These films contain excessive graphic violence, intense or explicit sex, depraved, abhorrent behavior, explicit drug abuse, strong language, explicit nudity, or any other elements which, at present, most parents would consider too strong and therefore off-limits for viewing by their children and teens. NC-17 does not necessarily mean obscene or pornographic in the oft-accepted or legal meaning of those words.
**Victorian poetic justice**
Inspired by the anonymous Victorian erotic novel "The Way of a Man with a Maid" (1908), the plot unfolds in 19th-century London, where Jack (Beerbohm Tree), a distinguished professor, conceals a secret room in the basement of his building, equipped with ingenious restraints designed to subject women to various bondage practices. His first victim is Alice (Susan Sloa...
