Isabella Rossellini Filmography

My Dog Tulip

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: Producer Norman Twain spearheads this independent animated film adapted from British author J.R. Ackerley's 1956 novel detailing the 14-year friendship shared between the author and a German shepherd he once rescued. With vocal contributions by Christopher Plummer, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Hecht Read More

Two Lovers

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini, Vinessa Shaw

Synopsis: A depressed young man moves back in with his parents and finds his life turned upside down as he struggles to choose between the beautiful daughter of a close family friend and the scintillating but volatile next-door neighbor whose passion helps to reignite his lust for life. The third screen Read More

Green Porno

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Isabella Rossellini

The Last Jews of Libya

Actors: Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: Libya was once a nation with a large and thriving Jewish community; today, only a tiny number of Jews remain there, and this documentary from filmmaker Vivienne Roumani-Denn (herself a Libyan Jew) explains the tragic legacy of the nation's Jewish community. While Jews were a part of Libya's Read More

The Architect

Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian Stan

Synopsis: Tonya Neely (Viola Davis) is a neighborhood activist on the south side of Chicago, trying to get her community to rally to tear down Eden Court, the dangerous housing project where she lives. After a family tragedy, she sent her youngest daughter, Cammie (Serena Reeder), off to live with friends Read More

Infamous

Actors: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels

Synopsis: Douglas McGrath's Infamous represents the second major biopic about the avant-garde belletrist Truman Capote to be released within a year. It thus tells roughly the same story as Bennett Miller's earlier Capote, recounting the events that belied the writer's six-year authorship of the seminal Read More

The Feast of the Goat

Actors: Tomas Milian, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Freeman, Juan Diego Botto, Stephanie Leonidas

Synopsis: With his English-language political thriller The Feast of the Goat, action helmer Luis Llosa cinematizes Mario Vargas Llosa's sweeping, epic novel about the myriad of events leading up to the assassination of a real-life tyrannical despot. The story opens in 1992, when a Dominican émigré attorney Read More

Discovery Atlas: Italy Revealed

Synopsis: From the majesty of the snow-capped Alps to the sun-soaked landscape of Sicily, Discovery Atlas spends a year in Italy to offer armchair vacationers a wondrous look at one of the world's most picturesque countries while candidly speaking with the people who exemplify everything that it means to be Read More

Heights

Actors: Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, James Marsden, Jesse Bradford, Eric Bogosian

Synopsis: A handful of New Yorkers find their paths crossing in ways that force them to examine their lives in this contemporary drama produced by Ismail Merchant. Isabel (Elizabeth Banks) is a twentysomething photographer who is supposed to marry her boyfriend, Jonathan (James Marsden), in a month. But Read More

King of the Corner

Actors: Peter Riegert, Isabella Rossellini, Ashley Johnson, Eli Wallach, Rita Moreno

Synopsis: A man looking for a new purpose in his life finds one that last place he expected in this comedy. Leo Spivak (Peter Riegert) is a man slowly sinking into the quicksand of a midlife crisis. He's become increasingly unsatisfied with his career in product testing, especially now that his young Read More

A Life In Suitcases

Actors: JJ Feild, Roger Rees, Raymond J. Barry, Stephen Billington, Valentina Cervi

Alias: Season 04

Actors: Jennifer Garner, Victor Garber, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Michael Vartan, Kevin Weisman, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: Despite its late start in January of 2005 after a hiatus of eight months, the fourth season of Alias more than made up for lost time with a plethora of trials, tribulations, jaw-dropping revelations, big-time betrayals, and near-death experiences for the series' secret-agent heroine, Sydney Read More

My Dad is 100 Years Old

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: On the eve of the release of actress Isabella Rossellini's book In the Name of the Father, the Daughter, and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini, the famous daughter of the acclaimed filmmaker teams with Canadian director Guy Maddin to pay loving homage to the man who crafted such Read More

Kill Gil, Vol. 1

Crew: Camera Operator

Synopsis: The heir to one of Italy's most successful cinematic legacies documents his brave battle with the devastating bacterial infection that would ultimately render him paraplegic in an intimate documentary from filmmaker Gil Rossellini. The son of Roberto Rossellini and the brother of Isabella, Gil Read More

The Saddest Music in the World

Actors: Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox, Ross McMillan

Synopsis: Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin directs The Saddest Music in the World, reworked from an original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, the film involves a contest announced by the legless and glamorous Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) to find the saddest Read More

