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Watchmen (2009) More at IMDbPro »

Graphic frontal Male nudity throughout the entire film.

After visiting New York, Dr. Manhattan and Silk Spectre transport to another location. Dr. Manhattan's penis and its garments, are shown. He follows a man running away from him. He chases him and begins to walk down a flight of stairs, as his penis and its garments are shown.

When Dr. Manhattan and Silk Spectre return to Earth, Dr. Manhattan's penis is shown, as well as his buttocks.

On Mars, Dr. Manhattan's penis is shown, as well as a side of his buttocks.

On Dr. Manhattan's glass tower, we see his penis.

On Mars talking to Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan's buttocks are seen.

A man's penis and its garments are seen, as well as his buttocks.

Dr. Manhattan floats in the air without any clothes. His buttocks are both seen.

A naked man is seen. His penis and its garments are visible. His buttocks are not seen, but, he is completely naked.

A naked man is sitting on a bed after his girlfriend has left him. He thinks of her for a brief second, and then decides to get dressed.

A woman is seen getting up from a bed. She has no clothes on. She puts on a robe. We see the outline of her breasts while she is nude. However, we never see them in the front.

A man and woman stare attracted at one another.

A man's buttocks are visible, as well as his entire backside.

A naked man is visible. We see his buttocks and his entire body. His penis is not shown, due to the fact that his legs are turned at a different angle, but we still see that side of his body as he turns back around, even though the penis is still hidden.

A man and a woman have sex: They begin kissing rapidly, the man unzips the woman to reveal her breasts, even though they are not entirely seen, they remove each other's clothes, she thrusts while straddling him (we see her bare breasts, hips, abdomen and side of her buttocks and his bare chest and legs), and the man then thrusts in a different position and they both moan and climax.

A woman undresses, unfastens her garter belt (we see her in a bustier that reveals cleavage), a man enters the room, she is upset, the man kisses her bare shoulder, she pushes him away. He persists, and she punches him; he then beats her, throws her against the edge of a pool table and begins to unfasten his pants preparing to rape her but is interrupted.

A woman moans and writhes while lying on a bed, we see a man's hands caressing her, and then two more hands are shown, she continues to moan and kisses his fingers.

A man and a woman kiss, she straddles him and begins removing his shirt, they lie back on a sofa, she raises her skirt (her bare thighs are visible) and they stop.

A fully nude man and a fully nude woman hug and kiss (we see bare buttocks, backs, breasts, and his genitals are seen from the side).

A prostitute pulls down her top to reveal her bare breasts to a man passing on the street.

A prostitute awaits her next client at a doorway.

A prostitute is seen violenty kissing a man. Her son comes to the door asking, "Mom, is he hurting you? Mom, is he hurting you?" She yells, "I should have had that abortion!" and slaps him. She slams the door. We also see a large crowd of people in the room, watching and taking turns.

Two dead lesbian women are lying on a bed, brutally murdered. An insulting lifestyle phrase is seen on the wall written in their own blood.

We see a porno-comic depecting the superhero Sally Jupiter. Inside, we see illustrations of her breasts fully showing, as well as a drawing of a man's penis pushed in her private part. It is also seen that the drawing of Sally Jupiter in this particular shows her moaning.

We see a pornographic magazine on a coffee table.

When a man reaches over a table, we see a pornographic magazine.

A woman kisses another woman passionately.

A reference is made to "child pornography."

A marquee on an adult theater reads "Totally Nude Girls", "XXX", and "Live Shows."

Two naked women are seen kissing each other rapidly. One of their breasts are shown.

On a TV, we see two naked women with an adult toy, both sides inside each woman's private part. They are seen moaning and moving very fast. In another shot, we see it up the backside of their bottoms, moving even faster.

In one scene, a flashback involving a man narrates "That night, Janey and I make love for the first time." We see a man and woman having sex in a bed. She squeezes the covers. She also moans briefly.

When a man is set on fire, his pants begin to fall.

A man and a woman kiss in great detail.

A man and woman kiss in front of another man she slept with.

A nude man walks past the press and media during a "superhero design" presentation.

When Rorschach is checking the mail of Roy Chess, we see a pornographic magazine in the pile. It shows a woman's two visible breasts.

