Barbara Laage

Barbara Laage

Born: July 30, 1920
Died: May 21, 1988
in Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Haute Savoie, France

Movies for Barbara Laage...

Private Screening
Title: Private Screening
Character: Madeleine
Released: October 8, 1973
Type: Movie
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the complications is his growing regard for the woman who plays his cinematic wife. She may wind up replacing his actual wife in real life. One of the highlights of this film is the insight it gives into the actual mechanics of filmmaking.
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Défense de savoir
Title: Défense de savoir
Character: Mme Christiani
Released: August 29, 1973
Type: Movie
When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.
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Le Père Goriot
Title: Le Père Goriot
Character: Duchess of Langeais
Released: March 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
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Title: The House in the Woods
Character: Hélène
Released: September 12, 1971
Type: TV
During World War One, in a small rural French village far away from the front, a gamekeeper and his wife take in children displaced by the war.
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Bed and Board
Title: Bed and Board
Character: Monique, la Secrétaire
Released: September 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
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Therese and Isabelle
Title: Therese and Isabelle
Character: Thérèse's mother
Released: May 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Two young girls experience awakening sexuality in the heated atmosphere of a Swiss girls' boarding school.
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Strange Game
Title: Strange Game
Character: Mathilde
Released: April 5, 1968
Type: Movie
In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.
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The Burning Body
Title: The Burning Body
Character: Marcia
Released: July 22, 1966
Type: Movie
Márcia discovers that her husband is having an affair and decides to take a trip out into an isolated part of Brazil with little human contact. There she finds a black stallion roaming the fields.
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The Heat of a Thousand Suns
Title: The Heat of a Thousand Suns
Character: (voice)
Released: July 21, 1965
Type: Movie
A young man from the far future, bored by his surroundings, blasts off into space with only his cat and some robots for company. On a distant planet he discovers a serene, tranquil culture and falls in love with a girl. The story follows his problems adjusting to their sociological standards and customs where family units are comprised of sexual groups of eight people.
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The Crime of Aldeia Velha
Title: The Crime of Aldeia Velha
Character: Joana
Released: November 20, 1964
Type: Movie
Joana lives in a small and remote village where people are very primitive and religious. When accidents start happening that involves her, people slowly start believing that she is possessed by the devil.
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Portuguese Vacation
Title: Portuguese Vacation
Character: Barbara
Released: October 9, 1963
Type: Movie
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
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The Captive
Title: The Captive
Character: Sylvie Hamelin
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Two gun runners, Le Doc and Rougier, save and tend the only survivor of a plane crash into the Vietnamese jungle. When they realize the man named Hamelin is a renowned electronics engineer, they decide to keep him hostage and to release him in exchange for a high ransom. Things get complicated with the coming of Sylvie, Hamelin's wife in search of her missing husband. To make matters worse, Wong,a Chinese gang leader and former ally of the traffickers, turns against them and attacks them with his men.
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Paris Blues
Title: Paris Blues
Character: Marie Séoul
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: Movie
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
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There's Going to Be a Party
Title: There's Going to Be a Party
Character: Michèle Laurent
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared fellow secret-agent, Mark Lemoine. Soon he has trouble with a violant gang, and is involved with a young French reporter, Michèle Laurent. Finally, the chief of the Secret Service tells Lewis that Lemoine never existed. Instead of ending his mission there, the real trouble starts.
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The Boss
Title: The Boss
Character: Rita
Released: May 31, 1960
Type: Movie
Pursued by a rival gang after a violent robbery, Toni escapes with nearly thirty million francs. On the train to Paris, to avoid arousing suspicion, he has no choice but to threaten an honorable philosophy professor, Justin Mignonnet, with his gun, so that he will carry the loot for him. To make sure he returns the money, he takes his papers and makes him promise to be present at the exchange appointment at the Pigalle Hotel the next day. Completely lost, Mignonnet decides to obey orders, but just as he is about to return the money, a young woman, a member of the enemy gang, comes to collect it.
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Bombs on Monte Carlo
Title: Bombs on Monte Carlo
Character: Olga
Released: March 11, 1960
Type: Movie
In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen.
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Orientalische Nächte
Title: Orientalische Nächte
Character: Arlette
Released: March 3, 1960
Type: Movie
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Tonight We Kill
Title: Tonight We Kill
Character: Nelly
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: Movie
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the influential crooks. Only one remains, Larry Laine, who is about to show them what he's made of.
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Soft Skin on Black Silk
Title: Soft Skin on Black Silk
Character: Isabelle
Released: June 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Everything you need to know is telegraphed by the title of this Spanish-language drama. The story takes place in a hothouse Mediterranean setting and combines lust, intrigue and murder in the overheated sexploitation style that was popular during the late 1950s and early '60s.
