Oda Nobunaga married Nohime purely for political reasons, so their relationship leaves much to be desired—they are constantly arguing and clashing. One day, Imagawa Yoshimoto attacks the province of Owari. His army outnumbers Nobunaga’s forces, and Nobunaga falls into despair, but Nohime comes to his aid. Together, they devise a plan to confront their powerful enemy.
Linda Liddell, an employee in the strategic development department, rightly considers herself a valuable asset and is hoping for a promotion. The problem is that she annoys everyone in the office, and when the company’s elderly president dies and his son Bradley takes over, the position promised to Linda goes to someone else. Soon, a company delegation heads out on a business trip to Bangkok; the plane crashes, and Linda and Bradley are the only survivors on a small Thai island. As a fan of survival shows, Linda immediately takes charge of the situation.
Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. While he's helping Brother Bud, he falls in love with Arlene (Cindy Williams), a local supermarket clerk who believes in UFOs and is deeply religious and deeply lonely. When Arlene has a vision of a coming UFO, everyone deals with it in their own way.
After giving their blessing for their daughter to marry nurse Greg Faker, former CIA agent Jack Burns and his wife head to Miami to visit the groom’s parents. They have a lot of questions on their minds. What kind of family are the Fakers? And what kind of parents would name their son Gay (Gaylord) M. Faker?
November 1995. Angela, a film studies student, is writing her thesis on “Audiovisual Violence.” She asks her advisor, Professor Figueroa, to retrieve several tapes from the university archives containing films that are banned from TV broadcast due to graphic scenes of violence, and she makes the same request to her classmate Cheme, who, according to rumors, has a collection of such films at home. Though slightly embarrassed, Figueroa manages to take one of the tapes from the “Pornography” section, and while watching the film in the university theater, he dies. Angela is the first to find the professor’s body, and she takes the tape home. It turns out that the tape contains a snuff film, and Chema recognizes the victim as Vanessa, a student at their university who went missing two years ago.
In Venice, professional thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily, who are posing as members of high society, meet. They fall in love and decide to join forces. They travel to Paris and take jobs with the famous perfumer Madame Mariette Cole, intending to steal a large sum of money from her safe.
After successfully completing a job, Walker is betrayed by his partner, Reese. Two years later, Walker—whom everyone believes to be dead—returns and begins to carry out his plan for revenge, attempting to recover the $93,000 that was stolen from him. However, his former partner is now a member of a major crime syndicate, and getting to him won’t be so easy.
It turns out that 2,000 years ago, the Magi got it slightly wrong, and due to a minor astronomical error, they ended up presenting their gifts to the wrong newborn. The child’s name was Brian, and he just happened to be born at the same hour and only one house away from You-Know-Who. Because of this incident, everyone later mistook Brian for the Messiah, and he was too lazy to set his fans straight. However, the adoration of the masses has a downside as well as a upside, and so Brian finds himself, to his dismay, in the role of a desperate religious leader of the People’s Front of Judea, fighting for freedom from the Roman yoke—and in the thick of major trouble with the occupying authorities!…
