这个情节复杂的故事发生在1630年左右的西班牙帝国统治下的伦巴第（米兰地区，曼佐尼童年生活的地方），靠近科莫湖。年轻的恋人伦佐•特拉玛耶诺和露琪亚•蒙黛拉决定结婚，但贵族少爷唐•罗德里戈为了一己私欲想要霸占露琪亚，他胁迫懦弱的神父唐•阿邦迪奥，不许阿邦迪奥为伦佐和露琪亚证婚。这对年轻的未婚夫妇只能离开村庄逃亡。露琪亚和母亲艾尼丝在克里斯托弗洛修士的帮助下来到蒙扎的修道院。人称“蒙扎的修女”的修道院院长吉特鲁德保护了露琪亚。通过她的回忆片段，我们得知了院长艰难的童年，成为修女后被逼婚，以及后来她如何凭远大的抱负和强硬的态度一步步地成为了修道院院长。吉特鲁德和其他修女们的生活片段也通过一些她们不为人知的角度（纪律严明，性，统治等）进行了展示。 与此同时，伦佐有些天真地去了米兰，试图寻求帮助。在罗德里戈的雇佣下，“无名氏”，一个充满暴力的黑暗领导者绑架了露琪亚。不久之后，他变得犹豫不决，备受良心折磨，对露琪亚充满悔意，最终放了这位天使。在遇见米兰大主教费德里戈•博罗梅奥之后，他追悔自己过去的行为，要求宽恕，公开宣布决定悔过自新。 在米兰，伦佐陷入了因食物匮乏和战乱所引发的暴乱与骚动之中。不管承认与否，他被认作暴乱领导人之一，只能被迫离开。该地区已经备受战争和瘟疫的摧残。再次回到米兰之后，伦佐发现了他的心上人正在类似那个时代健康中心的地方（传染病医院）。克里斯托弗洛修士在那里照顾着数不胜数的病人。恶少唐•罗德里戈也染上了瘟疫，奄奄一息。在经历种种磨难之后，这对约婚夫妇终成眷属。

When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war.

2007 Italian TV miniseries directed by Robert Dornhelm

改编自维斯康蒂电影《纳粹狂魔》。讲述1933年德国纳粹盛行时期，一个钢铁家族的衰落和消失。这个家庭里充满仇恨和杀机，老爷一夜被杀，继而各个家庭成员为了夺得这份财产，进行了你死我活的较量。

A young woman trapped in a web of dark family secrets finds herself in a dangerous triangle of love, jealousy, and deception, where the truth hides in her past.

1961 film by Valerio Zurlini

从前，有一位长得很漂亮的女孩，她有一位恶毒的继母与两位心地不好的姐姐。她便经常受到继母与两位姐姐的欺负，被逼着去做粗重的工作，经常弄得全身满是灰尘，因此被戏称为“灰姑娘”。有一天，城里的王子举行舞会，邀请全城的女孩出席，但继母与两位姐姐却不让灰姑娘出席，还要她做很多工作，使她失望伤心。这时，有一位仙女出现了，帮助她摇身一变成为高贵的千金小姐，并将老鼠变成马夫，南瓜变成马车，又变了一套漂亮的衣服和一双水晶（玻璃）鞋给灰姑娘穿上。

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

Sandra returns to her hometown to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

1969 film by Luchino Visconti

香奈儿（巴博拉·伯布洛瓦 Barbora Bobulova 饰）在她出世前父母个还没正式结婚，落得一个私生女的身份。六岁时母亲去世，父亲下5个孩子离去。从此由姨妈抚养，后来进入修女院学校学了一门针线技巧。1905年，22岁的她当上咖啡厅歌手，有了艺名Coco，在不同的歌厅和咖啡厅卖唱维生。在这段时间内，她先后结交了两名老主顾：英国工业家和富有的军官。成为他们的情人后，让她有经济能力开设自己的店子。1910年，在巴黎开设了一家女装帽店子 ，凭着非凡的针线技巧，缝制出一顶又一顶款式简洁耐看的帽子。两位情人为她介绍了不少名流客人。当时女士们已厌倦了花巧的饰边，所以Chanel简洁的帽子深得她们的喜爱。然而，做帽子已不能满足她对时装事业的雄心，她开始进军高级订制服的领域。1914年，开设了两家时装店，影响后世深远的时装品牌Chanel宣告正式诞生。

1973 film directed by Luchino Visconti

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.