Direction: Samuel Fuller

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Samuel Fuller. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Pickup on South Street

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Richard Widmark · Jean Peters · Thelma Ritter · Richard Kiley

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Max

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Max

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

Plot 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....

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

6.6

421 votes

6.6

421 votes

Merrill's Marauders

1962 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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