Fair Play vs The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.3/10 for Fair Play). Fair Play is the shorter watch at 1h 53m compared with 2h 25m. The Handmaiden is the older of the two (2016 against 2023). Both are drama, romance, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fair Play posterFair Play2023 VS The Handmaiden posterThe Handmaiden2016
Fair PlayThe Handmaiden
Audience score★ 6.3/10★ 8.2/10
Year20232016
Length1h 53m2h 25m
GenresDrama, Romance, ThrillerDrama, Romance, Thriller
Country––
DirectorChloe DomontPark Chan-wook
Main castRich Sommer, Eddie Marsan, Patrick Fischler, Geraldine Somerville, Alden EhrenreichKim Tae-ri, Lee Dong-hwi, Cho Jin-woong, Lee Yong-nyeo, Ha Jung-woo

Synopsis

Fair Play

An unexpected promotion at a cutthroat hedge fund pushes a young couple's relationship to the brink, threatening to unravel not only their recent engagement but their lives.

The Handmaiden

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed…

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