Alpha (France, 2025)

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Synopsis

Dir: Julia Ducournau. French/Berber-language Drama/Horror. In the 1980s, a 13-year-old girl (Mélissa Boros) girl fears she may have been infected with a virus after the tattoo she got at a party becomes infected.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive, some in sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, profanity, cursing, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand violence - no blood, some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of nightmarish imagery - some detail; frequent references to illness, death, and suicide - some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of injury and medical intervention, some in overdose context - some blood and graphic detail
• Frequent portrayals of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis use in a recreational context; infrequent portrayal of intravenous drug use in an addiction context - some detail; infrequent references to addiction
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - some detail

Thematic elements

• Family bonds
• Grief and loss
• Fear

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for substance abuse and mature subject matter

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