Best Movies About the Filthy Rich

Buñuel repeatedly prevents wealthy friends from completing dinner while preserving their entitlement and manners. The surreal interruptions make bourgeois ritual look both absurd and indestructible.

Mary Harron treats Patrick Bateman's designer labels, restaurant bookings and identical business cards as evidence of a class without identity. The satire is sharper than the violence.

Brian Yuzna turns the rich into literal body-consuming monsters. The effects are grotesque and funny, but the blunt class metaphor is exactly what gives the horror its force.

Jean Renoir gathers aristocrats and servants at a country estate, then exposes the rules protecting both desire and cruelty. The elegant comedy remains one of cinema's sharpest portraits of a ruling class.

Bong Joon-ho turns a modern house into a diagram of wealth: one family lives above ground, another below it. Movement through the building explains the class conflict before anyone does.

A group of upper-class guests finds itself unable to leave a room for no practical reason. Buñuel uses the impossible premise to strip away status and social discipline.

Joseph Losey follows a servant who gradually controls his employer's home, habits and relationships. The shifting rooms and performances turn class dependence into a psychological power struggle.

Claude Chabrol builds toward violence through wages, literacy, household rules and small humiliations. The thriller understands how class contempt accumulates in ordinary domestic life.

Scorsese makes Jordan Belfort's money, drugs and salesmanship exhilarating enough to implicate the audience. The film then shows the workers and institutions that make the excess possible.

Ruben Östlund moves models and billionaires from a luxury yacht to an island where money has no immediate use. The reversal exposes how quickly status follows practical power.