A man is beaten brutally and thrown out a window. His body is then shown on the sidewalk in a pool of blood.

In the opening montage, a superhero character is shown dead from several gunshot wounds to the torso and head; some blood is seen.

In the opening credits montage, two women are shown to have been murdered; one by a gunshot to the head, another by slashed throat. They are covered in blood and lay on a bloody bed. Words written on the wall with their blood indicate it is a hate crime.

In the opening credits montage, we see the John F. Kennedy assassination from a short distance.There are no close-ups, but gunfire is heard, and the injuries are immediately obvious, as we see blood and guts splash the back of the car. We also see people running for safety, after noticing what has happened.

Also in the opening credits, a young girl from among a crowd of student protesters is shown inserting a flower down one of several soldiers' rifle barrels to signify peace during the Vietnam war, when suddenly the soldiers open fire on the students at point-blank range (off-screen) and the flower is seen blown to bits in a cloud of blood and petals.

Once again in the opening credits, we see two dead men tied to a fire hydrant. Their faces are bloody and bruised, suggesting that they were brutally beaten.

Rorschach attacks a cop. The other one manages to shoot Rorschach in the back before escaping through the window.

We see a man kill another man with a flamethrower.

A pregnant woman is shot off-screen after attacking a man with a broken beer bottle. The bloody body is seen after the gun is fired; we see the woman has been shot in the chest. This scene is more confronting and dramatic than violent.

A woman almost gets raped after being beaten. She is shown bleeding from her mouth and nose.

A man prevents a rape by severely beating the rapist, punching him and breaking his nose.

A man's finger is dislocated or broken on purpose as a form of torture.

A man and a women are seen on the surface of what seems to be Mars when a close-up shot of each one of them are shown with their outer skin being peeled off. We see the inside of the outside skin but what lies beneath is simply the characters in their costumes.

At least two men are shot in the chest with powerful, nonlethal projectiles. They appear to suffer intense pain.

A man turns a can of aerosol and a pair of matches into a flamethrower and lights an attacker on fire.

An assassination attempt results in a man almost getting shot, and the assailant being hit into a fountain, and beaten to a pulp. He then swallows a cyanide pill, foams at the mouth, and dies.

A woman's fingers are blown off by a gunshot during the assassination attempt. The incident is shown close up and is very bloody.

A character is found dead from a gunshot to the face some time after it happens; some blood is shown.

A man is punched in the arm with enough force to cause a compound fracture; squirting blood and the man's bones are shown.

A man has his leg broken in half, no blood is shown.

A thug shoots a fellow thug in the back three times; it is shown in slow-motion and the bullets are seen flying through the man with blood sprayed as a result.

A man who has cancer is shown dying in a hospital bed.

A man's organ and inside body parts are shown.

A skeleton and disconnected veins are seen.

A man fires several bullets into a group of people in slow motion: one woman is shot in the leg, another man is shot in the torso and again between the eyes; blood is shown.

Two dogs are seen chewing on the leg of a dead child. There is no blood and only the bones and the child's shoe remains. May disturb viewers.

A man splits a dog's head with a cleaver. We do not see the act, but see the dog's body. Its head has a large bloody wound on it.

A character hacks a man's head repeatedly with a cleaver. Blood is shown spurting everywhere, with some of it getting onto the character's face.

A young boy is beaten by his prostitute mother after walking in on her with a "client".

A young boy punches a teen in the crotch and hits him across the upper chest with a school bag.

A teen has a chunk of his cheek bitten off by a younger boy; blood is shown on his face as the flesh is torn away.

In a surreal dream sequence, we see a nude couple caress each other. They neatly peel off each other's skin, which has a red lining, to reveal the same people wearing costumes. A nuclear explosion occurs in the background and, as the shockwave hits them, we see their bodies explode to pieces (without blood), leaving only their skeletons.

Two people fight a group of angry prisoners.

A shirtless man is set ablaze by fellow inmates. He catches fire and runs off screen while flailing his arms and screaming.

A man's arms are chopped off with a chainsaw. Black blood sprays on the wall, and on a man's face. When he is dead, his fellow jail mate pushes him down on the ground showing a motionless face. This results in the fact that the man is dead.

