Parents Guide for
The Godfather (1972)

There a brief shots of sexual activity, though there aren't any true sex scenes.

After Michael's first marriage he disrobes his wife and you see her bare breasts.

We learn that a man is cheating on his wife. In one scene they are having sex clothed and standing up and there is some thrusting and moaning (no nudity at all). Sex is implied in one other scene (no nudity)

Sonny says that he doesn't want his brother to come out of the bathroom with just his d**k in his hands.

A man and a woman are seen in a bedroom (sex is implied but no nudity seen). Its is very likely that the woman is a prostitute.

A man says that another man was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time.

A horse's severed head is found in a man's bed and there is a lot of blood on the bedsheets.

A man is stabbed in the hand and then straggled to death, and he struggles to get free in the process but fails.

A man is chased and then shot several times; we see his bloody wounds and he falls to the ground (not dead).

A man is shot several times in a car. We then see some blood and he is obviously dead; his death was ordered and his death is referenced later on.

Two men act like they have a gun in their pocket in order to protect another character from being killed. A man is punched in the face and his jaw is consequently broken.

A man shoots one man in the head and he dies. The man then shoots another character, once in the neck, and once in the face, and that character dies a few seconds later.

We see some newspapers posting some violent images (not overly graphic).

We learn that a character has been suffering from abuse at the hands of her husband (not seen) as her face is bruised. Another character then beats up the husband by punching him, kicking him, and biting him, and he threatens him not to hurt that character again. Later on we see the husband beating his wife again, only this time we actually see him hit her many times with a belt and grab her. The wife holds up a knife but doesn't use it. The husband corners his wife into a room and it is implied that she is beaten through screaming.

A car bomb explodes in a car and kills a character (no blood or body seen).

In a sequence, we see several characters are kicked into and elevator and then shot. Another character puts on his glasses and is then shot (blood pours out).

A man is locked in a revolving door, and is shot, causing blood splatter.

Two characters are shot and then another one is shot in the back as he is running up stairs (he falls down and dies). The bloody aftermath is then briefly seen.

A character is strangled to death in a car. A character knows that he is going to die (his death is implied but not seen).

There is only uses of some mild language. One use of the n word, and other profanities such as damn, ass, and son of a bitch.

Throughout the course of the film, various characters drink alcohol in multiple scenes and are depicted smoking in a somewhat glamorized, romanticized style.

The main villian of the film is a drug dealer, and talks frequently (And alludes to) his narcotics business. Various characters discuss "the narcotics business", and how it can make money. The main character (Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone) however, does renounce it when he says: "Drugs is a dirty business."

One especially frightening/disturbing scene where a horse's severed head is found in its owners bed. Most (if not all) of the deaths occur in an intense way.