Parents Guide for
Titanic (1997) More at IMDbPro »

A woman asks a man to put his hands on her. She guides his hand to her breast, and they kiss. He gently falls on top of her.

It is implied that a couple are making love in a car. The windows are steamed up, and the woman's hand slams against the window. Inside of the car, the man is shown lying on top of the woman shot from the shoulders up. They are both sweating and breathing heavily as they kiss and hold each other.

A woman poses naked for a man to draw her. Her bare breasts are fully shown. She is also shown fully nude from the back. As she disrobes, her pubic region can be seen, but it is too shadowed to see anything overly explicit.

There are several drawings of naked women drawn by a man. These include full frontal nudity and full rear nudity.

The film includes numerous shots of people being crushed, drowned, and electrocuted. Many plunge to their deaths, some in attempted suicide.

A view of many dead frozen people (including children) is seen when the camera pans through the water after the ship sinks. Pale, lifeless faces of dead bodies (some with eyes wide open) are shown including a baby. One character. is seen dead and falling to the ocean floor.

A sailor shoots a passenger in the chest, then shoots himself in the head. Blood is shown.

A man is punched whilst his hands are handcuffed to a pipe.

Two characters are chased by another man who is firing at them with a gun, hitting various objects.

One "fucking" from Lewis and eleven uses of "shit" make up most of the profanity. Various milder vulgar and profane expressions are scattered throughout the film. There is also one usage of the middle finger. One use of motherfucker in Italian.

Several uses of alcohol with at least one man shown overly drunk, unable to stand by his own.

Many people are seen smoking cigarettes.

A party is shown in the middle of the movie, with all the lower-class passengers. Many are seen drinking heavily, dancing, and behaving recklessly. There is some pushing and shoving amidst the drunkenness.

A main character is physically and verbally abused (mostly verbally) by her fiance. At one point, he knocks a table over in front of her, gets in her face, and screams at her. She is obviously shaken up afterward.

All of the frozen bodies at the end could be seen as disturbing. Even before the official sinking, there are several dead bodies seen floating around.

Just minutes before the sinking, an elderly couple is seen cuddling in bed, while their bed is floating in water. They both look very scared as they cling to each other, knowing they are going to die. We also see an Irish mother reading a story to her two young children in bed. She has given up trying to save them all, because she, too, knows that they will not survive.

A character commits suicide by pointing a gun to his head.

A main character gets a hold of a gun and tries to kill two other main characters.

Many families are separated with the lifeboats. Some fathers have to say good-bye to their wives and children, so there is a lot of crying and emotion.