Barbara Valentin

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...

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...

After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous...

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

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

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...

Geierwally is a musical comedy and a parody of traditional movies with regional background, especially the classic story of Geierwally.

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,...

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

Hollywood stars go wild at the Riviera film festivals.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank (John Moulder Brown), a young orphan who...

Cunning Hotzenplotz has managed to escape from the village prison with a trick. Kasperl and Seppl immediately set off to recapture the escaped...

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....

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 chaotic journalist Maximilian Glanz is working on his big book that will never be finished, answers letters to the editor of a tabloid newspaper...

Nine-year-old Primel’s single mother must leave town, so her apartment building’s seven tenants take turns babysitting. Primel’s...

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...

After the brutal murder of the prostitute Vera Paterny, Inspector Reinisch hardly makes any progress with the investigation. Vera's colleague Sonja...

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...

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

Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his...

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...

Mirza-Bagher meets Agha-Balakhan and Manizheh on a train heading to Germany. Agha-Balakhan is going for an administrative task, while Manizheh is...

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...

After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel,...

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...

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...

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...

The (male) members of the "Fussballclub Reith" are so focused on their passion for football playing that their neglected wives plot against them to...

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

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...

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...

The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the...

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.

A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of...

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...

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

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...

After the end of Word War II, a lone and elusive skier from the German Mountain Troops continues to kill British Occupation Forces personnel,...