I april 1912 stævner den enorme luksusliner Titanic ud på sin skæbnesvangre jomfrurejse. Ombord forelsker den 17-årige overklassepige Rose sig i den fattige, fandenivoldske Jack, der har vundet sin billet i et spil kort. Ingen af dem aner, at 'skibet der ikke kan synke' har kurs mod katastrofen. James Cameron's episke drama gjorde Leonardo DiCaprio og Kate Winslet til superstjerner og modtog hele 11 Oscars - deriblandt priserne for bedste film og instruktion.
De aldrende Duke-brødre er stenrige men også nogle dumme svin. For at afgøre om det er arv eller miljø der gør en god forretningsmand, fyrer de den aristokratiske yuppie Louis Winthorpe III og sætter i stedet den hjemløse Billy i direktørstolen. Da Billy finder ud af baggrunden for sit nye liv, opsøger han Louis og de to planlægger hævn.
Den snobbede, forkælede millionøse Joanna opfører sig ikke særlig pænt over for den tømrer, som sætter nye skabe ind i hendes lystyacht. Han får mulighed for at tage hævn, idet hun dratter ud over rælingen og mister hukommelsen. Da hun atter vågner, udgiver den ukultiverede håndværker sig for at være hendes mand - og bilder hende samtidig ind, at hun er moderen til hans fire vildbasser.
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.
A murder trial reunites a former chorus girl and her son, a grandson of an English aristocrat.
When an open-hearted folk man, a butcher of the profession, buys an apartment to stay with his family in a block of flats in a lush neighborhood, the tenants are colluding in order to get him away. The only defenders are the concierge and a general who will think of a clever way to correct the situation.
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.
The snooty Fernanda decides to leave Spain to visit her uncle in San Francisco in order to escape the attentions of the dandy, amorous Don Diego, but he follows her. She is rescued from a wild taxi ride by a passerby who owns a huge plumbing company. Believing him to be a common plumber, she snubs him, but he pursues her and a romantic rivalry is born.
Two different worlds collide: the wealthy influential people on the one hand and the poor and honest on the other hand. Sin, a wealthy boy had been spoiled by his parents and has never realized the importance of self-dependence and how to become a responsible man. The boy lives his life relying on his parent's wealth and power, making him even more arrogant and pompous. Lud, a mute middle-aged man came from a rural area to be a motorcycle mechanic in Vientiane. His wife worked as a market woman and they had a six-year-old daughter. Though Luds life was simple, his family was warm and loving. One day Lud unexpectedly faces the greatest loss of his life caused by Sin.
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.