Desiderando Giulia, internationally released as Desiring Julia, is a 1986 Italian erotic drama film directed by Andrea Barzini.

[3] Emilio, an unsuccessful writer, lives in a comfortable apartment in Rome with his older sister Amalia.

In a theatre he sees a mysterious woman and, following her into the wardrobe room, they make love.

Amalia is jealous of Emilio's infatuation and, when a younger and more successful writer called Stefano visits the apartment, starts an affair with him.

As his eyes slowly open to the true nature of Giulia and the people she mixes with, he decides to transform her into the person he wants her to be but this project, as could have been predicted, fails.