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19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines

Best Old Money Movies

★ 7.1 19 Movies
OLD MONEY  ·  1970–2023
These Old Money Movies turn inherited wealth into sharp drama, with heirs, estates, scandals, and family names that crack under pressure at dinner.
Editor's Note

If Old Money Movies are your idea of social blood sport, start here. These films put heirs, heiresses, dukes, debutantes, country houses, and family fortunes under glass, then press until something ugly shows. Expect drawing-room cruelty, expensive silence, brittle marriages, and the slow panic of people born into power realizing the name on the gate can fail them.

19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines

19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines is a curated selection of 19 Movies spanning 1970 to 2023 across Old Money · Crime and Drama. Each title was handpicked by Movievia and ranked below from the strongest pick downward, so you can start at the top and discover your next watch — no endless scrolling, no algorithmic guesswork.

1
The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Crime Drama Thriller

Tom Ripley arrives in sun-drenched Italy with borrowed clothes and a borrowed personality, sent to retrieve a rich man's wayward son from...

Score 7.2
2
Saltburn

Saltburn (2023)

Comedy Drama Thriller

Oliver Quick arrives at Oxford feeling like a ghost at a feast, until Felix Catton floats into his orbit. Magnetic, wealthy, and...

Score 7.0
3
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby (2013)

Drama Romance

Nick Carraway arrives at West Egg as a bond trader, ready for a fresh start. Instead, he finds himself drawn into the...

Score 7.4
4
Cruel Intentions

Cruel Intentions (1999)

Drama Romance

Manhattan's prep-school elite runs on cruelty, and no one plays the game more ruthlessly than Kathryn. She makes her stepbrother Sebastian a...

Score 6.8
5
Gosford Park

Gosford Park (2001)

Drama Mystery Thriller

A country estate in the English countryside, a weekend shooting party, and a cast of aristocrats, hangers-on, and below-stairs servants who know...

Score 6.8
6
The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Drama Romance

New York's gilded elite operate under unspoken codes, where reputation matters more than desire. A promising lawyer finds himself caught between duty...

Score 7.0
7
Barry Lyndon

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Drama History Romance

Redmond Barry is born with nothing but nerve and ambition, and in 18th century Europe, that turns out to be enough, at...

Score 8.0
8
Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey (2019)

Drama History Romance

When Buckingham Palace announces a royal visit to Yorkshire, the Crawley family and their household staff scramble to prepare for an inspection...

Score 7.1
9
The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class (1972)

Comedy Drama

Peter O'Toole inherits a dukedom and all its accumulated madness. Convinced he's Christ returned to earth, he glides through the ancestral halls...

Score 6.5
10
Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited (2008)

Drama Romance

When Oxford student Charles Ryder is drawn into the orbit of the charming, self-destructive Sebastian Flyte, he gains access to a world...

Score 6.3
11
Metropolitan

Metropolitan (1990)

Comedy Drama Romance

Over one debutante season in Manhattan, a tight circle of prep-school types retreats nightly to a well-appointed apartment, drinking, debating Fourier's socialism,...

Score 6.9
12
Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Drama Romance

When a twist of inheritance law strips the Dashwood family of their fortune and home, two sisters embark on the precarious dance...

Score 7.4
13
Pride & Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Drama Romance

In the rolling countryside of Georgian England, the Bennet household hums with a particular kind of anxiety. Five daughters, a fluttering mother,...

Score 8.1
14
Crazy Rich Asians

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Comedy Romance

Rachel Chu thought she knew her boyfriend until he whisked her to Singapore for his best friend's wedding. There, she discovers Nick...

Score 7.1
15
The Riot Club

The Riot Club (2014)

Drama

At Oxford, two freshmen earn coveted spots in the Riot Club, an exclusive dining society where old money, inherited arrogance, and unchecked...

Score 5.9
16
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day (1993)

Drama Romance

Anthony Hopkins embodies restraint itself as Stevens, a butler whose life has been defined by rigid propriety and devotion to his employer's...

Score 7.4
17
Atonement

Atonement (2007)

Drama Romance

On a sweltering English summer evening in 1935, a thirteen-year-old girl misreads what she sees and sets in motion a lie that...

Score 7.6
18
Knives Out

Knives Out (2019)

Comedy Crime Mystery

Harlan Thrombey throws his 85th birthday party, and somehow ends up dead before morning. Enter Detective Benoit Blanc, a silver-tongued Southern investigator...

Score 7.8
19
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

Drama History

Behind the gates of a magnificent villa, the Finzi-Contini family creates an insulated world of grace and beauty. Tennis matches and garden...

Score 6.9
List Info

19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines

These Old Money Movies turn inherited wealth into sharp drama, with heirs, estates, scandals, and family names that crack under pressure at dinner.

7.1
Avg score
19
Movies
1970 to 2023
Years
Old Money · Crime and Drama
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Frequently asked

Which movie on the 19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines is the highest rated?

Pride & Prejudice (2005) is the highest-rated film on the 19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines, with a viewer rating of 8.1/10. You can find it featured at the top of the ranked list above, along with the full lineup ordered from best to last so you always know which title to start with.

How many movies are on the 19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines?

The 19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines contains 19 movies, spanning 1970 to 2023, primarily within the Old Money · Crime and Drama genre. The selection is updated regularly as Movievia's editors discover new titles worth adding or refining the lineup based on viewer feedback and rating shifts.

Is the 19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines worth watching?

Yes — the 19 Old Money Movies About Wealth, Class, and Bloodlines carries an average viewer score of 7.1/10 across all 19 movies, well above the typical film average. Each entry was handpicked rather than algorithm-selected, so the list reads more like a recommendation from a friend with great taste than a generic top-100 dump. Start with the #1 pick at the top of the page.