Mild References

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Selected excerpts from BBFC guidance for films.

There is a brief image of the killer stabbing a police officer in the throat, leaving a gaping wound from which the man's blood flows.
There are occasional references to mental illness. Images of smeared human excrement are shown.
Moderate violence includes gunfights, aerial dogfights between spaceships, and use of lightsabers and other hand-held weapons. Blood and injury detail is limited and brief.
A bottle is smashed over a man's head; however, there is no injury detail. In one scene, a young schoolboy briefly slaps a girl on the head.
There are scenes in which men are heavily beaten, with occasional bloodspurts and sight of cut and bloodstained faces.
A married couple talk about having a 'free pass' with a band member. A lyric references 'naughty love-makers'.
There are brief scenes in which adults snort cocaine; however, drug misuse is not condoned by the work as a whole.
There is also a moderate level of threat throughout as the central characters hear news of the fatal illness, or are held at gunpoint.
A wife sends her soldier husband pictures of her face stuck to photographs of the bodies of underwear models, and there are references to the 'dirty bits' in letters sent between married couples.
There are also mild to moderate sex references, including a man asking a youth, "I don't suppose your father has told you anything about sex"
There is a scene in which a bomb explosion rips through a shop, killing a character on the spot.
There are mild upsetting scenes, and references to bereavement.
A female humanoid robot tells a man who has fallen in love with her that her battery is low, and he lies on top of her, saying suggestively, "Don't worry, I'll recharge you".
Cocaine misuse and 'human trafficking', as well as a fleeting reference to sexual violence, are mentioned in the context of police investigations.
Students defend a police station against a siege of armed gangsters.
Upsetting scenes are centred on family and romantic discord, and the health condition of loved ones.
A farmer is forced to shoot an aggressive cow, resulting in a spurt of blood and brief bloody aftermath detail.
The film features mild bad language ('bloody') and very mild bad language ('God').
Two older teenage girls experiment with smoking cigarettes.
A woman refers to men wanting to 'give her one'.
There are references to, and sight of drugs.
Line drawing outlines in a tattoo parlour show brief female breast outline. However, these images are brief and undetailed.
There is no material likely to offend or harm.
'Ring girls' wear bikinis and lingerie.
The main character is chased by a tiger and an ape, and is threatened by a landslide and a forest fire.
There is a later verbal reference to the man having "finger bombed an old lady".
There are some scenes in which blood and injury are emphasised.
Characters are chased, panic and occasionally despair. A character is frightened when he meets skeletons in a graveyard. These sequences are brief, and reassurance is swift.
A man is choked and slapped around the head as he is told to drive his car to instruction.
A swimmer becomes unwell after drinking tea which she later suspects was poisoned.
There are moderate sex references, including to having sex, to perverts loving a book called Lolita, and to measuring a man's manhood by their sperm count.
There is strong nudity, including genital nudity. Some of these images occurs in the context of sex scenes.
There is sight of blood splatter when a woman's finger is accidentally severed.
The principal character is subjected to physical threats and coercion by a thug in the employ of the corporation.
A terrified nun has a vision of being groped by clawed hands and licked by a demonic tongue.
Discrimination is not endorsed by the film as a whole.
There are comic references to underwear and to babies pooping.
A woman tells a man he has to kill himself in order to prove his immortality.
Sequences include some toilet humour, comic buttock nudity, and references to pigeons having a 'cloaca'.
Despite the fact that several people are pulled and smashed about by the tornados, there is only one injury seen - a cut on a girl's ankle, which is quickly dressed and concealed.
There is a scene in which a woman attempts to take sexy pictures of herself to send to her lover.
Further issues include infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms including 'bastards', 'sons of bitches' and 'shit'.
There is a brief undetailed verbal reference to adultery.
Scenes of mild threat involve vehicles with people inside teetering near the edge of a cliff and bridge after a collision.
There is use of strong language ('f**k').
An adolescent mermaid transforms into a scary giant evil mermaid.
People grieve for lost loved ones and an isolated character is persecuted by others.
Characters kiss, and the sound of a belt buckle is heard being undone.
There is also a sight of a flaccid penis.
Villains tie a person to a rock and throw him into the sea, nearly causing him to drown.
Some of the ghosts have distorted, disfigured faces and scream in a disturbing fashion.
There is a scene of strong sex in which a woman is seen riding a man.
A comic scene features close-up shots of male genital and female breast nudity.
A character's name, during a computer chat, is 'Loins of Gold'.
A man is addicted to online pornography; women are seen posing sexually in bikini tops on adult websites, including one named 'Bra-busters Triple X', but there is no sight of nudity or any sexual activity.
Fantastical creatures are attacked using different magical powers, resulting in brief gory injuries.
A group of teenage boys sexually threaten a teenage girl, not realising that 'she' is actually an adult male serial killer in a girl’s body.
A character makes a remark about another's body. Kissing in referenced in song lyrics.
A group of men consume alcohol and get drunk.
Moderate verbal sex references and innuendo include the comic mention of a man having his "butt plugged with a churro'.