The Housemaid

2025

English

♡ 78

97%

90%

attic

based on novel or book

psychological thriller

Thriller

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

2025

French

♡ 8

98%

The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to Amélie until a miraculous encounter with chocolate ignites her wild sense of curiosity. As she develops a deep attachment to her family's housekeeper, Nishio-san, Amélie discovers the wonders of nature as well as the emotional truths hidden beneath the surface of her family's idyllic life as foreigners in post-war Japan.

The Farmer's Wife

1928

English

5.8

♡ 8

91%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Olga Slade as Mary Hearn - Postmistress

Ruth Maitland as Mercy Bassett

Maud Gill as Thirza Tapper

Louie Pounds as Widow Windeatt

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.

Malicious

1973

Italian

6.3

♡ 24

43%

Salvatore Samperi Director

Laura Antonelli as Angela

Turi Ferro as Ignazio

Tina Aumont as Luciana

Renato Gigli as Man at Funeral

A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

Lina from Lima

2019

Spanish

6.0

♡ 4

87%

María Paz González Director

Brian Montalvo as Bailarín #1

Diego Olivares as Bailarín #2

Ricardo León as Bailarín #3

Ítalo Suárez as Maestro 2

It’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.

Ladies in Retirement

1941

English

7.1

♡ 2

72%

Charles Vidor Director

Ida Lupino as Ellen Creed

Elsa Lanchester as Emily Creed

Evelyn Keyes as Lucy

Queenie Leonard as Sister Agatha

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.

Obsessed

1951

English

6.6

♡ 1

Maurice Elvey Director

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Elizabeth

David Farrar as Gregory

Sidney Monckton as Horace

Roland Culver as Inspector

When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.

Welcome to New York

2014

English

5.6

♡ 10

77%

Abel Ferrara Director

Gérard Depardieu as Devereaux

Jackie Raynal as Dinner Guest

Ronald Guttman as Roullot

Jacqueline Bisset as Simone

Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations. A man driven by a frenzied and unbridled sexual hunger. A man who dreamed of saving the world and who cannot save himself. A terrified man. A lost man.

Suddenly in the Dark

1981

Korean

6.5

♡ 4

Horror

housekeeper

supernatural

Young Nam Ko Director

Il-bong Yun as

Hye-ri Han as

Lee Ki-seon as (as Ki-seon Lee)

Yeong-ae Kim as (as Yeong-ae Kim)

A wife starts to suspect her husband's infidelity after the arrival of their new, young housekeeper, who carries a mysterious wooden doll with herself.

The Second Mother

2015

Portuguese

7.8

♡ 7

98%

parent child relationship

woman director

Anna Muylaert Director

Luis Miranda as Antonio Jardineiro

Alex Huszar as Caveira

Anapaula Csernik as Diléia

Bete Dorgam as Janaina

After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.

Corrina, Corrina

1994

English

6.6

♡ 16

37%

Jessie Nelson Director

Sean Moran as 2nd Delivery Man

Whoopi Goldberg as Corrina Washington

Joan Cusack as Jonesy

Tina Majorino as Molly Singer

When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.

Imitation of Life

1934

English

7.5

♡ 7

88%

John M. Stahl Director

Martin Turner as Man at Funeral

Alan Hale as Martin, the Furniture Man

Fredi Washington as Peola Johnson, Age 19

Joyce Compton as Young Woman at Party

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.