Direction: Samuel Fuller
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Samuel Fuller. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 29
Pickup on South Street
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Richard Widmark · Jean Peters · Thelma Ritter · Richard Kiley
Synopsis While on the subway to deliver a piece of film she believes contains corporate secrets, Candy's wallet is stolen by Skip McCoy. The film actually contains government secrets on their way to "the Commies", and Candy has been under surveillance...
7.4
3K votes
7.4
3K votes
Underworld U.S.A.
1961 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Cliff Robertson · Dolores Dorn · Beatrice Kay · Paul Dubov
Synopsis Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly has a plan for revenge.
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Shock Corridor
1963 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Peter Breck · Constance Towers · Gene Evans · James Best
Synopsis Peter Breck plays journalist Johnny Barrett, who thinks the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. So, he pretends to go insane and is locked up in the institution....
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
The Naked Kiss
1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Constance Towers · Anthony Eisley · Michael Dante · Virginia Grey
Synopsis Kelly, is a feminist who takes on the causes of abused women and disabled children. Originally a prostitute, she flees from the city to a small town where she reforms after she looks in the mirror and sees "nothing but...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Park Row
1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Gene Evans · Mary Welch · Bela Kovacs · Herbert Heyes
Synopsis In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner. Despite the fact he...
7.0
366 votes
7.0
366 votes
Forty Guns
1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Barry Sullivan · Dean Jagger · John Ericson
Synopsis Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck) is a despotic landowner who, with a posse of hired guns, has made herself the law of Cochise County, Arizona, with the weak-willed sheriff Ned Logan (Dean Jagger) knuckling under to her demands. One day, Griff...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
House of Bamboo
1955 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Robert Stack · Robert Ryan · Shirley Yamaguchi · Brad Dexter
Synopsis Sandy Dawson had assembled a platton of ex-army thugs to run panchinko parlours while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier into the group, along with his friend's Japanese wife.
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
1980 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Lee Marvin · Mark Hamill · Robert Carradine · Bobby Di Cicco
Synopsis A US Army sergeant who participated in the First World War now leads a rifle squad in the same division in which he's served, the First Infantry. The squad participates in combat action from storming Vichy French Africa into the...
6.8
3K votes
6.8
3K votes
I Shot Jesse James
1949 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Preston Foster · Barbara Britton · John Ireland · Reed Hadley
Synopsis I Shot Jesse James isn't the story of some great gunfight where the infamous outlaw got his comeuppance, but the tale of Robert Ford, a member of the James gang who shot their leader in the back in order to...
6.7
312 votes
6.7
312 votes
The Steel Helmet
1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Gene Evans · William Chun · Steve Brodie · Robert Hutton
Synopsis During the Korean War, strong but worn and cantankerous Sergeant Zack is aided by a young, orphaned Korean boy. Together they encounter and join a small group of American soldiers. The group stumbles upon a Buddhist temple where they decide...
6.6
597 votes
6.6
597 votes
The Baron of Arizona
1950 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Vincent Price · Ellen Drew · Vladimir Sokoloff · Beulah Bondi
Synopsis Master swindler James Reavis painstakingly spends years forging documents and land grants that will make his wife and him undisputed owners of the entire state of Arizona..
6.6
183 votes
6.6
183 votes
The Crimson Kimono
1959 · Movie · 82 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Victoria Shaw · Glenn Corbett · James Shigeta · Anna Lee
Synopsis Two detectives seek a stripper's killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship... When a masked killer shoots Sugar Torch, a Los Angeles stripper, in the neck, homicide detectives Charlie Bancroft and Joe...
6.6
421 votes
6.6
421 votes
Merrill's Marauders
1962 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Jeff Chandler · Ty Hardin · Peter Brown · Andrew Duggan
6.5
799 votes
6.5
799 votes
Verboten!
1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast James Best · Susan Cummings · Tom Pittman · Paul Dubov
Synopsis A young American serviceman, stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his position with the Marshall Plan relief effort by breaking the non-fraternisatiom rule and falling in love with a young German woman. He uses his...
6.5
154 votes
6.5
154 votes
White Dog
1982 · Movie · 89 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Kristy McNichol · Paul Winfield · Burl Ives · Jameson Parker
Synopsis Julie Sawyer hits a handsome white dog with her car one night and then nurses it back to health. One day, the theretofore mild-mannered dog saves her life by viciously attacking and killing a rapist who breaks into her home....
6.5
2K votes
6.5
2K votes
Run of the Arrow
1957 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Rod Steiger · Sara Montiel · Brian Keith · Ralph Meeker
Synopsis When the South loses the war, Confederate veteran O'Meara goes West, joins the Sioux, takes a wife and refuses to be an American but he must choose a side when the Sioux go to war against the U.S. Army.
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
Fixed Bayonets!
1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Richard Basehart · Gene Evans · Michael O'Shea · Richard Hylton
Synopsis The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsiblity.
6.1
426 votes
6.1
426 votes
Thieves After Dark
1984 · Movie · 98 min. · France
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Véronique Jannot · Bobby Di Cicco · Victor Lanoux · Stéphane Audran
Synopsis François and Isabelle meet in an unemployment office, a likely place to find others in their profession: he is a cellist and she, an art historian. While there, Isabelle gets into a nasty incident with one of the clerks, and...
5.6
40 votes
5.6
40 votes
Hell and High Water
1954 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Richard Widmark · Bella Darvi · Victor Francen · Cameron Mitchell
Synopsis A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer (Widmark) to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine...
5.5
486 votes
5.5
486 votes
Dead Pigeon on the Beethovenstreet (TV)
1973 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Samuel Fuller
Cast Glenn Corbett · Christa Lang · Anton Diffring · Eric P. Caspar
Synopsis An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.
5.5
46 votes
5.5
46 votes