Most Popular Housemaid Movies and TV Shows

1. Cape Fear (1991)

R | 128 min | Crime, Thriller

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis

Votes: 166,979 | Gross: $79.10M

2. Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

G | 130 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A few decades after her original visit, Mary Poppins, the magical nanny, returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.

Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer

Votes: 72,190 | Gross: $171.96M

3. That's My Boy (2012)

14A | 116 min | Comedy

While in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent until Todd's 18th birthday. Now Donny resurfaces just before Todd's wedding after years apart, sending the groom-to-be's world crashing down.

Director: Sean Anders | Stars: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, Susan Sarandon

Votes: 88,412 | Gross: $36.93M

4. Gretel & Hansel (2020)

14A | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw

Votes: 16,030

5. Sweet Home Alabama (2002)

PG | 108 min | Comedy, Romance

A young woman who's reinvented herself as a New York City socialite must return home to Alabama to obtain a divorce from her husband, after seven years of separation.

Director: Andy Tennant | Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Lucas, Candice Bergen

Votes: 100,025 | Gross: $127.22M

6. The Secret Garden (2020)

PG | 99 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy | Completed

An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle's estate.

Director: Marc Munden | Stars: Dixie Egerickx, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Edan Hayhurst

7. Alias Grace (2017)

60 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In 19th-century Canada, a psychiatrist weighs whether a murderess should be pardoned due to insanity.

Stars: Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Rebecca Liddiard, Zachary Levi

Votes: 23,153

8. Hogar (2020)

103 min | Drama, Thriller

Javier Muñoz, once a successful executive, makes the fateful decision to leave his home, which he and his family can no longer afford.

Directors: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Mario Casas, Bruna Cusí, Ruth Díaz

Votes: 10,420

9. Spanglish (2004)

PG | 131 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.

Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman

Votes: 77,034 | Gross: $42.04M

10. Anthropoid (2016)

14A | 120 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.

Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Brian Caspe, Karel Hermánek Jr.

Votes: 41,980 | Gross: $2.96M

11. Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

PG | 111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson

Votes: 49,179 | Gross: $27.37M

12. Everything, Everything (2017)

PG | 96 min | Drama, Romance

A teenager who's spent her whole life confined to her home falls for the boy next door.

Director: Stella Meghie | Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Ana de la Reguera

Votes: 31,104 | Gross: $34.00M

13. Heartburn (1986)

G | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

A food writer pregnant with her second baby finds out her husband is having an affair.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton

Votes: 9,128 | Gross: $25.31M

14. Fanny och Alexander (1982)

14A | 188 min | Drama

Two young Swedish children experience the many comedies and tragedies of their family, the Ekdahls.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson, Börje Ahlstedt

Votes: 55,737 | Gross: $4.97M

15. Wild Rose (2018)

14A | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star.

Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson, Lesley Hart

Votes: 8,590 | Gross: $1.64M

16. Mirrors (I) (2008)

18A | 110 min | Horror, Mystery

An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce

Votes: 100,514 | Gross: $30.69M

17. Gaslight (1944)

114 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty

Votes: 23,266

18. Black Sheep (2006)

18+ | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

Director: Jonathan King | Stars: Oliver Driver, Nathan Meister, Tammy Davis, Matthew Chamberlain

Votes: 38,545 | Gross: $0.08M

19. Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)

60 min | Drama

The trials of the British aristocratic Bellamy family and their household staff.

Stars: Gordon Jackson, David Langton, Jean Marsh, Angela Baddeley

Votes: 2,556

20. Life After Beth (2014)

14A | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A young man's recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead, but he slowly realizes she is not the way he remembered her.

Director: Jeff Baena | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon

Votes: 19,340 | Gross: $0.08M

21. Lizzie (2018)

14A | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of Lizzie Andrew Borden's family.

Director: Craig William Macneill | Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jeff Perry, Fiona Shaw

Votes: 5,762 | Gross: $0.64M

22. Regarding Henry (1991)

14 | 108 min | Drama, Romance

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Michael Haley, Stanley Swerdlow

Votes: 28,765 | Gross: $43.00M

23. Frogs (1972)

G | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.

Director: George McCowan | Stars: Ray Milland, Sam Elliott, Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke

Votes: 5,654 | Gross: $0.48M

24. Hanyo (2010)

18A | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.

Director: Sang-soo Im | Stars: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-jae Lee, Yuh-Jung Youn, Woo Seo

Votes: 9,071 | Gross: $0.15M

25. Inferno (1980)

14A | 106 min | Horror

An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi

Votes: 17,865

26. Castle Freak (1995 Video)

R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A man struggles to save his family from the strange and deadly occurrences in the castle they've inherited.

Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jonathan Fuller, Jessica Dollarhide

Votes: 6,649

27. Tomcats (2001)

18A | 95 min | Comedy

At the wedding of a friend, the remaining bachelors bet on staying single. 7 years later, one of the 2 remaining loses $51000 in Vegas. He must get the other guy married to cash in and pay his debt or die. A cute woman helps him.

