Gregorio and Livia are brother and sister, but the two do not know this. One day they learn that their father Vanni is disappeared, fled in an unknown place. Gregorio and Livia then put together their forces to find the parent, and they discover that they have much in common.
Marco Salviati (Giulio Scarpati) travaille comme vendeur de voiture à Vérone dans l'entreprise familiale, auprès de sa femme, de son père et de son frère. Après la mort de son père, il part à la recherche de son frère qui a disparu sans laisser de traces, emportant avec lui une forte somme d'argent appartenant à la société. Il se rend d'abord à Pérouse afin d'y rencontrer Elena Bacchelli (Margherita Buy), la petite amie de son frère. Sans nouvelles de son concubin, elle se décide alors à accompagner Marco dans ses recherches. Ils voyagent ensemble, rencontrant une improbable galerie de personnages alors que, peu à peu, naît entre eux une idylle amoureuse .
Portrait de la société italienne de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle à travers le parcours de Claudia Bertelli, née dans l'après-guerre d'une famille bourgeoise, femme rebelle, féministe, puis religieuse.
Francesco is a Tuscan very good at playing American pool, so much so that he is nicknamed "Mr. Quindicipalle", from the time he pocketed fifteen ("quindici") balls ("palle") at the same time, using the wooden handle of a broom to cue. Francesco also has to be an expert womanizer, like his father, who died recently. Indeed Francesco meets the woman of his dreams going to find the father to the cemetery. There, Francesco meets a prostitute who calls herself "Sissi". The two fall in love, and so Francesco thinks she might be a lucky charm for him, because Francesco is training for a big tournament of American billiards. But Sissi is still a prostitute, and so she makes infuriates many times Francesco, compromising his skill and his training for the tournament.
Three amateur actors in theater are chased away by their performance, because the satirically subject from their complaint treates in a controversial manner the cruelty of the Nazis. The three actors take refuge in a rural country where they, having the bright idea to recite a sacred drama on the birth of Jesus Christ, have to interpret the three Biblical Magi. The show is so successful and magically the villagers give birth to a son on Christmas Eve for every family, and there the faith in Jesus is regained.
Priest Wu (Wu Ma) is due to re-open a church after a priest died there twenty years ago, Uncle Nine (Lam Ching-ying) recommends he does not re-open the church but Priest Wu goes ahead. The priest who died there becomes a vampire who wants to turn eveyone in the town into a vampire.
Master Gau (Lam Ching-ying) village get overtaken by vampires, Master Gau must and his assistants join forces to rid their village of the vampires. Master Gau must also take care of his assistants who befriends a ghost.
21-year-old Seymour (Silverman) dreams of becoming an astronaut, but is pressured by his parents (Moreno & Sorvino) to go to Harvard law school and then go into business. After graduating, Seymour lets go of his dreams and becomes a business man. One day, he wakes up and suddenly feels and acts like a 83-year-old man. He is fired from his job for being "too old" and doctors can't explain the situation.