Yes it's Franco again with more de Sadean hijinks. This time interpreting the novel Justine, Or The Misfortunes of Virtue. The Marquis de Sade himself makes an appearance in the film - played by Klaus ...

Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely ...

Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade and Kate Winslet as laundress Madeleine ‘Maddie’ LeClerc in Philip Kaufman’s ‘Quills’ in 2000 (David Appleby/Fox ...

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Two centuries after his death, the descendants of the notorious Marquis de Sade have finally embraced their once-reviled relative. The French aristocrat scandalised his contemporaries with his erotic ...

The reputation of the Marquis de Sade, whose name has become a symbol of sexual cruelty, has in the 20th Century reached an extraordinary height. Exemplar of the aristocratic libertinage of late 18th ...

'IN order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice' — or so said Marquis de Sade, the 18th century French aristocrat and writer, remembered more for his scandalous lifestyle than his ...