Love Lies Bleeding vs The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 6.6/10 for Love Lies Bleeding). Love Lies Bleeding is the shorter watch at 1h 44m compared with 2h 25m. The Handmaiden is the older of the two (2016 against 2024). Both are drama, romance, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Love Lies Bleeding posterLove Lies Bleeding2024 VS The Handmaiden posterThe Handmaiden2016
Love Lies BleedingThe Handmaiden
Audience score★ 6.6/10★ 8.2/10
Year20242016
Length1h 44m2h 25m
GenresCrime, Drama, Romance, ThrillerDrama, Romance, Thriller
Country––
DirectorRose GlassPark Chan-wook
Main castJena Malone, Ed Harris, Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Dave FrancoKim Tae-ri, Lee Dong-hwi, Cho Jin-woong, Lee Yong-nyeo, Ha Jung-woo

Synopsis

Love Lies Bleeding

Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

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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