The Death of Stalin: parents' guide

Executions are mostly heard or implied off screen, and troops fire on crowds of mourners. One man is shot point-blank in the head and his body is burned. Sexual violence: the secret-police chief's rape of women and girls is strongly implied, never shown.

Constant and strong. One count lists more than 70 obscenities, many of them f-words, plus a c-word, an anti-gay slur, crude descriptions of sex acts used as insults, and frequent use of God's and Jesus' names.

No sex scenes or nudity. Sex comes up only as crude insults and as talk of powerful men coercing women; the implied assaults are covered under violence.

Vodka flows at late-night gatherings with Stalin, and his son is repeatedly and sloppily drunk, played for comedy that also makes him look pathetic. Brief cigarette smoking. No drugs.

Not scary in a horror sense, but dread runs through the whole film: lists of people marked for arrest, gunshots from prison cells, terrified officials. A stricken man lies in his own urine, an autopsy is briefly shown, and the violent climax may upset younger teens.