A nobleman with a literary flair the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
2000 | 2 h 4 min
Director: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix
