Film and TV age ratings explained
Start with the country and the rating system printed beside a title. The same letters can mean different things across borders, and an age rating alone does not tell you which scenes may concern your family.
Read the reason alongside the age
Look for the title’s content advice about violence, fear, sex, nudity, language or drug use. Consider what is shown, how strongly it is presented and its place in the story. A rating is not a scene list, a timestamp map or a fixed allowance of words or minutes.
Age ratings, parental controls and scene filtering
A rating describes a film or programme as a whole. A profile restriction controls access to titles. Scene filtering changes what plays within a title, such as skipping a selected scene or muting dialogue. These solve different problems: allowing a PG-13 title does not select which of its scenes to skip.
Compare the rules, not just the number
The pages below distinguish guidance from admission restrictions and name the medium or jurisdiction each rule covers. Use another country’s page to understand its labels, rather than treating two ratings as exact equivalents.