Earthsea

Actors: Shawn Ashmore, Kristin Kreuk, Isabella Rossellini, Danny Glover, Sebastian Roche, Chris Gauthier, Jennifer Calvert, Mark Hildreth

Synopsis: Lord of the Rings fans take note, acclaimed fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin's epic tale of wizardry and prophecy comes to life as never before in director Robert Lieberman's imaginative screen adaptation of her popular Earthsea novels. Adapted for the Sci-Fi Channel, the two-part miniseries Read More

Monte Walsh

Actors: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, George Eads, Wallace Shawn, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Jack Schaefer (writer of Shane), and previously filmed theatrically in 1970, the made-for-cable Monte Walsh is the still-timely saga of a dying way of life. Monte Walsh (Tom Selleck) and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of Read More

V-Day: Until the Violence Stops

Synopsis: First-time filmmaker Abby Epstein directs Until the Violence Stops, an hour-long documentary capturing the impact of V-Day in five different international communities. Following the success of Eve Ensler's award-winning play The Vagina Monologues, V-Day was created as a global movement to end Read More

Roger Dodger

Actors: Campbell Scott, Jesse Eisenberg, Isabella Rossellini, Elizabeth Berkley, Jennifer Beals

Synopsis: Writer/director Dylan Kidd got a chance to make his script for Roger Dodger into a feature film when he boldly approached Campbell Scott in a café in Greenwich Village and made his pitch. Eventually, Scott would agree to executive produce and star in the film, and was responsible for bringing Jennifer Beals Read More

Empire

Actors: John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards, Vincent Laresca, Delilah Cotto

Synopsis: A man who has made good in an illegal business discovers going straight is a more complicated matter than he imagined in this urban drama. Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo) is a drug dealer who has made a small fortune selling a heroin-based drug cocktail he's concocted called "Empire." Victor doesn't Read More

Robert Capa: In Love and War

Actors: Goran Visnjic, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: Celebrated as the "Greatest War Photographer in the World," the Hungarian-born Robert Capa (1913-1954) vividly recorded no fewer than five wars, beginning with the Spanish Civil War of 1936. It was during this conflict that Capa achieved fame with his heartbreaking Falling Soldier Read More

Napoleon

Actors: Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich

Synopsis: Filmed in France, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Morocco, and Canada, this ambitious biographical TV miniseries chronicles the life and times of the "Little Corporal" from Corsica who managed to conquer nearly all of Europe within a period of a dozen years. The narrative begins in the Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Synopsis: This documentary, part of The Hollywood Collection, depicts the highs and lows of the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. This video captures the phenomenal triumphs and devastating disappointments of Bergman's illustrious career through the eyes of two of her four children, Isabella Rossellini and Pia Lindstrom Read More

Don Quixote

Actors: John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams, James Purefoy

Synopsis: A crusade for decency and truth is mounted by a man gone mad (or has he?) in this made-for-TV adaptation of the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Alonso Quijano decides that it is time to devote his life to battling evil in all its forms; he dubs himself Don Quixote (John Lithgow), obtains a Read More

The Sky is Falling

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Enrichi, Gianna Giachetti

Synopsis: Adapted from Lorenza Mazzetti's acclaimed autobiographical novel inspired by her experiences in WWII Tuscany, Il Cielo Cade is a coming-of-age tale that pits the emotional growth of its young protagonists against the encroaching horrors of war. In 1944, newly-orphaned pre-teen sisters Penny Read More

The Impostors

Actors: Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Teagle F. Bougere, Elizabeth Bracco, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Actor Stanley Tucci made his directorial debut with a strong cast in this Depression Era farce focusing on two struggling two New York actors. In opening scenes, Maurice (Oliver Platt) and Arthur (Tucci) fabricate a fake fight at an outdoor cafe, do acting exercises, audition for a theater Read More

Left Luggage

Actors: Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé, Marianne Sägebrecht

Synopsis: Actor Jeroen Krabbe made his directorial debut with this Dutch-Belgian-U.S. drama examining anti-Semitic attitudes in 1972 Antwerp. Free-spirited 20-year-old student Chaja (Laura Fraser) has a long-haired revolutionary lover and sometimes visits her parents (Maximilian Schell, Marianne Read More

