Antes de criar a grande obra Um Conto de Natal, o autor Charles Dickens estava sem ideias e precisando de um livro genial para sustentar sua família e retomar sua carreira. Misturando inspirações da vida real com uma imaginação incomparável, ele é capaz de criar personagens inesquecíveis que mudaram o natal para sempre.
O compositor de meia-idade Dong Sik tem uma vida atarefada com sua esposa grávida e seus dois filhos. Ele contrata uma empregada doméstica para ajudar na casa, mas a jovem estranha tem outros planos em mente quando começa a seduzir Dong Sik.
Em 1892, na Era Vitoriana, Lizzie Borden é uma mulher muito mais complexa e provocante do que a maioria das moças de sua época. Íntima de sua empregada irlandesa, Bridget Sullivan, a jovem tem um lado aterrorizante desconhecido, mas quando um duplo homicídio acontece na família, ela é a primeira suspeita.
O caso de um homem com a empregada de sua família leva a consequências sombrias. Eun-yi é contratada como au pair para Hae-ra (grávida de gêmeos) e seu marido rico Hoon. A principal tarefa de Eun-yi é cuidar da filha do casal, Nami. Eun-yi está ansiosa para se conectar com Nami, que gradualmente se aproxima dela. Hoon começa a flertar secretamente com Eun-yi, atraindo-a com taças de vinho e tocando piano, e eles eventualmente começam um relacionamento sexual. Apesar do caso, Eun-yi ainda é caloroso e amigável com a esposa alheia de Hoon, Hae-ra. Ela até expressa entusiasmo e alegria com o progresso da gravidez de Hae-ra.
No século XIX na Inglaterra, uma arrumadeira (Julia Roberts) vai trabalhar na casa de um médico conceituado e rico (John Malkovich). Entretanto, este médico é o Dr. Jekyll e, apesar de idolatrar seu patrão, ela gradativamente descobre que ele é um homem desesperado, que esconde um terrível segredo que envolve seu assistente, o senhor Hyde.
Mi-so vive dia após dia em tarefas domésticas. Cigarros e uísque são as duas coisas que a fazem passar o dia. Quando o governo dobra o preço dos cigarros, Mi-so decide desistir de sua casa por cigarros e uísque e faz uma lista de suas amigas para pedir um favor para ficar.
A partially paralyzed teenager is failing to have sex for the first time. He's eager but clumsy and sickly, so the local country girls reject him. He starts to realize that the only affectionate person in his life is his beautiful mother.
When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.
Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s. Becoming an orphan in 1935, Collin moves to his dad's cousins Verena and Dolly. Verena is a rich, bossy businesswoman. Dolly, Collin and the maid revolt, moving to a tree house.
Martina and Lupita are two housemaids who steal shoes and clothes from their boss Marcela, trying to impress Lupita's boyfriend. When Marcela founds out about the robbery, she and her friend Marifer go looking for them to retrieve her stuff and bring them to justice. "What did you tell God?" is a comedy that uses Juan Gabriel's songs.
Aswathi (Kavya Madhavan), who is a lower mid-class Malayali woman from Pattambi, Kerala. Due to the financial constraints of her family and the untimely death of her husband, Ashwathy is forced to be the bread earner of the house and opts to go to the gulf. Usman (Suraj Venjaramood), who is the chauffeur of an Arab family. Originally from Aswathi's village, he arranges the Aswathi's visa and brings her to Saudi Arabia. Many surprises await her, starting at the airport itself. The story follows Razak, who tries to trace Aswathi, and Aswathi's attempts to leave Saudi Arabia
Hilda, the new housemaid, brings about an awakening in the life of wealthy Mrs. Le Marchand, who recalls her revolutionary past, questions her frivolous present and experiences an identity crisis.
A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl an allowance.
A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring, the sympathetic housekeeper suggests that the Master observe the Yobai , a custom in which the young men of a village steal into the bedrooms of susceptible women to have sex.
Set against the backdrop of the 1909 general strike, Hjördis is employed as a housemaid in a wealthy Stockholm family.
A housemaid, working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger-club boarding the high security walls.
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.
Shubha, who is from a middle-class family, wants to marry someone who is settled in America. She ends up marrying a person who is settled in Kenya and finds it difficult to adjust to her new life.
At a meeting at the Salvation Army a female soldier tells the story of her life.