An unconscious man is electrocuted when a power grinder's frayed cord comes in contact with a spreading pool of water. We see him convulse on the floor as he is electrocuted.

A fight occurs in which at least a dozen men are beaten, some may have been killed. No blood is seen aside from some nosebleeds and the like.

A man is killed in a bathroom. We only see the aftermath, however, when a large pool of blood seeps through the bathroom door. He is killed through drowning his head through a toliet.

A character stabs a man in the neck with a large knife, very little blood is shown.

Several men are disintegrated from the inside out in several scenes. Their blood and bones are seen flying through the air as a result of their bodies imploding. In one scene, the bloody remains of a group of thugs is shown flying everywhere, showering their surrounding bystanders. A mass of blood and bones is seen stuck to the ceiling and hanging obscenely following the incident. A large blood splatter is lingered over following another.

An old man is beaten and then murdered.

A man beats another man badly in a bar.

A woman grabs another man by the tie and slams his head down into a table. Following this, she requests to be taken to the restroom, and upon arriving she hits her escort in the face and throws him headfirst into the bathroom sink, where he blacks out.

A drinking glass is crushed into a man's hand; blood drips from his fist.

A group of men and women unknowingly drink posion.

A man catches a bullet with his hand. Blood is shown as the bullet is halfway lodged in the man's hand.

Buildings are violenty destroyed.

A man is disintegrated.

A man is repeatedly punched in the face, and does not resist the attack. Blood and bruising is shown on his cheek once the attacker has stopped punching. The man keeps a calm reserve throughout the scene.

About 19 F-words, 1 obscene hand gesture, 9 sexual references, 7 scatological terms, 5 anatomical terms, 19 mild obscenities, name-calling (Tricky Dick, paranoid, hippie, Nazi, lunatic, retard, fat), 12 religious profanities, 11 religious exclamations.

A reference is made to heroin use. A man smokes a cigar and drinks alcohol, a man smokes a cigar in many scenes throughout the movie, and another man smokes a cigar. A man holds a beer bottle in his hand and then drinks from it, a man drinks alcohol from a flask, people drink alcohol in a few bar scenes, men drink champagne, and a woman drinks alcohol in several scenes.

Nite Owl comes home to find his door broken, it appears somebody has broken in. He walks into the house, on the look for an intruder.

Dr. Manhattan transports an entire group of people out of a room. Before this event, Dr. Manhattan becomes very angry and yells.

Ozymandias and his master plan's outcome involves showing the event, and we also see the city before the event takes place, knowing it is about to happen.

A man is beaten brutally and thrown out a window. His body is then shown on the sidewalk in a pool of blood.

In the opening montage, a superhero character is shown dead from several gunshot wounds to the torso and head; some blood is seen.

In the opening credits montage, two women are shown to have been murdered; one by a gunshot to the head, another by slashed throat. They are covered in blood and lay on a bloody bed. Words written on the wall with their blood indicate it is a hate crime.

In the opening credits montage, we see the John F. Kennedy assassination from a short distance.There are no close-ups, but gunfire is heard, and the injuries are immediately obvious, as we see blood and guts splash the back of the car. We also see people running for safety, after noticing what has happened.

Also in the opening credits, a young girl from among a crowd of student protesters is shown inserting a flower down one of several soldiers' rifle barrels to signify peace during the Vietnam war, when suddenly the soldiers open fire on the students at point-blank range (off-screen) and the flower is seen blown to bits in a cloud of blood and petals.

Once again in the opening credits, we see two dead men tied to a fire hydrant. Their faces are bloody and bruised, suggesting that they were brutally beaten.

Rorschach attacks a cop. The other one manages to shoot Rorschach in the back before escaping through the window.

We see a man kill another man with a flamethrower.

A pregnant woman is shot off-screen after attacking a man with a broken beer bottle. The bloody body is seen after the gun is fired; we see the woman has been shot in the chest. This scene is more confronting and dramatic than violent.

A woman almost gets raped after being beaten. She is shown bleeding from her mouth and nose.

A man prevents a rape by severely beating the rapist, punching him and breaking his nose.

