Break out the popcorn Welcome back to Period Dramas, a weekly column that alternates between rounding up historic homes on the market and answering questions we?ve always had about older structures.
Recently, we called out a few TV shows that every historic house admirer should watch. But, to be honest, that was only half the story: We didn?t even address movies!
While some feature the ups and downs of owning and renovating an old house?shoutout to Under the Tuscan Sun?we?ll be focusing on a different set of movies today.
Here are seven films where historic architecture is so entwined in the storyline and the characters? lifestyles that the old house might as well be its own character. Bonus: Many of the homes featured in these films are still standing, and can be visited, today. Gosford Park

Written by Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park is a bit of a prelude to Downton Abbey, which Fellowes also created.
Set in the early 1930s, the movie?with a star-studded cast featuring the likes of Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, and Clive Owen?follows a lavish weekend of hunting and excess at the fictional Gosford Park country estate, played by the real-life, Neo-Palladian country house Wrotham Park.
But things don?t go as planned when Sir William, a wealthy industrialist and host for the weekend, is found murdered in the library.
The movie is a murder mystery, sure, but in a style true to Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park is more a picture of what life was like for the upper echelons?...