Herod's Law (1999) Poster

(1999)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence, sexuality and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • There are some sex scenes with female nudity (breasts and buttocks are shown).
  • A married couple begins to thrust in a table. Sex is implied, although no nudity is shown.
  • A man goes to a brothel and has sex with several prostitutes. Their breasts and buttocks are fully shown. Despite the scene is fast-forwarded, it is very clear and lasts for about one minute. There is no genitalia visible.
  • A man relaxes in a bathtub full of water while talking with his wife. It is implied that he is naked. His wife takes off her clothes and sits on top of him, while her butt and breasts are visible. The husband is reluctant at first but they end up having sex under the water. A man in the next room hears them moaning and comments how "fortunate" is the husband.
  • An old woman who owns a brothel suggests to a man that she will let him have sex with a prostitute.

Violence & Gore

  • Several murders are crudely shown in different scenes. The visual effects are not good, so the scenes are not specially gory. Blood is rarely seen troughout the movie but corpses are usually seen.
  • The first scene is about a man with a briefcase full of money, stealing from a corpse and trying to run away from the town. A violent mob attacks him and beheads him with a machete.
  • A physician inspects a corpse and picks up a bullet from it. Several men talk about the murder and two men bury the corpse.
  • A woman and a man walk between trees. Another man finds them and shoots the man in the face. Then, he aims the gun at the woman, while she begs for her life and offers him money. He kills her anyway and kicks her corpse angrily afterwards.
  • A man shoots another man in the head in a road, killing him in the moment. Then, he hides the corpse at the side of the road.
  • A man cuts the throat of another man with a knife and shoots several times a third one with a gun. Few blood is shown.

Profanity

  • Profane words are abundant in this movie. The original language is Spanish.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Several characters drink alcohol and smoke. Some of them are shown drunk at some point. There are no drugs.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • the last 30 minutes of the film are quite dark

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man has sex with a woman under the sheets of a bed. Only his bare chest is visible. The woman's husband arrives to the scene and interrupts them by punching her. The man puts on his clothes and runs for his life, as the husband tries to kill him with a gun.

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