D'un côté, Louis Winthorpe III, un jeune directeur, est chargé des investissements chez Duke & Duke, une puissante banque de Philadelphie. De l'autre, Billy Ray Valentine est un noir combinard mais fauché. Tous deux vont faire l'objet d'un pari insensé, passé entre les patrons de Louis.

En 1908, une grande course automobile est organisée : New York-Paris, via le Grand Nord, la Sibérie et l'Europe centrale. Le professeur Fate, personnage machiavélique, aidé d'un grimaçant acolyte, tient à gagner la course et décide de tout mettre en oeuvre pour empêcher la victoire de son principal adversaire, le grand Leslie. Six voitures prennent le départ à New York, au milieu d'une foule délirante. Une concurrente inattendue se présente, la journaliste féministe Maggie Dubois, toute de rose vêtue. Bientôt, les voitures du professeur Fate et du grand Leslie sont les dernières à concourir, et la suffragette est recueillie tantôt par l'un, tantôt par l'autre...

Un expert en phonétique, Henry Higgins, fait le pari de transformer en grande dame une vendeuse de fleurs au langage populacier, Eliza Doolittle. L'entreprise réussit et, six mois plus tard, Eliza fait son entrée dans le grand monde. Mais cette expérience la laisse désemparée, d'autant plus qu'elle s'est éprise de Higgins qui ne semble pas répondre à cet amour. Après son départ, le professeur s'apercevra que, comme Pygmalion, il est devenu amoureux de son oeuvre.

A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.

Phileas Fogg, gentleman anglais, parie, contre les membres de son club, qu'il est capable de faire le tour du monde en 80 jours. Il part aussitôt, emmenant Passepartout, son valet français, ancien clown et homme de ressources et, pour tout bagage, un sac plein de chèques. Une infinité de moyens de transport (ballon, bateau, train, éléphant…) leur permettra d'enchaîner une très longue suite d'étapes (Paris, l'Espagne, le canal de Suez, Calcutta, Hong Kong, San Francisco, New York…). Mais, dès Suez, Fix, un policier, va pourchasser les deux héros.

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.

Le film raconte le pari fou d'un milliardaire (joué par Mel Brooks) qui va tenter de vivre le plus longtemps possible dans le quartier le plus pauvre, se séparant de ses richesses et de son train de vie quotidien.

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.