Isabella Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini

Birthday: 1952-06-18

Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Biography: Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Rossellini is noted for her 14-year tenure as a Lancôme model, and for her roles in films such as Blue Velvet and Death Becomes Her.

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Wild at Heart
Wild at Heart

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s...

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Spaceman
Spaceman

Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help fr...

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Blue Velvet
Blue Velvet

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related ...

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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story

A comic study of 20th century history, reconstructing the life of one Tulse Luper, a writer, project...

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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea

A comic study of 20th century history, reconstructing the life of one Tulse Luper, a writer, project...

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A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper
A Life in Suitcases: A History of Tulse Luper

A comic study of 20th century history, reconstructing the life of one Tulse Luper, a writer, project...

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Two Lovers
Two Lovers

A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with ...

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Rossellini Through His Own Eyes
Rossellini Through His Own Eyes

Made up almost entirely of archival interviews with Italian film director Roberto Rossellini (with a...

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Fearless
Fearless

After surviving a plane crash that kills many others, Max Klein develops a sense of invulnerability,...

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Floodland
Floodland

Roger Vivier is proud to present FLOODED. Featuring the song “Floodland” performed by Gherardo Fello...

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Cat Person
Cat Person

When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert do...

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The Funeral
The Funeral

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnervi...

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Cousins
Cousins

When Larry and Maria learn that their respective spouses are cheating on them, they try to turn the ...

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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matte...

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Infected
Infected

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

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Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her

Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a m...

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Infamous
Infamous

While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with co...

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Empire
Empire

Big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big de...

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The Accidental Husband
The Accidental Husband

Emma, a radio host, is about to be married to Richard, her perfect match. But right before her weddi...

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Roger Dodger
Roger Dodger

A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipul...

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Problemista
Problemista

Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to lif...

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Dark Eyes
Dark Eyes

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian....

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The Impostors
The Impostors

Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find the...

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Immortal Beloved
Immortal Beloved

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle...

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Senza Lucio
Senza Lucio

The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twe...

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Heights
Heights

Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny befo...

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The Pickle
The Pickle

Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead, he made "The Pickle" - a t...

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In the Pope's Eye
In the Pope's Eye

The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should ...

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Zelly & Me
Zelly & Me

A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the ...

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Siesta
Siesta

American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to a...

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Monte Walsh
Monte Walsh

Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, bu...

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The Saddest Music in the World
The Saddest Music in the World

In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the wor...

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White Nights
White Nights

After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in ...

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Red Riding Hood
Red Riding Hood

The high spirited daughter of the village lord and her mother have been living in the forest for sev...

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Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin

Naya, the Golden Dolphin Princess, is sent on an urgent mission by her father, the King, to eight co...

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The Feast of the Goat
The Feast of the Goat

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's rela...

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The Architect
The Architect

An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect des...

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Big Night
Big Night

Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save...

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My Dad Is 100 Years Old
My Dad Is 100 Years Old

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

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My Dog Tulip
My Dog Tulip

The story of a man who rescues a German Shepherd and how the two become fast friends. Based on the ...

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Left Luggage
Left Luggage

While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his hea...

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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Prime numbers are divisible only by one and themselves. These numbers are solitary and incomprehensi...

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The Innocent
The Innocent

A young engineer is sent to post-WWII Berlin to help the Americans in spying on the Russians. In a t...

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About Face: Supermodels Then and Now
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now

An intimate view of the women whose images have defined our sense of beauty over the past five decad...

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Keyhole
Keyhole

Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home....

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La Chimera
La Chimera

Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli...

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Tough Guys Don't Dance
Tough Guys Don't Dance

Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his ...

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Louis I., King of the Sheep
Louis I., King of the Sheep

When a crown rolled in front of his hooves, Louis, a sheep among other sheep, grabs it, puts it on a...

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Il resto del Pap'occhio
Il resto del Pap'occhio

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Chicken with Plums
Chicken with Plums

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day,...

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A Matter of Time
A Matter of Time

During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her day...

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Italia: Fire and Ashes
Italia: Fire and Ashes

The epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930: how peplum was bor...

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Late Bloomers
Late Bloomers

Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the thr...

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Can Creativity Save the World?
Can Creativity Save the World?

The final part of the Creativity Trilogy explores existential threats our world is facing. An inspir...

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Mysteries of Love
Mysteries of Love

Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interv...

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The Dandelions
The Dandelions

A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little ...

