ILE's top 100 COUNTRY HOUSE movies!!

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100. La Regle Du Jeu
99. Gosford Park
98. Clue
97. Sleuth

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

96. Peter's Friends

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

there aren't 99 of these types of films

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

95. Rebecca
94. The House of Yes

― Draw Tipsy a lot to see if you have the interest and desire to become a ser (Dav, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

93. Blur's Country House Video

(sorry)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

92. Pride and Prejudice

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

91. The Shooting Party

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

90. A Handul of Dust

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

89. Swimming Pool

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

88. Addams Family
87, Addams Family Values

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

86. 8 Women

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

86. The Haunting

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

84. Sitcom

Ozon loves him a country house

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

83. La vie est un long fleuve tranquille

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

83. The Ruling Class

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

82. Batman Begins

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

80. Murder by Death

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

79. The Remains Of The Day

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

La vie est un long fleuve tranquille

I love this movie.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

78. The Secret Garden

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

77. The Others

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

76. The Money Pit

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

100 & 99 should be #1 and 2 respectively!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

...in which Shelley Long plays "Anna Fielding", holy crap

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

100 & 99 should be #1 and 2 respectively!!

in no particular order!

I love this genre though, the moodier the better. The grounds wet with rain, everyone gathered around the fireplace with their cocktails...ahhhhhhh.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember that scene in The Money Pit.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

no i said respectively!!

i agree btw about loving the genre. more please!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

(I should point out that I've never seen The Money Pit.)

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

75. The Legend of Hell House

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

75. Cold Comfort Farm

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

73. House on Haunted Hill (1959)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

72. The Amityville Horror

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

71. The House of Sand and Fog

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Deathtrap

― Bnad, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

69. last year in marienbad

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

68. that one in italy w.liv tyler

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

67. a glass darkly

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I TOLD YOU THERE WOULDN'T BE ENOUGH

i am saving something for number one and you will never know what it is unless you find 65 others

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

66. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

There *are* enough! "country", "house" - these are very broad terms!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

65. Performance!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

64. My Summer Of Love
63. The Man With The Golden Gun (sort of)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

so "country" includes "city"?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

62. white of the eye

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

so "country" includes "city"?

Okay, not Performance.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Put Viridiana in place of Performance and carry on.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(i think sitcom is set in a suburban street also)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

65. ~~Performance~~ Barry Lyndon

xp-damn you!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

How about 'Milou en Mai', adam?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie?

xp-what is that?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

60. viridiana
59. the shining

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I think i just assumed Sitcom was set in the country because who in suburbia has a maid?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

58. The Others

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

they are french

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit. i only read the "country house" bit and thought this was an ilm thread

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It seems that there should be at least 400 French and British films in this genre, maybe I'll make a country hosue movie

Oh...I know! FESTEN! NUMBER 57!!!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

they are french

yes

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think N. already said The Others

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

(the others is counted twice)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, it's called 'May Fools' in English.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

56. King Hearts and Coronets
55. Mrs Minerva

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

58. women in love
57. the lair of the white worm

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

that's 54, 54 and miniver

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

68. that one in italy w.liv tyler

yes!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

er 53

slicki what's it called?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

52. babette's feast

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

we can just fill the rest with poirot and miss marple movies

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

51. Le Chateau de ma Mere
50. Le Gloire de mon pere

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

49. tarzan lord greystoke prince of the monkey kingdom, or whatever it's called

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

48. the big sleep

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

47. A Shot in the Dark

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

'LA gloire de mon père'

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I was never very good at remembering gender ules in french

46. Evil under the sun

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

45. Hound of the Baskervilles

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

44. withnail and i

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

43. Angels & Insects
42. Close My Eyes
41. Emma
40. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

39. little lord fauntleroy ~~prince of the monkey kingdom~~

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

38. 28 Days Later

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

You know...kind of.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

ossessione?

― 006 (thoia), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

mark s: stealing beauty and it rules

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha nickalicious otm about 28 days later... the LAST country house movie?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(even though the country house stuff in it sucked)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

37. Beauty and the Beast

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

36. An Inspector Calls

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

35. Dead Babies

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

34. witness

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

The house in An inspector calls is urban.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

33. A Room With A View (non-Italian bit)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

32. Dead/Alive

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

If you can put in 'Stealing Beauty', why not 'Enchanted April'?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

31. La strategia del ragno (The Spider's Stratagem)

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Or 'Il Gattopardo' (the Leopard)?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

30. The Dunwich Horror

― Boring Satanic Space Jazz (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

29. The Music Of Chance
28. Up At The Villa
27. Citizen Kane

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

do you want those counted or not m.white?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

25. Spirited Away

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I counted mark s's question as a film - oops.

