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Samuel Fuller has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Pickup on South Street.
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Pickup on South Street
1953 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 7%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Pierrot le Fou
1965 · Movie · Actor
Top 20%Max · Included

The Naked Kiss
1964 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 37%Max · Included

Shock Corridor
1963 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 40%Max · Included

Forty Guns
1957 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 53%Tubi · Free w/ ads

In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
Dir. Samuel Fuller · With Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich · With Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Dir. Jean-Luc Godard · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.
Dir. Wim Wenders · With Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer

A former prostitute works to create a new life for herself in a small town, but a shocking discovery could threaten everything.
Dir. Samuel Fuller · With Constance Towers, Michael Dante, Anthony Eisley

With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
Dir. Samuel Fuller · With Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans
Anthropologist Joe Weber takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot, unaware of its vampire population. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they seek Weber to write a bible for them.
Dir. Larry Cohen · With Michael Moriarty, Samuel Fuller, Andrew Duggan

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.
Dir. Samuel Fuller · With Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Dean Jagger

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.
Dir. Samuel Fuller · With Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine

Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties.Today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him. A snarling, uncompromising vision, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of all animals; the human being.
Dir. Samuel Fuller · With Kristy McNichol, Paul Winfield, Burl Ives