本片改编自心理治疗畅销作家欧文‧亚隆的同名小说。　　十九世纪末的维也纳，正逢四十不惑的医学大师布雷尔，突然接到一封意外的来信。寄信人竟然是社会名媛路·莎乐美（凯瑟琳·温妮克 Katheryn Winnick 饰）。虽然突然布雷尔犹豫过，但还是如约前往咖啡馆。莎乐美此番的目的是希望布雷尔能帮助她的亲密朋友——存在主义大师尼采，有一种刻苦铭心的“痛苦感”每天伴随着他。为了医治根本不愿接受治疗的尼采，布雷尔唯有假意装成需要尼采的帮助。整整一个月，布雷尔和尼采在不同的场所进行着深入的交谈。于是，一场一场不知谁是病人，谁是医生的心理治疗就此展开……

女孩霍滕西亚的父亲被电冰箱的门电击死去、被老板炒鱿鱼、男朋友和她最要好的闺蜜在一起了——绝望之中，她发现了自己十四岁时写的人生目标并自此信誓旦旦：“去和一个像父亲一样拥有金色头发的男孩结婚，并设计出全世界最美丽的鞋子。”然而当她没有认真去倾听自己内心真实声音的时候，事情只会越来越糟。最终她将电冰箱推向了悬崖，也不再管什么十四岁的愿望，让当下的自我去做选择。

年轻的露娜（Anna Ammirati 饰）充满活力，作风大胆，让镇上青年们惊叹，令保守人士们侧目。露娜同在面包房工作的青年马萨多（Mario Parodi 饰）订下婚约，并时常要求与对方共赴巫山，但古板的马萨多每次都坚决回避，声称新婚之夜才可行房，露娜一次次的献身行为除了招来登徒子与偷窥痴的瞩目之外一无所获。露娜母亲莎拉不久前接纳了老情人安德鲁，并对外宣称安德鲁是露娜的父亲，然而真相却颇为可疑。安德鲁最大的兴趣是与摄影师毕比先生厮混，与不同的女人调情从而发生关系。露娜时常撞见安德鲁偷情的情景，于她的内心产生了些许动荡。某个夜里，马萨多为露娜同几个大兵大打出手，失措的露娜险被有钱人骚扰，当夜露娜跑回家中与安德鲁坦身相见，但她终于还是坚守了对马萨多的忠贞。

虽然影评不佳，但Apple TV 的限定剧《#真相大白# Truth Be Told》仍然获宣布续订第二季。在新季中播客主Poppy Parnell（Octavia Spencer饰）将会去调查另一宗案件。

This utterly gorgeous Gothic melodrama would be widely hailed as a masterpiece, had it not been made in Italy during the Mussolini regime. A gross injustice, as Malombra - unlike Piccolo Mondo Antico, Mario Soldati's earlier film of an Antonio Fogazzaro novel - contains not one moment of triumphalist flag-waving or Fascist family values. Oddly akin to Rebecca in its atmosphere of death-haunted romance and voluptuous doom, it reaches a peak of visual refinement of which Hitchcock could only dream.　　Its star is Isa Miranda (famous, and not without reason, as Italy's answer to Garbo and Dietrich) playing a headstrong but unstable young noblewoman, confined by her uncle to a gloomy villa on the shores of Lake Como. A yellowed and crumbling letter, found in an old spinet, convinces her that she is the reincarnation of her uncle's first wife - another troubled beauty who died a virtual prisoner after being caught in a forbidden love affair. When a handsome young writer (Andrea Checchi) comes to stay, Miranda decides that HE is the reincarnation of the dead woman's lover. Gradually, she lures him into her web of sex and revenge...　　What more to say without spoiling the fun Miranda gives a performance to rival any of the great divas of Hollywood. Only Davis and Stanwyck, perhaps, could play a bad girl so boldly without losing all sympathy. The evocation of 19th century aristocracy, in its full decadent splendour, is visually and dramatically flawless - a model for such later Italian gems as Visconti's Senso and The Innocent.　　It helped, perhaps, that Soldati himself was a leading novelist. Blessed with an absolute respect for the classics he adapted, but in no way inhibited by them. He was also the guiding spirit of the now-forgotten 'calligraphic' movement, which brought the Italian cinema to such wondrous aesthetic heights during World War Two, only to collapse before the horror of Neo-Realism. Can we blame Soldati for giving up film-making in disgust and going back to writing novels　　So if you've ever felt (as I do) that Rossellini's much-touted Rome - Open City is the work of an amateur...well, Malombra is the film you have to see!