The house in An inspector calls is urban.

I wondered about that after I posted it - I've only seen the play and couldn't remember. More oops.

-2

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

not 'top' but '100'

24. Mr. North

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

23. The Ghost & Mrs Muir
22. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

― Draw Tipsy to see if you give a shit about art (Dave225), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

22? Ossessione

― 006 (thoia), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

22 (adjusting for earlier errors?) The Philadelphia Story

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Count them, by all means.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

21. Dog Soldiers

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

20. High society

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

20. Enchanted April
19. Il Gattopardo
18. Ossessione

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

17. Bringing up Baby

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

16. GONE WITH THE WIND

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

(BuB = 16)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Spirited Away hahahahaha!

15. GIANT

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Does Stealing Beauty really "rule"? I fear it!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i xposted w.ed so we are actually at 14

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

13.splendor in the grass

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Straw Dogs?

(hated stealing beauty)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Stealing Beauty is kind of painful.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

THIS IS MY MANOR

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I refrained from posting 'Giant', but hey...

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Murder by Death

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

12. straw dogs
11.murder by death

m.white be not so trepidatious
haikunym use numbers

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

10. The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

'murder by death' = No. 80.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

10. The secret garden

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

sg = 78

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

when i used numbers you renumbered my numbers YOU HATE ME DON'T YOU

x-post 'murder by death' no. 80 = that's why i don't use numbers mark

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

bugger

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

10. The Sound of Music

― 006 (thoia), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

10. the railway children

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

11. Cold Creek Manor

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

are we counting back up again?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

10. The Seagull

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

...where Adam realizes that he has been confusing COLD CREEK MANOR and COLD COMFORT FARM for perhaps too long!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

6. Una pura formalità (A Pure Formality)

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

4E. Carry On Screaming

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cherry Orchard

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

3. masque of the red death

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

2. My Neighbor Totoro

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

1. SIR HENRY AT RAWLINSON END

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

HOORAY!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

9½ - Wuthering Heights

― Draw Tipsy to see if you give a shit about art (Dave225), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

What is mark s's forfeit for being wrong?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

being sent to bed i hope

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Draughtsman's Contract

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh, do we care that the haunting and hillhouse are the same? Probably not since we mentioned Mr. blandings which is the same as the money pit.

So, how about: The Philadelphia story, Jane Eyre, The man who came to dinner, Laura, The Enchanted Cottage, Weekend at Bernie's, Housesitter, Dangerous Liasions, Age of Innocence, Enchanted April, Howard's End, The Great Gatsby...Oh wait, I don't have to mention 100 myself. Ok I 'll leave it at that.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Philadelphia Story was No.22, Enchanted April was No.20/19, The Man Who Came To Dinner is set in a townhouse as far as I recall.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

And the number 1 country house movie is... Le Grande Bouffe!

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, I missed mark s's. Still, mine surely knocks one of these out.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Fletch Lives

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Does this include movies that are half in the city and half at the country house, and wherein people are forced to hash out their differences or battle their demons in the country because they are alone with themselves?

I saw a good French movie recently in this tradition. It was a relatively new movie, woman director, and it was about a famous writer, an up-and-coming writer, his singing teacher wife, and the famous writer's aspiring singer daughter. Can't remember the name.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Le Mépris

― jadrenos (jadrenos), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

1a. How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Great flick, much of it at a country house.

― burna (burna), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Diary of a Country Priest

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Sigh. The things I missed because I left work early yesterday.

I better get down to watching the few remaining films I've not seen.

― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

2a. Home Alone 4

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Signs

― latebloomer: You may order a puppet similar to this one (latebloomer), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Mouse Hunt

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

sirens!

― andrew s (andrew s), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Candleshoe".

You are all rockists.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Forgot:
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (With Friends Like Harry)

― Draw Tipsy to see if you give a shit about art (Dave225), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

candleshoe is great!

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the Wicker Man one?

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

WHAT A CARVE UP (etc)

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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