Elia Kazan
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn…
- Dir. Kazan's restrained debut, adapting Betty Smith's novel about a family of immigrants making do in the Brooklyn tenements of the early 20th…
- Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Gregory Peck
- Gregory Peck stars in this Academy Award winning melodrama about a writer who, for the sake of research, pretends to be Jewish and becomes a victim…
- Panic in the Streets (1950)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes…
- Early New Orleans–set Kazan noir, follows the hunt for a killer who may be spreading a bubonic plague. Tense, detailed examination of morality…
- Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter…
- Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the savage brute who taunts his disturbed sister–in–law (Vivienne Leigh). Virtuoso…
- Viva Zapata! (1952)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn
- Stirring treatment of the life of the Mexican revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) who rose from peasanthood to presidency in the…
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb…
- Brooding tour–de–force with Marlon Brando in his prime as the square–jawed misfit entangled in corrupt union politics. Winner of 8…
- East of Eden (1955)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. James Dean, Julie Harris, Raymond Massey
- James Dean's acting debut electrifies the screen in this emotionally charged drama about two brother's rivalry for the love of their father. Based on…
- Face in the Crowd, A (1957)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau…
- Pungent social commentary on American mass culture outlays the rags–to–riches trajectory of a hick nobody (Griffith) whose rapid rise to…
- Wild River (1960)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
- Romantic drama focused around an Authority agent (played with controlled complexity by Montgomery Clift) who meets with resistance and a fair share…
- Splendour in the Grass (1961)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle…
- Smitten teens work up considerable sexual frenzy when their respective families won't let them be together. Appropriately, it's the lurid scenes…
- Arrangement, The (1969)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway
- Advertising exec Kirk Douglas follows a mid–life suicide attempt with some desperate hi–jinks and a cry of rage at his hollow life.…
- Visitors, The (1972)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Patrick McVey, Patricia Joyce, James Woods…
- Tense chamber piece has Woods as a returned Vietnam Vet holidaying with his wife and son when two fellow ex–soldiers turn up unannounced.…
- Last Tycoon, The (1976)
- Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Tony Curtis…
- Star–studded attempt to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished last novel, itself based on the life of early Hollywood mogul Irving Thalberg.…