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Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi, and Molly Peters in Thunderball (1965)

Parents guide

Thunderball

Content rating

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Mild
  • Violence & Gore:
    Moderate
  • Profanity:
    None
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Mild
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Mild

Sex & Nudity

Mild
29 of 78 found this mild
A woman wearing a bikini is dancing on top of fire at a club as part of entertainment.
During the opening credits, we see many female forms swimming under water. These forms are solid black in color and silhouetted. There is one woman in the distance which you can clearly see her breast not a silhouette the light hits her just enough.
A woman rises from a bathtub (covered in a towel) and lifts Bond's shirt. The scene cuts to the two of them having sex. We see the top of Bond's chest.
A man wearing a bath robe (he is nude underneath) rubs the bare back of a naked woman whose breasts are covered with a sheet. We get a quick glimpse at the side of her breasts.
A woman showing a great deal of cleavage in her nightgown is laying on top of a man who removes her shoulder strap and says wouldn't you be more comfortable without this ?
Bond brings a woman into a steam room and removes her clothes, it is implied they have sex. We see a foggy glimpse of the woman's bare back and buttocks pressed up against the steamy glass.
Bond and a woman go behind a rock under the sea and we see bubbles rise from where they are, implying sex
A man and a woman (fully clothed) kiss passionately in bed. The woman's dress is revealing of her breasts and the man begins to remove a strap of her dress but they are interrupted by a knock at the door.
Rape is very briefly implied (it would go over a kid's head completely)
Women wear revealing clothing and bikinis throughout

Violence & Gore

Moderate
27 of 45 found this moderate
Bond and a man struggle underwater, and Bond cuts off his oxygen. Bad guys on a boat above him throw grenades into the water to kill him, but he survives.
Bond surprises an assassin waiting in his shower by turning o the hot water and scalding him, and then attacking him and punching him.
Bond pulls a man's legs out from under him and karate chops his head.
A pilot is trapped in his chair after landing a plane underwater, and a bad guy cuts his oxygen supply and swims away.
Bond and another man fight next to a pool, and fall into it. Metal sheets are put over the pool so neither can escape, and sharks are released into it. Bond stabs his attacker, and a fair amount of blood is seen, and the sharks go for him as Bond swims away.
A woman's corpse is seen, and it's said that she was killed by a cyanide capsule she used on herself.
Bond and a man with a flare struggle underwater, and Bond knocks him out.
There's a brief car chase on a runway that ends when one car catches on fire, and crashes in a large explosion.
A man gets stabbed in the eye but no blood is shown.
There is a good deal of violence in this film, but most of it takes place underwater, taming it a bit.

Profanity

None
24 of 42 found this to have none
1 use of "hell" and 2 uses of "damn."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
29 of 35 found this mild
James Bond never lit a cigarette in this fourth installment of the film franchise, but plenty of others did light up, including five of the film's major stars. Fiona and Domino smoke cigarettes, and Largo smokes cigars. A few supporting characters hold cigarettes just once. Other persons smoke around a table in a casino.
Less than a handful of scenes with alcholic beverages.
It is mentioned that a female spy killed herself with a cyanide pill once she had been captured by enemies.
Two uses of poisonous gas.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Mild
22 of 38 found this mild
A man burns his girlfriend with a cigarette, although you don't see it.
Some deaths. The underwater battle could be considered intense.
This would be the most intense Connery James Bond film beside From Russia With Love.
A man is thrown into a shark pool. He struggles and screams. He is attacked by the sharks offscreen. We don't see his body, but we see some of the water turn red. At the time that this film was released, this was the most intense death in a Bond film.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 14
  • Australia
    • Aoriginal rating
    • PG1986, re-rating
  • Brazil
    • 12
  • Canada
    • PGManitoba/Ontario
    • ANova Scotia
    • GQuebec
    • PGvideo rating
  • Denmark
    • 11
  • Egypt
    • 13+self-applied
  • Finland
    • K-16
    • K-15/13
    • K-16/13
  • France
    • Tous publics
  • Germany
    • 121991, re-rating, uncut
  • Greece
    • K-8
  • Iceland
    • 12
  • India
    • UAre-rating
    • A1967, original rating
  • Ireland
    • 12DVD rating
    • PG2012, re-rating
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • G2015
  • Mexico
    • Boriginal rating
    • Are-rating
  • Netherlands
    • 12
    • 14orginal rating
    • AL2000, DVD rating
  • New Zealand
    • PG
  • Nigeria
    • PG
  • Norway
    • 15DVD and Blu-ray rating
    • 9recommended rating
    • 161965, cinema rating
  • Peru
    • 14
  • Philippines
    • PG
  • Poland
    • 12self-applied
  • Portugal
    • M/12
  • Saudi Arabia
    • PG
  • Singapore
    • PG
  • South Africa
    • PG
  • South Korea
    • 15
  • Spain
    • 18original rating
    • 131985, re-rating
  • Sweden
    • 15
  • Turkey
    • 7Aself-applied
  • United Kingdom
    • PG
    • Aoriginal rating, passed with cuts
    • PG1987, re-rating
  • United States
    • Approvedcertificate #20994
    • PG1994

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