A friend of mine is trying to find a movie they saw approximately 10 years ago.
The following is all the information they remember:
Film is in English, color, thriller, likely from the late 90s/early 2000’s
She watched it on TV, not in the theater, but isn’t sure if it was made for TV.
The film is about a nanny who takes on the child of a widower.
Throughout the film, the nanny sees a ghost woman (or what she thinks is a ghost woman) in the house, but in the end it’s revealed that the wife/mother is still alive and the husband has been keeping her trapped.
I told her it sounds like Jane Eyre, but she said it’s definitely not a period piece. I did some googling to try to find modern adaptations of Jane Eyre, and have come up empty handed. Hopefully someone here will be able to help. I think I might be more curious than she is at this point, lol
There was a description close to this posted on Reddit a day ago, but it was never answered but had a lot of guesses. Might have been your friend posting, but the difference is the description says babysitter rather than nanny. I’m posting it in case someone else was looking for it and perhaps one of the answers rings a bell. I have no idea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/1dnnh0p/tomt_a_movie_where_a_babysitter_looks_after_a/
This makes me think of “Voice from the Stone.” The mother isn’t physically alive, but she manifests and eventually takes over the nanny.