Movie Ratings

Welcome to the website about movie ratings around the world!

Since the dawn of mass media, many countries have attempted to regulate, control, or even block certain messages or content from being exhibited to their citizens at large.

Today, most democratic states are primarily interested in "classifying" (as opposed to "censoring") media products--especially movies--into age appropriate categories. The result has been the formation of various movie rating boards and offices which typically advise, and often enforce their decisions through legislation, as to what ages of children may see a particular title.

Please click on a country you are interested in knowing more about. We plan on adding additional countries in the months ahead.

If you're looking for U.S. or Canadian movie ratings for a specific title, or if you'd like complete content information on a movie along with a review written with parents in mind, visit our sister site, Parent Previews, or go directly to its movie title search page.

Also, we invite film classification boards from around the world who are interested in having their information posted on this website to contact us at parents@parentpreviews.com.

In our experience, we feel parents want more information about the entertainment their children see, and in many countries there are great efforts being made by film and literary classifying agencies, yet that information is not coming into the homes that truly need it. As well, parents may not know where to find current film classification information.

We hope this site, with its easy to remember address, will allow more parents to become familiar with the classification systems in their country, and allow greater insight of other systems through comparison and understanding.

Finally, if your classifications are incorrectly represented in any way on this site, please let us know. We hope to maintain the accuracy of this information, and your input is greatly appreciated.

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