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* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Tyler lives in a pretty fancy house, which is shown when he throws his party there.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Tyler lives in a pretty fancy house, which is shown when he throws his party there.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': Tyler lives in a pretty fancy house, which is shown when he throws his party there.
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* In ''Film/Parking'', as part of his world-renowned status, Orpheus lives in a castle along with Eurydice, Calais, Aristaeus, and several servants.

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* In ''Film/Parking'', ''Film/Parking1985'', as part of his world-renowned status, Orpheus lives in a castle along with Eurydice, Calais, Aristaeus, and several servants.
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* In ''Film/Parking'', as part of his world-renowned status, Orpheus lives in a castle along with Eurydice, Calais, Aristaeus, and several servants.
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* Nicholas in ''Film/TheGame'' has a palatial residence that he presumably inherited from his father, and he is also fabulously wealthy. Apart from his servants, he lives there alone.

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* Nicholas in ''Film/TheGame'' ''Film/TheGame1997'' has a palatial residence that he presumably inherited from his father, and he is also fabulously wealthy. Apart from his servants, he lives there alone.
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* ''Film/AWedding1978'': The Corelli/Sloan family has a very large mansion with a replica of an Italian restaurant in the basement.
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* The castle of La Muerte in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''.
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* ''Film/BerkshireCounty'': [[TheProtagonist Kylie]] is impressed by the Harrisons' house when she first sees it. It's so big it wraps half-way around the driveway, and in the corner is a tower that the kids presumably use as their bedroom (the room is round).
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* Wealthy land developer George Merchant's mansion in ''Film/HotFuzz'', which is hardly in keeping with the village's rustic aesthetic [[spoiler: and which gets him murdered]].

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** To hear the family tell it, the place was built from the ground up by some ancestor and theirs for generations but (as with so much about their "self-made" wealth), the truth is different: When Roman snaps to Marta that "we won't let you steal our ancestral home," detective Blanc literally laughs "ancestral? Your daddy bought this from a Pakistani millionaire in the 1980s!"

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** To hear the family tell it, the place was built from the ground up by some ancestor and theirs for generations but (as with so much about their "self-made" wealth), the truth is different: When Roman snaps to Marta that "we won't let you steal our ancestral home," detective Blanc literally laughs "ancestral? "Ancestral? Your daddy bought this from a Pakistani millionaire in the 1980s!"1980s!"
* In ''Film/{{Body}}'', Cali takes her friends to a beautiful mansion that she says belongs to her rich uncle who is a hedge fund manager. However, it turns out that the house actually belongs to a family she used to babysit for and they are in fact trespassing.
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* ''Film/KnivesOut'' takes place at the manor of mystery writer Harlan, a huge gothic mansion that one detective openly compares to "living inside a ''TableTopGame/Clue'' board."

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* ''Film/KnivesOut'' takes place at the manor of mystery writer Harlan, a huge gothic mansion that one detective openly compares to "living inside a ''TableTopGame/Clue'' ''TableTopGame/{{Clue}}'' board."
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* ''Film/KnivesOut'' takes place at the manor of mystery writer Harlan, a huge gothic mansion that one detective openly compares to "living inside a ''TapleTopGame/Clue'' board."

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* ''Film/KnivesOut'' takes place at the manor of mystery writer Harlan, a huge gothic mansion that one detective openly compares to "living inside a ''TapleTopGame/Clue'' ''TableTopGame/Clue'' board."
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* ''Film/KnivesOut'' takes place at the manor of mystery writer Harlan, a huge gothic mansion that one detective openly compares to "living inside a ''TapleTopGame/{{Clue}}'' board."

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* ''Film/KnivesOut'' takes place at the manor of mystery writer Harlan, a huge gothic mansion that one detective openly compares to "living inside a ''TapleTopGame/{{Clue}}'' ''TapleTopGame/Clue'' board."
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* ''Film/KnivesOut'' takes place at the manor of mystery writer Harlan, a huge gothic mansion that one detective openly compares to "living inside a ''TapletopGame/Clue'' board."

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* ''Film/KnivesOut'' takes place at the manor of mystery writer Harlan, a huge gothic mansion that one detective openly compares to "living inside a ''TapletopGame/Clue'' ''TapleTopGame/{{Clue}}'' board."
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* ''Film/KnivesOut'' takes place at the manor of mystery writer Harlan, a huge gothic mansion that one detective openly compares to "living inside a ''TapletopGame/Clue'' board."
** To hear the family tell it, the place was built from the ground up by some ancestor and theirs for generations but (as with so much about their "self-made" wealth), the truth is different: When Roman snaps to Marta that "we won't let you steal our ancestral home," detective Blanc literally laughs "ancestral? Your daddy bought this from a Pakistani millionaire in the 1980s!"
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** Possibly a deconstruction. Xanadu was too big, and it's massive halls too empty. It was symbolic of Kane himself, opulent and garish, but devoid of anything that actually mattered.