Director: Gregory Poirier | Stars: Shannon Elizabeth, Jerry O'Connell, Jake Busey, Horatio Sanz

Votes: 17,228 | Gross: $13.56M

28. Milada (2017)

124 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Milada Horáková, democratic pre-WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post-war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country.

Director: David Mrnka | Stars: Ayelet Zurer, Robert Gant, Daniel Rchichev, Karina Rchichev

Votes: 857

29. Voice from the Stone (2017)

R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Set in 1950s Tuscany, Voice from the Stone is the haunting and suspenseful story of Verena, a solemn nurse drawn to aid a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.

Director: Eric D. Howell | Stars: Emilia Clarke, Marton Csokas, Caterina Murino, Remo Girone

Votes: 9,959

30. Allure (IV) (2017)

14A | 105 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A house cleaner meets a teenaged girl and convinces her to run away and live with her in secret.

Directors: Carlos Sanchez, Jason Sanchez | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Julia Sarah Stone, Maxim Roy, Denis O'Hare

Votes: 1,369

31. Malasaña 32 (2020)

104 min | Horror

A family moving to a new house to live the dream of the big city. A house where dreams turn in nightmares.

Director: Albert Pintó | Stars: Begoña Vargas, Iván Marcos, Bea Segura, Sergio Castellanos

Votes: 1,042

32. From Time to Time (2009)

PG | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, more than a century apart. When 13-year-old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.

Director: Julian Fellowes | Stars: Alex Etel, Timothy Spall, Maggie Smith, Christopher Villiers

Votes: 4,473

33. Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

14A | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school, a mom starts an unusual business -- a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service -- with her unreliable sister.

Director: Christine Jeffs | Stars: Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Jason Spevack

Votes: 68,697 | Gross: $12.06M

34. Big Trouble (2002)

PG | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

The lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with humorous and dangerous results.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld | Stars: Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Stanley Tucci, Tom Sizemore

Votes: 19,491 | Gross: $7.26M

35. Love Is Strange (2014)

PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance

After Ben and George get married, George is fired from his teaching post, forcing them to stay with friends separately while they sell their place and look for cheaper housing -- a situation that weighs heavily on all involved.

Director: Ira Sachs | Stars: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Charlie Tahan

Votes: 11,911 | Gross: $2.25M

36. Irreconcilable Differences (1984)

113 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.

Director: Charles Shyer | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, Drew Barrymore, Sam Wanamaker

Votes: 2,806 | Gross: $12.41M

37. Peranbu (2018)

PG | 147 min | Drama

A single father tries to raise his daughter, who has cerebral palsy, even as she is beginning to wake up to her sexuality.

Directors: Ram, Amudhavan Karuppiah, Anjana Krishnakumar | Stars: Mammootty, Sadhana, Anjali, Anjali Ameer

Votes: 11,546

38. Vera Drake (2004)

14A | 125 min | Crime, Drama

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Richard Graham

Votes: 23,352 | Gross: $3.75M

39. Stone of Destiny (2008)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

The story of Ian Hamilton, a dedicated nationalist who reignited Scottish national pride in the 1950s with his daring raid on the heart of England to bring the Stone of Scone back to Scotland.

Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Charlie Cox, Kate Mara, Stephen McCole, Ciaron Kelly

Votes: 3,674

40. Miss Potter (2006)

PG | 88 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness, and success.

Director: Chris Noonan | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn

Votes: 27,432 | Gross: $2.98M

41. Raintree County (1957)

160 min | Drama, Romance, War

A student falls in love with a Southern belle, but their relationship is complicated by her troubled past and the on-set of the Civil War.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Nigel Patrick

Votes: 3,322

42. Mary Reilly (1996)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Edward Hyde.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Michael Gambon

Votes: 13,784 | Gross: $5.60M

43. La sconosciuta (2006)

18A | 118 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Haunted by a horrible past, a Ukrainian young woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini, Piera Degli Esposti

Votes: 13,631 | Gross: $0.02M

44. Scorned (1993)

R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.

Director: Andrew Stevens | Stars: Shannon Tweed, Andrew Stevens, Kim Morgan Greene, Daniel McVicar

Votes: 1,456

45. The Anniversary Party (2001)

14A | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Love is complex and relationships deteriorate.

Directors: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh | Stars: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline

Votes: 7,961 | Gross: $4.01M

46. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

G | 114 min | Drama, Romance

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

Directors: Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills

Votes: 9,488

47. Que Horas Ela Volta? (2015)

PG | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.

Director: Anna Muylaert | Stars: Regina Casé, Helena Albergaria, Michel Joelsas, Camila Márdila

Votes: 12,494 | Gross: $0.38M

48. Lída Baarová (2016)

106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A biographical film about the black-and-white era Czech actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair with one of the Third Reich's most powerful men: the Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.

Director: Filip Renc | Stars: Tatiana Pauhofová, Karl Markovics, Gedeon Burkhard, Simona Stasová

Votes: 1,682

49. Incubo sulla città contaminata (1980)

13+ | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal

Votes: 5,413

50. Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012)

14A | 122 min | Drama

Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?

Director: Billy Bob Thornton | Stars: Tippi Hedren, Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson, Robert Patrick

Votes: 2,836 | Gross: $0.01M