Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
The Housemaid taps into a vein of desire and dread rooted in class imbalance — a woman with a troubled past stepping inside the gilded walls of wealth, only to find the household's power plays are more treacherous than anything she left behind. The taste it signals is for stories where domesticity becomes a battleground: secrets hidden in plain sight, erotic tension wound tight around control and vulnerability, and protagonists who can never quite trust the hands that feed them. The cross-media thread is psychological unease dressed in luxury.
The Housemaid is a 2025 American erotic psychological thriller film directed by Paul Feig and written by Rebecca Sonnenshine. It is based on the 2022 novel by Freida McFadden, and stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. In the film, Millie Calloway, a young woman with a troubled past, becomes the live-in maid for a wealthy family whose household hides dark secrets.
From the Wikipedia article The_Housemaid_(2025_film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
The Girl Before
A woman drawn to an extraordinary house discovers it holds the architect's dark influence over all who live there.
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The Handmaid's Tale
A woman is forced into servitude under a theocratic regime, stripped of autonomy and living by her captors' rules.
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Maid
A young mother escapes an abusive relationship and builds a precarious new life cleaning houses for the wealthy.
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Alias Grace
A housemaid imprisoned for her employer's murder claims no memory — and the truth may be more complicated than guilt.
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Fingersmith
A maid hired to help swindle an heiress carries her own secret, and the deception cuts both ways.
Series
Master of the House
When a patriarch dies, the housekeeper he recently married becomes the flashpoint of a family power struggle.
Book
The Housemaid Is Watching
A woman suspects her cheerful neighbour is hiding something unsettling the moment her husband is seen.
Book
The poisoned house
A maidservant in an elegant London house watches her tyrannical housekeeper usurp power as the master slides into madness.
Book
The doll's house
A woman wakes imprisoned with no memory, while nearby a buried body surfaces — someone worked hard to keep both silent.
Book
The Housemaid's Scandalous Secret
A colonel returns to a grand family estate in disarray, promising order — and discreet handling of its secrets.
Book
The Turn of the Screw
A governess fears the children in her care are menaced by ghosts tied to the house's sinister past.
Film
The Housemaid's Secret
Millie returns, and the locked-door secrets she uncovers run darker than anything in her own past.
Film
The Housemaid
A maid hired to watch a child finds herself watched instead, as temptation fractures the wealthy household around her.
Film
The Housemaid
A maid in a wealthy mansion is drawn into her employer's seductions, while the household's women conspire against her.
Film
The Housemaid
A hired housemaid at a colonial plantation falls for her employer while a vengeful ghost stalks the estate.
Film
The Housekeeper
A housekeeper at a wealthy family's home realises someone is hiding a deadly secret — and she can't tell who to trust.
Film
The Housemaid
A composer's pregnant wife collapses from overwork, so he hires a housemaid — and the household quietly shifts.
On film, the 2010 Korean The Housemaid delivers the same charged dynamic between a maid and a wealthy employer with a colder, more ruthless edge. On TV, Fingersmith layers a maid's hidden agenda into a web of swindling and genuine feeling.
The Housemaid Is Watching continues the world of a woman who once held dark secrets, now watching the world behind a picket fence. The Poisoned House puts a maidservant at the centre of a household where power is slowly poisoning everyone inside.
It traps its protagonist between dependence and danger — a woman trying to escape her past who finds herself inside a household where wealth breeds secrets and no one's motives are what they seem. The domestic setting makes the threat feel inescapable.