Avainsana Maid

Piiat on elokuva suvaitsevaisuudesta ja rohkeudesta 1960-luvun Mississipissä, missä valkoinen keskiluokka ja näiden kodeista ja lapsista huolehtiva musta palvelusväki elävät rinta rinnan kuitenkaan toisiaan kohtaamatta. Nuori Skeeter palaa opintojen jälkeen kotikaupunkiinsa ja alkaa kirjoittaa kirjaa palvelusväen oloista ja näkemyksistä. Monet eivät katso hanketta hyvällä, ja se johtaakin kaiken mullistavaan muutokseen.

Michael on palkittu kirjailija. Hän istuu yksin pimeässä hotellihuoneessa Pariisissa työstämässä uutta kirjaansa, kun paikalle saapuu rakastaja Anna. Julia on entinen saippuaoopperatähti, joka käy juristinsa Theresan avustamana oikeustaistelua poikansa yhteishuoltajuudesta entisen miehensä kanssa. Scott puolestaan on matkustanut Yhdysvalloista Roomaan hämärien bisnestensä perässä ja tapaa sattumalta kiehtovan Monikan. Third Person kertoo kolme tarinaa rakkaudesta, intohimosta, luottamuksesta ja petoksesta kolmen New Yorkissa, Pariisissa ja Roomassa asuvan pariskunnan kautta. Vaikka he ovat keskenään hyvin erilaisia, heitä yhdistävät kuitenkin kokemukset rakastajista ja vieraantuneista puolisoista sekä menetetyistä ja uudelleen löydetyistä lapsista.

Marisa Ventura on monien huolien parissa painiva yksinhuoltajaäiti, joka työskentelee manhattanilaisessa luksushotellissa unelmoiden paremmasta elämästä itselleen ja pojalleen. Eräänä kohtalokkaana päivänä hotellissa yöpyvä senaattorikandidaatti Christopher Marshall törmää Marisaan luullen tätä varakkaaksi seurapiirinaiseksi – ja yhteisen, hurmaavan illan päätteeksi he ovat umpirakastuneita toisiinsa. Mutta kun Marisan todellinen henkilöllisyys paljastuu, uhkaavat luokkaerot ja sosiaaliset taustatekijät tuhota kaiken. Onko kahden täysin eri maailmassa elävän ihmisen mahdollista unohtaa eroavaisuutensa ja elää onnellisina elämänsä loppuun asti?

Vangittuna parantolaan ja eristettynä muusta maailmasta tuottoisa Markiisi työstää irstaita tarinoitaan apurinaan kaunis ja viaton palvelustyttö Madeleine. Heidän yhteistyönsä paljastuminen johtaa julmaan ja kiihkeään taisteluun. Vastakkain ovat sananvapaus ja sensuuri.

Eletään vuotta 1665. Griet (Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation) on köyhän hollantilaisperheen 17-vuotias tyttö, joka isänsä sokeuduttua joutuu elättämään perhettä menemällä piiaksi taidemaalari Johannes Vermeerin (1632-1675) (Colin Firth, Rakkautta vain) taloon. Vähitellen kaunis Griet valloittaa itse mestarin mielenkiinnon. Hän herättää kuitenkin Vermeerin perheessä niin epäilyksiä kuin suoranaista mustasukkaisuuttakin. Myös taidemesenaatti Van Ruijven (Tom Wilkinson, Tahraton mieli) on iskenyt silmänsä tyttöön. Värikkäiden tapahtumien kautta Griet päätyy lopulta Vermeerin kuuluisimman maalauksen ”Tyttö ja turbaani” (1665-66) malliksi. Mestariteoksen hinta on kuitenkin kova - muutenkin kuin rahassa mitattuna. Elokuva perustuu Tracy Chevalierin samannimiseen romaaniin ja se oli Oscar® -ehdokkaana parhaasta kuvauksesta (Eduardo Serra), parhaasta lavastuksesta (Ben Van Os) ja parhaasta puvustuksesta (Dien Van Straalen).

Little Tall Islandissa pahasuinen Dolores Claiborne on poliisien kuulustelussa syytettynä rikkaan Vera Donovanin murhasta. Dolores kieltää kaiken ja kertoo oman näkemyksensä koko selkkauksesta ja siinä kehittyneestä suhteesta Veran kanssa. Lisäksi hän paljastaa asioita jo kauan saarelaisten puheenaiheena olleen Doloreksen miehen Joen kuolemasta, joka tapahtui täydellisen auringonpimennyksen aikaan.

Eristäytynyt herraskartano lumisella maaseudulla 1950-luvun Ranskassa. Perhe on kokoontunut loman viettoon... Mutta juhlaan ei ole aihetta, sillä heidän rakastettu patriarkkansa on murhattu!

Hitoyoshi, a high school kid who lives alone, hears a knock on his door. He opens it to find a strange girl offering to be his maid. She has beautiful black hair, graceful manners, and…a dark past as an assassin. But despite her deadly background and lack of household skills, Hitoyoshi takes her in. As she adjusts to her new life, she begins to experience emotions she’s never felt before.

Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!

Kobayashi lives alone in an apartment, until one day, Tohru appeared and they ended up living together. Tooru looks down on humans as inferior and foolish, but having been saved by Kobayashi-san, she does everything she can to repay the debt and help her with various things, although not everything goes according to plan. A mythical everyday life comedy about a hard working office lady living with a dragon girl.

Due to a childhood curse, anything that the Duke touches will die - which makes his flirty maid’s behavior all the more shocking! Can the Duke and his companions break the curse, or is he doomed to a life where love is forever out of his reach?