A man's finger is dislocated or broken on purpose as a form of torture.

A man and a women are seen on the surface of what seems to be Mars when a close-up shot of each one of them are shown with their outer skin being peeled off. We see the inside of the outside skin but what lies beneath is simply the characters in their costumes.

At least two men are shot in the chest with powerful, nonlethal projectiles. They appear to suffer intense pain.

A man turns a can of aerosol and a pair of matches into a flamethrower and lights an attacker on fire.

An assassination attempt results in a man almost getting shot, and the assailant being hit into a fountain, and beaten to a pulp. He then swallows a cyanide pill, foams at the mouth, and dies.

A woman's fingers are blown off by a gunshot during the assassination attempt. The incident is shown close up and is very bloody.

A character is found dead from a gunshot to the face some time after it happens; some blood is shown.

A man is punched in the arm with enough force to cause a compound fracture; squirting blood and the man's bones are shown.

A man has his leg broken in half, no blood is shown.

A thug shoots a fellow thug in the back three times; it is shown in slow-motion and the bullets are seen flying through the man with blood sprayed as a result.

A man who has cancer is shown dying in a hospital bed.

A man's organ and inside body parts are shown.

A skeleton and disconnected veins are seen.

A man fires several bullets into a group of people in slow motion: one woman is shot in the leg, another man is shot in the torso and again between the eyes; blood is shown.

Two dogs are seen chewing on the leg of a dead child. There is no blood and only the bones and the child's shoe remains. May disturb viewers.

A man splits a dog's head with a cleaver. We do not see the act, but see the dog's body. Its head has a large bloody wound on it.

A character hacks a man's head repeatedly with a cleaver. Blood is shown spurting everywhere, with some of it getting onto the character's face.

A young boy is beaten by his prostitute mother after walking in on her with a "client".

A young boy punches a teen in the crotch and hits him across the upper chest with a school bag.

A teen has a chunk of his cheek bitten off by a younger boy; blood is shown on his face as the flesh is torn away.

In a surreal dream sequence, we see a nude couple caress each other. They neatly peel off each other's skin, which has a red lining, to reveal the same people wearing costumes. A nuclear explosion occurs in the background and, as the shockwave hits them, we see their bodies explode to pieces (without blood), leaving only their skeletons.

Two people fight a group of angry prisoners.

A shirtless man is set ablaze by fellow inmates. He catches fire and runs off screen while flailing his arms and screaming.

A man's arms are chopped off with a chainsaw. Black blood sprays on the wall, and on a man's face. When he is dead, his fellow jail mate pushes him down on the ground showing a motionless face. This results in the fact that the man is dead.

An unconscious man is electrocuted when a power grinder's frayed cord comes in contact with a spreading pool of water. We see him convulse on the floor as he is electrocuted.

A fight occurs in which at least a dozen men are beaten, some may have been killed. No blood is seen aside from some nosebleeds and the like.

A man is killed in a bathroom. We only see the aftermath, however, when a large pool of blood seeps through the bathroom door. He is killed through drowning his head through a toliet.

A character stabs a man in the neck with a large knife, very little blood is shown.

Several men are disintegrated from the inside out in several scenes. Their blood and bones are seen flying through the air as a result of their bodies imploding. In one scene, the bloody remains of a group of thugs is shown flying everywhere, showering their surrounding bystanders. A mass of blood and bones is seen stuck to the ceiling and hanging obscenely following the incident. A large blood splatter is lingered over following another.

An old man is beaten and then murdered.

A man beats another man badly in a bar.

A woman grabs another man by the tie and slams his head down into a table. Following this, she requests to be taken to the restroom, and upon arriving she hits her escort in the face and throws him headfirst into the bathroom sink, where he blacks out.

A drinking glass is crushed into a man's hand; blood drips from his fist.

A group of men and women unknowingly drink posion.

A man catches a bullet with his hand. Blood is shown as the bullet is halfway lodged in the man's hand.

Buildings are violenty destroyed.

A man is disintegrated.

A man is repeatedly punched in the face, and does not resist the attack. Blood and bruising is shown on his cheek once the attacker has stopped punching. The man keeps a calm reserve throughout the scene.