Alias Grace and 3 Other Movies and TV Series Like the Handmaid's Tale
A show based on a true story, a feminist horror, and one of the most important sci-fi series of the 2010s.
Men who forbid women almost everything, morality police, and torture for any offense – the inhabitants of the fictional Republic of Gilead know it firsthand.
The Handmaid's Tale is one of the most terrifying modern dystopian series. We have chosen similar stories in honor of the release of the final season.
1. Alias Grace, 2017
A costume drama based on the book by Margaret Atwood, who wrote The Handmaid's Tale. The series is based on a true story that happened in the Victorian era.
Young Grace Marks comes from Ireland to the US to earn money and gets a job as a servant on an old man's farm. The farm owner and the housekeeper are murdered, and Marks and another servant are found guilty.
The woman ends up in a mental hospital and then in prison for life. According to her own words, she remembers nothing of the moment of the murder. Almost fifteen years later, a young psychiatrist visits Grace to help her recover her memory.
2. The Other Lamb, 2019
A feminist horror about violence in a very closed, isolated society – and the women who suffer from it.
Young Selah has lived in an abandoned forest hut since childhood. Her mother died in childbirth. The girl is surrounded by other women who obey only one man – a pastor. He divides the novices into "sisters" and "wives." Over time, the girls move from one category to the other. Soon Selah must become a "wife," and the pastor pays special attention to her.
3. The Leftovers, 2014-2017
Social sci-fi from the author of Lost. In the recent past 140 million people, about two percent of the population, suddenly disappeared from planet Earth. Where they went is unclear.
Those who remained prefer to believe that they ascended to heaven. Kevin, the sheriff of a small provincial town, separates from his wife. She joins a religious cult after their unborn child disappears from her womb.
Kevin and several other locals decide to move to another town. Rumor has it that this is a special place where no one ever disappears. But it is difficult to get there: almost no people from the outside world are accepted there.
4. Maid, 2021
Alex works as a waitress, but she is sure it will not be forever. She enrolls in college to study creative writing, but an unexpected pregnancy changes her plans. Alex's boyfriend Sean insists on an abortion, but she decides otherwise.
A few years later, she lives in an unhappy marriage with Sean, an alcoholic and abusive man. They have no home of their own and no money to raise their daughter. Alex no longer thinks about a writing career.
But after another scandal involving broken dishes and threats, she takes the child and flees the tyrant into total obscurity. To support her daughter, Alex gets a job at a cleaning service.