A black comedy version of the classic tale.

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.

Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

Gemma works as an employee in the office of an agency that is responsible for launching novice models into their first career steps. However, Gemma does not work in a peaceful atmosphere due to her particularly demanding employer and the harassment she suffers from her own clients. Equally unhappy is her love life, which is why her only friend, as well as her trusted hairdresser, dyes her hair pink. It is from that moment that her life changes radically.

Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.

3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts.

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times.

Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some Gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.

Ordered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. Joseph buys Small One and uses him to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.

Forty-something Mattia has every woman in town lusting after him. But every time a woman wants to get hitched, he drags out his 'daughter' (actually the girl next door) to pass judgment on this woman.

On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.

Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alterations. When one of them decides to marry, their friendship is in a crisis ...

Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.

Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One evening, he meets Elsa at a party and are immediately attracted to each other. Fifteen days later, they happen to meet again and the mutual attraction turns into infatuation. But his love for his wife and Elsa's rule about not dating married men prevents them from taking the next step. Instead, they fantasize about each other, and soon the fantasies mingle with the reality.

Joe er en primitiv og godmodig mand, der bor i en tropisk landsby. Da han besøger den lokale handelsstation, får han at vide, at han skal have en tilladelse for at handle med bananer. For at fremskaffe det vigtige stykke papir tager han af sted til storbyen. På rejsen oplever han mange spændende ting, han ikke er vant til - blandt andet fjernsyn, banditter og kærligheden i form af en sexet natklubsangerinde. Da han kommer hjem fra den begivenhedsrige rejse, har mafiaen overtaget kontrollen med hans landsby. Men det vil Joe ikke finde sig i - han begynder nu at uddele øretæver i stor stil!

Filmen fortæller oprindelseshistorien bag en af de mest populære karakterer, Snake Eyes, der er kendt som den stumme, sortklædte ninja i holdet af supersoldater. Som ung bliver Snake Eyes optaget i den ældgamle japansk klan Arashikage, da han redder klanens arving. Ved ankomsten til Japan lærer Arashikage Snake Eyes ninjakrigerens kunst og giver ham samtidig noget, han har længtes efter: Et hjem. Men Snake Eyes' ære og loyalitet sættes på prøve, da hemmeligheder fra hans fortid afsløres.

Askepot er en ung, smuk og forældreløs pige, som slider og slæber for sin stedmoder og hendes forkælede døtre, der ikke behandler hende særlig godt. Askepot drømmer om at komme til bal på kongeslottet og danse med prinsen, men bliver hele tiden på ondskabsfuld vis, forhindret i at få sin balkjole færdig, trods ihærdig hjælp fra vennerne Tim og Bum. Med hjælp fra den gode fe, klarer de det alligevel og drømmen bliver til virkelighed! Men tiden er knap – ved midnat brydes fortryllelsen og hun forvandles fra en skønhed til en helt almindelig pige igen...

Eddy, Tom, Soap og Bacon er fire engelske arbejdere med hver deres fidus. I et spil kort bliver Eddy snydt af storgangsteren "Hatchet Harry" og kommer ud i en gæld på £500.000. Én uge får Eddy til at skaffe pengene, ellers mister han og vennerne en finger hver dag. Heldigvis er naboen i gang med et større kup. De fire venner får en idé. Ved et tilfælde kommer de i besiddelse af to gamle, slidte geværer. Snart er kliken klar til at tage kampen op med Hatchet Harry på deres helt egen facon.

Phil Conners (Bill Murray) er en mavesur tv-vejr-mand, der hvert år (meget mod sin vilje) bliver sendt til den lille flække, Punxsutawney. Her skal han interviewe byens eneste landskendte "person" – et murmeldyr, der efter sigende kan fortælle, om foråret er på vej, eller om vinteren fortsætter. Og Phil hader det. Han hader alt, der har noget med byen at gøre, og vil allerhelst væk derfra med det samme. Men da Phil vågner op på hotellet næste morgen, er det den samme dag som i går(?) Og sådan fortsætter det, dag efter dag – med den samme dag. Det har jo nogle fordele, for der er jo ingen "i morgen", og Phil kan gøre, hvad der passer ham uden at stå til ansvar for nogen dagen efter.

Bilforhandleren Jerry Lundegaard er i økonomiske vanskeligheder. For at løse problemet hyrer han to forbrydere til kidnappe sin egen kone. Da hans svigerfar er stenrig, så håber Jerry, at han kan få en klækkelig løsesum. Snart viser det sig at han har allieret sig med to af Minnesotas mest uduelige fyre. Det bliver ikke bedre for Jerry, da den snarådige politkvinde Marge Gunderson begynder at kigge på sagen.