Parents Guide for
Irréversible (2002) More at IMDbPro »

-The film depicts many graphic scenes of homosexual relations.

-While a man is being bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher, a man can be seen masturbating while watching.

-A transsexual prostitute is harrassed. She then reveals her genitalia. (Graphic)

-The film depicts an extremely graphic rape scene; which last for 13 minutes.

-A party scene has women dancing in suggestive ways while wearing revealing outfits, in the same scene a man gropes another man's privates briefly, A man kisses many women in different rooms and invites them to have sex with another man, In the end of the scene you can see a scene of oral sex viewed from a different room.

-A scene contains many shots of both male, and female frontal nudity.

-The film includes many other nude-- full frontal shots.

-Many sexual innuendos.

-Graphic sexual dialogue.

- A prostitute is threatened by a group of men, She moved a section of her skirt and we see a penis for about a second.

-Many TV screens of gay sex can seen on televisions in one scene.

-In a scene a man's arm is broken backwards in a very graphic way, the assulter then starts bashing the victim's head with a fire extinguisher until it becomes a pulp (Very graphic and disturbing) .

-A man can be seen shoving , screaming & attacking others in another scene he breaks a car's windsheild with a stick.

-A woman has a bloody face.

-An extremely explicit ten minute anal rape scene after the rape the man starts hitting the woman very violently and taunting her using non-stop sexual talk and swearing.

-Some threatening with knives in a couple of scenes.

A lot of uses of very strong language. A lot of it is aggressively strong language used during the rape scene, adding to it's impact. Plenty of strong sexual language during the S&M scene. Please note this film is subtitled.

-In a party scene a man can be seen sniffing drugs,

-Many scenes were there is use of alcohol.

Violent, vicious beating of a victim using fire extinguisher as well as minutes-long rape scene and shocking story revelation towards the ending add to the psychological intensity that some viewers may not be able to handle. Film emphasize repellent depiction of violence (physical and sexual) to convey the potent mood of raw emotions in committing inhumane acts that may be too intense for some viewers. In some cases the movie might psychologically scar viewers as a result of many intense and explict scenes.