Movies To Watch If You Like Downton Abbey

If you are not familiar with Upstairs Downstairs, it was a 5-season 1970's TV series which followed the fortunes of a single house in a fashionable part of London. The time period ranges from the Edwardian Era (early 1900's) through to the 1930's and follows both the Upstairs, well-heeled family, and the Downstairs servants.

Based on Evelyn Waugh's novel of the same name, and although released in 1981, this still stands as one of the best movie adaptions of a novel. Set in a stately home, during the 1930's, this was Jeremy Iron's break through role. 

Iron's character Ryder is a cynical, bitter Army Captain during World War 2 looking back to his early enchanted days at Bridshead.

Robert Atlman's original screen play was released in 2001 and had a stellar cast headed up by Maggie Smith. 

Set in the 1930's in a country house, Gosford Path is a classic who dunnit, with a twist, and with the complexities of upstairs/downstairs which will very familiar to Downton Abbey fans!

This is the set of the entire series, set in the 1840's in northern England and starring Judi Dench. The story is loosley based on Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novels. The three sisters at the heart of the story, watch, observe, gossip and connive, as only the English middle classes can. 

Love lost, grief, death, what's not to like?