Parents Guide for
The English Patient (1996) More at IMDbPro »

7/10

Some kisses throughout the movie.

A woman strips down to her underwear. No nudity.

A woman takes a shower in the nature. Only her back and shoulders are seen.

A man and a woman are in a bathtub together. The woman is fully nude but the man is only shown from the waist up.

A clothed sex scene. It does not contain intercourse.

A woman and a man are seen in bed. The man is dressed, but the woman is naked. Her bare back, shoulders and breasts are exposed.

6/10

At the beginning of the film, a man is shown with all his skin burnt off. Very graphic. For the rest of the film he is disfigured and scarred all over.

Disturbing images of injured and dead bodies.

War scenes with explosions, shooting.

A car explodes. A mans dead body is seen.

Men are searching for mines throughout the movie. These scenes are usually quite intense.

A car accident in the desert. Characters are mildly wounded.

A man has two of his fingers cut off with a knife in a torture scene. He creams and blood spills out. Although the scene is not excessively gory or graphic, it is quite intense and disturbing.

A man is killed by a mine. Another one is slightly wounded. He is seen covered with blood. The actual explosion takes place off-screen.

A plan crashes. A man is killed and a woman wounded (she dies later). Some blood.

A man is hit on the back of his head. He falls unconscious. A man brutally punches another than strangles him with a pair of handcuffs.

6/10

5 uses of fuck, mainly and an expletive, twice sexually.

Other profanities as ass, hell, religious exclamations.

7/10

Crude morphine use

A man is addicted to morphine and is seen shooting up several times.

A man implores a nurse to end his life with a morphine overdose and she reluctantly complies.

Pilots drink champagne.

People drink cocktails and champagne in a bar.

A man turns up drunk at a dinner while others there are drinking champagne.

People and soldiers drink after hearing that the Germans have surrendered.

Some smoking.

6/10

Although there are a number of disturbing and intense scenes, the general tone of the film is not violent or scary.