The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Movie • 2008 • Drama  

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When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.
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Does the dog die?
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Jacko
No, but the jews do
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Are there heart attacks?
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Are there tsunamis?
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Is there audience participation?
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Is there smoke or haze?
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Abandonment
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pixierevolver
no one knows where bruno has gone
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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Poppy_xx
sort of 🤷‍♀️. some of the jews in the camp become guards and hurt their own people to save their lives xx
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Poppy_xx
the jews get lied to to get them into the camp
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Dependant on what someone conciders to be abusive, though the main characters father, and big influence, is a Nazi soldier
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Is a child abused?
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That's a big part of the plot
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Is someone stalked?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Addiction
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Alcohol (specifically wine) is drank in a dinner scene but there's no themes of addiction
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Ghosttownlover33
No, but humans are
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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chauhzuicgxuy
yes, its mortifying
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Is someone held under water?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is someone restrained?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Ghosttownlover33
I guess you can call it that
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oreoicecrem
a soldier is weird with a 12yr old girl
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Bodily Harm
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someone shaves their head
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Are any hands damaged?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Are there dislocations?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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DonaldTrump
The Jews in the chamber are

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WildCrow123
There are no scenes of people being burnt alive, but it is implied. SPOILER: At the end the main protagonist gets put into a gas chamber.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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WildCrow123
They cant breathe in gas chamber
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Kenzbee
Realistic depictions of concentration camps ad SPOILER!!!


Both main children along with several others are filled in a gas chamber
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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pixierevolver
i’m not sure i would call it “gore” but there is certainly a lot of very graphic content.
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Children
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Poppy_xx
all of the jewish children were along with bruno who went to the gas chamber but no one directly steals him
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Does a kid die?
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WildCrow123
Schmuel and Bruno both go into a gas chamber at the very end of the film.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Not any directly mentioned but the Jews are in a concentration camp, there would have been bedbugs
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does someone die?
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Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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chauhzuicgxuy
R word?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
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Poppy_xx
their toys are taken away when the enter the camp
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Does a parent die?
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WildCrow123
Schmeuls father goes missing, and it is a very high possibility that he got put into a gas chamber, but you never find out.
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Does a family member die?
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Does someone cheat?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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WildCrow123
All of the Jewish people in the concentration camp have kind of been kidnapped.
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Are there razors?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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venus.theplanet_
in the camps, the soldiers say that the people is going to take a shower but they're going to the gas thing (that used to happen IRL)
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There are porcelain baby dolls but no mannequins
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pixierevolver
there is a pond but there are no interactions with it.
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Are there clowns?
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Are there jump scares?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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Gross
Is someone eaten?
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Is there audio gore?
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WildCrow123
People get beaten up and you can hear them being punched and being in pain
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Does someone vomit?
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noimnothere
Safe! :)
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Is there farting?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Large-scale Violence
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DexterSandham
9/11 was in 2001?
Ww2 was 1939-1945 so no there are no 9/11 depictions
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Incarceration in the fact that there are concentration camps
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Ghosttownlover33
No, just a lot of jews that dies
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Does someone have cancer?
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oreoicecrem
the fence is electric but no one gets electrocuted
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Is there menstruation?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Mental Health
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Does someone self harm?
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Is there misophonia?
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pixierevolver
i suppose not a meltdown, but two instances of Elsa (the mother) falling into hysterics.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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oreoicecrem
a bunch of men get squeezed into small spaces
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Noxious
Is there screaming?
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Anonymous1313
A woman wails and screams in emotional agony at the very end of the film.
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Poppy_xx
i haven’t got a phobia just filling in the boxes after i watched this but there was a bit that made me jump when they were all in the hut toward the end and the soldier told them to leave x
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Does a baby cry?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Is there shakey cam?
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pixierevolver
not in the snes of found footage films, but there is a sequence towards the end where the camera is unstable.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Is someone watched without knowing?
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Pregnancy
Are there abortions?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Is a baby stillborn?
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Prejudice
Does the black guy die first?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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The main character in the movie is fed anti-Jewish proganda. Aside from that, the movie itself misrepresents how innocent Germans were in WW2.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there hate speech?
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WildCrow123
Lots of hate speech against jewish people
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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WildCrow123
The whole thing is based on the C0ncentration camps in World W4r 2, lots of people saying that J3ws are bad people ect
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Digga
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Is there a large age gap?
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Is religion discussed?
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
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Is there bestiality?
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Prisoners are forced to strip but nothing below the waist is shown
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Is there sexual content?
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Is existentialism debated?
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Is someone homeless?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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CCook
Omg, the ending. As sad as it gets.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Does a car crash?
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Violence
Is there gun violence?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there blood/gore?
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The main character scrapes his knee, and his friend has a black eye
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Does someone drown?
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