Barbara Valentin

Die Hunde sind schuld (2001)

A comedy directed by Andreas Prochaska. Barbara Valentin's last movie. ...

Fassbinder's Women (2000)

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ...

Ein Mann für meine Frau (1993)

Go Trabi Go (1991)

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. ...

The Curse (1988)

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 ...

Geierwally (1988)

Geierwally, who earned her name through a bitter fight with a bird of prey, refuses to marry Vinzenz, the heir apparent assigned to her by her father, and lives a secluded life in a mountain hut. Her love for Bärenjosef seems hopeless, especially since he ...

The Second Victory (1987)

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. ...

Geld oder Leber! (1986)

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. ...

Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars (1986)

Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that has so far failed to materialize. ...

The Woman with the Carbuncle Stones (1985)

Im Himmel ist die Hölle los (1984)

Teenage girl idolises television game show host, and gets a chance to be his assistant. ...

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (1984)

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 b ...

Rita Ritter (1984)

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 w ...

Die unglaublichen Abenteuer des Guru Jakob (1983)

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 R ...

The Island of the Bloody Plantation (1983)

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 o ...

Ohne Ball und ohne Netz (1982)

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"... ...

Das blaue Bidet (1982)

Drei gegen Hollywood (1982)

In the 1930s, three unsuccessful variety artists dream of making it big. When they hear about the rise of sound films in Hollywood, they see their chance: a language school for silent film stars will bring them fame and success. Full of hope, they travel t ...

Today We're Playing Boss (1981)

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. ...

Lili Marleen (1981)

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 s ...

Looping (1981)

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 ...

Der Wasserball von Schildershausen (1981)

Primel macht ihr Haus verrückt (1980)

Nine-year-old Primel's single mother must leave town, so her apartment building's seven tenants take turns babysitting. Primel's boundless energy sparks chaos, but also warms hearts. In caring for her, the neighbors transform from strangers into a close-kn ...

Ein Abend mit Labiche (1980)

News from Robber Hotzenplotz (1979)

Cunning Hotzenplotz has managed to escape from the village prison with a trick. Kasperl and Seppl immediately set off to recapture the escaped villain. They finally find him in his secret hiding place in the middle of the deep forest. But not only is he at ...

Der Durchdreher (1979)

The chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper and dreams of escaping to an island and leaving everything behind. His marriage is in crisis. And on the da ...

Victor (1979)

Flaming Hearts (1978)

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 soberi ...

Women in Hospital (1977)

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. ...

An Isfahani in the Land of Hitler‏ (1977)

Mirza-Bagher meets Agha-Balakhan and Manizheh on a train heading to Germany. Agha-Balakhan is going for an administrative task, while Manizheh is going to study hotel management in Munich. Manizheh meets Arsalan at a hotel. Arsalan and his guys are plannin ...

Scrounged Meals (1977)

Homeless Alfred would like to spend his life on Mallorca. A destination far away. But one day he meets the policeman Erwin. ...

Bomber & Paganini (1976)

The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in search of the big coup. ...

Herr S. kommt nicht zum Zuge (1976)

Fox and His Friends (1975)

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. He enters an abusive relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen in an attempt to climb the social ladder. His desperation for ...

Knife in the Back (1975)

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 ...

Effi Briest (1974)

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. ...

Martha (1974)

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. ...

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

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. Th ...

Nora Helmer (1974)

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. ...

Unsere Tante ist das Letzte (1973)

A dorky uncle and a nag of an aunt mess up a family, their surroundings and ultimately half of Venice. A comedy bordering on nonsense, abandoned by all good spirits. ...

King, Queen, Knave (1972)

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 goe ...

Happy End oder Wie ein kleines Heilsarmeemädchen Chicagos größte Verbrecher in die Arme der Gesellschaft zurückführte (1972)

Olympia – Olympia (1971)

Bite Me, Darling (1970)

A descendant of Count Dracula returns to his ancestral village to take revenge on the people who destroyed his ancestor. ...

The Star Maker (1968)

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 reco ...

Der Partyphotograph (1968)

A television technician who is mistaken for a star photographer can hardly save himself from girls who are addicted to fame. A simple-minded story of mistaken identity as a hook for striptease acts and cheap jokes. ...

Carmen, Baby (1967)

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 offi ...

Call Girls of Frankfurt (1966)

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. ...

Our Man in Jamaica (1965)

The FBI sends agents to Jamaica to investigate arms smuggling to revolutionaries in Santo Domingo. ...

Die Jagd nach Helena (1963)

There's Still Room in Hell (1961)

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 cross ...

The Festival Girls (1961)

Hollywood stars go wild at the Riviera film festivals. ...

The Girl with the Narrow Hips (1961)

Mal drunter – mal drüber (1960)

Horrors of Spider Island (1960)

A bite from a giant spider turns a man into a creature that terrorizes a group of women who survived a plane crash. ...

The Head (1959)

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 ...