Highest-Rated Movies about 'Inheritance', Sort by Popularity

King Lear (2018), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), Random Harvest (1942), Dark Whispers - Volume 1 (2019), Seven Chances (1925), The Scarlet Empress (1934), The Inheritance (2003), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Inheritance movies.

#16. Summer Hours (2008)

Storyline: In a small town, Hélène is a family matriarch who has devoted her life to preserving the legacy of her artist uncle. However, while her eldest son, Frédéric, wants to preserve her home after her passing, she harbors no such illusions as she prepares her legacy. After her death, her children realize what she anticipated as they come to terms with their inheritance's place in their own lives. In the resulting disposition of their mother's assets, treasured heirlooms of a romantic family past drift away even as their changing modern world confronts the value of their memories.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

Plot Keywords: mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, emotional, moving ...

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#18. The Cat and the Canary (1939)

Storyline: Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus' attorney, has gathered Cyrus' 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans' mansion for Cyrus' "reading of the will". To the others disappointment, Joyce is the sole heir, but, due to a streak of insanity running in the family, a second will has been made in case Joyce falls victim to it. This puts Joyce in danger. Suddenly, Miss Lu, Cyrus' maid, appears and warns them that the spirits have told her that one of them will die that night. Following this, Hendrick, a prison guard, warns them that, "The Cat", a homicidal maniac has escaped. This sets up Cyrus' relatives with a night filled with murders, mysteries and intrigue.—Kelly

Plot Keywords: relative, friend, attorney, housekeeper, maniac, playful, creepy ...

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#19. The Ghost Breakers (1940)

Storyline: Mary Carter inherits her family's ancestral home, located on a small island off Cuba, and, despite warnings and death threats, decides to take possession of the reputedly haunted castle. She is joined by radio broadcaster Larry Lawrence who, believing he has killed a mob gunman, flees New York with his butler, Alex. Once on the island the threesome enter the eerie castle and after viewing the ghost of one of Mary's ancestors and fighting off a menacing zombie, they find the key to the castle's treasure but are interrupted by an all-too-human foe.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: pretty woman, radio host, servant, adviser, gangster, mysterious man, cheeky ...

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#20. Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)

Storyline: join Daffy Duck, the co-hero and main deuteragonist of Looney Toons, who's now on an adventure of the last Looney Toons package compilation movie and Daffy Duck's second movie as the spotlight shines onto Daffy once again as the hero. in this movie, Daffy is hired to become the owner of a company after winning a prize reward. Daffy opens it as a super secret pest-control detective spy exterminator agency with all his Looney Toons pals, they must go on a spooky mysterious fantasy adventure for the supernatural to stop the monsters that haunt, attack and invade their home city neighbourhood of Toon-Town.

Plot Keywords: daffy duck, bugs bunny, billionaire, lighthearted, hilarious, city, paranormal ...

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#21. You Never Can Tell (1951)

Storyline: An ex-police/army dog (German Shepherd), named King inherits a fortune from an eccentric millionaire. But someone poisons him for his fortune, and he gets to go back to earth as a human detective to bring his killer to justice, and protect the girl who used to look after him.—Kathy Li

Plot Keywords: dog, horse, detective, caretaker, sidekick, ex-cop, lighthearted ...

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#22. The Invisible Man (2020)

Storyline: The film follows Cecilia, who receives the news of her abusive ex-boyfriend's suicide. She begins to re-build her life for the better. However, her sense of reality is put into question when she begins to suspect her deceased lover is not actually dead.—Max

Plot Keywords: stalker, widow, abused wife, dark, gripping, united states, woods ...

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#23. Son of Fury (1942)

Storyline: Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: knight, uncle, nephew, love interest, ex-girlfriend, rousing, spirited ...

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#24. Cowboys Don't Cry (1988)

Storyline: As long as Shane Morgan can remember, he has lived on the road with his mother and father, a rodeo performer. Their dreams of making enough money to settle down happily in one place are shattered when a traffic accident kills his mother, and his father takes so badly to drink that Shane becomes the de facto head of the household. When his grandfather dies, leaving Shane a small ranch in his will, he hopes that his dream might come true at last. But how can a 14-year-old boy turn the run-down place around and keep the banker from seizing it, while attending school and looking after a father who is usually in the liability column?—Paul Emmons <pemmons@wcupa.edu>

Plot Keywords: rodeo rider, mother, teenager, grandfather, banker, wife, melodramatic ...

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#25. Laughter in Paradise (1951)

Storyline: Famed practical joker Henry Russell leaves 50,000 pounds to each of his four surviving relatives. But his will has one last joke - they each have to undertake a task completely out of character within a month. As each sets out on their objective they find that quite apart from the promised riches, they are unexpectedly getting a lot out of the challenge. All except caddish Simon Russell, that is.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: writer, snob, bachelor, bank teller, millionaire, housekeeper, offbeat ...

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#26. Judex (1963)

Storyline: Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at his masked ball. However, he is only drugged by Judex and locked away. Judex spares his life when the banker's widowed daughter, Jacqueline, rejects the inheritance. Meanwhile Diana Monti, the former governess, kidnaps Jacqueline to try to get the banker's money. But Judex is hot on her trail.—Will Gilbert

Plot Keywords: governess, daughter, banker, vigilante, father, swindler, dreamy ...

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#27. The Cat and the Canary (1927)

Storyline: Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.—Ron Kerrigan

Plot Keywords: nephew, niece, lawyer, guard, doctor, killer, chilling ...

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#28. People Like Us (2012)

Storyline: Workaholic and sleazy businessman Sam is extremely reluctant to leave New York and go to his father's funeral. When he finally arrives, it becomes apparent that his mother and girlfriend are disappointed in him for "running away" whenever times get too emotional. Soon afterwards, he discovers that his father was sleeping around with another woman, and that Sam actually has a half-sister whom he never knew existed. His father has willed her $150,000 and has left Sam with the task of getting it to her. Frankie is a bartender also wrapped up in work just like her half-brother, and she has had a bad past and has now been left with the job of being a single parent to her troublemaker son, Josh. Josh is eleven years old but curses like a sailor and constantly makes fart jokes and sex jokes, making him popular with the bad kid crowd at school, although behind the act, Josh is depressed and lonely. Now Sam has to find a way to fix the past and reunite his mom, nephew and half-sister together ...

Plot Keywords: salesman, sister, son, girlfriend, family member, emotional, touching ...

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#29. The Last Gentleman (1934)

Storyline: In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in him is his money, and sends them away when the report about the niece proves to be false. Only niece Marjorie, who has ridiculed one of his pet eccentricities, seems to be the object of any sentimental affection. Weeks later, Marjorie and her mother, Augusta (Edna May Oliver) and Allan (Frank Albertson), a young man Barr admires, are invited to Barr manor, where Barr fosters a romance between Marjorie and Allan. When his son, Judd (Donald Meek), seeks to have him declared insane, the shock kills the old man. Again, the family is gathered, a curtain is drawn and the old man appears on a film, and he tells each relative what he is leaving them and why, or why not in the case of Judd who is cut off without a cent. Marjorie is left the bulk of the estate as the old man, on film, declares her to be the only one worthy of carrying on the Barr traditions, and Allan is instructed to marry her and take her name as his family's cognomen. The film and the film within ends with Barr announcing that he hopes to have the pleasure of meeting them all again in another world.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: millionaire, son, granddaughter, sister, lawyer, adopted son, offbeat ...

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