Louis Winthorpe III, un ejecutivo de clase alta, y Billy Ray Valentine, un estafador, son objeto de apuestas de Mortimer y Randolph Duke. Un empleado de los Duke, Winthorpe es incriminado por un delito que no cometió. Los hermanos ponen a Valentine en su lugar. Cuando Winthorpe y Valentine revelan el plan, ponen manos a la obra para vengarse de los Duke.
Aventuras y desventuras de los participantes en una carrera automovilística entre Nueva York y París, a principios del siglo XX. Jack Lemmon y Tony Curtis interpretan a dos excéntricos pilotos entre los que hay una feroz rivalidad. Todo tipo de incidentes y situaciones cómicas se irán sucediendo.
Versión cinematográfica del mito de Pigmalión, inspirada en la obra teatral homónima del escritor irlandés G.B. Shaw (1856-1950). En una lluviosa noche de 1912, el excéntrico y snob lingüista Henry Higgins conoce a Eliza Doolittle, una harapienta y ordinaria vendedora de violetas. El vulgar lenguaje de la florista despierta tanto su interés que hace una arriesgada apuesta con su amigo el coronel Pickering: se compromete a enseñarle a hablar correctamente el inglés y a hacerla pasar por una dama de la alta sociedad en un plazo de seis meses.
Bobby Garfield ve como el pasado irrumpe en su vida cuando la muerte de un amigo de la infancia le hace volver a la ciudad donde creció. Allí le asaltan los recuerdos de su undécimo verano, marcado por la llegada de un nuevo inquilino, Ted Brautigan, que llenó el vacío que le supuso la defunción de su padre. Ted, un hombre misterioso que al tiempo fascinaba y perturbaba a Bobby, le ofrece un trabajo: leerle el periódico, pues su vista está muy debilitada, pero sobre todo ejercer un servicio de vigilancia para evitar el grave peligro que acecha a Ted.
Hildy Johnson, la mejor reportera del periódico Morning Post, anuncia que va a dejar el periodismo para casarse y fundar una familia. Pero Walter Burns, el editor del periódico y ex-marido de Hildy, no está dispuesto a aceptarlo, por lo que se sirve de toda clase de tretas para retenerla en el periódico.
Adaptación de la novela homónima de Julio Verne. Un ladrón ha robado 55.000 libras del banco de Inglaterra. Todos creen que ha sido Phileas Fogg, un auténtico caballero inglés, que ha hecho una apuesta con sus compañeros de club, asegurando que es capaz de dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días.
Some of the boys from South Park Elementary find themselves on a balloon ride to an imaginary land. Upon their arrival they're faced with an unimaginable threat.
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
A stockbroker bets his new partners $10,000 that he can tell tell the truth, and only the truth, for twenty-four hours.
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.
Bright young novelist Mabel Vere is engaged to Gerald Wantage, a prig who angrily objects when she advertises for a husband in order to elicit ideas for her new book. Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray, a physical culture expert, frightens away the less desirable suitors, while the writer responds to the more interesting letters, and soon becomes embroiled in a number of adventures.
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
The film centres around three friends who love their bachelorhood so much that they place a bet among themselves that whoever decides to marry first will lose a huge amount in shares that were contributed by all three. All is well until one decides to take the plunge and make a commitment.
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman without spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchmen to stop him.