Most Popular Family Estate Movies and TV Shows

1. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Merricat, Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family tragedy six years earlier. When cousin Charles arrives to steal the family fortune, he also threatens a dark secret they've been hiding.

Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan

Votes: 3,535 | Gross: $7.67M

2. Stoker (2013)

R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller

After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

Director: Chan-wook Park | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode, Dermot Mulroney

Votes: 98,988 | Gross: $1.70M

3. Wuthering Heights (2009)

TV-PG | 142 min | Drama, Romance

Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.

Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlotte Riley, Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Lancashire

Votes: 7,828

4. The Lodgers (2017)

R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

1920, rural Ireland. Anglo Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The ... See full summary »

Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley

Votes: 7,106

5. The Quietude (2018)

R | 117 min | Drama, Thriller

Two sisters, as close as they are different, find themselves after a long separation.

Director: Pablo Trapero | Stars: Martina Gusman, Graciela Borges, Isidoro Tolcachir, Alejandro Viola

Votes: 528

6. Churchill's Secret (2016 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History

British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (Sir Michael Gambon) suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953, which is consequently kept a secret from the rest of the world.

Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Michael Gambon, Romola Garai, Lindsay Duncan, Daisy Lewis

Votes: 1,239

7. The Awakening of Emily (1976)

R | 87 min | Drama, Romance

In England in the 1920s, Emily, a maturing daughter of a once wealthy family arrives at their family estate to visit her mother for a couple of days. She wants to lose her virginity and ... See full summary »

Director: Henry Herbert | Stars: Koo Stark, Sarah Brackett, Victor Spinetti, Jane Hayden

Votes: 172

8. Crescendo (1970)

PG | 83 min | Horror, Thriller

A young American woman Susan Roberts goes to the south of France to do her thesis research on a recently deceased composer, staying with his eccentric relatives.

Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire

Votes: 540

9. Families (2015)

113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jérôme Varenne, a French financier, lives and works in Shanghai with Chen-Li, his life and business partner. One day, during a short stay in Paris, while paying a call to his mother, he is ... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Marine Vacth, Gilles Lellouche, Nicole Garcia

Votes: 703

10. The Orator (2011)

110 min | Drama

Saili, an unassuming villager & taro farmer, lives happily with his beautiful wife Vaaiga and her teenage daughter Litia. Their existence, whilst happy and peaceful; is unconventional. ... See full summary »

Director: Tusi Tamasese | Stars: Fa'afiaula Sanote, Tausili Pushparaj, Salamasina Mataia, Ioata Tanielu

Votes: 305

11. Katie Fforde - Festtagsstimmung (2010 TV Movie)

Comedy, Romance

Edward Ravenglass moves on from his outlived marriage to Grace, but laves her and a teenage daughter in her beloved ancestral estate. However he won't pay exorbitant renovation coasts, so ... See full summary »

Director: John Delbridge | Stars: Rebecca Immanuel, Julia Brendler, Anna Hausburg, Patrick Rapold

Votes: 36

12. Champagne for Breakfast (1935)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy

Bob Bentley (Hardie Albright), a newly-licensed young attorney, falls in love with Edie Morton (Mary Carlisle), and finds himself acting as her legal adviser after the suicide of her father... See full summary »

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Mary Carlisle, Hardie Albright, Sidney Toler, Lila Lee

13. Yankee Don (1931)

Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A crook on the run from the law in New York flees to Mexico, where he falls for a beautiful young Mexican girl and tries to help her father save the family estate from a gang of criminals.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Richard Talmadge, Lupita Tovar, Julian Rivero, Sam Appel

Votes: 13

14. Brooding Eyes (1926)

Crime

Slim Jim Carey, the leader of a criminal gang, is in reality a nobleman called Lord Talbois, and his daughter is the rightful heir to the family estate. When "Slim Jim"'s gang finds out ... See full summary »

Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Clifford, Robert Ellis, Montagu Love

15. Ordeal by Innocence (2018)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2018)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Wealthy philanthropist Rachel Argyll is murdered at her family estate Sunny Point. Her adopted son Jack Argyll, a young delinquent, is arrested for her murder.

Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Anna Chancellor, Anthony Boyle, Morven Christie, Bill Nighy

Votes: 407

16. My Boys (2006–2010)
Episode: Jack and Bobby (2008)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Romance

The gang heads out to California to see Bobby and Elsa get married. P.J.'s relationship with Jack heats up.

Director: Arlene Sanford | Stars: Jordana Spiro, Kyle Howard, Reid Scott, Michael Bunin

Votes: 20

17. Inga Lindström (2004– )
Episode: Schatten der Vergangenheit (2010)

Drama, Romance

After three years in the US, where they met in hospital, farming entrepreneur Bengt Kindquist takes his much younger wife Hanna Nilsson to his family's grand family estate in their native ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Hezel | Stars: Julia-Maria Köhler, Miroslav Nemec, Sonja Kirchberger, Kristian Kiehling

Votes: 16

18. Rosamunde Pilcher (1993– )
Episode: Sieg der Liebe (2007)

89 min | Drama, Romance

In Cornwall Lord Harrington wants that his son Paul makes a good marriage with Sophie.In Bath Emma announces his friend that she is pregnant, but Robert doesn't assume his responsibility.

Director: Dieter Kehler | Stars: Christian Wolff, Diana Körner, Susanne Berckhemer, Jochen Schropp

Votes: 19