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1) The help
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
2) Renfield
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Renfield, the tortured aide to history's most narcissistic boss, Dracula. Renfield is forced to procure his master's prey and do his every bidding, no matter how debased. But now, after centuries of servitude, Renfield is ready to see if there's a life outside the shadow of The Prince of Darkness. If only he can figure out how to end his codependency.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook ; 153
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Description
A story of black and white in the American South with Berenice Sadie Brown, a black cook who mothers the motherless Frankie Addams, a lonely over-imaginative Georgia girl.
Series
Criterion collection ; 114
Language
English
Description
"A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler ... but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye." --
"Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a "forgotten man"-- an apparent down-and-out drifter-- at a dump. She gives him work as the family butler and soon falls head over heels for him. Her attempts to both woo Godfrey and indoctrinate him in the household's dysfunction make for...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Cylons began as humanity's robot servants. They rebelled and evolved and now they look like humans. Their plan is simple: destroy the race that enslaved them. But when their devastating attack leaves human survivors, the Cylons have to improvise. The story of two powerful Cylon leaders, working separately, and their determination to finish the task." --
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers.
8) Séraphine
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
The true story of Séraphine Louis, a simple, devout housekeeper who in 1905, at the age of 41, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, a German art critic discovered her paintings while she was working as his maid. Tells the story of the relationship between the avant-garde dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
11) Roma
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuaron recreated the early 1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals." --
12) Humans: Season 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the near future, humanoid servants called Synthetics have been created to help busy families simplify their lives. When Joe Hawkins buys synth Anita, he hopes it will relieve the pressure on his wife, Laura.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A young and pretty maid-for-hire meets and begins dating a wealthy businessman. Embarrassed about taking him to her tiny apartment, she takes him to the home she cleans--not knowing it's really his place. He goes along with the deception until she discovers who he really is and seeks revenge.
14) The cleaner
Publisher
1091
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"House cleaner Buck Enderly finds himself becoming an accomplice to a violent crime when he must try to locate his client's estranged son."--
15) La nana
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Raquel has worked as a housemaid for an upper-class Santiago, Chile, family for 23 years. On Raquel's 41st birthday, Pilar Valdez and family force the sullen, withdrawn maid to emerge from her kitchen sanctum and join the family for a celebration, but her discomfort is as strong as the family's need to acknowledge their awkward dependence on her. Raquel becomes unable to care for the house alone and new help is hired, which throws her into a jealous...
16) Rambling Rose
Series
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
17) My man Godfrey
Publisher
Passion Productions
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
"A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler." --
18) The housemaid
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Korean
Description
Eun-yi's presence attracts the amorous attentions of Hoon, the master of the house, and he begins an affair with her. Igniting the jealousy of an older maid who knows many family secrets, Eun-yi quickly finds herself in the center of a familial power struggle.
19) An ordinary man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world--his maid." --
20) The little hours
Publisher
Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
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