Barbara Valentin
Also Known As: Ursula Ledersteger, Barbara Valentine
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Birthday: December 15, 1940
Deathday: February 22, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Overview: Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-05
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Effi Briest
Overview: When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Martha
Overview: After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-28
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Im Himmel ist die Hölle los
Overview: Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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Horrors of Spider Island
Overview: A bite from a giant spider turns a man into a creature that terrorizes a group of women who survived a plane crash.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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Go Trabi Go
Overview: Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-01-17
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Die Geierwally
Overview: Geierwally is a musical comedy and a parody of traditional movies with regional background, especially the classic story of Geierwally.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-01-28
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Geld oder Leber!
Overview: Mike and Susanne are a loving couple who keep afloat through petty crime. When they are pursued by the police following a robbery at a jewelry store, they seek refuge in a slaughterhouse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-08-14
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Scrounged Meals
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-03-03
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The Festival Girls
Overview: Hollywood stars go wild at the Riviera film festivals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-06
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The Island of the Bloody Plantation
Overview: A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal guards. However, one of the guards falls in love with a beautiful inmate, and decides to help her and all the other prisoners escape.
Genres: Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-27
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Bomber & Paganini
Overview: The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in search of the big coup.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-06
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Der Partyphotograph
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-11-29
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Our Man in Jamaica
Overview: The FBI sends agents to Jamaica to investigate arms smuggling to revolutionaries in Santo Domingo.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-04
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Die Hunde sind schuld
Overview: A comedy directed by Andreas Prochaska. Barbara Valentin's last movie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-09-19
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Drei gegen Hollywood
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-02-20
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King, Queen, Knave
Overview: Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who finds himself deep in the romantic clutches of his uncle's sensual wife. After Frank's parents die, he goes to live with his aunt Martha (Gina Lollabrigida) and uncle Charles (David Niven). Sexy Martha entices Frank into her embrace then wants him to kill her husband so that they can live off of his money. Frank wouldn't mind so much, but he really likes his uncle.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-06
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News from Robber Hotzenplotz
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-09
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The Curse
Overview: When a young family, father, mother and their daughter, is on a trip in the mountains, they lose orientation and have to stay there for the night. The daughter finds a dead young girl who does exactly look like herself. When they check for mountain rescue service they suddenly find themselves deeply involved in an local myth about a prophecy which seems to be fulfilling now. The mountains are bearing an old curse.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-11-30
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Knife in the Back
Overview: At night, a violent confrontation between a pimp and a Greek guest worker takes place on Hamburg's Reeperbahn, resulting in the latter's death. In the subsequent trial before a jury, contradictory statements make it difficult to decide whether this was an intentional act or an accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Der Durchdreher
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-03-08
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Primel macht ihr Haus verrückt
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Genres: Family
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-02-25
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Die unglaublichen Abenteuer des Guru Jakob
Overview: Jakob Feierabend has a hard time. Everywhere he applies for work, he is rejected. The reason is his last name. He also fails as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. As a salesman he makes a house call and lets himself be nibbled by the green widow Clothilde Rieker. When suddenly the husband comes home, he has to flee, wrapped in an orange bed sheet. In doing so, he is mistaken by a reception committee for the announced guru. From now on he resides as a guru in the castle of Countess Falkenberg. Jakob's friend Tommi turns this delusion into a lively source of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-07-14
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Call Girls of Frankfurt
Overview: After the brutal murder of the prostitute Vera Paterny, Inspector Reinisch hardly makes any progress with the investigation. Vera's colleague Sonja reports on wild sex parties of the murdered and mentions names, prominent names.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-08-17
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Unsere Tante ist das Letzte
Overview: A crime comedy directed by Rolf Olsen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-11-28
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Bite Me, Darling
Overview: A descendant of Count Dracula returns to his ancestral village to take revenge on the people who destroyed his ancestor.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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Women in Hospital
Overview: Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his drug-addicted wife Claudia, while Oberhoff deals with his teenage daughter's pregnancy.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-04-07
