The Housemaid
2016 1h 45m movie Film Vietnam

The Housemaid

Cô Hầu Gái

Synopsis

Cô Hầu Gái

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.

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Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on The Housemaid, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • indochina · 4
  • housemaid · 4
  • landowner · 2
  • plantation · 1
  • army captain · 1
Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • orphan · 27
  • 1950s · 15
  • vengeful ghost · 13

Reception Benchmarks

6.3
TMDB Rating
28
Audience Reviews
Well Received
Critical Tier

Ranked #18 of 24 Vietnam films indexed here (25th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Among Vietnam Romance productions specifically: #4 of 5 (top 80%).

Production Details

Primary CountryVietnam
Original LanguageVietnamese
Spoken LanguagesEnglish, Vietnamese
Production CompaniesCJ Entertainment, HK Film Corporation
Runtime1h 45m
Release DateSeptember 16, 2016
IMDbtt5860084