影片分為兩個故事，全部根據愛倫•坡的小說改編。 傑西卡（Adrienne Barbeau 飾）的丈夫厄尼斯特（Bingo O'Malley 飾）病入膏肓，精神病醫生羅伯特（Ramy Zada 飾）與傑西卡有染。兩人合夥攛掇厄尼斯特將數百萬遺產留給妻子。這對男女最終如願以償，但憤怒的厄尼斯特再度復活，勢要復仇…… 攝影師羅德（Harvey Keitel 飾）的女友安娜貝爾（Madeleine Potter 飾）帶回壹只流浪的黑貓。黑貓的叫聲讓本就煩躁不已的羅德難以忍受。他壹氣之下殺死黑貓，卻不曾想從此走入黑暗恐怖的噩夢之中……
A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She tries to help him live again.
Marco, a nine year old boy, is in love with his elementary teacher, and feels neglected by his workaholic parents. When they forget about his birthday he wishes he could grow up at once. This really happens and Marco begins a new life as an adult. He rents a room in his teacher's flat and she falls in love with him. He even fakes a kidnapping when he runs out of money but he is mistaken for the kidnapper.
The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil.
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.
Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters.
A group of high fashion models have been invited to an isolated house to attend a party. As the night wears on, one of the models falls victim to a deadly 'accident,' which sets into motion a series of brutal murders, all traced back to a shocking secret...
Bartoloni from Milan exchanges apartments with his colleague from Rome and moves toa new place. And everything could be good, if not unexpected trouble with which he will have to face ..
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, disorganization gradually takes over the convoy. Each of the members of the group, little by little, yield to their petty, selfish impulses: violence, power, nostalgia - The breakdown of one of the trucks forces Michele and Nadia to wait at an oasis for the arrival of spare parts. But a starving local tribe settles threateningly near them. The chief of the tribe makes a speech they don't understand, which is followed by a macabre purification ceremony.
At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.