Merlin

Actors: Sam Neill, Isabella Rossellini, Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: This four-hour fantasy miniseries, elaborating on the Arthurian legend and filmed in England and Wales, offers a portrait of the wizard Merlin (Sam Neill), following his life as a youth (Daniel Brocklebank) to his later conflicts with the evil Queen Mab (Miranda Richardson) and his love for Nimue (Isabella Rossellini Read More

The Odyssey

Actors: Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Vanessa Williams, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Utilizing an exceptional international all-star cast and excellent special effects, Hallmark entertainment and American Zoetrope productions created this fun-filled adaptation of Homer's most-famous epic poem. It was originally broadcast as a four-hour miniseries on the NBC network. The story Read More

Big Night

Actors: Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: In this witty drama, a pair of brothers debate integrity versus compromise as they try to succeed in the restaurant business. Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci) have journeyed from Italy to New Jersey in the mid-1950s, determined to make a killing with an authentic Italian Read More

The Funeral

Actors: Christopher Walken, Chris Penn, Vincent Gallo, Isabella Rossellini, Annabella Sciorra, Benicio Del Toro

Synopsis: Cult figure Abel Ferrara directed this dark, emotional tale of life among the criminal underworld, set in the late 1930s. The Tempio Brothers -- Ray (Christopher Walken), Chez (Chris Penn), and Johnny (Vincent Gallo) -- work with the mob; Ray is the cool and methodical type, Chez is an angry man Read More

Crime of the Century

Actors: Stephen Rea, Isabella Rossellini, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Made-for-cable drama based on the true story of Bruno Hauptmann, who was convicted and put to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindberg's son in a case still regarded as a travesty of justice. Stephen Rea plays Hauptmann, and Isabella Rossellini co-stars as his wife. ~ Mark Deming Read More

Friends: The One with Frank, Jr.

Synopsis: Isabella Rosselini guest stars in this episode, in which Ross (David Schwimmer) tries to come up with the names of his five "dream" celebrities (a list that he's forced to pare down to four at the least advantageous moment). Meanwhile, Phoebe's half-brother, Frank Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi), shows up Read More

Tales From the Crypt: You, Murderer

Wyatt Earp

Actors: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Directed by Lawrence Kasdan, this epic version of the legendary western sheriff-gunslinger's life story stars Kevin Costner as Earp, who lived from 1848 to 1929. Growing up on a farm in Iowa, Earp tries to run away to join the Union Army in the Civil War, but he is turned away because of his Read More

Immortal Beloved

Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Barry Humphries, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: This biography of Ludwig von Beethoven (played here by Gary Oldman) builds its narrative around an actual letter found after his death, addressed only to the composer's "immortal beloved." The responsibility of discovering this mysterious person's identity falls to Beethoven's friend and secretary Read More

Fearless

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Rosie Perez, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Hulce, John Turturro

Synopsis: Adapted by screenwriter Rafael Yglesias from his own novel, Fearless explores the complex struggle back to mental health of post-traumatic stress disorder victim Max Klein (Jeff Bridges). One of few survivors of a fatal plane crash, Klein remains calm and assists other survivors out of the burning Read More

The Innocent

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Anthony Hopkins, Campbell Scott, Ronald Nitschke, Hart Bochner

Synopsis: A young man unthinkingly throws himself into a world of political and sexual turmoil in John Schlesinger's adaptation of the novel by Ian McEwan. Leonard Markham (Campbell Scott) is a British communications and surveillance expert who is sent to Germany in the early 1950s, at the height of the Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This film noir style, made-for-TV movie contains three parts, each based on stories by three different authors (Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, and James Elroy). It looks as if a con-artist (Peter Gallagher) has finally met someone who can pull the wool over his eyes in "The Frightening Frammis." Read More

The Pickle

Actors: Danny Aiello, Dyan Cannon, Clotilde Courau, Shelley Winters, Barry Miller, Jerry Stiller, Chris Penn, Ally Sheedy

Synopsis: Paul Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged man looking back on his life's failures. Harry Stone (Danny Aiello) is a film director who desperately needs a hit -- so desperately that he gets talked into directing an Read More

Death Becomes Her

Actors: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy

Synopsis: High-concept director Robert Zemeckis applies his usual polish -- helped by an equally adept cast -- for this surprisingly gruesome and extremely funny black comedy. The film begins with narcissistic actress Madeline (Meryl Streep) stealing the latest in a series of potential fiancées, wimpy Read More

