In a Glass Cage
Movie • 1987 • Drama
ReportA Nazi doctor who had a fetish for young boys feels guilt after torturing and murdering his latest victim, and throws himself off a roof. Some years later, the doctor, confined to an iron lung, accepts as his nurse a boy who secretly witnessed that killing.
This movie contains 21 potentially triggering events.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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gck12
Klaus and his whole family are stalked by angelo
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gck12
kids are tortured and Angelo attacks Klaus's wife
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acrackerwhoisnotvibing
Children are shown being killed, SA’d, and hit
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Is there a dead animal?
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gck12
no animals are in the film
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Are there bugs?
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gck12
there is a scene of a fly clawing outside the window but it doesn't go in the house
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gck12
1. Angelo is orally raped by Klaus as a child and it shows it in a flash back
2. Angelo rapes two young boys and klaus
4. Angelo forces Klaus to watch him Jerk off
2. Angelo rapes two young boys and klaus
4. Angelo forces Klaus to watch him Jerk off
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Bodily Harm
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1. a scene where angelo is shaving Klaus and cuts Klaus drawing a small amount of blood
2. A little boy gets his throat slit by angelo
3. Rena is pushed into a barbed wire causing cuts all over her face
4. Angelo has a scar on his eyebrow
2. A little boy gets his throat slit by angelo
3. Rena is pushed into a barbed wire causing cuts all over her face
4. Angelo has a scar on his eyebrow
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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acrackerwhoisnotvibing
people dying by asphyxiation and hanging, one of the kids that is killed is shown panting/gasping for air, klaus is suffocated many times throughout the movie
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Is there a hanging?
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Angelo hangs Klaus's wife
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Is someone tortured?
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Angelo tortures Klaus by showing him torturing children he kidnaps
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Children
Does a kid die?
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1. a little boy is stripped naked and injected in the heart with gasoline
2. another little boy is forced to sing and gets sexually assaulted than his throat is slit
3. an extremely injured little boy is seen dying and hanging by his hands
2. another little boy is forced to sing and gets sexually assaulted than his throat is slit
3. an extremely injured little boy is seen dying and hanging by his hands
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The mother and the father
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Is someone kidnapped?
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two little boys are kidnapped and tortured
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Does someone cheat?
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gck12
klaus does but not willingly and one scene implies that the mother was cheating
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Does someone vomit?
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the young boy by gags after being injected with gasoline
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Are needles/syringes used?
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1. the maid gets an injection
2. a kid gets an injection of gasoline
2. a kid gets an injection of gasoline
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gck12
Klaus tries to kill himself
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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gck12
a kid uncontrollably cries while he is being kidnapped and tortured
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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acrackerwhoisnotvibing
One of the main characters lives in an iron lung which is a very small space.
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Klaus tries to kill himself and nearly dies and is now forever in an iron lung
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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fraisierdesbois
A kid is said to look "dumb"
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gck12
it's about an ex nazi
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Does an LGBT person die?
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lycarrion
klaus is not bisexual, he is a pedophile.
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Does the black guy die first?
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acrackerwhoisnotvibing
I don’t even think there were any black people in the film
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Is there sexual content?
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gck12
multiple sex scenes most of them children being raped
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Is there blood/gore?
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acrackerwhoisnotvibing
Severe wounds are not explicitly shown but blood is shown dripping from throats being cut. Some minor cuts/slashes are shown.
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