Movies like The Housemaid

“The Housemaid (2025) is a 2020s American psychological-thriller that transposes domestic service into a study of power, secrecy, and eroticized coercion. It stages its core conflict as a toxic power struggle within an opulent household, using tight framing, stylized cinematography and high-contrast chiaroscuro lighting to make interiors feel instrumentally oppressive. The film argues that measured visual grammar and restrained pacing can reveal lasting social and moral fractures in contemporary domestic labor relations.”