Elia Kazan

A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes

A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, Eli Wallach

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn

Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.

Dir. Elia Kazan · With Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum