20 movies like The Housemaid, ordered by similarity : Tempted(2001), Thirst(2009), The American Friend(1977), Twilight(1998), Wicked(1998), Facing the Enemy(2001), Say Nothing(2001), Triad Election(2006), Shotgun Stories(2007), A History of Violence(2005), Broken Embraces(2009), Strange but True(2019) ...
Mystery & Thriller
South Korea
2010
106 Minutes
Jeon Do-yeon Jung-jae Lee Yeo-jeong Yoon Seo Woo Ji-Young Park Jung-min Whang Moon So-ri
pregnant woman husband daughter maid nanny friend suspenseful melodramatic sultry striking mansion bedroom apartment street vacation home roof class distinctions infidelity jealousy poverty
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.
Mystery & Thriller
Australia|France|USA
2001
95 Minutes
Burt Reynolds Saffron Burrows Peter Facinelli Mike Starr George Di Cenzo Eric Mabius Michael Arata
husband wife law student best friend melodramatic suspenseful chilling house bedroom restaurant new orleans loyalty revenge terminal illness infidelity marriage love discovery temptation revenge
A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
South Korea|USA
2009
133 Minutes
Song Kang-ho Kim Ok-vin Shin Ha-kyun Kim Hae-sook Dal-su Oh Mercedes Cabral
priest vampire wife childhood friend doctor suspenseful melodramatic sultry hospital south korea roof bedroom church medical experiments vampires supernatural faith friendship morality metamorphosis
Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.
Mystery & Thriller
West Germany|France
1977
127 Minutes
Dennis Hopper Bruno Ganz Elisabeth Kreuzer Gérard Blain Nicholas Ray Samuel Fuller Peter Lilienthal Daniel Schmid Jean Eustache Rudolf Schündler Sandy Whitelaw
art dealer husband artist forger friend wife uneasy profound dark suspenseful hamburg, germany car train city apartment murder plot unlikely criminal family desperation terminal illness
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1998
94 Minutes
Paul Newman Susan Sarandon Gene Hackman Reese Witherspoon Stockard Channing James Garner Giancarlo Esposito Liev Schreiber Margo Martindale John Spencer M. Emmet Walsh
private detective movie star friend daughter police officer chauffeur uneasy brooding cool intricate mexico los angeles california mansion malibu, calif. apartment aging friendship infidelity murder
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1998
96 Minutes
Julia Stiles William R. Moses Patrick Muldoon Vanessa Zima Michael Parks Chelsea Field Louise Myrback Linda Hart
killer wife husband daughter nanny detective shocking suspenseful chilling melodramatic family home gated community suburbia school father/daughter relationship grief mental breakdown infidelity incest murder
14-year-old Ellie Christianson wants to make her father Ben her love partner. And when her mother Karen turns up dead, Ellie has a good opportunity.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2001
98 Minutes
Linden Ashby Maxwell Caulfield Alexandra Paul Melanie Wilson Cynthia Preston Bruce Weitz Max Gail
cop wife beautiful girl killer boyfriend young boy intense sultry suspenseful san fernando valley los angeles apartment bedroom family home vendetta husband/wife relationship accidental death police work seduction suicide
Griff McCleary is a cop, now his son shot himself with Griff's gun. A year later both he and his wife are still reeling from it. Griff feeling shut out by his wife Olivia, decides to move ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
Canada|USA
2001
95 Minutes
William Baldwin Nastassja Kinski Hart Bochner Jordy Benattar Michèle Duquet Geoffrey Bowes Susie Dias Andy Velasquez
stalker lover wife husband stranger boss suspenseful sultry melodramatic passionate miami beach, fla. beach mansion family home infidelity troubled marriage one-night stand obsession love triangle custody battle
An unfulfilled married woman becomes intrigued by an alluring suitor whose attention soon becomes obsessive.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
2006
92 Minutes
crime boss godson wife rival thug brutal frenetic suspenseful melodramatic china hong kong river office crime syndicate election jealousy corruption gang war abduction rivalry
A violent chain reaction unfolds as a crafty entrepreneur (Louis Koo) wrests power from a veteran Hong Kong crime lord (Simon Yam).
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
92 Minutes
Michael Shannon Douglas Ligon Barlow Jacobs Natalie Canerday Glenda Pannell
son brother half brother girlfriend wife older brother brooding brutal arkansas cemetery family home farm family dysfunction feud family death violence crime rivalry revenge
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Canada|USA
2005
96 Minutes
Viggo Mortensen Maria Bello William Hurt Ashton Holmes Stephen McHattie Peter MacNeill Ed Harris Heidi Hayes Greg Bryk Steve Arbuckle Sumela Kay
husband wife son daughter brother mobster chilling diner indiana small town family home philadelphia murder organized crime family violence transformation revenge 2000s
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain
2009
128 Minutes
Penélope Cruz Lluís Homar Blanca Portillo José Luis Gómez Tamar Novas Rubén Ochandiano Marta Aledo Agustín Almodóvar Enrique Aparicio Yuyi Beringola Javier Coll
stockbroker director producer actress son filmmaker melodramatic suspenseful intricate movie set house office funeral love triangle revenge death father/son relationship the past jealousy discovery
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Mystery & Thriller
Canada
2019
96 Minutes
Amy Ryan Nick Robinson Margaret Qualley Blythe Danner Brian Cox Greg Kinnear Mena Massoud Connor Jessup Vanessa Burns
boyfriend girlfriend high-school sweetheart family parent adoptive parent creepy dark eerie melodramatic uneasy tense family home school dance suburb united states forest home pregnancy supernatural
A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Iceland|UK|Germany
2016
110 Minutes
Hera Hilmar Baltasar Kormákur Gísli Örn Garðarsson Ingvar Sigurdsson Þorsteinn Bachmann Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir Þorsteinn Gunnarsson Margrét Bjarnadóttir Ágúst Bjarnason
surgeon daughter drug dealer father criminal intense melodramatic suspenseful thrilling gory brooding reykjavík, iceland criminal underworld family home drug addiction family crime desperation father/daughter relationship rise
A troubled father, working as a doctor, decides to go to extreme measures for saving his daughter from a devastating influence of her boyfriend, a drug dealer.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1964
115 Minutes
Bette Davis Karl Malden Peter Lawford Philip Carey Jean Hagen George Macready Estelle Winwood George Chandler Mario Alcalde Cyril Delevanti Monika Henreid
twin killer sister lover police detective dark creepy melodramatic funeral mansion murder jealousy deception impersonation infidelity wealth rivalry revenge fall 1960s
The working-class twin sister of a callous, wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes her identity. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
90 Minutes
April Bowlby Kim Director Hanna Hall Abbie Gayle Mike Faiola James J. Fuertes Deborah Twiss Valerie Jane Parker Markus Silbiger Katie Eichler Gina Hiraizumi
florist husband daughter wife prom queen rival thrilling uneasy disturbing family home flower shop high school evil plot family relationships dilemma deception failing business social event transformation rivalry
A successful married woman's life is put in turmoil when she reunites with an old high school friend.
Mystery & Thriller
2004
115 Minutes
Zoé Auclair Bérangère Haubruge Lea Bridarolli Marion Cotillard Hélène de Fougerolles Olga Peytavi-Müller Alisson Lalieux Corinne Marchand
young girl student teacher headmistress friend bully offbeat striking emotional uneasy boarding school wilderness classroom coffin dance studio bedroom childhood friendship secret life lessons
A girl (Zoé Auclair) arrives at a mysterious boarding school that is isolated from the outside world.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
2008
86 Minutes
Riz Ahmed Daniel Mays Jason Flemyng Nitin Ganatra Jay Simpson Dannielle Brent Francesca Annis Kate Groombridge Jason Maza Jordan Long Rory Jennings
drug dealer drug addict brother man friend emotional engaging gripping intense suspenseful tense thrilling uneasy unrestrained london drug addiction drug trade drugs family relationships
Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1972
138 Minutes
wealthy man adulterer businessperson writer crafty playful suspenseful england countryside city mansion competition deception infidelity murder class distinctions mystery discovery rivalry revenge
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Mystery & Thriller
France
1958
90 Minutes
Jeanne Moreau Maurice Ronet Jean Wall Georges Poujouly Yori Bertin Lino Ventura Elga Andersen Micheline Bona Félix Marten Robert Balpo Nicolas Bataille
industrialist wife lover thug police officer suspenseful sultry dark melodramatic paris office elevator motel apartment murder plot infidelity marriage schemes botched crime forbidden love
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
1987
112 Minutes
Günter Meisner David Sust Marisa Paredes Gisela Echevarria Imma Colomer David Cuspinera
nazi young boy wife daughter nurse pedophile bleak suspenseful chilling disturbing germany family home roof bedroom hospital nazism dark secrets medical experiments pedophilia suicide attempt
A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.