In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.

1992 film by Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia

2012 film by Neri Parenti

埃勒维拉和一儿一女的富裕生活，随着丈夫劳瑞斯的突然去世而终止．这时她才发现丈夫赌博已经输掉了全部家产，留给她的是沉重的债务和一张销售音乐磁带和光盘的流动摊贩许可证．埃勒维拉勇敢地开始了一种与过去截然不同的生活．在摆摊经商过程中，她结识了西西里青年杜里，并得到了他的许多帮助．杜里给她提出建议，保护她，还帮助她摆脱了一群高利贷者设计的陷阱．在埃勒维拉女儿生日前一天，家中的家具被法院扣押．埃勒维拉被生活压得抬不起头，只有对女儿的爱支撑着她．杜里凭借细心和灵给埃勒维拉一家带来了欢乐．埃勒维拉和杜里之间产生了爱情，但是杜里必须回到西西里面对一场诬告他的官司，杜里告诉了埃勒维拉实情，埃勒维拉不忍心让杜里独自面对官司，决定和孩子们一起陪杜里到西西里去．．．．．．
警察的到来加速了杜里决定和埃勒维拉回到西西里的行程，因为杜里要赶在开庭之前回去自首．路上埃勒维拉的女儿阿涅赛偶然结识了青年军人阿雷桑德罗，这个人就是那个杜里一案中，被谋杀的女孩玛丽安娜的哥哥．杜里把埃勒维拉交给自己的家人照顾，自己前去自首，他在等待真正的凶手或者那些亲眼和他一起看到真相的孩子鼓起勇气说出真相．埃勒维拉再次展现出她巨大的勇气和力量，虽然从他们回来的那一颗起，就开始有人威胁他们，但她绝不离开杜里，她要帮助杜里．与此同时，她和孩子们更加了解充满正义感，无私地开办免费学校的杜里．最终，真相显现．

Mark, a hitman haunted by his past as a corrupt Miami cop and the death of his wife and son, prepares for his next killing. Gradually he becomes fascinated by the beautiful prostitute who lives in the next apartment and they embark on a passionate affair. Their dreams of a life together are complicated by her pimp being a drugs baron; before they can escape he must die, but things are never that simple...

1991 film directed by Tinto Brass

Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini, who set whole Europe of the 19th century into frenzy and through whose personality Kinski offers us an incredibly profound and honest insight into his own life; a life of extremities.