Raiders of the Lost Ark

Movie • 1981 • Action  

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When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
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Does the dog die?
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Artemis Schmidt
The little capuchin monkey in Cairo is poisoned and dies.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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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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Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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jdpamv
She's threatened with a fire iron and later made to undress within a villain's sight.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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jdpamv
A whip, not a belt.
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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SunflowerDex
Yes, the main villains are seen smoking hookah
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Is there addiction?
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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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Animal
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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 a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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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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Are animals abused?
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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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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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jdpamv
The monkey in a few scenes IIRC.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet 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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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Anonymous
Scene with lots of tarantulas falling on Indiana Jones
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Anonymous
Snakes, Why did it have to be snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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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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Assault
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RangerDanger
Marion is involved in the fight at the bar.
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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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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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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jdpamv
Indy is beaten up in fights but he's never defenseless/bullied.
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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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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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jdpamv
A villain's hand is burned and later shown heavily scarred.
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Are there dislocations?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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jdpamv
A head explodes, YMMV.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Indy runs over a N*zi with a truck.
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Is someone choked?
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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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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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Is there body horror?
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Anonymous
A supernatural force kills various Nazis in gory ways, including melting and head explosions.
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Is there amputation?
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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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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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jdpamv
The Alfred Molina character seems to have been impaled through the groin (among other areas) when he’s found dead. Possibly just below the genitals.
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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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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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denialol
Threat of torture, but it is stopped before anything happens.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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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 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, etc.) by spikes.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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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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Does someone die?
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Several people throughout, mostly N*zis.
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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BlueJ
Marion's father is mentioned to have died before the movie is set
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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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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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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tryingtohelp
SPOILER after the ark is opened, spirits fly around and the turn into skulls
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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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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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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The tall bald N*zi is seen shaving before he fights Indy.
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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The Captain spits before they all go on board.
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Is there audio gore?
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SunflowerDex
Indiana bites an enemy out of self defense and the damage can be heard.
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Large-scale Violence
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jay66
Takes place in the 1930s.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
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Statues in a tomb are destroyed, but no real artifact.
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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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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Is there a mental institution scene?
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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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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Does someone self harm?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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BlueJ
When Indy and Marion are trapped underground, Marion keeps shouting about the snakes trying to attack, and also freaks out in the next room with the skeletons. The villains at the end quite literally "melt down", but I don't think that's what this question is asking.
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Is there misophonia?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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There are some sudden screams when Marion is surrounded by the corpses in the Egyptian tomb.
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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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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BlueJ
There are constant lightning flashes during the discovery of the room holding the ark
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Paranoia
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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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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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BillyRaymond
Not directly, but the major villains of the film are all Nazis.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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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. Extras in yellowface and brownface.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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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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Race
Is there blackface?
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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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Relationships
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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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Religious
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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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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
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jdpamv
Implied as a woman takes off her bra from behind but no nudity shown.
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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ChrisCampbell
There is some kissing
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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BlueJ
Not for crying, but early in the movie Indy expresses his dislike of snakes and the other guy tells him to "toughen up"
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Is someone homeless?
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
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I believe there are a couple of truck horn honks.
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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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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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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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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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Anonymous
Various characters are shot, sometimes graphically.
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