Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for Alex's money stolen and a group of gangsters are at the nape of the two. Soon it comes to shooting, and when the two men being killed, is good advice costly for the beleaguered driver.

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

1994

Finnish

6.8

♡ 5

55%

Action

Documentary

Drama

Mika Kaurismäki Director

Jim Jarmusch as Self

Samuel Fuller as Self

In 1993, Sam Fuller takes Jim Jarmusch on a trip into Brazil's Mato Grosso, up the River Araguaia to the village of Santa Isabel Do Morro, where 40 years before, Zanuck had sent Fuller to scout a location and write a script for a movie based on a tigrero, a jaguar hunter. Sam hopes to find people who remember him, and he takes film he shot in 1954. He's Rip Van Winkle, and, indeed, a great deal changed in the village. There are televisions, watches, and brick houses. But, the same Karajá culture awaits as well. He gathers the villagers to show his old film footage, and people recognize friends and relatives, thanking Fuller for momentarily bringing them back to life.

The State of Things

1982

German

6.9

♡ 8

40%

Wim Wenders Director

Isabelle Weingarten as Anna

Allen Garfield as Gordon

Rebecca Pauly as Joan

Samuel Fuller as Joe

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (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 American Friend

1977

German

7.4

♡ 26

88%

80%

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

Wim Wenders Director

Samuel Fuller as Der Amerikaner

Wim Wenders as Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance

Bruno Ganz as Jonathan Zimmermann

Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley

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.

Pierrot le fou

1965

French

7.4

♡ 38

88%

Jean-Luc Godard Director

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'

Anna Karina as Marianne Renoir

Samuel Fuller as Self

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Young Man in Movie Theatre

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.

Golem, the Spirit of the Exile

1992

French

5.4

♡ 1

Drama

Amos Gitai Director

Bernard Eisenschitz as Daniel

Samuel Fuller as Elimelek

Bernardo Bertolucci as Le Maître de la Cour

Hanna Schygulla as L'Esprit de l'Exil

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. It is set in 1990s Paris, where the director was living in self-imposed exile following the ban on his 1982 documentary in Israel. The recurring theme of the film is migrations and unrooting, like the legendary Golem.

The Bohemian Life

1992

French

7.5

♡ 12

Aki Kaurismäki Director

Kenneth Colley as Balayeur de rues

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Blancheron

Samuel Fuller as Gassot

Louis Malle as Gentleman

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.

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Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

The State of Things

The American Friend

Pierrot le fou

Golem, the Spirit of the Exile

The Bohemian Life