Female Perversions vs The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 5/10 for Female Perversions). Female Perversions is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 25m. Female Perversions is the older of the two (1997 against 2016). Both are drama, romance, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Female Perversions posterFemale Perversions1997 VS The Handmaiden posterThe Handmaiden2016
Female PerversionsThe Handmaiden
Audience score★ 5.0/10★ 8.2/10
Year19972016
Length1h 55m2h 25m
GenresDrama, Romance, ThrillerDrama, Romance, Thriller
CountryGermany–
DirectorSusan StreitfeldPark Chan-wook
Main castFrances Fisher, Clancy Brown, Amy Madigan, Tilda Swinton, John CassiniKim Tae-ri, Lee Dong-hwi, Cho Jin-woong, Lee Yong-nyeo, Ha Jung-woo

Synopsis

Female Perversions

Eve Stephens, a beautiful and sexy high-powered attorney, is up for appointment as a judge. But below her veneer of self-confidence lies a darker side, one in which she is driven by bizarre visions and sexual fantasies. After a series of events, including rescuing her sister Madelyn after her arrest for shoplifting, being rejected by her lover John during a surprise visit, and finally, meeting with the Governor regarding her judicial…

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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