相貌平平的女孩乔凡娜因为出于嫉妒而杀害了自己的同班同学，他做老师的爸爸米凯莱·卡萨里不惜放弃工作离开妻子，只为能够前往位于乡下的关押乔凡娜的精神病所照顾女儿……这部入围第65届威尼斯电影节竞赛单元并最终斩获最佳男主角的优秀影片，一改以往影视作品中热衷塑造的母爱主题，反而通过了一种强大的情感依托表达了对父爱的尊崇与向往。除了片中那段感人至深的父女情真，本片对二战期间意大利人民生活的疾苦同样有着惟妙惟肖地描写。

As the movie begins, a bankrupt Italian count has just committed suicide. One of his creditors has taken over the household property, but he enables the widow, the mother, and the three adult sisters to stay on. The creditor is a rich businessman, but also basically an uncouth peasant (who fancies himself an opera singer). Nonetheless, the dimwitted, sex-crazed sisters try to seduce both him and his virginal, shy son whom accompanies him. But both guys end up falling in love with the voluptuous widow (Senta Berger) creating a kind of incestuous love triangle.

middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover

In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself.

1993 film directed by Pupi Avati