What is Locked Up about?
Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.
Locked Up (2015)
A young woman navigates a ruthless women's prison, facing relentless tension and bleak, gritty crime.
Tense and suspenseful. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Netflix.
Locked Up parents guide
The thing to know: strong sex and nudity, more than a TV-MA usually carries. Beyond that, strong violence and frequent strong language.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- A couple
- One or two sudden jolts.
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Strong violence
- Violence is frequent or intense.
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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Three questions
- Is Locked Up scary?
- Only a little. Locked Up has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Locked Up?
- Light gore and strong violence.
- What is Locked Up rated, and is it OK for kids?
- No. It is rated TV-MA, with strong sex and nudity, strong violence, and frequent strong language.
Cast and crew
Created byÁlex Pina, Daniel Écija, Iván Escobar
StarringNajwa Nimri, Maggie Civantos, Berta Vázquez, Alba Flores, María Isabel Díaz Lago, Ramiro Blas
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Locked Up is on our Stressful, Prison, Spanish-language, Crime on Netflix and Crime lists.
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