1996年8月，寶藏獵人布洛克‧洛維特與他的團隊在俄羅斯研究船「凱爾迪什號」（Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, AMK）上，利用船上的潛水艇「和平號」潛入北大西洋沉船鐵達尼號所在地，尋找一條著名且當年已失落的鑽石項鍊「海洋之心」（Heart of the Ocean），據說這條鑽石項鍊當年已隨鐵達尼號沉沒於大海。他們在卡爾‧霍克利當年於鐵達尼號所住的房間內發現一個十分古老的保險箱，他們相信「海洋之心」就在那裡，但可惜只找到一幅戴著它的人體素描，作畫日期為1912年4月14日，即鐵達尼號撞上冰山的當晚。
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.
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.