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.
Wild River (1960)
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 revolv
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Splendor in the Grass (1961) It's 1928 in oil rich southeast Kansas. High school seniors Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis are in love with each other. Bud, the popular football captain, and Deanie, the sensitive soul, are "good" kids who have only gone as far as kissing. Unspoken to each other, they ex
On the Waterfront (1954)
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
East of Eden (1955)
East of Eden (1955) In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how
Baby Doll (1956)
Baby Doll (1956) Living in Tiger Tail County, Mississippi, middle aged Archie Lee Meighan and nineteen year old "Baby Doll" Meighan née McCargo have been married for close to two years. Their marriage is not based on love, but each getting what they want from the other. Their marriage agreement has
The Arrangement (1969)
The Arrangement (1969) Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success, but a car crash causes him to reevaluate the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one-time lover, Gwen, even as his wife conspires to take his fortune...
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Viva Zapata! (1952) In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Mestizo from the southern state of Morelos, comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed, leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the Preside
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A Face in the Crowd (1957) "A Face in the Crowd" charts 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 b
America America (1963)
America America (1963) Elia Kazan, ethnic Greek but Turkish by birth, tells the story of the struggles of his uncle - in this account named Stavros Topouzoglou - in emigrating to America. In the 1890's, the young, kind-hearted but naive Stavros lived in Anatolia, where the Greek and Armenian minorit
Pinky (1949)
Pinky (1949) A light-skinned black woman falls in love with a white doctor, though he is unaware of her true race.
The Visitors (1972)
The Visitors (1972) Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are old acquaintances of Bill; a few years back, in Vietnam, they were in the same platoon. They
The Last Tycoon (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976) F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
A Letter to Elia (2010)
A Letter to Elia 2010 Director Martin Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences the late Elia Kazan Utilizing precisely chosen clips from Kazans signature films including On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Gentlemans Agreement, Baby Doll, A
The Sea of Grass (1947)
The Sea of Grass (1947) This western begins with St. Louis resident Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn) marrying New Mexico cattleman Col. James B. 'Jim' Brewton (Spencer Tracy) after a short courtship. When she arrives in "Salt Fork, NM" she finds that her new husband is considered by the l
Boomerang! (1947)
Boomerang! (1947) This dramatization of a factual incident opens in a quiet Connecticut town where a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner. The citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the k
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Panic in the Streets (1950) When a body is found in the New Orleans docks, it's pretty obvious that he died from gun shot wounds. The police surgeon notices that the man is also displaying other symptoms and Lt. Commander Clint Reed, a doctor with the U.S. Public Health Service, diagnoses a highly c
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Man on a Tightrope 1953 In 1950s Czechoslovakia circus manager Karel Cernik is planning an escape from Communism to freedom His idea is to force his way across the guarded border using his entire circus Three years in the making his idea is ready to be tested when hes suddenly summoned to a Secret P
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) 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 fro
Gentlemans Agreement (1947)
Gentlemans Agreement (1947) Philip Green is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write a series of articles on anti-Semitism in America. He's not too keen on the series, mostly because he's not sure how to tackle the subject. Then it dawns on him: if he was to pretend