Movies: Isabella Rossellini

An Italian troupe is busy in Paris filming an adaptation of La Traviata. The dressmaker Rosa, in love with the lead actor, identifies herself with Violetta: thanks to a bad joke and a fake séance, Rosa begins to believe she is her reincarnation. From...

A captivating history of the nation's oldest performing arts center - which largely mirrors the evolution of experimental and progressive performing arts in 20th century America - BAM150 chronicles the vibrant past, present and future of the Brooklyn...

Isabella Rossellini’s follow-up to her one-of-a-kind GREEN PORNO delves further into the surprising, eccentric mating rituals of the animal, marine, and insect worlds. From the anything-goes free love practiced by the creatively kinky dolphin to the ...

When David Lynch was making his film Blue Velvet, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was also on set, shooting documentary footage with a Super 8 film camera. Now, on Blue Velvet's 30th anniversary, Braatz presents his footage, along with still photograp...

Isabella Rossellini goes back to biblical times and visits Noah’s Ark. How did Noah manage to organize every single animal species into couples? What about the hermaphrodite earthworm?...

A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolpr...

A very surreal video shot behind the scenes during the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1985 by Peter Braatz....

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him....

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A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossellini....

Tracing the journey of a free thinker, engineer, writer, scriptwriter, actor and director through his life and work, Così Parlo De Crescenzo harnesses the energy of a man determined to transform the lives and culture of those around him. Born in Napl...

The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twenty years: Marco Alemanno. The tale of how they met and how he grew on a human, professional, and artistic level standing by Dalla’s side. And much mo...

Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City"....

A pair of newspaper reporters receive help from an unlikely accomplice in their effort to stave off an alien invasion....

A pre-internet mash-up that mixes “Peanuts” and David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet.”...

1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt and uncle. Penny's a Catholic, and worries about her uncle's s...

Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is the sole heir to an enormous patrimony, becoming in this way the most coveted party of the Serenissima....

Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he stay in touch with his friends over his laptop....

Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as a girl, takes up with the world's cleverest thief, who unbeknownst to Nono, may hold the bizarre key to his true identity....

Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status....