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Baal | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baba Yaga | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Babadook | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
Babel | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
Babette's Feast | Substantial | The expansive middle | money shot |
Babo 73 | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Baby | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baby Cart at the River Styx | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baby Cart in Peril | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baby Cart in the Land of Demons | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baby Cart to Hades | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baby Driver | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baby Love | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baby Rose Marie: The Child Wonder | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baby Rosemary | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Babyface | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Babyface 2 | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bacardi and Coke Bonanza, '81 | Minimal | The smeary bottom | |
Back to God's Country | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Back to the Soil | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Backwoods | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bad Burns | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bad Day at Black Rock | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bad Dream | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bad Girl | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bad Girls Go to Hell | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bad Guy | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bad Lieutenant | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Bad Taste | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Bad Timing | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Badlands | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
Bag Boy Lover Boy | Clean | The expansive middle | |
A Bagful of Fleas | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Baise-Moi | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Baker’s Wife | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bakery Girl of Monceau | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bakumatsu taiyô-den | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Bal | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
A Ballad About Greewood | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Ballad of Crowfoot | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Ballad of Narayama (Imamura) | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
The Ballad of Narayama (Kinoshita) | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Ballad of the Little Soldier | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
Ballerina | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Ballet Mécanique | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Band of Outsiders | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bandidos | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bandolero! | Minimal | The expansive middle | unnecessary |
Bang! Bang! You're Dead! | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Barb Wire | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Barber Shop | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Barking Dogs Never Bite | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
The Baron | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Baron Blood | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bartholemew, the Strangler | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Basil Dearden's London Underground (Eclipse 25) | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Basket Case | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Basket Case 2 | Clean | The expansive middle | Jolt |
Basket Case 3: The Progeny | Clean | The smeary bottom | |
Bastards | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Batman | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Batman Forever | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Batman Returns | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Battle | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Battle Royale | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Battle of Elderbush Gulch | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Battles Without Honor and Humanity | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (saga) | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Baxter, Vera Baxter | Clean | The expansive middle | |
A Bay of Blood | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
B-B-B-Bom and Life Storm | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Beach Bum | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Beaches of Agnès | Clean | The elusive top | |
The Beales of Grey Gardens | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Beast (Borowczyk) | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Beast Stable | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Beastmaster | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Beat '71 (Stray Cat Rock) | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Beatles Anthology | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Beatles Celebration | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Beatles: Get Back | Clean | The elusive top | |
The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Le beau Serge | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Beautiful Girls | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bed and Board | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bedevilled | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Beer and Pretzels | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bees | Minimal | The expansive middle | Comcast |
Beetlejuice | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Before the Revolution | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Beggars of Life | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Believers | Substantial | The expansive middle | old couples |
Bella | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Belladonna of Sadness | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Bellboy and the Playgirls | Clean | The smeary bottom | |
La Belle Captive | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Belle de Jour | Clean | The expansive middle | |
La Belle Noiseuse | Minimal | The elusive top | |
La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bellflower | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bells Are Ringing | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Belly | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Belly of an Architect | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Beloved | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Ben-Hur | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Benny’s video | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
Berberian Sound Studio | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Les berceaux | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bergman 101 | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bergman Island | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Berlin (Maddin) | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Berlin Alexanderplatz | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
Bernardo De Pace: The Wizard of the Mandolin | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Berserker | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Best Friends | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Best in Show | Clean | The elusive top | |
A Bestiary | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Betty | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Beware My Brethren | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Beware of a Holy Whore | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Beyond | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Beyond Evil | Clean | The smeary bottom | |
Beyond Image | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Beyond the Door | Minimal | The expansive middle | Henry Kissinger |
Beyond the Door III (Amok Train) | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Les Biches | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Big Bad Mama | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Big Bad Mama II | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Big Bird Cage | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Big Blue | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Big Boss | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Big Clock | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Big Deal on Madonna Street | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Big Doll House | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Big Heat | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Big Lebowski | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Big Little Lies: Season 1 | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Big Little Lies: Season 2 | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Big Snatch | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Big Switch | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bigger Than Life | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bill Douglas Trilogy | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Bill Morrison: Selected Films | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Billy Liar | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Biograph Shorts (Griffith) | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Birdman | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Birdman of Alcatraz | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Birds of Prey and the Fabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Birth | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Birth of a Nation | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Birth of Magellan: Cadenza I | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Birthright | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bitch Slap | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bitter Moon | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bitter Rice | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Bitter Sweet Stories | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Black Cat | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Black Dagger | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Black Dahlia | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Black Girl | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Ice | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Love | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Mama, White Mama | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Mirror Series 1, Series 2, White Christmas | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Orpheus | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Panthers | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Peter | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Roots | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Sabbath | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Black Snail | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Black Society Trilogy | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Black Sun | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Sunday | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Swan | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Black Venus | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Blackcoat’s Daughter | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blacula | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blade | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blade II | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blade: Trinity | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Blair Witch Project | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blancanieves | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Blanche | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Blancheville Monster | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blatzom film series | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blaze Starr Goes Nudist | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blazing Saddles | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bleak House | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blind Chance | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blind Woman's Curse | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
