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

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....

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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...

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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

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

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