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Mal drunter – mal drüber
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-12
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The Woman with the Carbuncle Stones
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Star Maker
Overview: Once-famous movie director Paul Lamont has fallen on hard times. Hollywood has forgotten him. His pictures are no longer in vogue. Borrowing air fare from his ex-wife, he flies to Berlin, where a former colleague is producing three films. A hotel maid recognizes his celebrity name and makes a play for him. He falls in love a May-September romance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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The Girl with the Narrow Hips
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-02-17
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Yek Esfahani dar sarzamin-e Hitler
Overview: On the train to Germany, Mirza Baqir meets Mr. Balakhan and Manijeh, who are on a business trip. Manijeh calls Arsalan in a hotel. Arsalan and his friends are trying to deceive Manijeh.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Olympia – Olympia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-16
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Nora Helmer
Overview: A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. Based on A Doll's House by Ibsen, this is a video recording made for German television.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-02-03
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The Second Victory
Overview: After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-04
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Fox and His Friends
Overview: Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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Lili Marleen
Overview: The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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Der Wasserball von Schildershausen
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Rita Ritter
Overview: A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of his work. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes her wife. When a French director stages a play of his, he meets Rita again in Paris and the two women become a happy couple.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-02-25
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Ein Abend mit Labiche
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Das blaue Bidet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-02-21
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Ohne Ball und ohne Netz
Overview: The (male) members of the "Fussballclub Reith" are so focused on their passion for football playing that their neglected wives plot against them to "force" them back into fulfilling their "marital duties"...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-07-01
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Fassbinder’s Women
Overview: An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-11-10
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The Head
Overview: A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-07-24
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Carmen, Baby
Overview: Carmen, a free-spirited young woman who sometimes earns money as a prostitute, lives a bohemian existence in a small town where most of the locals allow her to do as she pleases. Jose, a naive young man who has just been hired as the town's new police officer, arrests her. However, Jose is soon drawn into Carmen's sensual spell, and he is compelled to do her bidding as she slowly brings him to his doom.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-09
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Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Overview: The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines by manufacturing (and then publicly destroying) its own celebrity: the wealthy, handsome playboy Dorian Gray.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-03-09
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Today We're Playing Boss
Overview: Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-27
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Herr S. kommt nicht zum Zuge
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Looping
Overview: A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the girl has her own agenda, and it isn't to help out the carnival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-05
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Flaming Hearts
Overview: When Peter Huber the proprietor of a Bavarian corner newsstand, wins a free trip to New York City in a magazine contest, he is overjoyed. Filled with romantic ideas from the movies, his actual encounter with the gritty realities of the Big Apple are sobering. Nonetheless, he is in for the adventure of his life. First, he meets Karola Faber, the German wife of a U.S. G.I. who has found life in the States not all it's cracked up to be: she has left her husband and makes her living through prostitution. Peter and Karola visit the local German emigré community's Oktoberfest, and win the festival's King and Queen crown. Their prize is a cow, which accompanies them on their further journeys in New York City.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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Happy End oder Wie ein kleines Heilsarmeemädchen Chicagos größte Verbrecher in die Arme der Gesellschaft zurückführte
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-04-30
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Die Jagd nach Helena
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-10-03
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Ein Mann für meine Frau
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-04-26
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Victor
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-01-04
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Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars
Overview: Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that has so far failed to materialize.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-05-30
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There's Still Room in Hell
Overview: American Dexter travels to Turkey on behalf of a US client in order to put an end to the drug gang leader Ismail. Dexter brings the beautiful blonde Janet as an erotic bait. Ismail shows great interest in Janet, but Dexter suspects he has been double crossed by his American client.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-07-28
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The Second Victory
Overview: After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel, prompting a joint British-German manhunt operation to capture him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-04
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