In 19th-century London, class lines are sharply drawn, and the social standing to which people are born dictates the path their lives will follow. Emma, an honest and hardworking young maid, never felt her place in life to be a burden. But then she met William, a member of the gentry and the eldest son of a wealthy family. His warm smile and earnest affection threaten to capture her heart... but can love truly conquer all?

The series centers on four Latina maids working in the homes of Beverly Hills’ wealthiest and most powerful families, and a newcomer who made it personal after a maid was murdered and determined to uncover the truth behind her demise, and in the process become an ally in their lives.

Hazel is an American sitcom about a fictional live-in maid named Hazel Burke and her employers, the Baxters. The five-season, 154-episode series aired in primetime from September 28, 1961 until April 11, 1966 and was produced by Screen Gems. The show aired on NBC for its first four seasons, and then on CBS for its final season. The first season, except for one color episode was in black and white, the remainder in color. The show was based on the popular single-panel comic strip by cartoonist Ted Key, which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.

Misaki Ayuzawa is the first female student council president at a once all-boys school turned co-ed. She rules the school with strict discipline demeanor. But she has a secret—she works at a maid cafe due to her families circumstances. One day the popular A-student and notorious heart breaker Takumi Usui finds out her secret and makes a deal with her to keep it hush from the school in exchange for spending some time with him.

There’s something really strange about the maid I just hired! No normal person could be so beautiful, or cook such amazingly delicious food, or know exactly what I want before I even ask. She must be using magic—right, a spell is the only thing that can explain why my chest feels so tight whenever I look at her. I swear, I’m going to get to the bottom of what makes this maid so...mysterious!

After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.

Like many hardworking members of the workforce, Kuroto Nakano is perpetually stressed out by his job. Still, since he lives alone, he must carry on to sustain himself. Little do humans like Kuroto know, this stress takes the form of darkness residing within a person's body and will bring one's life to ruin. Fox deities can see this darkness and have the duty to save people before it is too late. To help rid Kuroto of his stress, Senko-san, an eight hundred-year-old foxgirl, volunteers to take care of him, and will do everything she can to ease the tension in his weary soul.

In a world where most families own a cute maid robot, average elementary kid Bondo hopes for one of his own. But the robot who shows up is anything but average! Meet Roboco—the wackiest, most powerful maid imaginable!

Clumsy Hotori Arashiyama is a girl with a love for mysteries and a knack for getting into trouble. Hotori works as a waitress in an unsuccessful coffee shop when the manager comes up with a plan to increase its fortunes by changing into a maid cafe. Unfortunately, no one knows how to make a successful maid cafe other than dressing everyone in a maid outfit. What follows is a wacky series of incidents involving Hotori’s many friends, mismatched love stories… and ghosts and aliens.

Kim Ji-Woon was born to a lawmaker father and doctor mother. He then went on to work at a big company, but he quit his job and stopped talking to his parents. Kim Ji-Woon meets a woman and begins to work as a housekeeper at her home. While doing his job, he listens to his customer's worries and gives advice to help them solve their problems.

The Dong family of Jiangcheng is slaughtered overnight, and the family's daughter Dong Tingyao is forced to come to her fiancé Fang's house to seek help. In the Fang family, Dong Tingyao not only finds that her identity has been taken over, but also that the person she has to serve as a maid is Fang Tianyi, the famous Governor of Jiangcheng who killed her father. Dong Tingyao wants to take revenge, but she does not know that the culprit who brought the Dong family to its doom is her fiancé Fang Yuze who is Fang Tianyi's nephew. How can the young lady complete her revenge plan? How is she going to deal with the two men of Fang family? All the curtain thus unveiled.

After the loss of his mother, Chihiro is left alone. With no known family left, he has to find a way to move on. Things aren’t looking good until a chance encounter with the young and handsome Madoka—who turns out to be his wealthy uncle! Madoka offers him his home and all Chihiro has to do is clean up after the messy, irresponsible man. The problem? This job requires a uniform—a maid outfit!

Akihabara is the center of the universe for the coolest hobbies and quirkiest amusements. In the spring of 1999, bright-eyed Nagomi Wahira moves there with dreams of joining a maid café. She quickly dons an apron at café Ton Tokoton, AKA the Pig Hut. But adjusting to life in bustling Akihabara isn't as easy as serving tea and delighting customers. Paired with the dour Ranko who never seems to smile, Nagomi must do her best to elevate the Pig Hut over all other maid cafés vying for top ranking. Along the way she'll slice out a place for herself amid the frills and thrills of life at the Pig Hut. Just when Nagomi's dreams are within her grasp, she discovers not everything is as it seems amid the maid cafés of Akihabara.

The future, probably Japan. Robots have long been put into practical use, and androids have just come into use. Influenced by the Robot Ethics Committee, it's become common sense for people to treat androids like household appliances. Their appearance – indistinguishable from humans except for the ring over each android's head – has led some people to empathize unnecessarily with androids. Known as "android-holics", such people have become a social problem. Rikuo, a high school student, has been taught from childhood that androids are not to be viewed as humans, and has always used them as convenient tools. One day, Rikuo discovers some strange data in the behavior records of his family's household android, Sammy. Rikuo and his friend Masaki trace Sammy's movements, only to discover a mysterious café that features a house rule that "humans and robots are to be treated the same".

In Victorian London, feisty heroine Hetty Feather is trapped in the Foundling Hospital, the strict institution ruled over by the formidable Matron Bottomley. Aided by friends and thwarted by enemies, Hetty battles to win her freedom and finally find her real mother. Based on the book by Jacqueline Wilson.

22-year-old Maria was on her way to becoming a beautician when a family crisis forced her to take a new path, and she now finds herself employed as the maid for the extremely wealthy Ridgeway family. As one of many servants who dote on the demented and dysfunctional family, Maria discovers there's not only a class struggle between the upstairs and the downstairs, but there's an all out war among "The Help."