Raiders of the Lost Ark

Movie • 1981 • Action  

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This movie contains 28 potentially triggering events.
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Artemis Schmidt
The little capuchin monkey in Cairo is poisoned and dies.
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jdpamv
Probably unintentionally but an insect is blatantly eaten onscreen after flying into an actor’s mouth.
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Does an animal die?
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8BitMonkey
A monkey dies from a poisoned fruit, and Indy himself later sets a bunch of snakes on fire because he sucks.
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Kimberly
The main character burns snakes alive in self defense, and a dog is hit (heard off screen)
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Does a cat die?
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theamythatrules
Little pet monkey is poisoned by it's owner who meant the poison for Jones and Sallah.
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Anonymous
Scene with lots of tarantulas falling on Indiana Jones
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Anonymous
Snakes, Why did it have to be snakes?
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jdpamv
Tarantulas all over Alfred Molina’s back, two on Indy’s. Short scene but could be triggering.
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jdpamv
Indy had a sexual or romantic relationship with Marion when she was underage and they become sexually/romantically involved again in the end.
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SunflowerDex
Yes, the main villains are seen smoking hookah
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joenick78
In Tibet, Marion is having a drinking contest with a local in her bar. They take two shots of liquor, but as there are many empty shot glasses in front of them, it appears they've been drinking for some time.
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Indy and Marion are tied to a pole as the N*zis open the Ark in the climax of the film.
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helpingout
No, but at one point one of the bad guys takes a woman captive and says he will give her away should she not please him. Could be triggering.
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jay66
It's implied (stated in script) indy was in his twenties when Marion was fifteen during their "relationship" pre movie.
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jdpamv
Indy is beaten up in fights but he's never defenseless/bullied.
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Indy runs over a N*zi with a truck.
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tryingtohelp
In the beginning a gate covered in spikes stabs someone’s head and kills them. Near the end, someone’s head explodes.
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jdpamv
The Alfred Molina character seems to have been impaled through the genitalia (among other areas) when he’s found dead. Possibly just below there.
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Kimberly
Many of the villains catch fire during a fight scene
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AxleM
Characters are sealed underground intentionally, but manage to escape
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One of Toht's men strangles Indy in Marion's bar before Indy smashes a bottle of whiskey over his head.
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deniallol
A supernatural force kills various Nazis in gory ways, including melting and head explosions.
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jdpamv
I personally don’t find it excessive but the ending with three of the villains’ faces getting destroyed in gory detail probably qualifies. More minor instances of blood and gore also show up, like a brainy headshot in the Tibetan bar, a villain getting shredded by a propeller with onscreen blood splatter, and Alfred Molina getting impaled all over the place (seemingly in the throat, head, crotch, etc.) by spikes.
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The person that Marion is competing against in the drinking game passes out and falls over after drinking his last shot. The scene is meant to be humorous.
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denialol
Threat of torture, but it is stopped before anything happens.
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jdpamv
A head explodes, YMMV.
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Does a kid die?
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Several people throughout, mostly N*zis.
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jdpamv
The main villains but no other major characters die.
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The monkey eats a poisoned date.
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helpingout
A married man gets kissed by another woman and then has a goofy happy smile afterwards. It's not passionate, nor important to the plot, but could be triggering to some, especially since she mentions the wife before kissing him.
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Jaque's plane is parked on a river. Indy swings on a vine and falls into the river as he's being chased by the Hovitos. He swims over to the plane, it takes off and they escape.
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The tall bald N*zi is seen shaving before he fights Indy.
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tryingtohelp
SPOILER after the ark is opened, spirits fly around and the turn into skulls
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The Captain spits before they all go on board.
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SunflowerDex
Indiana bites an enemy out of self defense and the damage can be heard.
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jay66
Takes place in the 1930s.
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Statues in a tomb are destroyed, but no real artifact.
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KayJayDoubleU
Indigenous peoples use blowpipes with darts, dart traps present. This is only found in the opening of the film. however. I would recommend skipping to ~12 minutes in to avoid this
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TARDIS91011
Not strictly set in a hospital, but there is a scene where Indy's wounds are cleaned.
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Indy mutters "Son of a bitch" at one point. "Hell" and "Goddamn" are also said. Nothing worse is said than these, though.

The N*zi salute is used several times by both N*zis and a monkey at one point.
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There are some sudden screams when Marion is surrounded by the corpses in the Egyptian tomb.
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Does a baby cry?
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jdpamv
Marion is watched while undressing without knowing. Indy watches the N*zis without them knowing at least once but they’re obviously evil and he’s doing this in his quest to stop them.
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jay66
Very subtle but indy telling Marion to keep her eyes shut doubles as a warning to adults watching with kids.
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jdpamv
Not nearly as much as Temple of Doom but as a 1980s film based on 1930s media it was kinda inevitable. Indy gets chased by angry Hollywood Natives at the command of the villain and the Egyptian characters are either bad guys, civilians who praise Indy for fighting the bad guys, or a mystic. Sallah is an Egyptian played by a white guy and Alfred Molina plays a Latin American.
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BillyRaymond
Not directly, but the major villains of the film are all Nazis.
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capnbrowncoat
No direct hate speech is featured, though the villains are fairly typical movie bad guy style Nazis.
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DeenGray
Brownface and yellowface. Indy has a run-in with some Nepalese henchmen at Marion's bar. One of them is played by Malcolm Weaver, a white stuntman. Also, Sallah is played by a welsh actor.
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theamythatrules
Indy and Marion's back story involves them being in a relationship while she was a teenager and he was much older. This isn't shown but is discussed when Indiana Jones approaches Marion in her bar. It's implied during their argument (and later confirmed while they are walking through the Egyptian market place "He loved you like a son. It took a ... lot for you to alienate him." "Not much, just you.") that their long ago relationship was the reason for Jones and Abner Ravenwood to part ways on bad terms.
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jdpamv
The film is about finding the Ark of the Covenant and ends with the angels of death within being freed and killing a group of N*zis. There’s also a fictional religion that worships a Golden Idol. Indy tries to steal said idol from its temple but is stopped by the faith’s followers (although the villain has falsified an alliance with them and soon steals the idol himself).
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ChrisCampbell
There is some kissing
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there BDSM?
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jdpamv
Implied as a woman takes off her bra from behind but no nudity shown.
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ChrisCampbell
A plane does explode after taxiing in circles for awhile during a fight scene.
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denialol
A man is bloodlessly run over by a car.
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I believe there are a couple of truck horn honks.
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denialol
The infamous opening of the ark is quite graphic, with faces melting, heads exploding, etc. Men are shot with sometimes graphic blood spurts. A man is implied to be ground up by propeller, and you see blood splash onto a plane. A man is also killed with an ancient spike trap, with one of the spikes through his head.
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deniallol
Various characters are shot, sometimes graphically.
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