The Bling Ring | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blithe Spirit | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blonde Ambition | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blonde Cobra | Clean | The elusive top | |
Blonde Venus | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blood and Black Lace | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blood Bath | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blood Beat | Substantial | The smeary bottom | |
Blood Feast | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blood Games | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blood Harvest | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Blood Hook | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Blood Hunger: The Films of José Larraz | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blood Mania | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Blood of a Poet | Clean | The elusive top | and we can't get up |
Blood of the Beasts | Extreme | The expansive middle | |
The Blood on Satan’s Claw | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blood Orgy of the She-Devils | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blood Rage | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blood Simple | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Blood Theatre | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bloodhound | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bloodstained Butterfly | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bloodsuckers from Outer Space | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Bloodthirsty Trilogy | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Bloody Birthday | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bloody New Year | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields with The Music Boxes | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blow | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blow-Up | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blue Collar | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blue Helmet | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Blue Hour | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blue Ice | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blue Is the Warmest Color | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blue Jeans | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Blue Light | Clean | The elusive top | |
Blue Money | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blue Movie (Verstappen) | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blue Valentine | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Blue Velvet | Clean | The elusive top | |
Blue Vengeance | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bluebeard (Breillat) | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Blutige Exzesse im Führerbunker | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Boarding Gate | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bob le flambeur | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bob Marley: One Love | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bob's Burgers Movie | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Body and Soul | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Body Beneath | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Body Double | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Body Girls | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Body Melt | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
The Body Snatcher | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Boiling Desires | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Boggy Depot | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bon Voyage | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Les bonheur | Clean | The elusive top | |
Les Bonnes Femmes | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bonnie and Clyde | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Boo! | Clean | The smeary bottom | |
Boobs a Lot | Clean | The expansive middle | Holy Modal Rounders |
Boogie Nights | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Book of Joe | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Das Boot | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Borat | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Border | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Borderlands | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Borderline | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Borgen (TV Series, Seasons 1-3) | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Borgman | Clean | The expansive middle | |
A Boring Afternoon | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Born Under Crossed Stars | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Borom Sarret | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Boss of It All | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Boss's Head | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bottle Rocket | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Le Boucher | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Boulder Blues and Pearls And … | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bourne Supremacy | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bourne Ultimatum | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bowery Men's Shelter | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Box Lunch | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Boxer from Shantung | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Boxer's Omen | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
Boxing Helena | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Boy and Bicycle | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Boy Friend | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Boy Who Came Back | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Boys from Fenguei | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
The Boys in the Band (Friedkin) | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Brain Damage | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Brain That Wouldn't Die | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bram Stoker's Dracula | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Branded to Kill | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Brazil | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bread, Painting & Accordion | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Break Up the Dance | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Breakfast at Tiffany's | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Breaking the Waves | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Breakout | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Breathless (Godard) | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Brick Dollhouse | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bride of Frankenstein | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bride of Re-Animator | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
The Bride Wore Black | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bride’s Initiation | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Brides of Dracula | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Bridesmaid | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bridges-Go-Round | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bridget Jones's Diary | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Brief Encounter | Clean | The expansive middle | |
A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
A Brief History of Time | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bright Star | Clean | The expansive middle | |
A Brighter Summer Day | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Brimstone & Treacle | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Brink of Life | Clean | The expansive middle | |
British Sounds (See You at Mao) | Clean | The elusive top | |
Broadway | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Broadway Danny Rose | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Broken Flowers | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Broken Mirrors | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bronco Bullfrog | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bronson | Clean | The expansive middle | |
A Bronx Morning | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Brotherhood of Satan | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Brothers Grimm | Heavy | The expansive middle | |
The Brown Bunny | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Browning Version | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Brüno | Clean | The expansive middle | |
A Brutal Game | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Bubba Ho-Tep | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Bucking Broadway | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Buddies | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Buddy Boy | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bug | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bullfight in Okinawa | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
The Bunny Game | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Buns | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The 'Burbs | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Burden of Dreams | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
The Burglar's Dilemma | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Burial Ground | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Burial Path | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
Buried Treasure | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Burmese Harp | Clean | The expansive middle | |
The Burning | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
The Burning Plain | Substantial | The expansive middle | |
Burns & Allen in 'Lambchops' | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Burnt Offerings | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Bus Stop | Substantial | The smeary bottom | gompf |
… But Film Is My Mistress | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Butley | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Butthole Surfers: Blind Eye Sees All: Live in Detroit 1985 | Clean | The expansive middle | |
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Vols. One and Two | Minimal | The expansive middle | |
By Night with Torch and Spear | Clean | The elusive top | |
Bygone Behemoth | Clean | The expansive middle | |
Heads Up, Ears Down
This blog accurately identifies depictions of violence and cruelty toward animals in films. The purpose is to provide viewers with a reliable guide so that such depictions do not come as unwelcome surprises. Films will be accurately notated, providing a time cue for each incident along with a concise description of the scene and perhaps relevant context surrounding the incident. In order to serve as a useful reference tool, films having no depictions of violence to animals will be included, with an indication that there are no such scenes. This is confirmation that the films have been watched with the stated purpose in mind.
Note that the word depictions figures prominently in the objective. It is a travesty that discussions about cruelty in film usually are derailed by the largely unrelated assertion that no animals really were hurt (true only in some films, dependent upon many factors), and that all this concern is just over a simulation. Not the point, whether true or false. We do not smugly dismiss depictions of five-year-olds being raped because those scenes are only simulations. No, we are appalled that such images are even staged, and we are appropriately horrified that the notion now has been planted into the minds of the weak and cruel.
Depictions of violence or harm to animals are assessed in keeping with our dominant culture, with physical abuse, harmful neglect, and similar mistreatment serving as a base line. This blog does not address extended issues of animal welfare, and as such does not identify scenes of people eating meat or mules pulling plows. The goal is to itemize images that might cause a disturbance in a compassionate household.
These notes provide a heads-up but do not necessarily discourage watching a film because of depicted cruelty. Consuming a piece of art does not make you a supporter of the ideas presented. Your ethical self is created by your public rhetoric and your private actions, not by your willingness to sit through a filmed act of violence.