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** Possibly a deconstruction. Xanadu was too big, and it's its massive halls too empty. It was symbolic of Kane himself, opulent and garish, but devoid of anything that actually mattered.
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** In ''Film/ZombielandDoubleTap'', the heroes move into an even bigger, fancier house - the White House itself.
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* ''Film/KillerDreamHome'': 1128 Maple Drive - the 'dream home' of the title - is a lavish mansion estate complete with a guest house, home cinema, outdoor swimming pool and multiple bedrooms. And an elevator - which gets referred to many times during the movie.
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* ''Film/Batman1989'': As in most ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' adaptations, Wayne Manor is a huge, opulent mansion that's housed generations of Fiction500 billionaires. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d when Bruce Wayne entertains Vicky Vale in a richly appointed dining room with plenty of TableSpace:
-->'''Bruce:''' You want to know the truth? I don't know if I've ever been in this room before.
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* ''Film/{{Parasite}}'': The Parks live in a lavish, spacious, modern house, specifically designed by a famous architect. In contrast, the Kims live in a cramped semi-basement.

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* ''Film/{{Parasite}}'': The Parks live in a lavish, spacious, modern house, specifically designed by a famous architect. In contrast, the Kims live in a cramped semi-basement.
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* The titular ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' turns out to be this, though it isn't all that fancy.
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* In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', the newly formed Joint Intelligence Service is head quartered in the Centre for National Security, a brand new (and privately funded) skyscraper intended to replace the damaged {{MI6}} building.

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* ''ZabriskiePoint'' by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni has a finale set in an elaborate modernist mansion carved into the rock of the Arizona desert in a Frank Lloyd Wright {{Zeerust}} design.

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** Hundreds Hall in Sarah Waters' ''Literature/TheLittleStranger'' used to be this, but it's fallen into disrepair by the time the movie takes place.
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* The manor house the Leonides' reside in in ''Film/CrookedHouse''. Interestingly, all of the characters have decorated their personal quarters in radically different styles, meaning there is no internal consistency, fitting the 'Crooked House' theme of the film.
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** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': When the team first arrives at Charles' residence, Erik, Sean, Alex, Moira and Hank have to tilt their head back a little to stare at the impressively large Xavier mansion, which practically looks like a small palace. It's even sarcastically lampshaded by Erik: "[[SarcasmMode Charles, I don't know how you survived, living in such hardship.]]"

