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Sex & Nudity

A woman pretends to be dead in the back of a hearse whilst completely naked (We see full frontal nudity) as two men examines her. She then grabs the crotch of one man, who climbs into the back as the other drives off (It is heavily implied that they have sex).

A woman kisses a man in the back of a car; the man then grabs her and begins to kiss her roughly before tearing off her clothes as she protests and screams, and then rapes her (We see her bare breasts and her exposed private parts).

A man grabs a woman who slaps him and throws her onto a desk; he then flips her dress out of his way and removes her panties before raping her (No nudity shown).

A teenage boy sits on a toilet and exposes his penis (Nothing shown) to a teenage girl, who then says that "she's seen better." She then exposes her vagina (Nothing shown) to the boy, who attempts to grab it. She protests, and he puts his hand into her dress and thrusts against her, as she shows signs of pleasure and begs to have sex with her. She protests and he leaves.

An older man (A cop) is shown having sex with a minor who prostitutes herself (We see him thrusting from behind, and see his bare buttocks).

A young girl prostitutes herself in exchange for a certain type of cake.

A group of men exposes their penises (Nothing shown) to a woman for her to examine.

A woman kisses a man intently whilst grabbing the crotch of another man and asking for either a "threesome" or "foursome" (The man refuses).

A woman and a man kiss intently, before being interrupted by a third man who exposes the woman's breast and playing with the nipple with the barrel of his gun.

A young girl strips naked and exposes her rear to a young boy watching her.

We see scenes in what might be a whorehouse, with semi-nude women milling around.

We see painted images of sexual intercourse from a distance.

Violence & Gore

A woman is shot dead with two shots (bloody results)

A man is roughed up (he's very bloody)

On the street we see three bodies (the third victim is severly burned in the face)

Noodles shoots a man in the head

Bugsy and his gang beats up Max and Noodles (it's very brutally done)

Bugsy shoots Dominic dead with a shot through the back (no blood)

Noodles kills bugsy and a police officer by stabbing them

During a heist Max beats up and knocks down the owner of the shop (violently and angrily done)

A man is shot through the eye pretty graphically, in addition four other men are killed in the subsequent gunfight

On the television we see two dead bodies

Noodles violently rapes a woman (very intense)

A man is shot many times in the leg (with bloody results) in a drive-by

Two men are shot dead (with bloody results)

Max beat Noodles violently when he calls him crazy

A person presumably throws himself into a trash grinder, commiting suicide, this is however up to the viewer to decide

Profanity

The word fuck is used about 25 times, other profanities are used as well

Some drinking, smoking of cigarettes and cigars and opium smoking

Some people might not be able to handle the rape.

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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, sexual content, language and some drug use. (edited version)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 (1990) / Finland:K-18 (1984) / Canada:13+ (Quebec) / Canada:18A / Iceland:16 / UK:18 (cut) / Brazil:14 / Germany:16 (f) (re-rating) (2003) / West Germany:18 (f) (original rating) (1984-2003) / Portugal:M/16 / Australia:R / France:U (Original rating) / Hong Kong:III / Ireland:18 / Italy:VM14 / Japan:R-15 / Netherlands:12 (original rating) / Netherlands:16 (re-rating) / New Zealand:R16 / Norway:18 / Singapore:M18 / South Korea:18 / Spain:18 / Sweden:15 / USA:R

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