Parents Guide for
Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (1975) More at IMDbPro »

The subject of the film includes many sexual acts and torture. Every sexual act imaginable is shown directly at one time or another, but usually without showing direct sexual contact.

-There are many graphic sex scenes. These few examples are representative of the types of scenes frequently seen in the film. A man mounts another man in a dark room; we see them waist-up; one of them thrusts violently; they both fall to the ground, and the man continue to thrust as his buttocks is exposed; they both climax and stand up to kiss briefly. We see two women in bed passionately kissing; we see their hips and backs as the kiss. A man is on top of a woman thrusting, we see the man's buttocks both of their hips, backs, legs and side of the breast.

-There are several rapes, some are obscured by objects hiding the act, other scenes are very explicit.

-The movie contains much full frontal nudity of both men and women including lingering close-up shots.

-Several scenes include masturbation. We see many people caressing their usually-covered genitalia, sometimes they're not covered as they do so.

A women is told by a man to urinate on him, this is shown graphically.

All the men and women prisoners are forced to wear dog collars and behave like dogs full frontally nude.

There is no swearing in this film

Several characters smoke throughout the film.

The main theme of the film is torture. It also contains many different sadistic sexual acts including very violent scenes of torture and execution of young people. Some of this torture is watched through a window with only somber music for sound. Some torture scenes are from the point of view of a voyeuristic character.