s fucking good. I have a discerning palate, and I quite like a sweeter whisky like this. I’m a big Scotch drinker. It gets very expensive very quickly, but the truth is you don’t drink shit whisky if you’ve got any self-respect.