Sydney Sweeney Made 13 R-Rated Movies: Housemaid, Immaculate and Which Is Best?

A career shaped by adult roles

Sweeney has continued to take on mature material as her fame has grown, even after appearing in the Marvel film Madame Web. Her work in Euphoria and The White Lotus helped establish her in stories aimed at adult audiences.

The Housemaid’s Secret is among several upcoming projects expected to receive R ratings. Other titles named are Hollow!, Edgar Wright’s Barbarella and David Bruckner’s The Caretaker. The article counts 13 movies with official R ratings. Nocturne, Clementine, Along Came the Devil and Dead Ant are excluded because they missed standard theatrical classification, though they likely would have received R ratings.

Early appearances and horror

Sweeney made her screen debut at age 11 in Kevin Hamedani’s low-budget zombie movie ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction. She played Lisa, a child victim, in a brief appearance; she later told Jimmy Fallon she was excited to be in the film but had never watched it.

The 2010 horror movie The Ward features Sweeney briefly as a younger version of a killer. Set in a psychiatric ward in the 1960s, the story follows a patient threatened by the ghost of another murdered patient.

The film has some effective shocks and a twist, but the article judges it formulaic. Its central reveal had also appeared in James Mangold’s Identity seven years earlier.

Later films and mixed results

In Echo Valley, Sweeney plays the troubled daughter of a character portrayed by Julianne Moore. She arrives at her mother’s home covered in another person’s blood, setting off a violent thriller that also features Domhnall Gleeson, Fiona Shaw and Kyle MacLachlan.

The film’s R rating is attributed mainly to strong language and drug use. Moore’s performance as a mother pushed to consider what she will do for her daughter is a bright spot, while Sweeney brings unsettled energy to a character with a concealed side.

Sweeney also has a small role in Under the Silver Lake, a surreal David Robert Mitchell film starring Andrew Garfield. She appears as an escort during his character’s search for answers about disappearances, murders and an underground culture.