1997: "Titanic"
Adjusted gross: $3.17 billion
Unadjusted gross: $2.13 billion
What it's about: James Cameron's romance was the highest-grossing movie of all time until his own "Avatar" in 2009. It's about a young, poor artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) who falls in love with an aristocrat destined for another suitor (Kate Winslet) on the doomed Titanic ship.