Όταν ο συμβολαιογράφος Λέμπελ, διαβάζει στη Ζαν και στο Σιμόν τη διαθήκη της μητέρας τους, Νάουαλ, τα δίδυμα έκπληκτα παίρνουν τους φακέλους που άφησε εκείνη, έναν για τον πατέρα τους που πιστεύανε ότι ήταν νεκρός, κι ένα για τον αδερφό τους που δε γνωρίζανε την ύπαρξη του. Σε αυτή την αινιγματική κληρονομιά, η Ζαν πιστεύει θα βρει την απάντηση για την ανεξήγητη σιωπή της μητέρας της τις τελευταίες εβδομάδες της ζωής της. Αποφασίζει να ταξιδέψει στη Μέση Ανατολή για να αναζητήσει την ιστορία της οικογένειας της, για την οποία φαίνεται ότι δε γνωρίζει τίποτα. Ο Σιμόν δε συγκινείται από τα μεταθανάτια παιχνίδια που παίζει η μητέρα του, αλλά η αγάπη για την αδερφή του είναι πολύ δυνατή, και σύντομα θα την ακολουθήσει για να ανακαλύψουν την αλήθεια για τη Νάουαλ- μιας γυναίκας πολύ διαφορετικής από εκείνη που γνώριζαν ως μητέρα τους.
A widow deceives her late husband's mother and brothers into thinking he's still alive when she attends the yearly memorial to his drowned sister, hoping to secure his inheritance, but her cunning is no match for the demented, axe-wielding thing roaming the grounds of the family's Irish estate.
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she's too sensitive to kill. When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha's life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul's last wishes before day breaks.
An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.
Η Μέλβιν είναι ένα καλό παιδί, αλλά πάντα βγαίνει χαμένος. Άτυχος, διόλου πρακτικός και δεν μπορεί να σταθεί σε μια δουλειά. Μια βραδιά, τυχαίνει να βοηθήσει έναν γέρο άντρα που είχε ατύχημα με μοτοσυκλέτα καταμεσής της ερήμου. Φυσικά, δεν πιστεύει ότι ο γέρος είναι ο εκκεντρικός δισεκατομμυριούχος Χάουαρντ Χιουζ, όπως υποστηρίζει, και γελάει με αυτό. Όταν, όμως, ο Χιουζ πεθαίνει, ο Μέλβιν λαμβάνει μια επιστολή πως είναι ένας από τους κληρονόμους.
After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house and the family must join together to save themselves and their neighborhood.
A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance at happiness.
A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death.
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.
Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the rightful heir, the young Terwilliger III, is being cheated out his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant Jones and Clarissa. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.
Following the death of her uncle, Elisabeth returns to her family's castle for the reading of his will. She is informed of legends about the castle's ghost and experiences erotically charged nightmares, before being kidnapped by a hooded figure and tortured in the dungeon. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Jack suspects a plot to gain Elisabeth's inheritance and begins his own investigation...
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.
Rusty, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says he does. But before this prophecy can be fulfilled, the story spends a great deal of time with young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson), who briefly turns to juvenile delinquency when he's denied an expected inheritance
After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding family members gather for a reading of the will, setting into motion an increasingly chilling series of deaths when their arrival is marked by a second grisly killing.