- Primary Subject: Psychological Thrillers like The Housemaid
- Key Update: Freida McFadden’s best-selling psychological thriller, The Housemaid 2, is officially confirmed and currently in the works.
- Status: Confirmed
- Last Verified: February 19, 2026
- Quick Answer: If you loved The Housemaid, watch Parasite, Rebecca, or Gone Girl for stories about domestic secrets, class tension, and lethal deceptions.
Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid captivated readers with dark secrets and “unreliable” female leads. As fans conquer the big-screen adaptation, these ten movies offer a similar blend of psychological suspense and twisted house-bound mysteries!
Gone Girl (2014)
Nina Winchester may have survived under the pretend painting Andrew painted of her image, but Gone Girl’s Amy is not the wife men want to mess with.
In Gone Girl, Nick Dunne deals with becoming a prime suspect after the sudden disappearance of her wife, Amy, on their fifth wedding anniversary, only for it all to be a ruse and unveil the truth about what Amy’s husband did behind her back.
Streaming Platform: Hulu
The Girl on the Train (2016)
Rachel Watson is an alcoholic divorcee who can’t seem to distinguish her realities and fantasies from one another.
The Girl on the Train follows Rachel as she fantasizes about the “perfect” couple she watches on the train, only to become entangled with an investigation that ends up being closely tied to her own unsolved mystery.
Purchase or Rent: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Rebecca (2020)
Based on Daphne du Maurier’s 1938 novel of the same name, Rebecca centers on a naive young woman who marries a wealthy widower, Maxim de Winter, after a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo.
Considering how Andrew tends to fall in love with blondes like Nina and Millie, Rebecca finds herself living in the shadow of Maxim’s first wife, who died under mysterious circumstances.
Streaming Platform: Netflix
Stoker (2013)
Socially detached teenager, India Stoker, gets her life upended by the sudden death of her father and the arrival of her charming yet sinister Uncle Charlie, who unearths repressed desire, dark family secrets, and awakens a young woman’s untapped dangerous nature.
Stoker is a dark, mysterious tale that's well worth checking out if you're a fan of The Housemaid.
Purchase or Rent: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Parasite (2019)
If it’s struggling with class dynamics and fooling the owners of the house in their own way, Parasite digs deep as a poor family, the Kims, con their way into becoming the employees for a wealthy family, the Parks, under the guise of being their children’s tutors, housekeeper, and designated driver.
Streaming Platform: HBO Max, Hulu, Tubi
Secret Window (2004)
Secret Window follows Mort Rainey, an isolated writer at a lake house recovering from a messy divorce, who gets stalked by a stranger accusing him of plagiarism. Similar to how Nina coped after the rumors of her insanity, Mort is driven to believe he lives in a fractured reality of his own.
Streaming Platform: Tubi
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Following a car accident and her daughter leaving for college, Claire Spencer begins to suspect that her lakeside home is haunted, only to uncover that her husband, Dr. Norman Spencer, is hiding a dark secret involving adultery and murder.
Streaming Platform: Paramount+, Amazon Prime Video
The Others (2001)
From Nina and Millie’s isolation in the terrible attic comes a claustrophobic psychological horror film, The Others, where Grace, a devout and overprotective mother, shields her two children from sunlight by staying in their dark mansion while awaiting her husband's return from battle.
But what happens when she hires three mysterious servants, who alter the household’s reality that ultimately terrorizes their home?
Streaming Platform: AMC+, Amazon Prime Video
Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
Just like Nina, Alice enters a utopian desert community called Victory as a 1950s housewife whose main goal is to keep her husband happy and live a “normal” life among their neighbors. But that utopian dream can only last so long. This psychological thriller leads Alice to question her own reality, revealing the illusion beneath the seemingly perfect world they must live in.
Streaming Platform: HBO Max
Woman of the Hour (2024)
Based on a chilling true story about the 1970s serial killer Rodney Alcala, Woman of the Hour shows how Rodney appeared on The Dating Game while actively murdering women behind the scenes.
Similar to McFadden’s The Housemaid, this true-crime thriller explores one of many psychological dangers women face in their daily lives.
Streaming Platform: Netflix
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