Notorious (1946)

Notorious parents guide

There is no US rating to lean on. What we tagged stays mild: some innuendo or implied sex and some violence.

Scare

Not scary

Jump scares

None noted

Gore

No gore

Violence

Some violence

Some fighting or peril.

Sex and nudity

Mild

Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.

Language

None flagged

It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

Three questions

Is Notorious scary?

No. Notorious is not a scary watch.

How gory is Notorious?

No gore and some violence. Squeamish viewers are fine here.

What is Notorious about?

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.

Cast and crew

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Notorious is on our Spies, Noir and neo-noir, Classics (pre-1970) and Romance lists.

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Prompts we typed into CouchRot, and the lists that share its tags.

• “a thriller with a twist, no spoilers”
• “a horror movie that's actually scary”
• “scary but not gory”

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