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Top 20 Eat-the-Rich Movies of All Time

by YPB Team

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 — ranked #11
    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 — ranked #22
    Triangle of Sadness
    Ruben Ostlund's 2022 satire that strands influencers and oligarchs on a wrecked luxury yacht.
  3. The Menu — ranked #33
    The Menu
    A 2022 thriller in which a celebrity chef serves his wealthy diners a tasting menu with consequences.
  4. Saltburn — ranked #44
    Saltburn
    Emerald Fennell's 2023 story of a scholarship student absorbed into an aristocratic family's estate.
  5. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — ranked #55
    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 — ranked #66
    Knives Out
    The 2019 whodunit where a publishing dynasty turns on itself over an inheritance.
  7. The Wolf of Wall Street — ranked #77
    The Wolf of Wall Street
    Scorsese's 2013 chronicle of Jordan Belfort's fraud, appetite and complete absence of remorse.
  8. The Exterminating Angel — ranked #88
    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 — ranked #99
    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    Bunuel's 1972 Oscar winner about six diners endlessly prevented from finishing a meal.
  10. Ready or Not — ranked #1010
    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 — ranked #1111
    Us
    Jordan Peele's 2019 horror about doubles who have lived underground while their originals lived above.
  12. Snowpiercer — ranked #1212
    Snowpiercer
    Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film staging the class system as carriages on a train that never stops.
  13. The Platform — ranked #1313
    The Platform
    A 2019 Spanish thriller set in a vertical prison where food descends floor by floor.
  14. Sorry to Bother You — ranked #1414
    Sorry to Bother You
    Boots Riley's 2018 satire about a telemarketer who succeeds by using his white voice.
  15. High-Rise — ranked #1515
    High-Rise
    Ben Wheatley's 2015 Ballard adaptation where a luxury tower block descends into class warfare.
  16. Get Out — ranked #1616
    Get Out
    Jordan Peele's 2017 debut about a weekend with a wealthy liberal family that goes very wrong.
  17. Society — ranked #1717
    Society
    Brian Yuzna's 1989 body-horror cult film that takes the phrase eat the rich entirely literally.
  18. The Rules of the Game — ranked #1818
    The Rules of the Game
    Jean Renoir's 1939 masterpiece about a country-house weekend and the servants who see everything.
  19. Metropolis — ranked #1919
    Metropolis
    Fritz Lang's 1927 silent epic that splits its city between pleasure gardens above and machines below.
  20. The Hunger Games — ranked #2020
    The Hunger Games
    The 2012 adaptation in which the Capitol's elite watch poor children fight for their entertainment.
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