Ellen McHugh, a poor Irish immigrant to America, finds work in a carnival and is thus able to send her son Brian to a fine school. But when her position is found out, the school expels Brian. Mrs. McHugh feels compelled to allow the school principal and his wife to adopt Brian. The widow McHugh becomes a housekeeper and raises her employer's daughter Edith, who grows up to fall in love with Brian McHugh.
Efter hans datter bliver gift, kæmper en rig men ensom enkemand med at finde den perfekte kone med hjælp fra sin elskovssyge hushjælp.
When Fred Smith's wife dies in childbirth, Emma Thatcher, who has been nanny to the couple's three children, cares also for the family's new addition. Fred becomes rich and successful, then he and Emma marry. When Fred dies, his will becomes a source of trouble between the children and Emma.
Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks custody of the child. One day Mr. Brink, an agent of Death, arrives to take Gramps "to the land where the woodbine twineth." Through a bit of trickery, Gramps confines Mr. Brink, and thus Death, to the branches of a large apple tree, giving Gramps extra time to resolve issues about Pud's future.
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
Rebecca er baseret på Daphne du Mauriers roman af samme navn og handler om en ung pige (Joan Fontaine), der bliver gift med den stolte Lord Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) og flytter med ham til godset Manderley. Maxims afdøde kone Rebecca er dog stadig vældig meget til stede på det store gods, og den ny Lady de Winter har sit hyr med især tjenestefolkene, der forgudede Rebecca. Samtidig truer en mørk hemmelighed fra hendes mands fortid med at tilintetgøre dem begge. Filmen er forlængst blevet en klassiker og er et must i enhver seriøs samling.
When a much-despised matriarch is murdered, or apparently murdered, all of her relatives and "friends" fall under suspicion. Sheriff Gregory is the official investigator, but most of the clue gathering is done by amateur sleuths Kirk Pierce and Sally Ambler.
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast only to soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.
Under optagelserne af en film i Køge kommer Lise ved et uheld til at slå instruktøren Dan Burling ned. Da filmholdet rejser fra Køge opfordrer Dan Lise til at komme til byen. Da Lise dukker op i København tror hun, at hun er blevet tilbud en rolle i en film, mens Dan regnede med, at kunne få en ny husbestyrerinde. Lise bliver husbestyrerinde for Dan, og snart vokser hendes kærlighed for ham. Han på sin side har kun øjne for sig selv. I forbindelse med færdigørelsen af Dan's filmdrøm redder Dan scriptgirlen Irma fra at indebrande i klipperummet. I mellemtiden har Lise besluttet sig for at forlade København.
Oklahoma Badlands is a western film directed by Yakima Canutt in 1948. Oliver Budge is after the Rawlins ranch. His henchman Sanders kills Ken Rawlins but when he tries to kill Leslie Rawlins, Rocky Lane breaks it up. But Leslie is a woman and knowing the bad guys are looking for a man, Rocky now poses as Leslie, an Eastern dude, and goes after the man that killed his friend.
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook and housekeeper in his family's home while he was growing up.
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.
Set in 19th-century New York, this mystery begins when a Frenchwoman shows up at the home of one of Napoleon's former marshals. The alcoholic man is badly crippled and slowly dying, but this doesn't stop the forthright lady from pushing him to change his will to include his estranged grandson so that he can help out the struggling French Republic. Unfortunately, the dying man's conniving housekeeper and butler, already planning murder to get the money themselves, overhear her and begin plotting her demise.
Atter en Hitchcock-film, der handler om en uskyldig mand, der bliver anklaget for en forbrydelse, han ikke har begået. Montgomery Clift spiller den katolske præst Michael Logan, som hører en morders skriftemål, men snart selv bliver mistænkt for dennes forbrydelse. Præsten er i et dilemma, for hvis han skal rense sig selv, kan det blive nødvendigt for ham at afsløre den rigtige morder, og det vil være i alvorlig strid med hans aflagte tavshedsløfte.
A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.
Hr. Hulot er arbejdsløs og bruger det meste af dagen på at drive rundt, indtil han skal hente sin nevø og følge ham hjem. Nevøen bor hos sine forældre i et smart og højteknologisk hus, som den gammeldags Hulot bestemt ikke kommer godt ud af det med. Samtidig forsøger resten af familien at finde et job til den mærkværdige, sjove og uheldige dagdriver. Og det er ikke verdens nemmeste job.