• Director(s)

    Michael Powell

  • Production Year

    1947

  • Release date

    20/10/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    101m

  • Cast

    Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson

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Black Narcissus

mild threat, violence, brief bloody images, discrimination

A convent established in a remote Himalayan palace has a strange effect on the nuns in this intense UK drama, from 1947, which features psychological threat, mild violence and examples of cultural discrimination.…

A convent established in a remote Himalayan palace has a strange effect on the nuns in this intense UK drama, from 1947, which features psychological threat, mild violence and examples of cultural discrimination.

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violence

threat and horror

sex

discrimination

injury detail

alcohol and tobacco

language

rude humour

  • Director(s)

    Michael Powell

  • Production Year

    1947

  • Release date

    20/10/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    101m

  • Cast

    Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson

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mild threat, violence, brief bloody images, discrimination
Classified Date:
09/08/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI Films
violence
A woman is beaten as punishment for stealing, the blows landing off-screen with the accompaniment of the woman's screams of pain. Two women struggle with each other briefly, and one falls to her death in undetailed fashion.
threat and horror
There are scenes of mild, but occasionally intense, psychological threat as characters mental states unravel and they pose a danger to themselves and others. A person attempts to push someone else off a high bell tower.
sex
There are very mild sex references, which include sight of artistic breast nudity in ancient murals painted on the walls of an old palace.
discrimination
Set during Britain's colonial rule of India, the film contains examples of discriminatory attitudes, such as Westerners saying that the local populace are "primitives", "like children", stupid" and "all look the same to me". Some of the European actors are made up to look like South Asian characters. The elements of discrimination are embedded in a historical context which would not be acceptable today.
injury detail
A nun has bloodstains on her clothing after treating a woman's injuries off-screen.
alcohol and tobacco
A character smokes a pipe throughout.
Contains mild peril
Classified Date:
08/08/2005
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI (UK Wide)
Contains mild peril
Classified Date:
27/06/2005
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
BFI (UK Wide)
Classified Date:
18/11/1985
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Rank Film Dists Ltd
Classified Date:
03/02/1947
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
General Film Dist Ltd
Classified Date:
26/09/2005
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Sound & Media
Classified Date:
19/05/1986
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
The Video Collection
Classified Date:
22/01/1998
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Video Collection International

  • Classified date

    09/08/2023

  • Language

    English