Podczas odczytywania testamentu zmarłej matki, bliźnięta Jeanne i Simon dowiadują się, iż mają rodzeństwo i ojca, który nadal żyje, choć za życia ich matka twierdziła coś innego. Ostatnią wolą zmarłej było, aby rodzeństwo wybrało się na Bliski Wschód aby odnaleźć rodzinę i dostarczyć im zapieczętowane listy.

Sasha to 68-letnia nastolatka (dla wampirów czas płynie nieco inaczej), o którą martwi się cała rodzina. Mogą błagać i tłumaczyć, a ona i tak nie chce zabijać ludzi. I deklaruje, że prędzej umrze z głodu nim wypije krew z pulsującej żyły. Zamiast tego, ku zgrozie rodziców, ciotki i kuzynki siorbie ją z plastikowych torebek. Pewnego dnia jednak poznaje zagubionego, nastoletniego Paula, który marzy o śmierci i z przyjemnością odda swoją krew Sashy

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.

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.

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.

Dobrze usytuowany mężczyzna, człowiek z Chicago, Larry Darrel, zrywa zaręczyny z Isabel i podóżuje szukając 'oświecenia'. Isabel poślubia Graya i w następstwie krachu gospodarczego z 1929 roku, zostaje zaproszona przez swojego bogatego, wysoko postawionego wujka Elliota do Paryża, gdzie zamieszkuje wraz z nim. W czasie pobytu w tym mieście, Larry, zauważywszy swoją szanse, ponownie schodzi się z Isabel. Pewnej nocy Larry, Isabel razem z przyjaciółmi odnajdują Sophie, przyjaciółke z Chicago, która straciła męza i dziecko w tragicznym wypadku. Sophie prowadzi żywot uwłaczający ludzkiej godności. Larry prubóje jej pomóc ale jego starania są sabotowane przez Isabel która chce zwrócić na siebie uwage Larriego

Melvin jest nieudacznikiem. Zajęcia, które podejmuje, nie pozwalają na utrzymanie rodziny, a związek z kobietą kończy się klęską. Pewnego razu, podróżując samotnie przez pustynię w Nevadzie, Melvin znajduje rannego człowieka. Zabiera go do furgonetki i podwozi do luksusowej dzielnicy Las Vegas. Okazuje się, że pasażer jest legendarnym miliarderem, Howardem Hughesem. Pewnego dnia na stacji benzynowej, którą Melvin prowadzi razem z żoną, zjawia się tajemniczy mężczyzna. Bez słowa zostawia na biurku kopertę z ostatnią wolą Howarda Hughesa.

Dwaj nieudolni pracownicy stacji benzynowej dostają w spadku dom. Zabawa zacznie się, gdy po dotarciu do posiadłości i przenocowaniu w niej, okaże się, ze jest nawiedzona.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.

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.

A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inheritance.So he tries to trick a poor devil into getting married with her.

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.

En route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a desert island in the company of wealthy book publisher John Meeson. Sensing that his days are numbered, and lacking pencil and paper, Meeson tattoos his last will and testament on Alice's lovely back.

The wealthy patriarch of the Sinclair family lives in mortal fear of being buried alive because he suffers from a rare condition that causes him, at times, to appear lifeless. So, when he dies, his relatives learn that his will stipulates that nobody will see a penny unless they follow a strict set of orders which would allow for him to "return from the dead." When the relations refuse to comply with his wishes, he returns from the grave and proceeds to exact his revenge on his insubordinate kin, killing each of them in precisely the ways they most fear.