Parents Guide for
The Mission (1986) More at IMDbPro »

PG for Sequences of Violence/Swordplay, thematic material, and brief nudity.

We see various shots of full-frontal (female, nearly so for male, except once scene with a very young boy) and rear nudity of amerindian Guaraní people, both children and adults throughout the film, but it's never presented in a sexual manner and is portrayed in a naturalistic manner.

There is a scene of a man and woman in bed, and we see them both covered from the chest-up with a sheet, followed by scenes with them in various states of undress, implying sexuality.

In the opening, scene, a priest is martyred on a cross (the actually torture/murder is offscreen), which is then sent over a gigantic waterfall.

A man is shot in the back as he runs away from a slaver that's pursuing him. We see a large dark spot on his back.

The Guaraní chief snaps Father Gabriel's clarinet in two out of anger.

A man is stabbed to death in a duel and we see some blood as a woman screams in anguish.

A pig is killed off-screen. (We see spear thrusts and squeals.)

One scene contains several minutes of shooting with firearms and arrows although very little blood is seen, by the end, a village is seen burning to the ground. We do see many people hurt or killed--including a priest in liturgical dress

Throughout the film, there are threats of violence and very physical interactions (such as a man forced to show his bare back where scars from whippings are visible, or men tied together in a gang as they are led to market).

No vulgarity or obscenity, but there is a lot of yelling (esp. the character of Don Cabeza), and at one point he says "the work of the mission [church] is the work of the devil" (which is, literally, profane).

There is some mild cigar smoking, nothing major.

This film is intense in places, such as when we watch slaver hunting his prey, with people hiding and trying to escape, or when a man is confronted by someone that he harmed (holding a knife), and there are many verbal altercations with both romantic and political dimensions.

Many people are killed in one confrontation, including women, children, and priests--which may be disturbing to some.