Common Sense Note

Parents need to know that In Secret is a period drama with lots of steamy sex scenes, though there's no explicit nudity. The movie is light on joy and has a fair serving of intense scenes with couples fighting loudly, and sometimes physically. A man is drowned by another and several characters attempt suicide. The material is fairly mature, and tackles such subjects as infidelity, exploitation, and murder.

Sexual Content

A fair amount of steamy sex scenes showing a couple in various compromising positions. Though we don't see any genitals, there are glimpses of a woman's breast from the side.

Violence

A man drowns another and it's a knockdown fight that might be hard to watch for sensitive viewers. A husband manhandles his wife in one of many arguments. A woman nearly drowns and two people attempt suicide. A corpse is shown at the morgue in a state of decay.

Language

Not applicable

Social Behavior

On the positive side, the movie shows the downside of the oppression of women in days past, as well as the importance of love and passion in people's lives. On the other hand, the movie dwells on how passion can turn to desperation and mixes sexuality and murder in a disturbing way.

Consumerism

Not applicable

Drugs / Tobacco / Alcohol

Some drinking, mostly in social situations. One scene shows an inebriated couple arguing.