Le Diable A Quatre

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Tom Conti, Zouc, Michel Duchaussoy

Lies of the Twins

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Aidan Quinn, Iman, Claudia Christian, John Pleshette

Synopsis: The romantic rivalry between twin psychologists in love with the same beautiful model takes a deadly turn in this dark made-for-cable-TV thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Osada Venetsii

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Tom Konti, Dzheyms Uilbi, Mishel Dyushossua, Alexander Abdulov

Wild at Heart

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd, Willem Dafoe, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern play a pair of lovers on the run in David Lynch's surrealist road movie Wild at Heart. Cage's Sailor Ripley is a violent ex-convict with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Dern's Lula Pace Fortune, the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern Read More

The Last Elephant

Synopsis: In this adventure, an alcoholic author and a research scientist join forces in the African bush as they endeavor to stop elephant poachers involved in selling black market ivory. On video, the film is known as Ivory Hunters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dames Galantes

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Isabella Rossellini, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marianne Basler, Laura Betti, Robin Renucci

Synopsis: Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome (Richard Bohringer) manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire (Isabella Rossellini), is beyond his reach most Read More

Cousins

Actors: Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William L. Petersen, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two people brought together by marriage are brought even closer by their mates. Maria Hardy (Isabella Rossellini) and Larry Konzinski (Ted Danson) first meet at a wedding, where Maria's mother and Larry's uncle are tying the knot. However, the new cousins also have Read More

Zelly and Me

Actors: Isabella Rossellini, Glynis Johns, Alexandra Johnes, Kaiulani Lee, David Lynch

Synopsis: In this drama, young Phoebe (Alexandra Johnes) is sent to live with her wealthy grandmother (Glynis Johns) after both of her parents are tragically killed. As Phoebe attempts to accustom herself to her new life with her stern grandmother, she becomes very attached to her governess, Zelly (Isabella Rossellini Read More

Siesta

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Isabella Rossellini, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Sky diver Clare (Ellen Barkin) wakes up disheveled and almost naked in Spain. She has left her husband Del (Martin Sheen) in Death Valley in order to find her former lover Augustine (Gabriel Byrne). She may have committed a murder, or it may all be fantasy. This film, directed by Mary Lambert is Read More

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser, John Bedford Lloyd

Synopsis: Norman Mailer wrote and directed this demented film noir, which takes place in a Provincetown of perpetual twilight. Most of the tale, based on his best-selling novel, is told in flashback as Dougy Madden (Lawrence Tierney) pays a visit to his son Tim (Ryan O'Neal). Dougy, a tough ex-bartender, is Read More

Red Riding Hood

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Isabella Rossellini, Rocco Sisto, Linda Kaye

Synopsis: This uneven reworking of the famous Grimm Brother's fairy tale stars Amelia Shankley as Red Riding Hood. Craig T. Nelson plays a double role of twin brothers. Godfrey is the evil brother who rules the kingdom when the virtuous Percival is missing in action after riding off to war. Lady Jeanne (Isabella Rossellini Read More

Blue Velvet

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his Read More

White Nights

Actors: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: The fancy footwork and star appeal of Gregory Hines as Raymond, an exiled American, and the powerful grace of Mikhail Baryshnikov as Nikolai, a defector, combine with a great production design to carry this otherwise thinly-stretched tale of intrigue. With a stellar supporting cast (Isabella Rossellini Read More

Il Pap'Occhio

Actors: Luciano de Crescenzo, Renzo Arbore, Roberto Benigni, Isabella Rossellini

Synopsis: The Pope (Manfred Freyburger) is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a Read More

Il Prato

Actors: Michele Placido, Saverio Marconi, Isabella Rossellini, Giulio Brogi

Synopsis: The Italian "directing siblings" Paolo and Vittorio Taviani were responsible for this intriguing slice of working-class life. Saverio Marconi plays Giovanni, a Milan youth who heads to poverty-plagued Tuscany to sell some property. Giovanni falls in with several smalltown "rebels", including clerk Read More

A Matter of Time

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Spiros Andros, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: Singer and actress Liza Minnelli teamed up with her father, legendary director Vincente Minnelli, to make this evocative drama. Nina (Liza Minnelli) is a popular film star who, in the midst of a press conference, finds herself remembering her life before her big break, when she worked as a Read More