Top 20 Eat-the-Rich Movies of All Time

Yachts, private islands, tasting menus and country houses, all of them ending badly for someone. The genre runs a lot deeper than the recent run of hits suggests.

1

Parasite

Bong Joon-ho's 2019 Palme d'Or and Best Picture winner about a poor family burrowing into a rich one's home.

2

Triangle of Sadness

Ruben Ostlund's 2022 satire that strands influencers and oligarchs on a wrecked luxury yacht.

3

The Menu

A 2022 thriller in which a celebrity chef serves his wealthy diners a tasting menu with consequences.

4

Saltburn

Emerald Fennell's 2023 story of a scholarship student absorbed into an aristocratic family's estate.

5

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Rian Johnson's 2022 murder mystery set among a tech billionaire's hangers-on on a Greek island.

6

Knives Out

The 2019 whodunit where a publishing dynasty turns on itself over an inheritance.

7

The Wolf of Wall Street

Scorsese's 2013 chronicle of Jordan Belfort's fraud, appetite and complete absence of remorse.

8

The Exterminating Angel

Bunuel's 1962 surrealist classic in which dinner guests find they cannot leave the drawing room.

9

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Bunuel's 1972 Oscar winner about six diners endlessly prevented from finishing a meal.

10

Ready or Not

A 2019 horror comedy in which a bride's new in-laws hunt her through their mansion on the wedding night.

11

Us

Jordan Peele's 2019 horror about doubles who have lived underground while their originals lived above.

12

Snowpiercer

Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film staging the class system as carriages on a train that never stops.

13

The Platform

A 2019 Spanish thriller set in a vertical prison where food descends floor by floor.

14

Sorry to Bother You

Boots Riley's 2018 satire about a telemarketer who succeeds by using his white voice.

15

High-Rise

Ben Wheatley's 2015 Ballard adaptation where a luxury tower block descends into class warfare.

16

Get Out

Jordan Peele's 2017 debut about a weekend with a wealthy liberal family that goes very wrong.

17

Society

Brian Yuzna's 1989 body-horror cult film that takes the phrase eat the rich entirely literally.

18

The Rules of the Game

Jean Renoir's 1939 masterpiece about a country-house weekend and the servants who see everything.

19

Metropolis

Fritz Lang's 1927 silent epic that splits its city between pleasure gardens above and machines below.

20

The Hunger Games

The 2012 adaptation in which the Capitol's elite watch poor children fight for their entertainment.