Fifty Shades of Grey vs The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 5.9/10 for Fifty Shades of Grey). Fifty Shades of Grey is the shorter watch at 2h 5m compared with 2h 25m. Fifty Shades of Grey is the older of the two (2015 against 2016). Both are drama, romance, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Fifty Shades of Grey posterFifty Shades of Grey2015 VS The Handmaiden posterThe Handmaiden2016
Fifty Shades of GreyThe Handmaiden
Audience score★ 5.9/10★ 8.2/10
Year20152016
Length2h 5m2h 25m
GenresDrama, Romance, ThrillerDrama, Romance, Thriller
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorSam Taylor-JohnsonPark Chan-wook
Main castCallum Keith Rennie, Eloise Mumford, Luke Grimes, Rachel Skarsten, Marcia Gay HardenKim Tae-ri, Lee Dong-hwi, Cho Jin-woong, Lee Yong-nyeo, Ha Jung-woo

Synopsis

Fifty Shades of Grey

When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of…

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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