The Tichborne Claimant is a 1998 British drama film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Joe Fisher.

He was thought likely to have set sail with the ship Bella, which was shipwrecked off the coast of the Empire of Brazil, with no known survivors.

Lord Tichborne, the ninth-richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck.

Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia.

Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter successfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts.