Elia Kazan Movie Rankings
1
Elia Kazan scores a combined 3.5998 out of 4 stars for On the Waterfront
3.5998
Terry has been a witness and participant in the murder of dockworker, Joey. Terry's conscience begins to get the best of him when he starts falling for Joey's sister. Soon Terry will have to stand up against some of the most powerful men in New Jersey. ... more about On the Waterfront
DVD from $9.00 
(20 sellers)
2
Elia Kazan scores a combined 3.3429 out of 4 stars for Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3.3429
Based on Betty Smith’s 1943 novel, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, is the story of a brave young girl named Francie Nolan and her family’s struggle to survive on pennies a day when her father unexpectedly dies. ... more about Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Not Available on DVD
3
Elia Kazan scores a combined 3.1731 out of 4 stars for East of Eden
3.1731
Film adaptation of Steinbeck's classic about a 1917 California farm family and the two brothers who struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor. ... more about East of Eden
DVD from $5.04 
(24 sellers)
4
Elia Kazan scores a combined 3.1381 out of 4 stars for Gentleman's Agreement
3.1381
This film is about a journalist who passes himself off as a Jew to write an article about Semitism in America. ... more about Gentleman's Agreement
DVD from $3.89 
(19 sellers)
5
Elia Kazan scores a combined 3.0742 out of 4 stars for Streetcar Named Desire
3.0742
What she finds is a wild town filled with characters more desperate than herself -- namley the brutish Stanley who is in love with Blanche's sister Stella and deeply mistrusts Blanche and her shadowy past. ... more about Streetcar Named Desire
DVD from $4.00 
(25 sellers)
6
Elia Kazan scores a combined 2.8679 out of 4 stars for Baby Doll
2.8679
Archie Lee Meighan, middle-aged cotton gin owner, can hardly wait for the 20th birthday of his childish bride Baby Doll, when he'll be allowed to consummate the marriage...he thinks. ... more about Baby Doll
DVD from $4.99 
(21 sellers)
7
Elia Kazan scores a combined 2.8619 out of 4 stars for Face in the Crowd
2.8619
Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes is a hobo. Discovered by Marcia Jeffries, he will become a very famous TV star. His success gives him more and more power. ... more about Face in the Crowd
DVD from $5.79 
(19 sellers)
8
Elia Kazan scores a combined 2.8227 out of 4 stars for Panic in the Streets
2.8227
One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. Next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service confirms the dead man had pneumonic plague. ... more about Panic in the Streets
DVD from $6.88 
(15 sellers)
9
Elia Kazan scores a combined 2.6588 out of 4 stars for Splendor in the Grass
2.6588
Deanie would risk everything to be with Bud. Bud is afraid of his father, the most powerful man in a small Kansas town in 1928. Deanie will have to wait until Bud spends four years at Yale. ... more about Splendor in the Grass
DVD from $11.00 
(17 sellers)
10
Elia Kazan scores a combined 2.6170 out of 4 stars for Boomerang!
2.6170
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. ... more about Boomerang!
DVD from $8.24 
(11 sellers)
11
Elia Kazan scores a combined 2.6136 out of 4 stars for Pinky
2.6136
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. ... more about Pinky
DVD from $7.36 
(15 sellers)
13
Elia Kazan scores a combined 2.1423 out of 4 stars for Viva Zapata!
2.1423
Not Available on DVD
14
Elia Kazan scores a combined 1.9221 out of 4 stars for America
1.9221
It is somewhere around 1900. We watch a young greek who lives a miserable life in Turkey, selling ice in the town market. Although the greeks are oppressed by the turks, they refuse to leave the land of their ancestors. ... more about America
Not Available on DVD
15
Elia Kazan scores a combined 1.8141 out of 4 stars for Arrangement
1.8141
Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success. But a car crash is all that needs to make him reconsider the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one time lover, Gwen. ... more about Arrangement
DVD from $10.00 
(17 sellers)
16
Elia Kazan scores a combined 1.4611 out of 4 stars for Sea of Grass
1.4611
The highly melodramatic western begins with St. Louis resident Katharine Hepburn marrying New Mexico cattleman Spencer Tracy after a short courtship. ... more about Sea of Grass
Not Available on DVD
17
Elia Kazan scores a combined 0.9587 out of 4 stars for Wild River
0.9587
A young field administrator (Montgomery Clift) for the TVA comes to rural Alabama to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. ... more about Wild River
Not Available on DVD
19
Elia Kazan scores a combined 0.0001 out of 4 stars for Visitors
0.0001
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. ... more about Visitors
Not Available on DVD
 
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Elia Kazan
Birthdate:
September 7, 1909
Death date:
September 28, 2003

Elia Kazan

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Career Span:

Decade
# Movies
Movie Score
1930s
1
No Reviews
1940s
5
total ranking of 2.6845  2.6845
1950s
7
total ranking of 3.0246  3.0246
1960s
4
total ranking of 1.5784  1.5784
1970s
2
total ranking of 1.4148  1.4148
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Director Score:
2.7740
Elia Kazan is ranked overall as 2.7740 of of 4 stars
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