Delicatessen
strong violence, suicide references, brief sexual threat, domestic abuse
Director(s)Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Production year1991
Genre(s)Comedy, Horror
Approx. running minutes100m
CastMarie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Anne-Marie Pisani, Boban Janevski, Mikael Todde, Edith Ker, Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, Gilles Adrien, René Cleitman, Costa-Gavras, François Heilbronner, Claudie Ossard, Carlos D'Alessio, Darius Khondji, Hervé Schneid, Pierre-Jacques Bénichou, Marc Caro
Delicatessen
strong violence, suicide references, brief sexual threat, domestic abuse
DELICATESSEN is a French absurdist comedy horror, from 1991, set in a post-apocalyptic time where a butcher sets up his ...
DELICATESSEN is a French absurdist comedy horror, from 1991, set in a post-apocalyptic time where a butcher sets up his own source for meat to feed his hungry customers.
violence
A person's throat is cut in undetailed fashion, but with subsequent sight of blood draining from the wound. A man contrives to stab himself in the head, and another man is shot dead. Scenes of moderate violence include chaotic fighting between characters. A father angered by his adult daughter's disobedience delivers a hard slap to her face.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man points a gun at a woman and tells her to undress, then manhandles her briefly before an intervention prevents the assault from going any further.
suicide and self-harm
A person makes several darkly comic attempts to kill themself by increasingly absurd and convoluted methods, but circumstances out of her control contrive to see them all end in failure.
additional issues
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'ass', 'piss', 'shit', 'bastard', 'son of a bitch', 'jerk', 'God', 'damn' and 'hell'. There is also a use of homophobic language ('faggot'). There is moderate rude humour as a man inflates and deflates a condom. Scenes of moderate sex feature a man feeling a woman's breast inside her slip and running his hand along her bare thigh; sight and sound of creaking bed springs imply sexual activity. There is moderate threat from characters wielding knives, cleavers and guns. It is implied throughout that people have resorted to cannibalism in order to feed themselves, but there are no graphic details in the presentation of this theme.
Classified Date:
16/09/1991
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Electric Pictures
strong violence, suicide references, brief sexual threat, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
24/07/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Studio Canal
violence
A person's throat is cut in undetailed fashion, but with subsequent sight of blood draining from the wound. A man contrives to stab himself in the head, and another man is shot dead. Scenes of moderate violence include chaotic fighting between characters. A father angered by his adult daughter's disobedience delivers a hard slap to her face.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man points a gun at a woman and tells her to undress, then manhandles her briefly before an intervention prevents the assault from going any further.
suicide and self-harm
A person makes several darkly comic attempts to kill themself by increasingly absurd and convoluted methods, but circumstances out of her control contrive to see them all end in failure.
Contains suicide theme and strong comic horror
Classified Date:
09/04/2002
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Momentum Pictures
Classified Date:
29/07/1992
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Fox World Cinema
Classified Date:
29/09/1992
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Electric Pictures Video
Classified Date:
21/11/1991
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Electric Pictures
Classified Date:
09/04/2002
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Momentum Pictures
Classified date24/22/2023
LanguageFrench
violence
A person's throat is cut in undetailed fashion, but with subsequent sight of blood draining from the wound. A man contrives to stab himself in the head, and another man is shot dead. Scenes of moderate violence include chaotic fighting between characters. A father angered by his adult daughter's disobedience delivers a hard slap to her face.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man points a gun at a woman and tells her to undress, then manhandles her briefly before an intervention prevents the assault from going any further.
suicide and self-harm
A person makes several darkly comic attempts to kill themself by increasingly absurd and convoluted methods, but circumstances out of her control contrive to see them all end in failure.
additional issues
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'ass', 'piss', 'shit', 'bastard', 'son of a bitch', 'jerk', 'God', 'damn' and 'hell'. There is also a use of homophobic language ('faggot'). There is moderate rude humour as a man inflates and deflates a condom. Scenes of moderate sex feature a man feeling a woman's breast inside her slip and running his hand along her bare thigh; sight and sound of creaking bed springs imply sexual activity. There is moderate threat from characters wielding knives, cleavers and guns. It is implied throughout that people have resorted to cannibalism in order to feed themselves, but there are no graphic details in the presentation of this theme.
Director(s)Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Production year1991
Genre(s)Comedy, Horror
Approx. running minutes100m
CastMarie-Laure Dougnac, Dominique Pinon, Pascal Benezech, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Anne-Marie Pisani, Boban Janevski, Mikael Todde, Edith Ker, Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, Gilles Adrien, René Cleitman, Costa-Gavras, François Heilbronner, Claudie Ossard, Carlos D'Alessio, Darius Khondji, Hervé Schneid, Pierre-Jacques Bénichou, Marc Caro
Classified Date:
16/09/1991
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Electric Pictures
strong violence, suicide references, brief sexual threat, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
24/07/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Studio Canal
violence
A person's throat is cut in undetailed fashion, but with subsequent sight of blood draining from the wound. A man contrives to stab himself in the head, and another man is shot dead. Scenes of moderate violence include chaotic fighting between characters. A father angered by his adult daughter's disobedience delivers a hard slap to her face.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man points a gun at a woman and tells her to undress, then manhandles her briefly before an intervention prevents the assault from going any further.
suicide and self-harm
A person makes several darkly comic attempts to kill themself by increasingly absurd and convoluted methods, but circumstances out of her control contrive to see them all end in failure.
Contains suicide theme and strong comic horror
Classified Date:
09/04/2002
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Momentum Pictures
Classified Date:
29/07/1992
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Fox World Cinema
Classified Date:
29/09/1992
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Electric Pictures Video
Classified Date:
21/11/1991
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Electric Pictures
Classified Date:
09/04/2002
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Momentum Pictures
Classified date24/22/2023
LanguageFrench
