15 Movies Like The Housemaid
Loved The Housemaid? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Addicted
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Housemaid.
Parasite
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
Obsessed
A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
Oligosaccharide The Movie
A truth tale about "Oligosaccharide" written by Crocodile Man. One 'Geun-hyeok' and ten 'Mi-jeongs' put on a sexy adult fantasy! Geun-hyeok and Mi-jeong switch bodies after they have intercourse. Mi-jeong asks Geun-hyeok for something as she's about to get married... Mi-jeong is a call girl who seduces Geun-seok. She's actually a killer. What is she? Tae-sik only drinks black coffee and Mi-jeong likes him. Will they come true? Tae-sik is a loser who uses his wife to rip money off of other men. Geun-hyeok loves her. What will happen to them? What if someone is watching me? Mi-jeong asks detective Geun-hyeok for help... "I have a wife!" Geun-hyeok drinks with his sexy superior Mi-jeong and thing happen. Mi-jeong and her husband have a pile of debt. Mi-jeong goes to her friend Geun-hyeok who can foresee the future. Geun-hyeok is perfect and Mi-jeong loves her husband but she can't help feeling unsteady. Tae-sik leaves on a suicide journey and meets Mi-jeong. They fall in love...
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
The Handmaiden
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
Love Lesson
Korea's most popular song writer Hee-soo runs into a nineteen-year-old boy in the elevator. Hee-soo is inspired by a new song watching him shake at her figure. She starts to tell him about women under the excuse that she's teaching him music. They fall for each other but things get complicated when her life teacher, Joon-ho who taught her about life and music comes back.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
Memories of Murder
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
Escape from Mogadishu
Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
No Other Choice
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
Humint
A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
Deep Water
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Housemaid.
Lolita
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Housemaid.
Hope
After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.
Scarlet Innocence
A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Housemaid.