8.4
8.4
The Big Red One: The Reconstruction
2005
Director
Samuel Fuller
Directing
N/A
CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and actor. He was known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. After working as a reporter and a pulp novelist, Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western I Shot Jesse James (1949). He continued to direct several other Westerns and war films throughout the 1950s. He shifted genres in the 1960s with his low-budget thriller Shock Corridor in 1963, followed by the neo-noir The Naked Kiss (1964). Fuller was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the semi-autobiographical war epic The Big Red One (1980), and the drama White Dog (1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with Curtis Hanson. Several of his films influenced French New Wave filmmakers, notably Jean-Luc Godard, who gave him a cameo appearance in Pierrot le Fou (1965). In the latter part of his career, he worked mainly in Europe and lived in Paris.
Filmography (84 movies)
7.5
7.5
La Vie de Bohème
1992
as Gassot
7.3
7.3
Pickup on South Street
1953
Screenplay
7.3
7.3
Pierrot le Fou
1965
as Samuel Fuller (uncredited)
7.1
7.1
The American Friend
1977
as The American
7.0
7.0
Targets
1968
Screenplay
7.0
7.0
Carmel
2009
7.0
7.0
Falkenau, the Impossible
1988
as Samuel Fuller
7.0
7.0
The Steel Helmet
1951
Director
7.0
7.0
The Naked Kiss
1964
Writer
7.0
7.0
Shock Corridor
1963
Director
6.9
6.9
Underworld U.S.A.
1961
Producer
6.9
6.9
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made
1994
as Self
6.7
6.7
The Big Red One
1980
Writer
6.6
6.6
White Dog
1982
Screenplay
6.6
6.6
The Baron of Arizona
1950
Writer
6.6
6.6
A Fuller Life
2013
as Self
6.6
6.6
The Crimson Kimono
1959
Writer
6.5
6.5
Park Row
1952
Director
6.5
6.5
Forty Guns
1957
Screenplay
6.5
6.5
Fixed Bayonets!
1951
Screenplay
6.5
6.5
V-E +1
1945
Director
6.4
6.4
Verboten!
1959
Director
6.4
6.4
The State of Things
1982
as Joe
6.4
6.4
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
1996
as Self
6.4
6.4
Shockproof
1949
Writer
6.3
6.3
Scene Missing
2012
as Self
6.2
6.2
I Shot Jesse James
1949
Writer
6.2
6.2
The Command
1954
Writer
6.2
6.2
Hammett
1982
as Old Man in Pool Hall
6.1
6.1
Brigitte and Brigitte
1966
as Self
6.1
6.1
House of Bamboo
1955
Director
6.1
6.1
Scott Joplin
1977
as Impresario
6.1
6.1
It Happened in Hollywood
1937
Screenplay
6.1
6.1
Merrill's Marauders
1962
Screenplay
6.1
6.1
Hell and High Water
1954
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
2005
as Himself (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
The Madonna and the Dragon
1990
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
Anything for John
1993
as Self
6.0
6.0
China Gate
1957
Screenplay
6.0
6.0
Run of the Arrow
1957
Producer
6.0
6.0
Dogface
1959
Producer
5.9
5.9
A Return to Salem's Lot
1987
as Van Meer
5.8
5.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002
as Self
5.8
5.8
The Last Movie
1971
as Sam
5.7
5.7
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987
as Boss
5.7
5.7
She Married a Cop
1939
Writer
5.7
5.7
Margin for Error
1943
Screenplay
5.6
5.6
The Klansman
1974
Screenplay
5.3
5.3
Gangs of Chicago
1940
Screenplay
5.3
5.3
The End of Violence
1997
as Louis
5.0
5.0
Somebody to Love
1994
as Sam Silverman
5.0
5.0
Sons
1990
as Father
5.0
5.0
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
1972
Director
4.9
4.9
Street of No Return
1989
Screenplay
4.9
4.9
Gangs of New York
1938
Screenplay
4.7
4.7
Golem, the Spirit of Exile
1992
as Elimelek
4.3
4.3
Thieves After Dark
1984
Writer
4.2
4.2
Golem: The Petrified Garden
1993
as Sam
4.2
4.2
Girls in Prison
1994
Writer
4.1
4.1
The Meanest Men in the West
1978
Screenplay
4.0
4.0
Shark
1969
Screenplay
3.7
3.7
Hats Off
1936
Screenplay
3.5
3.5
The Young Nurses
1973
as Doc Haskell
3.5
3.5
The Cape Town Affair
1967
Writer
2.7
2.7
Slapstick of Another Kind
1982
as Colonel Sharp
A Travelling is a Moral Affair
1986
as Himself
Sodankylä Forever
2010
as Self
Necro not(to b)e
2003
as Sé stesso
Shock Corridor
1992
as himself
Where Is Musette?
1992
as self
Cinéastes de notre temps : Samuel Fuller
1967
as Interviewee
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990
as Self
Hooray For Holyrood
1986
as Self
Midnight Sun Film Festival
1987
Nuits transparentes
2011
Sam Fuller & the Big Red One
1984
as Self
Tell me Sam - Encounters with Sam Fuller
1989
as Himself
The Bleeding Star
1987
Report from Hollywood
1985
Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
1988
as Le capitaine américain
Un Américain en Normandie
1994
as Himself
Films to Die For
2025
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Day of Reckoning
1990
Director
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