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Movies that feel likeThe Housemaid (2025)

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.

If you loved The Housemaid, the closest films we have are The Gift (2015), Knock at the Cabin (2023) and The Ghost Writer (2010). All three share The Housemaid's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Kahaani (2012).

🍅 74% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paul Feigtwistytenseunsettling
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Paramount Plus Premium

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The Gift
2015 · dir. Joel Edgerton
🍅 92%★ 7thriller · mystery · drama

A polished life unraveled by someone who knows where the secrets sit

The difference: Slower and more grounded — a grudge, not a household of games

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

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Knock at the Cabin
2023 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 67%★ 6.1thriller · mysteryNetflix

Ordinary people held inside an escalating nightmare with impossible rules

The difference: Apocalyptic stakes and moral dilemma — no slow-burn seduction

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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The Ghost Writer
2010 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 84%★ 7.2thriller · mysteryPrime VideoStarz

Twisty and tense in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less unsettling than The Housemaid does

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

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Exam
2009 · dir. Stuart Hazeldine
🍅 61%★ 6.7thriller · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.

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Gone Girl
2014 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 88%★ 8.1mystery · thriller · drama

Marriage as performance concealing calculation

The difference: Media-circus satire, Fincher chill

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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The Hidden Face
2011 · dir. Andrés Baiz
★ 7.3thriller · mystery

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

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Verity
2026 · dir. Michael Showalter
★ 6.3mystery · thrillerRent or buy

One thread runs through both: psychological thriller

Lowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for best-selling author Verity Crawford, uncovers Verity's autobiographical notes, and becomes involved in what may prove to be a lethal conspiracy.

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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%★ 6.7thriller · horror · mystery

A grand house whose locked rooms hide the story that explains everything

The difference: Gothic and ghost-adjacent — siblings in peril, not seductive power play

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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Kahaani
2012 · dir. Sujoy Ghosh
🍅 100%★ 8.1mystery · thriller

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%★ 6.9mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Professionals hired into a rich family's business who find rot underneath

The difference: Full supernatural horror — shamans and graves, not bedroom politics

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 · dir. Donato Carrisi
🍅 75%★ 6.8mystery · thriller · crime

A twisting investigation where every reveal rearranges your suspicions

The difference: A detective procedural — cold-case logic, not domestic captivity

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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Shutter Island
2010 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 69%★ 8.2drama · thriller · mysteryParamount+

Nothing in this house is what it's presented as

The difference: Gothic psychological storm

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

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