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The Meadow
The Meadow

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

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Enemy
Enemy

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's priva...

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Filthy Gorgeous
Filthy Gorgeous

This original comedy-drama from Oscar-nominated writer Ron Nyswaner ("Philadelphia") and director Ro...

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Lies of the Twins
Lies of the Twins

An ex-model is seduced into danger by her psychotherapist boyfriend's wicked identical twin....

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The Sky Is Falling
The Sky Is Falling

1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about ...

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Don Quixote
Don Quixote

Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry n...

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Crime of the Century
Crime of the Century

In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held f...

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Animals Distract Me
Animals Distract Me

For actor, model, and filmmaker-biologist Isabella Rossellini, animals have always been a source of ...

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A Season with Isabella Rossellini
A Season with Isabella Rossellini

A portrait of the actress Isabella Rossellini as an artist, farmer, author, and inspiration. Shot ov...

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Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair

A woman sent is sent to an electric chair that reads the images of her mind....

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Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'
Once Upon a Time... 'Rome, Open City'

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

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Flat Love
Flat Love

A man, convinced that the world is actually flat, falls in love with a two-dimensional woman at the ...

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Ivory Hunters
Ivory Hunters

An author discovers that his missing research assistant's disappearance may be related to illegal tr...

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BAM150
BAM150

A captivating history of the nation's oldest performing arts center - which largely mirrors the evol...

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Sex
Sex

A silent film made for the release of Madonna's book 'Sex'...

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Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings
Isabella Rossellini - Aus dem Leben eines Schmetterlings

She is one of the icons of our time: Isabella Rossellini, award-winning actress, supermodel, experim...

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Joy
Joy

A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's mos...

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Fox Film
Fox Film

Isabella Rossellini: "Fox (Volpe) is a little film that I made, absolutely alone, during the lockdow...

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Closet Monster
Closet Monster

A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his ...

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Ingrid Bergman Remembered
Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she...

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Brand Upon the Brain!
Brand Upon the Brain!

After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by ...

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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a...

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No Frank in Lumberton
No Frank in Lumberton

A very surreal video shot behind the scenes during the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, Nort...

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The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin
The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin

Guy Maddin, who has been nicknamed the Canadian David Lynch, is undoubtedly one of the last remainin...

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Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live
Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno Live

Isabellas Rossellini takes her educational series about the mating habits of different animals on th...

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Seduce Me
Seduce Me

Isabella Rossellini’s follow-up to her one-of-a-kind GREEN PORNO delves further into the surprising,...

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Viva Ingrid!
Viva Ingrid!

Original newsreels, clips from Roberto Rossellini films starring the actress, and above all, astonis...

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The Temptation Of Gracie
The Temptation Of Gracie

Gracie Burton, an ordinary widow who lives quietly in Devon, splashes out on a week’s cookery course...

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The Last Jews of Libya
The Last Jews of Libya

Isabella Rossellini narrates this memoir of the Sephardic Jewish population in North African prior t...

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Gallant Ladies
Gallant Ladies

Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amor...

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Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotype...

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Seduce Me: Noah's Ark
Seduce Me: Noah's Ark

Isabella Rossellini goes back to biblical times and visits Noah’s Ark. How did Noah manage to organi...

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Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider

The life & times of Dennis Hopper, showbiz maestro and Hollywood eccentric....

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Blue Velvet Revisited
Blue Velvet Revisited

When David Lynch was making his film Blue Velvet, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was also on set, sho...

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Unanimal
Unanimal

When the need to radically transform our relationship with living beings has become an emergency, UN...

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Soul of a Farmer
Soul of a Farmer

Follows Patty Gentry, a former chef, as she battles to earn a living on her three acre Early Girl Fa...

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Vita & Virginia
Vita & Virginia

Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s Lon...

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Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum

The film tells the story of the intimate and unprecedented encounter between the photojournalists of...

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Thus Spoke De Crescenzo
Thus Spoke De Crescenzo

Tracing the journey of a free thinker, engineer, writer, scriptwriter, actor and director through hi...

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La Traversée du désir
La Traversée du désir

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wi...

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Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

Documentary looking at the life and career of 1930s film star Leslie Howard. It features exclusive h...

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Trespassing Bergman
Trespassing Bergman

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of F...

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Incredibles 2
Incredibles 2

Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge ye...

