The Handmaid's Tale
1990 · 1h 48m · Drama, Science Fiction · Germany, United States of America · Rated R (US)
A haunting tale of sexuality in a country gone wrong.
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
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based on novel or bookcanadadystopiaescapefeministfutureimpregnationmisogynyparanoiapolitical unrestraperebellionreligious fundamentalismsexismslaverysurrogate mothertheocracytotalitarianism
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