Apocalypto

All characters are Yucatec Mayans near the end of the Mayan civilization. They all speak Yucatec Maya (with English subtitles for U.S. release). The cast consists of Indigenous Mexican and Native American actors in a variety of positive roles. Rudy Youngblood -- who identifies with his mother's Comanche heritage, and whose biological father is Yaqui -- stars as Jaguar Paw, who grows into a mature, responsible man after overcoming many hardships. However, the film depicts Indigenous people as ultraviolent, and women appear only in minor roles as daughters, wives, and domestic workers. Women have no agency, falling victim to the violent war between men and subject to rape and enslavement.

Gory violence is explicit and almost nonstop. An early hunting scene sets the tone: A group of hunters kills a tapir by piercing it through its body. A jaguar rips a man to pieces before being brutally stabbed to death. Bloody assaults involve weapons, including spears, knives, arrows, poison darts, spiked traps, and other tools. Characters are chased, hit, kicked, knifed, beaten, speared, and cut open. A man's throat is cut in front of his horrified son. Frequent images of injured, bloody bodies and faces, including a gruesome scene in which an exposed brain spurts blood. A human sacrifice shows hearts being cut out from live people. They're then beheaded -- their heads and bodies falling down a long staircase with loud thuds. Sexual violence is implied as men drag women off the scene while they're screaming and kicking. Villagers, including a small girl next to her mother's corpse, have open sores on their faces and bodies from smallpox; other children are left to fend for themselves when their parents are taken captive.

Naked or near-naked bodies throughout, but in a nonsexual context. Characters joke about someone's alleged impotence -- he's given tapir "balls" to eat and a salve that makes his genitals burn. Then his wife appears with her mouth also "burning." Rape is implied (see Violence & Scariness section for details).

In subtitles: One "f--ked," plus "damn."