Movies Like The Handmaiden
If you liked The Handmaiden (2016), a thriller and drama movie directed by Park Chan-wook, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Untold Scandal (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceIn late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.
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Original Sin (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and dramaA young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
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Unfaithful (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and dramaA New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Below Her Mouth (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceAn unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
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The Duke of Burgundy (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceDay in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more…
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Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceBelieving they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he…
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White Night (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and thrillerA pawnbroker is found murdered in a remote town in a derelict building. Three people come under suspicion but all of them have perfect alibis and the investigation comes to a standstill. Almost fifteen years pass and…
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The Isle (2000)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and thrillerMute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from…
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Crimes of Passion (1984)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerFashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceIn this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious…
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Intimacy (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and dramaFailed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows…
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Mandingo (1975)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and dramaWarren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he…
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Crash (1996)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and dramaA car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
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Asylum (2005)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thrillerA woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
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Miss Baek (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and thrillerA woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic violence and decides to save…
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Happy End (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceWhen a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.
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Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thrillerA chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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The Honorary Consul (1983)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and romanceSet in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people…
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Obsessed (2014)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceA secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.
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The Devil's Double (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thrillerA chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.