Barbara Laage

Barbara Laage

Barbara Laage (30 July 1920 – 21 May 1988) was a French film actress who flourished in the 1950s. After fleeing Paris with her family during the German occupation in World War II , Laage returned to the city after the war and began her acting career in the Paris theater district of Montparnasse. Her first move to Hollywood was arranged by theatrical agent William Morris , founder of the William Morris Agency. She is one of several Hollywood stars of the era who would frequent the Chateau Marmont. She was the first choice for the lead role in the Orson Welles film The Lady from Shanghai , though the part was eventually awarded to Rita Hayworth.

  • Title: Barbara Laage
  • Popularity: 0.3369
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1920-07-30
  • Place of Birth: Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Haute Savoie, France
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Barbara Laage Movies

  • 1970
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    Bed and Board

    Bed and Board

    7.097 1970 HD

    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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  • 1973
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    Défense de savoir

    Défense de savoir

    5.6 1973 HD

    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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  • 1961
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    Paris Blues

    Paris Blues

    6.464 1961 HD

    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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  • 1957
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    To Catch a Spy

    To Catch a Spy

    5 1957 HD

    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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  • 1953
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    Traviata 53

    Traviata 53

    6.6 1953 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    Signé illisible

    Signé illisible

    1 1942 HD

    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.

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  • 1948
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    B.F.'s Daughter

    B.F.'s Daughter

    6.3 1948 HD

    Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy.

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  • 1972
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    Le Père Goriot

    Le Père Goriot

    6 1972 HD

    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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  • 1957
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    The Happy Road

    The Happy Road

    5.6 1957 HD

    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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  • 1966
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    The Burning Body

    The Burning Body

    6.1 1966 HD

    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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  • 1956
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    Les Assassins du dimanche

    Les Assassins du dimanche

    5 1956 HD

    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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  • 1964
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    The Crime of Aldeia Velha

    The Crime of Aldeia Velha

    6.8 1964 HD

    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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  • 1952
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    The Respectful Prostitute

    The Respectful Prostitute

    5.1 1952 HD

    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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  • 1960
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    Bombs on Monte Carlo

    Bombs on Monte Carlo

    5.5 1960 HD

    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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  • 1953
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    Act of Love

    Act of Love

    6.7 1953 HD

    An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.

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  • 1960
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    The Boss

    The Boss

    5.5 1960 HD

    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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  • 1955
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    Nagana

    Nagana

    1 1955 HD

    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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  • 1959
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    Tonight We Kill

    Tonight We Kill

    1 1959 HD

    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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  • 1956
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    The Adventures of Gil Blas

    The Adventures of Gil Blas

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1956
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    Guilty?

    Guilty?

    4.75 1956 HD

    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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  • 1965
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    The Heat of a Thousand Suns

    The Heat of a Thousand Suns

    5.8 1965 HD

    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.

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  • 1954
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    A Parisian in Rome

    A Parisian in Rome

    8.1 1954 HD

    The story follows Riccardo, an Austrian pianist studying in Rome and engaged to local woman Fiorella, who has a brief encounter with French tourist Germaine, igniting a love triangle involving misunderstandings, a false arrest, and romantic schemes. Starring Barbara Laage as Germaine, Alberto Sordi as Alberto, Anna Maria Ferrero as Fiorella, and Erwin Strahl as Riccardo, the film blends humor with lighthearted drama set against the backdrop of Rome's iconic landmarks. Paul Hörbiger plays Professor Roth, serving as a stern mentor to the protagonist Riccardo and delivering comic relief via his rigid academic counsel amid the story's chaotic love triangle.

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  • 1960
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    Orientalische Nächte

    Orientalische Nächte

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Red Rose

    The Red Rose

    5.1 1951 HD

    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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  • 1968
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    Therese and Isabelle

    Therese and Isabelle

    3.7 1968 HD

    Two young girls experience awakening sexuality in the heated atmosphere of a Swiss girls' boarding school.

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  • 1959
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    Soft Skin on Black Silk

    Soft Skin on Black Silk

    4.6 1959 HD

    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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  • 1973
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    Private Screening

    Private Screening

    4.2 1973 HD

    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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  • 1954
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    Zoé

    Zoé

    1 1954 HD

    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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  • 1958
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    Miss Pigalle

    Miss Pigalle

    1 1958 HD

    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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  • 1960
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    There's Going to Be a Party

    There's Going to Be a Party

    7 1960 HD

    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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  • 1953
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    The Slave

    The Slave

    5.5 1953 HD

    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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  • 1962
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    The Captive

    The Captive

    1 1962 HD

    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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  • 1957
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    Whereabouts Unknown

    Whereabouts Unknown

    1 1957 HD

    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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  • 1954
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    Quai des blondes

    Quai des blondes

    5.3 1954 HD

    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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  • 1963
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    Portuguese Vacation

    Portuguese Vacation

    5.6 1963 HD

    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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  • 1968
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    Strange Game

    Strange Game

    5.5 1968 HD

    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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  • 1971
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    The House in the Woods

    The House in the Woods

    6.5 1971 HD

    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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