本是个十分出色的人。他长相英俊，口才出众，其智慧更是与幽默不相上下。当老友沃勒·巴巴找到本，跟他说有份工作时，本的第一反应是躲开，因为他担心这份工作会带来麻烦。这份工作其实很简单：有一笔4200万美元藏在一套公寓里，而公寓的主人是一位……

Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.

A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.

Three children, two brothers and their friend, win a lottery ticket at sports forecasting. Upon deciding not to tell their parents in order to buy a ship, two criminals find out about this and try to steal their money.

Von Muller, a member of the fashionable Jockey Club, loses all his fortune, and is indebted on I.O.U. to Lang in a large sum, which he is unable to pay. Going to his room he contemplates suicide when his eye is arrested by a letter, which he opens and finds to be an invitation to a masquerade ball from Franz Oberman, a millionaire, and fellow club member. Von Muller resolves to attend. He dons the costume of a beggar. The ball is at its last ebb when a messenger hands him a note for Lang, reminding him the obligation falls due at midnight. He goes to the conservatory, and is about to end it all, but is intercepted by the host. Oberman tells him he has everything that wealth can give, but he, too, is unhappy. Taking Von Muller to his library. Oberman draws up an assignment of his entire wealth on condition that if after he has gone out into the world a poor man and does not find happiness they shall die together.

What happened to the wealth classic Hollywood actress Grace Kelly earned during her incredibly successful career.

A semi-comic account of the adventures of Marco Polo.

In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

Eight strangers meet in Shanghai to stake claims to the fortune of a late shipping magnate, then must evade a murderer in their midst.

In 1991, the mood in East Germany is gloomy. Unemployment and poverty among the population in the GDR are high. Many people blame the Treuhand for the misery. Werner Stankowski, a trained computer scientist and computer specialist, is unable to find work despite hundreds of applications. His wife considers him a failure and leaves him for a rich man from the West. Only his best friend Rudi, who is also unemployed, sticks by him. Rudi's wife Gerda keeps the family afloat with a poorly performing erotic mail order business. Werner then gets a job interview with a computer company in Munich. The Wessis denounce Werner during the interview and humiliate him with Stasi slogans.....