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** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': When the team first arrives at Charles' residence, Erik, Sean, Alex, Moira and Hank have to tilt their head back a little to stare at the impressively large Xavier mansion, which practically looks like a small palace. It's even sarcastically lampshaded by Erik: "[[SarcasmMode Honestly Charles, I don't know how you survived, living in such hardship.]]"
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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'':
** Mr. Whipple, in the episode of the same name, lives in a mansion guarded by vicious dogs.
** In the [[TheMovie cinematic]] [[GrandFinale series finale]] the Nolans live in a large mansion, complete with a butler and additional servants.
* Frank Lucas, drug kingpin, buys one for [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas his mother]] in ''Film/AmericanGangster'':
-->'''Mrs. Lucas''': ...And whose house is that, Franky?\\
'''Frank Lucas''': That is ''your'' house Mama!\\
'''Mrs. Lucas''': ''My house!'' ...and who else's?!
* Wayne Manor in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' is one of these, what with the Batcave in the basement/surrounding caves. However, it burns down, forcing Bruce to move to just a CoolHouse -- though considering that it's a penthouse ''floor'' with a helicopter landing pad and a hidden room with a spare batsuit and equipment, it may qualify as another Big Fancy House.
* The mansion in ''Film/EyesWideShut'' that Bill bluffs his way into once he gets the password from a friend. Of course, the fact that it's gigantic isn't as impressive as the Black Mass-esque ceremony culminating with an orgy ''in every single room''.
* Nicholas in ''Film/TheGame'' has a palatial residence that he presumably inherited from his father, and he is also fabulously wealthy. Apart from his servants, he lives there alone.
* Many of J. Paul Getty’s scenes in ''Film/AllTheMoneyInTheWorld'' take place in Sutton Place, his 16th-century Tudor estate. It is filled with expensive art.
* Jodie Foster's character in ''Film/PanicRoom'' buys a big, brownstone rowhome in Manhattan for her daughter and herself while she goes to study at Columbia. It's a bit of a spooky place, large for two people, and featuring the title safe room. The real estate agent seems curious about how she expects to afford it and it's revealed that she was formerly married to the chairman of a pharmaceutical company.
* In ''Film/AGoodYear'', the aggressive London stockbroker Max Skinner inherits a beautiful vineyard-estate in Provence from his uncle. Acting on his normal instincts, he prepares to sell the place and make a pretty penny [[spoiler:but eventually falls in love and gives up his old lifestyle in favor of a quieter life in France]].
* The title country estate of Sir William [=McCordle=] in ''Film/GosfordPark''.
* ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'' has the Ekhdahl family mansion, an enormous home filled with ornate furniture, paintings, statuary, huge dining tables. It's like a life-sized fancy dollhouse, and contrasts strongly with the ominously stark Vergerus house that the kids get stuck in after their mother remarries.
* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'': Croft Manor in the film adaptations of the [[Franchise/TombRaider video game franchise]]. 87 rooms. Eighty. Seven. And a trailer out front for Bryce.
* The mansion of ''Film/TheHaunting1963''. The massive sets were appropriately housed in the hanger for the Spruce Goose, the largest wooden airplane ever built.
* ''Film/IronMan'': Tony Stark's pad. If '''''[[https://www.forbes.com/2008/12/18/expensive-fictional-homes-forbeslife-fictional1508-cx_mn_de_expensivehomes_slide/#52f96f5d6f8b this]]''''' doesn't count, this whole page is a lie.
* In ''Film/IKnowWhereImGoing'', the Robinsons live in a castle, specifically the castle of Sorne.
* Xanadu from ''Film/CitizenKane''.
** Possibly a deconstruction. Xanadu was too big, and it's massive halls too empty. It was symbolic of Kane himself, opulent and garish, but devoid of anything that actually mattered.
* The [=McCallister=] house in the first two ''Film/HomeAlone'' films.
* The Corleone houses in ''Film/TheGodfather''. The most luxurious being the one at Lake Tahoe.
** Also the film producer's California mansion in the first ''Godfather''.
* Tony Montana's Florida mansion in ''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}''.
* Tara Plantation in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind''.
** Mostly averted in the book, where the house is described as a graciously decorated but somewhat haphazard structure valuable mainly for the farmland it sits on, and important mainly because of the emotional connection the protagonist feels toward it.
** The house that Scarlett has built in Atlanta when she marries Rhett may count, although Rhett never loses an opportunity to describe how grotesque the place is.
* The plantation in ''Film/SongOfTheSouth''.
* Adam Kesher has one of these in ''Film/MulhollandDrive'' -- a road famous for its Big Fancy Houses.
* [[http://www.ilamhomestead.co.nz/our-location.htm Ilam]], home of the Hulmes, in ''Film/HeavenlyCreatures''.
* ''Film/MrBrooks'' has one, complete with his own pottery studio/hidden serial killer equipment closets.
* The mansion of [[spoiler: Bill Murray]] in ''Film/{{Zombieland}}''.
* In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', the Merovingian lives in one of these. In addition to the "usual" lavishly decorated hallways, WallOfWeapons, and prison located behind a secret bookcase, it also has doors which lead directly into the City as well as a private garage. Noteworthy here because the house is actually located 500 miles away from the city in the mountains (open the doors normally and you go outside into the mountain area, open them with a special key and you enter the city.)
* John has such a house in ''Film/{{Knowing}}'', a huge, rambling, half-ruined place that he was fixing up. He stopped when his wife died.
* Glourie castle from the film ''Film/TheGhostGoesWest''.
* The Balls' mansion in ''Film/EasyLiving''.
* The Pottsdorf palace in ''Film/TheGreatRace''.
* The Seton mansion in ''Film/{{Holiday}}''.
* Amanda's and Graham's houses in ''Film/TheHoliday''.
* The Lord estate in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory''.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': When the team first arrives at Charles' residence, Erik, Sean, Alex, Moira and Hank have to tilt their head back a little to stare at the impressively large Xavier mansion, which practically looks like a small palace. It's even sarcastically lampshaded by Erik: "[[SarcasmMode Charles, I don't know how you survived, living in such hardship.]]"
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4k6e0w The Xavier estate]] has never looked more beautiful on the silver screen--it's one of the most (if not ''the'' most) breathtaking, old-fashioned residences in cinema. It's practically a five-star hotel for mutants! The land around it is vast, lush and green, and one of its highlights is a stone-lined lake.
* The castle of La Muerte in ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife''.
* In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', the newly formed Joint Intelligence Service is head quartered in the Centre for National Security, a brand new (and privately funded) skyscraper intended to replace the damaged {{MI6}} building.
* ''ZabriskiePoint'' by Creator/MichelangeloAntonioni has a finale set in an elaborate modernist mansion carved into the rock of the Arizona desert in a Frank Lloyd Wright {{Zeerust}} design.

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