Hamnet
distressing scenes, brief moderate sex
Director(s)Chloé Zhao
Production year2025
Release date09/01/2026
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes126m
CastJessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn
Hamnet
distressing scenes, brief moderate sex
This historical drama imagines the life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes, and how they cope with a terrible tra ...
This historical drama imagines the life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes, and how they cope with a terrible tragedy.
violence
language
sex
discrimination
injury detail
suicide and self-harm
theme
alcohol and smoking
distressing scenes, brief moderate sex
Classified Date:
02/10/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
violence
A man’s physical abuse of his adult son is challenged and countered. Action in a stage play features theatrical fighting and stabbing with swords, and a forced poisoning.
language
There is infrequent very mild bad language ('God', 'damned').
sex
A brief sex scene features a man partially lowering his trousers to reveal a hint of buttock nudity as he very gently starts to have sex with a woman, before the scene cuts away.
discrimination
There is a historical use of the term ‘gypsy’ to describe a person’s behaviour.
injury detail
Blood is seen on the gown of a woman who has died in childbirth, and a man bears a small cut on his head.
suicide and self-harm
A person’s suicide ideation is briefly and discreetly implied.
theme
An intense and distressing scene features the illness and eventual death of a young child, which gives rise to subsequent upsetting scenes of grief. A woman struggles in childbirth, and fears that one her children is stillborn, but there is a reassuring outcome.
alcohol and smoking
A man is seen in a drunken and emotional state.
distressing scenes, brief moderate sex
Classified Date:
16/01/2026
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Universal Studios Limited
violence
A man’s physical abuse of his adult son is challenged and countered. Action in a stage play features theatrical fighting and stabbing with swords, and a forced poisoning.
language
There is infrequent very mild bad language ('God', 'damned').
sex
A brief sex scene features a man partially lowering his trousers to reveal a hint of buttock nudity as he very gently starts to have sex with a woman, before the scene cuts away.
discrimination
There is a historical use of the term ‘gypsy’ to describe a person’s behaviour.
injury detail
Blood is seen on the gown of a woman who has died in childbirth, and a man bears a small cut on his head.
suicide and self-harm
A person’s suicide ideation is briefly and discreetly implied.
theme
An intense and distressing scene features the illness and eventual death of a young child, which gives rise to subsequent upsetting scenes of grief. A woman struggles in childbirth, and fears that one her children is stillborn, but there is a reassuring outcome.
alcohol and smoking
A man is seen in a drunken and emotional state.
Classified Date:
28/10/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
07/10/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
09/09/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
27/08/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
07/01/2026
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified date02/10/2025
LanguageEnglish
violence
language
sex
discrimination
injury detail
suicide and self-harm
theme
alcohol and smoking
Director(s)Chloé Zhao
Production year2025
Release date09/01/2026
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes126m
CastJessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn
distressing scenes, brief moderate sex
Classified Date:
02/10/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
violence
A man’s physical abuse of his adult son is challenged and countered. Action in a stage play features theatrical fighting and stabbing with swords, and a forced poisoning.
language
There is infrequent very mild bad language ('God', 'damned').
sex
A brief sex scene features a man partially lowering his trousers to reveal a hint of buttock nudity as he very gently starts to have sex with a woman, before the scene cuts away.
discrimination
There is a historical use of the term ‘gypsy’ to describe a person’s behaviour.
injury detail
Blood is seen on the gown of a woman who has died in childbirth, and a man bears a small cut on his head.
suicide and self-harm
A person’s suicide ideation is briefly and discreetly implied.
theme
An intense and distressing scene features the illness and eventual death of a young child, which gives rise to subsequent upsetting scenes of grief. A woman struggles in childbirth, and fears that one her children is stillborn, but there is a reassuring outcome.
alcohol and smoking
A man is seen in a drunken and emotional state.
distressing scenes, brief moderate sex
Classified Date:
16/01/2026
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Universal Studios Limited
violence
A man’s physical abuse of his adult son is challenged and countered. Action in a stage play features theatrical fighting and stabbing with swords, and a forced poisoning.
language
There is infrequent very mild bad language ('God', 'damned').
sex
A brief sex scene features a man partially lowering his trousers to reveal a hint of buttock nudity as he very gently starts to have sex with a woman, before the scene cuts away.
discrimination
There is a historical use of the term ‘gypsy’ to describe a person’s behaviour.
injury detail
Blood is seen on the gown of a woman who has died in childbirth, and a man bears a small cut on his head.
suicide and self-harm
A person’s suicide ideation is briefly and discreetly implied.
theme
An intense and distressing scene features the illness and eventual death of a young child, which gives rise to subsequent upsetting scenes of grief. A woman struggles in childbirth, and fears that one her children is stillborn, but there is a reassuring outcome.
alcohol and smoking
A man is seen in a drunken and emotional state.
Classified Date:
28/10/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
07/10/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
09/09/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
27/08/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
07/01/2026
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified date02/10/2025
LanguageEnglish