Elia Kazan

A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

Category: Drama

Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter

7.9 IMDB Rating 285 Views
Wild River 1960

A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. 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 an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Montgomery Clift,Lee Remick,Jo Van Fleet,Albert Salmi

7.7 IMDB Rating 2,853 Views
East of Eden 1955

Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.

Category: Drama

Stars: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris

7.8 IMDB Rating 2,997 Views
On the Waterfront 1954

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb

8.1 IMDB Rating 2,890 Views