Pan's Labyrinth

Ofelia, a young girl, is compassionate and resourceful. Carmen and Mercedes are also important women -- they bravely protect their families. But a supporting character with a stutter is repeatedly mocked. Set in Spain during the 1940s, all characters are White but some are very poor while others are quite wealthy. Directed by Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, the dialogue is entirely in Spanish.

A child bleeds to death at the film's beginning and ending. Battle scenes include close-range shooting, explosions, and bloody wounds. Captain Vidal commits brutal acts of violence (graphically beating, shooting, and torturing people). After his mouth is cut, he graphically stitches his wound. He's also verbally and physically abusive to his family. A woman with pregnancy complications bleeds heavily. Creepy otherworldly creatures pose great danger and die violently. The eyeless Pale Man, a creature that kills children, chases Ofelia through a bone-filled cavern and bites her fairy friends in half.

A girl is shown in underwear and later covered by water in a bath. Tiny fairies have humanoid bodies but don't wear clothes. But neither is presented in a sexual way.

Language (all in English subtitles for U.S. release) includes "a--holes," "f--k," "motherf----r," "hell," "bitch," "son of a bitch," and "damn." Name calling such as "idiot" and "brat."

Casual wine and liquor drinking. Characters smoke and discuss tobacco.