Parents Guide for
Children of Men (2006) More at IMDbPro »

A young woman opens her dress to reveal her bare breasts and pregnant abdomen to a man. However the nudity is very breif and very minor. While a woman is delivering a baby we see beneath her skirt, and although heavily shadowed there is a very brief glimpse at the baby emerging through the lips of the labia. A man and a woman play a game with a ping-pong ball, blowing it back and forth into each other's mouths, and then they pass it from one mouth to the other. People talk about the possible environmental causes of infertility. A man talks about a woman promising to have sex with him; various allusions to sexual activity throughout the film.

Most of the violence here is made to look extremely brutal and realistic. People are killed off quickly but the blood is almost always seen in small amounts.

After an explosion, there is a very brief shot of a screaming person walking out holding their arm, which has been blown off their torso.

People are shot at point blank range, always blood spraying.

The war scenes usually feature people dying from gunshots which result in a light mist of blood.

A woman is shot and the blood splatters onto the people around her, and a copious amount of blood is seen running from the wound. Later we see her completely soaked in it.

A man is whacked in the face by a car battery, and we see blood splatter onto the wall behind him.

Two soldiers standing on a high caliber turret slaughter several people walking out of a building who claim to be friendly citizens. Immediately after that, the rebels fire a rocket launcher at the turrent blowing the soldiers up, one of them is seen hanging from the turrent gun, dead. All of this happens from a distance, the shadows hide graphical details of the slaughter but the event is very crude and brutal.

A soldier is seen holding a characters arm trembling and crying in pain and shock because his legs have been blown off his body.

58 uses of "f---", as well a several other, milder profanities.

Jarvis Cocker's "Running The World" is played over the credits; the lyrics include many repetitions of the line "c*nts are still running the world".

One of the main characters grows and smokes marijuana. He and another man smoke marijuana in a scene.

Characters are seen drinking alcoholic beverages and smoking in a couple of scenes.

The battle sequence near the end of the movie is intense. Military forces are quieting a rebellion of hostile prisoners in a political internment camp. There is plenty of explosions, bullets wizzing by and far off gun fire, resembling that of a war.

Mentioned above, a woman giving birth is shown, though not as explict of of the actual birth but the realism of the effect may be shocking.

There are plenty of intense scenes throughout the film due to Theo (Clive Owen) leading an illigal refugee under the radar and being persued by 2 different groups the whole time. Some may be comic such as Theo being held at gunpoint by a (at the time unknown) friendly, other times the characters are all put in danger, such as where hostiles attack a transport the Main characters are riding in and one is even shot.

Some viewers may find the film depressing.