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Miss Pigalle
Title: Miss Pigalle
Character: Yvonne Pigalle
Released: July 25, 1958
Type: Movie
A young woman has been run over by the car of Carlos, a brilliant embassy attaché. Feeling sorry for her, Carlos drives her to his place and decides to take her in. The young lady accepts his offer but refuses to tell Carlos her name, wanting to be called Miss Pigalle, after the Paris district where she was born. It does not take long before Yvonne (Miss Pigalle's true name) and Carlos fall in love. Life is like a dream and, when Yvonne gets pregnant, their happiness is at their peak. Unfortunately, a revolution breaks out and Carlos returns to his country in secret. Feeling forsaken and at a loss, Yvonne, who is now penniless, has no other solution but prostitute herself.
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Whereabouts Unknown
Title: Whereabouts Unknown
Character: Mariana
Released: July 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As soon as he arrives, Orcado is shot and leaves him an incomprehensible message in which three words are written: Sarah, Métis, Yerco...
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The Happy Road
Title: The Happy Road
Character: Suzanne Duval
Released: June 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.
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To Catch a Spy
Title: To Catch a Spy
Character: Hiedi Effen
Released: March 15, 1957
Type: Movie
The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money. Another agent, Francis Coplan, is sent to Switzerland to handle the deal, but Lindbaum only has half of the documents because he was double-crossed by Kalpannen, an international crook. With the help of Heidi, a Swiss correspondent, Coplan sets out to identify the members of Kalpannen’s gang, only to find that they have all been murdered…
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Guilty?
Title: Guilty?
Character: Jaqueline Delbois
Released: April 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
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The Adventures of Gil Blas
Title: The Adventures of Gil Blas
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
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Les assassins du dimanche
Title: Les assassins du dimanche
Character: Simone Simonet
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a crisis of conscience. Accidents loom at every turn of the wheel. Robert finally alerts the police, and the breathless pursuit of the Mercedes begins, turning into a thriller that ends to everyone's satisfaction.
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Nagana
Title: Nagana
Released: June 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A group of crooks takes advantage of a rich old lady's naivete: they pretend they are to sail to Africa to fight... the sleeping sickness. They are only interested in gold.
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Una parigina a Roma
Title: Una parigina a Roma
Character: Germaine, la Parigina
Released: November 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty French tourist.
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Quai des blondes
Title: Quai des blondes
Character: Barbara
Released: April 7, 1954
Type: Movie
The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky Esposito. Initially defeated and robbed, Ferrer seeks revenge. Two women emerge, a singer, Barbara, and his former mistress, who now works for Esposito. Ferrer sees death at close quarters, Barbara saves him. The police wipe out Lucky's gang. The future looks brighter for Ferrer.
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Zoé
Title: Zoé
Character: Zoé
Released: March 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel Auclair), who is attracted not only to Zoe's beauty, but by her insistence upon telling nothing but the whole truth. This trait causes no end of comic complications when Zoe moves into the palatial home of Arthur's family. The limit comes when Zoe botches a big business deal formulated by Arthur's not-altogether-honest father (Louis Seigner). Zoe is based on a stage farce by Jean Marsan.
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Act of Love
Title: Act of Love
Character: Nina
Released: December 17, 1953
Type: Movie
An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.
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Traviata 53
Title: Traviata 53
Character: Margherita
Released: October 7, 1953
Type: Movie
An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
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The Slave
Title: The Slave
Character: Anne-Marie 'Fétiche'
Released: September 2, 1953
Type: Movie
A young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured he is injected with morphine. He becomes addicted.
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The Respectful Prostitute
Title: The Respectful Prostitute
Character: Lizzie McKay
Released: October 7, 1952
Type: Movie
Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to which Sidney has attempted to rape her. The uncle also puts pressure on the young woman. After much hesitation, Lizzie finally accepts but Sidney, who has nearly got lynched, takes refuge at her home...
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The Red Rose
Title: The Red Rose
Character: Claire Claris, la photographe
Released: February 6, 1951
Type: Movie
The Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous movie star looking for a new partner, Evelyne Dorsey, are causing disruption at the "La Rose rouge" cabaret, the most famous cellar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to the delight of regulars.
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B.F.'s Daughter
Title: B.F.'s Daughter
Character: Eugenia Taris, Tom's dutch Girl
Released: March 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.
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Signé illisible
Title: Signé illisible
Released: July 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Strange things are happening in the small town of Breuil-le-Château. Provisions from the black market are stolen regularly and wealthy young men, including the squire's son, start vanishing... Ransom demands are sent but with an illegible signature. The investigation is trusted to Ducreux, the local police brigadier. He is assisted by Carlier, a film director in search of locations for his next movie, who has been mistaken for a police inspector from Paris. The two men will have more than their share of surprises.