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Notes on My Father: An Interview with Isabella Rossellini
Notes on My Father: An Interview with Isabella Rossellini

The following interview with Roberto Rossellini's daughter, actress Isabella Rossellini, was conduct...

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Larger than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story
Larger than Life: The Kevyn Aucoin Story

Iconic makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin was one of the most in-demand makeup artists in the world in the 1...

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Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."...

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Voom Portraits
Voom Portraits

Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrit...

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Croce e Delizia
Croce e Delizia

An Italian troupe is busy in Paris filming an adaptation of La Traviata. The dressmaker Rosa, in lov...

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The Siege of Venice
The Siege of Venice

Venice, eighteenth century. The young Rosanna, widowed on her wedding day, discovers that she is the...

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Silent Retreat
Silent Retreat

The story centers on a man and woman with relationship issues who decide to go on a meditation retre...

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The Rabbit Hunters
The Rabbit Hunters

A deceased filmmaker experiences a posthumous dream in which he attempts to reunite with his wife. (...

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Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage
Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch....

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Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his icon...

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Darwin, What?
Darwin, What?

Isabella is in quarantine due to the coronavirus. She decides it’s the right time to read all of Dar...

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The Rossellinis
The Rossellinis

A laid-back journey in search of one of the world’s most fascinating families, observed and examined...

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Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me

Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte....

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A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family
A Brief Encounter with the Rossellini Family

Commissioned by a Swedish newspaper, this news-reel like short on the life of the famous Swedish act...

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Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

In "All Through the Night," perhaps the single most famous story from the original comic book series...

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Paavo, a Life in Five Courses
Paavo, a Life in Five Courses

Finnish farm boy Paavo Turtiainen is hired into the Parisian household of Swedish theatre producer L...

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Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'
Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'

Documentary on the 1985 film White Nights, with interviews from Taylor Hackford, Helen Mirren and Is...

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Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes
Roberto Rossellini: Fragments and Jokes

Documentary about master director Roberto Rossellini, who tells details of his life and childhood an...

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Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo

Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini....

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Pompeii: Sin City
Pompeii: Sin City

A story about one of the most famous and mysterious archaeological sites in the world....

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Corona Film Club
Corona Film Club

Documentary about filmmaker and film lover Stig Björkman during the pandemic year of 2020 when he st...

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A Winter Fable
A Winter Fable

A Winter Fable is a story told by the triptych of video portraits of a wolf, a fox, and a lamb with ...

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Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black
Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black

1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood ...

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The Zigzag Kid
The Zigzag Kid

Nono, a Dutch kid lacking two days being thirteen, runs away from problems at home and, disguised as...

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Land of Dreams
Land of Dreams

Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works fo...

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King of the Corner
King of the Corner

Leo Spivak is drifting through life without a compass. His father is aging fast, his teenage daughte...

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Rossellini
Rossellini

A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, follo...

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Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People

Documentary telling the extraordinary story of Koko, the only 'talking' gorilla in the world, and he...

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Con...

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Kill Gil - Vol. 1
Kill Gil - Vol. 1

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Conclave
Conclave

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and anc...

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Unknown Beauty: François Nars
Unknown Beauty: François Nars

Photographer and make-up artist François Nars reveals his visually stunning inner world in this feat...

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L'era legale
L'era legale

Mokumentary. Year 2020, Nicolino Amore becomes the new mayor of Naples and begins a war on garbage a...

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Welcome to Lynchland
Welcome to Lynchland

Creator of absolute freedom, David Lynch constructed his work as an enigma to be deciphered between ...

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The Bitter End
The Bitter End

Telling the story of the final years of the woman who married King Edward VIII and broke up the mona...

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Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema

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Blue Peanuts
Blue Peanuts

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

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The Painted Bride
The Painted Bride

Elisha leads dual lives: daytime family duties and a nighttime project for his son and dying father....

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Sequestered - Inside Conclave
Sequestered - Inside Conclave

The making of the 2025 thriller movie Conclave about the papal election, starring Ralph Fiennes, Sta...

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All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman

Frank Sinatra, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and many more pay tribute to Ingrid Bergman....

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Madonna: The Making of SEX Book
Madonna: The Making of SEX Book

The behind the scenes footage of the making of Madonna's iconic SEX book....

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Roberto Rossellini - Più di una vita
Roberto Rossellini - Più di una vita

In 1956, Roberto Rossellini was in the throes of a personal and artistic crisis. His recent films wi...

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