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Sex & Nudity

  • There is graphic nude female artwork of an explicit nature seen frequently.
  • A doctor and a nurse are heard having sex. When they open the curtain, the nurse's bare breasts are shown.
  • Lengthy & explicit full female nudity with sexual violence opens the film via a group of males forcefully stripping a female naked & graphically attempting to rape her.
  • A man's room has pictures of fully nude women with their bare breasts & pubis on display.
  • A man bludgeons a woman with a sculpture shaped like a penis. The house is also adorned with many nude female paintings.
  • Full frontal female nudity of several women is displayed when a man dreams he lives mid century with maids that he both sleeps & has sexual relations with.
  • Erotic art of naked females is frequent.
  • Alex has sex with two women in a bed, but the scene is sped up in fast forward motion. Rear end nudity is shown and breasts are seen briefly. This is explicit but it is in fast forward motion.
  • Severe sex/rape & full female nudity.
  • There is a scene where the main character is shown wanting to grab a woman's breasts (her nipples are shown).
  • 3 Rape scenes. Very graphic.

Violence & Gore

  • An old drunk man gets beaten up by a gang.
  • A man gets hit in the groin with a cane then kicked into a river. Another man is tripped then also falls into the river. As he reaches for his hand to seemingly be helped up, he is slightly cut with a dagger although little blood is shown
  • There's a fight between two gangs. They're thrown through windows, hit with bottles, etc.
  • A man gets kicked in the face then in the stomach a few times. His wife is also hit with a cane then gets slapped.
  • A man gets hit in the leg with a cane.
  • A man gets a milk bottle broken over his head.
  • A man grabs another's groin then gets punched in the face. As a result, his bandaged nose starts bleeding.
  • There are disturbing scenes of violence including beatings and murder. There's never any blood or gore, but it's still disturbing.
  • Alex enjoys the sight of blood and violence throughout the movie.
  • Psychologically disturbing due to the fact that the main characters are male teenagers who take sadistic delight in their wanton acts of depravity and cruelty.
  • The violence is infamously graphic, and it's not for physical impact, but for its sadistic and psychological tone.
  • There is no blood or gore anywhere.
  • A gang beats an old man in the street, no blood is seen.
  • A group of men graphically try to rape a woman on a stage, nudity is shown (LEVEL OF DISTURBANCE:9,5/10)
  • Not very gory at all really, but VERY violent and disturbing.
  • You could say the whole movie is violence for the sake of violence which wouldn't be too inaccurate the movie is a weird LSD TRIP of violence, sex, rape, and discount shakespeare. Not for any age.
  • A few beatings (with fists, canes, etc.) but with no bloody results.

Profanity

  • A lot of bad language, but in the fictional language of Nadsat.
  • 13 uses of "bastard", 5 uses of "hell", 2 uses of each "shit", "damn", and "fuck".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A gang of four teenage boys drink "Milk Plus," which is said to be milk laced with drugs such as LSD, mescaline, or amphetamines. Drugs are not shown onscreen.
  • Characters drink wine or smoke in a couple of scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The movie is dark and psychologically thrilling.
  • This sex and rape in this movie is very disturbing.
  • The classic Ludovico technique scene is extremely hard to watch and can be frightening to most viewers.
  • This movie is infamous due its sadistic violence and rape scenes, that are incredibly grotesque and disturbing. Women are raped in long scenes, a character is tortured, a throat is cut in a fantasy sequence and the third half of this movies is very sad and mind blowing.
  • The main character Alex is a very brutal, psychotic and sadistic person who revels in the acts of violence he inflicts on innocents, which can be frightening and disturbing for some.
  • The film can be seen as a dark comedy to a few people, but most people will only be able to see the horror onscreen in the film.
  • The film can be extremely intense and suspenseful at times.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • A lengthy & graphic rape scene with explicit full frontal female nudity features severe sexual violence enacted upon a violently stripped female by a group of male hooligans that force entrance into her home & make her husband watch her rape. This scene is revisited & shown again via the husband recounting what he witnessed.
  • At the end of the movie, Alex is shown imagining having sex with a woman, while an audience watches in the bathroom. Alex is shown nude, although no male nudity is seen, but breasts are shown, and brief female full nudity is seen.

Violence & Gore

  • The protagonist is psychotically tortured as a punishment for his crimes. If it affects him greatly, reducing him into breaking down emotionally and abused by his former victims, it drove him to suicide, but he wakes up in the hospital, cured of the psychological torture and back to his old self.
  • A man kills a woman by bashing her head with a sculpture; the actual hit is offscreen, although her corpse is shown afterward.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • After Alex was treated and released from prison, he is severely abused and harassed. This can be frustrating for viewers.
  • Near the end of the film, Mr. Alexander tortures a drugged-up Alex by playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony loudly from the room below. Alex, being in the top of the room, attempts to commit suicide by jumping out the window, but he survives, though with many injuries.

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