Overview
A chilling exploration of surveillance and guilt that will keep you guessing until the end.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- foreboding
- paranoid
- oppressive
- late night viewing
- serious film discussion
What critics said
Critics broadly acclaimed Haneke’s creepy, politically charged psychological thriller for its sustained tension, formal precision, and exploration of guilt, repression, and collective responsibility.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Georges’s concealed childhood history and France’s relationship to Algerian violence shape the family’s crisis.
Anonymous videotapes and child-like drawings invade the Laurent household, while the film resists identifying a single clear culprit.
The fixed shots of the Laurent home and streets can be mistaken for diegetic videotapes, collapsing the distinction between cinematic viewpoint and surveillance.
Georges and Anne’s successful media-and-publishing household is gradually destabilized by secrets Georges refuses to confront.
Films like Caché, and why
Lost Highway
shared psychological paranoia, withheld explanations, domestic unease, and morally ambiguous suspense
The Conversation
shared surveillance anxiety, bourgeois guilt, open-ended mystery, and politically charged repression
The White Ribbon
shared slow-building dread, suppressed memory, social responsibility, and unsettling ambiguity
The Night of the 12th
shared French psychological suspense, fractured trust, and intimate domestic menace
Movie Details
- Director
- Michael Haneke
- Release Date
- 2005-10-05
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 (1311)
Cast
- Daniel Auteuil
- Juliette Binoche
- Annie Girardot
- Bernard Le Coq
- Daniel Duval
- Maurice Bénichou
- Walid Afkir
- Lester Makedonsky
- Nathalie Richard
- Denis Podalydès
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Philo, Sundance Now, Fandor Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Caché about?
- An affluent French couple’s ordered life fractures when anonymous videotapes expose the buried guilt behind their family’s security.
- What is Caché like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Caché as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Caché violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Caché as moderate.
- What did critics think of Caché?
- Critics broadly acclaimed Haneke’s creepy, politically charged psychological thriller for its sustained tension, formal precision, and exploration of guilt, repression, and collective responsibility.
- Which films are like Caché?
- Films with a similar feel include Lost Highway, The Conversation, The White Ribbon, and The Night of the 12th.
- How long is Caché?
- Caché runs 118 minutes.
- Where can I watch Caché?
- In United States, Caché streams on Philo, Sundance Now, Fandor Amazon Channel.
