

A woman wakes with a start in a few scenes. A woman seems frightened by a man in a park and later in a hardware store. A husband quizzes his wife about where she was when she was supposed to have picked up their son from school.

A woman describes having been in a German camp for 2 years during WWII and that she and her younger sister were taken there because they were Roma. A woman describes remembering a man raping her. ► A woman describes being attacked by several German soldiers that shot several of the people in her group, and did “horrible things” to the women. A young boy sees his mother with blood on her hands and he seems frightened and pulls away from her. A sheriff and two people come to a house where a man is held in the basement and the scene is tense. A woman yells at a man and tells him, “You will never see your family again.” A woman describes what a man did to her when he and others attacked her group.

A husband yells at his wife about torturing a man. A woman tells her husband that she has a man in the trunk of her car and she says, “We have to kill him” they then carry him to the basement where they tie him to a chair. A woman tells a man she has kidnapped, “You will die here,” and, “I will kill you.” A husband and his wife argue and the man slaps the woman in the face. ► A woman questions a man tied into a chair: she pours liquor into his mouth and he gags and spits, she tells him to repeat a German term that we understand is an insult and when he does not say the words she slaps him in the face a couple of times. A man shoots at a woman and the bullets ricochet around the room grazing the woman on the forehead (we see blood). A man tries to tie another man into a chair and the second man hits him in the back of the head, kicks him and runs upstairs, slams through a door knocking out a woman on the other side and tries to get out the front door that is locked when the other man slams him into the wall, knocking him out. A woman holds a cutting device to a man’s finger and cuts his finger off as the man yells (we see the bloody stump left on his hand, blood pooled on the floor and the woman’s hands are covered with blood). Several flashbacks show varying details about an attack on a group of people where soldiers shoot several people (we see a bit of blood spray), drag other people away, rape several women and pile bodies on top of each other. A woman opens the trunk of her car, pulls an unconscious man out of the trunk and pushes him into a hole in the ground, she points a gun at him several times, he pleads with her and she does not shoot him. ► A woman asks a man to help her with her car on the side of the road: when he comes around to the trunk, she hits him on the head with a hammer knocking him unconscious (we see blood on his head later and through the rest of the movie) she puts him into the trunk of the car and later ties his hands and gags him. – A man is shot several times and blood sprays as he falls to the ground and he is covered with dirt. A few lines of dialogue are spoken in German without translation. Also with Amy Seimetz, Jackson Dean Vincent, Madison Paige Jones, Jeff Pope, David Maldonado and Ed Amatrudo. Set after World War II, a survivor of a German camp (Noomi Rapace), now living the American dream in the suburbs with her husband (Chris Messina), becomes convinced that a neighbor (Joel Kinnaman) is the same man that participated in an attack on her and her younger sister at the end of the war. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

Why is “The Secrets We Keep” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong violence, rape, some nudity, language and brief sexuality.” The evaluation includes several flashbacks to a rape, an interrupted sex scene with partial nudity, and a couple of kissing scenes several flashbacks to a group of people being attacked with several being shot and others being raped, a kidnapping and torture with some bloody wounds from a gunshot, a severed finger, and a blow to the head with a hammer and several arguments, and some strong language.
