Samuel Fuller — Director (24)
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Street of No Return (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Street of No Return
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Keith Carradine / Valentina Vargas …
other title: Strada senza ritorno / Straße ohne Wiederkehr …
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
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The Meanest Men in the West (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Meanest Men in the West
director: Charles S. Dubin / Samuel Fuller actor: Charles Bronson / Lee J. Cobb …
other title: Quel dannato pugno di uomini / Der gefährlichste Mann des Westens …
Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of two episodes of the hit 1960's TV series, "The Virginian." In one installment, a wealthy man's daughter is kidnapped by a nasty gunslinger. But the crime is only just a means for the ruffian to draw the tough title character into a blood- thirsty revenge scheme. In the second, a drifter burglarizes the Shiloh ranch. Then an unhinged girl relies on the man to aid in her flight from home.
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Hell and High Water (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hell and High Water
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Richard Widmark / Bella Darvi …
other title: Operazione mistero / O Demónio dos Mares …
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer 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 spectacle and cold war heroics.
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Dogface (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dogface
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Luke Anthony / Neyle Morrow …
This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating new angle on Fuller’s relationship with the average foot soldier and moral complexity of war.
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House of Bamboo (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
House of Bamboo
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Robert Ryan / Robert Stack …
other title: La casa di bambù / Casa de Bambu …
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
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The Baron of Arizona (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Baron of Arizona
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Vincent Price / Ellen Drew …
other title: Il barone dell'Arizona / Der Baron von Arizona …
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
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Fixed Bayonets! (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fixed Bayonets!
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Richard Basehart / Gene Evans …
other title: I figli della gloria / Der letzte Angriff …
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 responsibility.
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V-E +1 (1945) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
V-E +1
director: Samuel Fuller
The silent 16 mm footage that makes up "V-E +1" documents the burial of beaten and emaciated Holocaust victims found by Allied forces in the Nazi concentration camp at Falkenau, Czechoslovakia, as World War II ended in Europe.
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Verboten! (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Verboten!
director: Samuel Fuller actor: James Best / Susan Cummings …
other title: Verboten, forbidden, proibito / Ordres secrets aux espions nazis …
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
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Run of the Arrow (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Run of the Arrow
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Rod Steiger / Sara Montiel …
other title: La tortura della freccia / Hölle der tausend Martern …
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.
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The Crimson Kimono (1959) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Crimson Kimono
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Victoria Shaw / James Shigeta …
other title: Il kimono scarlatto / Le kimono pourpre …
Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district.
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Park Row (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Park Row
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Gene Evans / Mary Welch …
other title: Park Row - Eine Zeitung für New York / La voz de la primera plana …
In New York's 1880s 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.
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I Shot Jesse James (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
I Shot Jesse James
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Preston Foster / Barbara Britton …
other title: Ho ucciso Jess il bandito / Ich erschoß Jesse James …
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.
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Merrill's Marauders (1962) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Merrill's Marauders
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Jeff Chandler / Ty Hardin …
other title: L'urlo della battaglia / Junglekrig i Burma …
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.
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The Big Red One (1980) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB Skybridge
The Big Red One
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Lee Marvin / Mark Richard Hamill …
other title: Il grande uno rosso / Den barske elite …
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
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Shark (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Shark
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Burt Reynolds / Barry Sullivan …
other title: 4 bastardi per un posto all'inferno / Outsider …
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
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Forty Guns (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Forty Guns
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Barbara Stanwyck / Barry Sullivan …
other title: 40 pistole / Vierzig Gewehre …
An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.
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The Naked Kiss (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Naked Kiss
director: Samuel Fuller actor: Constance Towers / Michael Dante …
other title: Il bacio perverso / Uma Luz no Submundo …
A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.