The match
Bitter Moon
1992France★ 7.1subtitled
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
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Gone Girl, but for gender and power playing out
Nothing in the catalog nails this hook as hard as Gone Girl does, but the films below come honestly close.
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The Handmaiden
2016South Korea★ 8.2subtitled
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 steal her fortune.
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Anatomy of a Fall
2023France★ 7.5subtitled
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.