# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published August 9, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/top-20-eat-the-rich-movies-of-all-time*

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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.

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