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Samuel Fuller
Director 1912 - 1997

Samuel Fuller

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes. He was born Samuel Michael Fuller in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin Rabinovitch, a... Read full bio →

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20 titles
The End of Violence

The End of Violence

Wim Wenders 1997 2h 1m 6.0

In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillance agent intersect after a botched abduction.

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

1995 8.3

Martin Scorsese celebrates American movies from the silent classics to the Hollywood of the Seventies. Films featured include: 'The Searchers', 'Citizen Kane', 'Intolerance' and 'The Crowd'.

Golem, le jardin pétrifié

Golem, le jardin pétrifié

Amos Gitai 1993 1h 27m

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in Russia, leaving him a valuable art collection and the hand of a huge sculpture of a Golem.

La vie de bohème

La vie de bohème

Aki Kaurismäki 1992 1h 43m 8.0

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

Golem, the Spirit of Exile

Amos Gitai 1992 1h 45m

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands.

Street of No Return

Street of No Return

Samuel Fuller 1989 1h 33m 7.0

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.

A Return to Salem's Lot

A Return to Salem's Lot

Larry Cohen 1987 1h 40m

Joe Weber is an anthropologist who takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot unaware that it is populated by vampires. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they ask Joe to write a bible for them.

Cinématon

Cinématon

Gérard Courant 1984 208h

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.

White Dog

White Dog

Samuel Fuller 1982 1h 30m 8.2

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to kill Black people.

Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

Slapstick (Of Another Kind)

Steven Paul 1982 1h 24m 2.0

Rich Caleb and Lu Swain give birth to alien twins Wilbur and Eliza, who are the smartest kids around when they put their heads together. Events threaten to keep the twins apart and a Chinese ambassador needs the twins' help.

Hammett

Hammett

Wim Wenders 1982 1h 38m 7.0

A pulp writer's real life mimics his stories.

Der Stand der Dinge

Der Stand der Dinge

Wim Wenders 1982 2h 1m 8.6

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's _Day the World Ended, The (1956)_ . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

The Big Red One

The Big Red One

Samuel Fuller 1980 1h 53m 7.3

A veteran sergeant of the World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivors 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, ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

1941

1941

Steven Spielberg 1979 1h 58m 6.3

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Der amerikanische Freund

Der amerikanische Freund

Wim Wenders 1977 2h 5m 8.5

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

The Young Nurses

The Young Nurses

Clint Kimbrough 1973 1h 17m

Sexy young nurses administer a special kind of therapy on their daily rounds as they battle a drug ring operating outside the hospital.

The Last Movie

The Last Movie

Dennis Hopper 1971 1h 48m 6.0

After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind to witness the ways that filmmaking affects the locals.

Brigitte et Brigitte

Brigitte et Brigitte

Luc Moullet 1966 1h 12m

Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.

Pierrot le fou

Pierrot le fou

Jean-Luc Godard 1965 1h 50m 8.2

Ferdinand Griffon (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is unhappily married and has been recently fired from his job at a TV broadcasting company. After a boring party in Paris, he decides to leave his wife and children for his baby-sitter, an ex-girlfriend, Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina).

House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

Samuel Fuller 1955 1h 42m 7.5

Eddie Kenner (Robert Stack) is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan), a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals. They use their muscle to take over Tokyo's pachinko racket and commit a series of train robberies, targeting deliveries of military ammunition.

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