does anyone know the film I'm thinking of - there's a young woman who moves in to be an au pair or something like that to a rich family and then befriends another girl in the village(?) and then it ends up they kill the dad and maybe the whole family with a hammer or something. lol
I think it's French
aha! it's this https://letterboxd.com/film/la-ceremonie/ what a fab film. need to nab a bluray copy
La Cérémonie (1995)

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.