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Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler, Ronald Lacey, and Terry Richards in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Parents guide

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Content rating

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Mild
  • Violence & Gore:
    Moderate
  • Profanity:
    Mild
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Mild
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Moderate

Sex & Nudity

Mild
250 of 404 found this mild
Kissing between main characters, but no sex to be seen.
When Marion takes off her bra to get changed, her back is shown in a mirror. No nudity.
Antagonist's bottoms are briefly seen in the opening as Indy runs away on screen for about ten seconds.
Marians underwear is seen briefly when she gets lowered into a pit.
22 minutes in, A painting is seen in the background of a scene of many women with breasts showing.

Violence & Gore

Moderate
202 of 373 found this moderate
Indy has a brief fight with a man under a plane. The mans body is chopped in half by the propellers and blood is seen.
Two men engage in a brutal fight inside a truck, one is throwing through the windshield, but he manages to climb back inside and throws the other man through the windshield, running him over with the truck offscreen.
Indy beats up a man offscreen, and steals his clothes.
Snakes are seen going through skeletons
This movie contains a few gunshots and explosions.
Near the end of the movie, flames, and bolts of energy kill Belloq, Toht, including the Nazis.
As Indiana Jones is being entertained by a swordsman showing his sword moves in likely to attack him, he pulls out his gun and shoots him once as he drops his sword and lays dead on the ground with everyone in front of him watching.
Indy has a dual fist fight against a shirtless man, Marion goes in the ground aircraft and opens fires to attack the soldiers, some explosions are seen, as some soldiers are knocked to the ground from the gunshot impacts.
A man is skewered by a booby trap; we see his bloody remains in a "jump moment". There are spears going through his head, and his body. It is slightly graphic, and fairly bloody, but we see it for about a second.
A man's body is revealed to have many poison darts in its back. His shirt has bloodstains around the wounds. Bloody.

Profanity

Mild
216 of 296 found this mild
A few uses each of "Damn", "God", "Goddamn", and "Hell." One use each of "Bastard" "Son of a bitch" "Christ" and "Jesus." One use of "Shit".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
182 of 246 found this mild
Marion and Belloq down several shots of liquor and become very drunk.
Marion owns a bar, we are first introduced to her when she has a shot competition.
A man is seen smoking pipe. Very short scene.
Indy is seen drinking a glass of whisky after a sword fight.
Marion and a man are seen drinking loads of glasses of whiskey.
Indy is shown drinking in a bar with the monkey. Men in an Egyptian bar are seen smoking hookahs. Karen is shown smoking once and drinking in two other situations. A Nazi is shown smoking, where after he throws the cigarette in a pipe on a ship.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Moderate
181 of 291 found this moderate
A snake slithers through a skeletons mouth.
Indy falls into a pit of snakes. Anyone with a phobia of snakes can find this scary.
Two men enter a cave and find some big, tarantula-like spiders on one of their shoulders. In a few seconds it turns out one of them is completely covered in them. They get rid of them easily and no-one is hurt, but this scene can be pretty intense to those with arachnophobia.
In Marion's bar, Toht orders her seized and approaches her with a red-hot poker to torture for the artifact he wants. For a few baited seconds, Toht is in a closeup relishing the agony is about to inflict, until the poker is suddenly ripped away by Indiana Jones with his bullwhip.
A man's hand is burned lightly after touching a piece of warm metal (relic). The aftermath of his hand is shown later.
A man is sliced by a planes blades; it is offscreen but blood splatters on the windshield.
Moderate/Severe for neurodivergent viewers.
Probably the most emphasized scene is the criminal archaeologists opening the box, and the ghosts/spirits show up and their faces melt off.
The fist fight between Indiana Jones and a shirtless boxer man is very intense.
The first scene is fairly frightening and intense, where Indy finds a man with spears through his body and runs from a moving boulder, among other things.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 13
  • Australia
    • NRCoriginal rating
    • M2000, re-rating
    • PG1984, re-rating
  • Brazil
    • Livreoriginal rating
    • 142020, re-rating
    • Livre1999, TV, video
  • Bulgaria
    • B
  • Canada
    • PGAlberta, British Columbia, Ontario
    • 14ACanadian Home Video rating
    • PAManitoba
    • ANova Scotia
    • 13+original rating, Québec
    • RSaskatchewan
    • G2003, Québec, Déconseillé aux jeunes enfants
  • Chile
    • 14
  • Colombia
    • 12
  • Czech Republic
    • U
  • Denmark
    • 15
  • Egypt
    • 12+
  • Finland
    • K-12
    • K-112008
    • K-161981
  • France
    • Tous publics
  • Germany
    • 12
  • Greece
    • K-8
  • Hong Kong
    • II
    • IIAre-rating
  • Hungary
    • 12
  • Iceland
    • 12
  • India
    • ABombay
    • UATV
    • Urecommended rating
  • Ireland
    • PG
  • Israel
    • PG
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • G2013
  • Malaysia
    • U
  • Maldives
    • 12+
  • Malta
    • PG
  • Mexico
    • A
  • Netherlands
    • 12DVD rating
  • New Zealand
    • PG
  • Nigeria
    • G
  • Norway
    • 15DVD and Blu-ray rating
    • 7Streaming rating
    • 16cinema rating
  • Peru
    • 14
  • Philippines
    • G
  • Poland
    • 12self-applied

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