Secretary
Directed by Steven ShainbergA timid young woman starts working for a demanding lawyer and finds a new way to deal with her self-harming urges.
Secretary Ratings & Reviews
- Timeless Cinema1 day agoStrange, erotic, eccentric, dramatic, and absolutely fascinating. What makes it so compelling is how unique the characters are, and unraveling their motives delivers a lot to the experience. Be prepared for something quite different.
- mia1 May 2025Perfect — reminds people that love doesn’t alway have to be about other peoples ideals and can be rough, exciting, and odd if wanted. “Who’s to say that love has to be soft and gentle?”
- 2xx8810 June 2025i love james spader and this movie is good BUT i feel like the girl should’ve slapped him more
- wwfhh18 October 2025I love this movie
- AndreiTamas8 March 2026what the shit. but good
- zargaretdannon23 February 2026Raw, beautiful, emotional, and enticing.
- 44x67527 July 2025I don’t even know what to say. Beginning and ending was immaculate. I don’t understand the meaning of each symbol that was shown, either was a symbol or not intended to, everything is. Gosh
- jimdotson17820 November 2025Terrible ending !
- Neelli13 July 2025I guess that's what love is like.
- Derrick Ray Farmer15 August 2025Decent movie not all that but the secretary is hot
- Leonard RichardsonJr16 February 2025Because I said so 🤣
- M08Y8 January 2026Look- It's better than 50 Shades. While clumsy and awkward at times, Secretary manages to avoid the cringe factor of the 50 shades series. There's no millionaires, no lavish parties, no flash cars and no ego to be found here. This strange low-budget exploration of kink manages to feel very honest with itself. James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal turn in great performances and actually seem to have real chemistry together. Gyllenhaal really pulls it out of the bag with a captivating performance as Lee Holloway. It's hard to portray genuine naivety but it works so very well. The audio and visuals are nothing to write home about. Genuinely nothing of note.
- Gregory8 February 2025This have aged better then I would have expected.
- Brian Brophy9 January 2026Weird storyline very slow movie to those comparing it to 50 SOG should really open their horizons. Just bc a movie had a very soft Dom at times doesn’t compare, not even close. You wanna watch something along those lines with a much better story line I suggest the 365 Days. There is 3 of them so be sure to watch in order, you’re welcome
- Ben Henderson2 February 2025A great movie. Maggie Gyllenhall was brilliant, so too was James Spader. For all thé crassness of film's potential, the theme was handled with all the skill that made it a memorable movie.
Secretary Trivia
Secretary was released on 15 June 2002.
Secretary was directed by Steven Shainberg.
Secretary has a runtime of 1h 51m.
Secretary was produced by Amy Hobby, Steven Shainberg, Andrew Fierberg.
A timid young woman starts working for a demanding lawyer and finds a new way to deal with her self-harming urges.
The key characters in Secretary are Mr. Grey (James Spader), Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Peter (Jeremy Davies).
Secretary is rated 18.
Secretary is a Drama, Comedy, Romance film.
Secretary has an audience rating of 8.2 out of 10.
Secretary had a budget of US$4M.
Secretary has made US$9.3M at the box office.