La casa delle mele mature (1971) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • Apartment party scene, relaxed atmosphere, man with unbuttoned shirt, shirtless man, kissing, caressing, talking about sex.
  • Two street prostitutes try to seduce a young man. He just tells them, "Just leave me alone." and walks away.
  • Two female hitchhikers provocatively changing their clothes in front of a man who stopped his car. Glimpses of women in bra and panties and topless women.
  • A woman flirts with a man and intensely fondles his (clothed) pecs. Then she kisses him and they have sex. Full frontal female nudity, shirtless male.
  • A sex scene between a naked man and a naked woman (their faces are not shown), parts of which are spread throughout the film. Full frontal and rear female nudity, male rear nudity.
  • Man and woman are outdoors, naked head to toe. Rear nudity of man and woman, side nudity of woman, glimpses of frontal nudity of both. They're having sex in the grass.
  • Sex scene of mental asylum orderly and female patient. Male rear nudity (but also a side glimpse of his penis), female nudity is only implied as the woman is fully covered by the man's body.
  • A scene with a man sleeping shirtless and being watched by his wife. She takes off her bathrobe (rear female nudity), snuggles up to the man and strokes him awake. Then they gently caress and kiss for a while, then have sex. Only upper body of the man is shown.

Violence & Gore

  • The staff at the mental health clinic are very rude, abusive and violent towards the patients. They slap them, tie them up, strip them, tie them to beds, shower them with cold water and cynically enjoy it.
  • A room full of bedridden psychiatric patients is shown.
  • Two mental patients are shown in handcuffs, screaming and protesting. Nurses slap them.

Profanity

  • Italian equivalents of words like 'bastard', 'lunatic', 'idiot', 'shit', 'whore' or 'bullshit'.
  • Some mildly sexist remarks. A radical feminist says "Power should go to women because they are the ones who start revolutions", while a man laughs at her "Can you imagine the chaos they would create?".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Quite a lot of cigarette smoking and a bit of alcohol drinking. One woman is evidently drunk at a party. Later, drugs are mentioned by another character, but their use is never shown.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Almost all scenes from the mental institution can be considered frightening and intense.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • One woman, who is an exhibitionist, strips down to her panties while in the car and runs out naked. Her husband tries to catch her and put her back in the car. They are questioned by traffic cops who call an ambulance for the woman. She is shown in just her panties, but along with flashbacks containing full frontal female nudity.
  • Flashback showing one of the female protagonists as a tween girl who is sexually assaulted in the woods by an unknown older man. No sex or nudity, just indirect hints that make it clear what happened.
  • A naked woman is handcuffed to a pipe in a shower room and cold water is poured on her while hospital staff laugh cynically. Only the waist up part of her body is shown.

Violence & Gore

  • Flashback showing one of the female protagonists as a tween girl who is sexually assaulted in the woods by an unknown older man. No sex or nudity, just indirect hints that make it clear what happened.
  • One of the female protagonists breaks the glass in a framed picture and cuts her veins with the shard. Her suicide attempt is interrupted by some nurses in the hospital who take her away and treat her. No gore, but some blood on her hand is shown.
  • A naked woman is handcuffed to a pipe in a shower room and cold water is poured on her while hospital staff laugh cynically. Only the waist up part of her body is shown.
  • One of the female characters has a mental breakdown, sets the mental institution on fire and commits suicide by jumping out of a window. Her dead body in a pool of blood is briefly shown.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The traumatic flashbacks of the protagonist contain hints of sexualized violence against her as a child.

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