Parents Guide for
Apocalypse Now (1979) More at IMDbPro »

Scenes from the Redux version are in italics:

Several men are briefly seen nude from behind.

A dead men is shown nude. Full frontal, although his genital area is obscured. This is brief and shown in a non-sexual sense.

There is an extended scene of men dressing up topless women.

A woman is shown nude from the waist up as she closes the curtains to the main character's bed.

A man takes a woman's clothes off and her breasts are shown. A woman moans deeply, implying that she is having sex and we can see her breasts clearly.

A man kisses the breast of a woman shown on a poster.

Some intense war violence throughout

Soldiers kill civilians.

A real water buffalo is shown being slaughtered.

A man is beheaded off-screen but we see his head after it is removed. Brief.

100 f-words -- 20 used with "mother" (used 126 times on the Redux version), 36 s-words, c-nt is used several times, 3 uses each of words referring to the male genitals ("pr-ck" and "c-ck"), 20 a-words (6 used with "hole"), 9 uses of hell, 6 uses of damn, 2 S.O.B.s, 15 uses of goddamn, 5 uses of "Jesus", and 1 use of "God", "My God", "Oh my God", "Jesus Christ", and "Holy Christ" as religious exclamations.

Total: 234

A soldier uses LSD and some of his visual hallucinations are shown. Marijuana is smoked. Cigarettes are smoked consistently throughout the movie. Alcohol is used both abusively and socially throughout the movie. Redux version: A couple smoke an opium pipe while lying in bed.

The combat scenes may be intense to some.



A \ water buffalo being slaughtered may be disturbing to watch.