Dos años después de la muerte de su madre, Augusto Pérez decide enamorarse de Eugenia, una burguesita que da lecciones de piano para poder pagar la hipoteca que pesa sobre la casa que le han dejado sus padres. Y, aunque Eugenia ama al holgazán de Mauricio, decide aceptar el matrimonio con Augusto y su generosa donación para rescatar la casa hipotecada.

When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.

Un recluso maduro se refugia en un pueblo habitado por una troupe de enanos y descubre que el jefe mantiene oculta en un torreón a una bella mujer. Éste acaba convirtiéndose en su dirigente.

In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be turned over to them. The warrior refuses, citing the sacred laws of hospitality. The soldiers shoot dead one of the men and carry off the other - a political foe of the new government. The warrior mounts his camel and rides off to rescue his kidnapped guest.

After a meteor-like object lands in the woods, poachers unearth a cave filled with alien eggs. As they attempt to destroy the eggs, one of them is killed by an unseen creature, leaving one egg intact. A young boy named Tommy finds the remaining egg and brings it home to hatch. As more murders occur around town, Tommy learns that his new pet alien, who he names Trumpy, possesses telekinetic powers.

Luciano lleva quince años trabajando en una importante empresa sin que le hayan sido recompensados sus esfuerzos, su fidelidad y sumisión. Por recomendación de un primo suyo, hace de hombre de paja para los negocios inconfesables de los directivos. Éstos le manipulan hasta el extremo de obligarle a casarse con la ex amante de uno de sus jefes. Al final, por culpa de un incendio del chalet en el que vive y donde se cuecen los negocios sucios de los que no es responsable, termina yendo a parar a la cárcel, por encubrir y achacarse unas responsabilidades que no son suyas, cumpliendo hasta el final su papel de testaferro.