This Safer Internet Day, explore our list of films that deal with navigating the internet safely and spotting online scams. Our list is complete with our age ratings and content advice to help you make informed viewing decisions.
Ralph Breaks The Internet
mild threat, rude humour
Ralph Breaks The Internet is an animation in which two friends enter the internet to find a part to fix a game.
Threat
Characters are threatened by a virus which chases them. A scary creature groans and growls at the heroes. There are also some mildly tense car chases and a scene in which a dog growls threateningly at characters.
Theme
An advert makes references to 'sassy housewives wanting to meet you'. There is also comic wordplay about lingerie, and various jokes about burping.
Very mild bad language includes uses of the following: 'butt', 'holy cow' and 'damn'.
Tron
Contains mild fantasy violence and infrequent mild language
Tron is a US sci-fi adventure film about a computer hacker who is abducted into a digital world and forced to participate in a series of gladiatorial games.
Violence
There are mild action sequences featuring laser blasts and explosions, but these are all undetailed and do not result in any injury detail. Electronic characters are seen being deleted, with some focus on their pained faces.
Language
There is uses of mild bad language such as 'damn', 'bugger' and 'hell'.
The Social Network
infrequent strong language and drug use
The Social Network is a drama based on the true story of the creation of the social networking website Facebook.
Language
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms including 'bitch', 'shit' and 'asshole'.
Drugs
During party scenes there is some undetailed cannabis use and a brief sequence implying that characters are snorting cocaine. The police then arrive and the users are arrested, and the work as a whole does not promote or endorse drugs misuse.
Ready Player One
moderate violence, horror, infrequent strong language
Ready Player One is a US science fiction drama in which a gamer and his friends race against a sinister corporation to take control of a virtual world by finding secrets hidden within it.
Violence
Most of the violence is between players in a virtual reality world where wounds are fantastical and participants cannot be seriously harmed. There are battle sequences, stabbings, shootings and martial arts style combat. In the real world, there is hand-to-hand violence, without sight of injury. A man punches the face of his girlfriend's teenage son.
Threat
In the safety of the virtual reality world, the friends encounter characters and settings from real world horror films. They enter a simulation of THE SHINING where they are threatened by ghosts, zombies and gigantic axes and where a player is swept away on a torrent of blood. Freddy Krueger and a Chucky doll, armed with a knife, both fight in battle sequences. Players are chased by King Kong and a T. rex.
Language
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k'), together with milder terms such as 'pissing', 'shit', 'balls', 'dickweed', 'damn', 'brokeass', 'goddam', 'hell', 'God', 'asshole', 'pissed', 'badass' and 'douchebag'.
There are mild sex references: a villain jokes about the 'hos' of Father Christmas; a player rubs her hands over another's touch-sensitive body suit.
Missing
strong threat, violence, domestic abuse
MISSING is a US mystery thriller drama film, set entirely on computer and phone screens, in which a teenager searches for information about her mother, who has gone missing during a trip to Colombia.
violence
Two people are shot and another is stabbed with a shard of glass, resulting in brief bloody detail. There are scenes of domestic abuse, including aggressive and violent behaviour. Another scene features images of a murder victim with a small amount of blood on their face.
threat and horror
There are scenes of strong threat in which frightened people are kidnapped and threatened with violence.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
additional issues
There is infrequent use of strong language (‘f**k’); milder terms include ‘WTF’, ‘cock’, ‘shit’, ‘ass’ and ‘crap’. There are infrequent moderate references to drug misuse and dealing. A selfie of a woman in her underwear is found on a man’s email account. A reference to ‘sexual exploitation’ is briefly visible on a missing persons form. There are mild references to cancer and bereavement. A person is seen vomiting after drinking alcohol.
The Tinder Swindler
language
The Tinder Swindler is a true crime documentary film, where posing as a wealthy, jet-setting diamond mogul, pursued women online, then conned them out of millions of dollars.
Eighth Grade
strong language, sex references
Eighth Grade is a US drama in which a young teenage girl endures her final week at middle school before leaving to start high school.
Language
There is strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'dick', 'shit', 'goddamn', 'God', 'Jesus Christ').
Sex
There is a scene in which a web search shows a woman explaining a sexual technique, accompanied by strong sex references.
There is also a scene in which a young teenage girl suffers a panic attack, as well as one in which an older teenage boy tries to pressurise a younger teenage girl into having sex; however, she does not agree to this.
Ingrid Goes West
very strong language, drug misuse, suicide references
Ingrid Goes West is a US comedy drama in which an unbalanced social media stalker moves to Los Angeles and worms herself into the life of an Instagram star.
Language
There is infrequent strong language ('c**t') and strong language ('motherf**ker' and 'f**k').
Drugs
The film includes portrayals of cocaine snorting. There are also several verbal drug references.
Suicide
There are infrequent references to suicide and in one scene a woman takes an overdose of prescription medication.
Other issues include moderate sex references.
