Train Dreams
A lyrical, melancholy period drama following a logger and railroad worker across the early 20th-century American Northwest, adapted from Denis Johnson's novella. Its emotional weight comes from grief, loss, and solitude rather than graphic content, but several scenes of workplace violence, a racially motivated killing, and a devastating family loss give it a consistently sombre tone.
Explicit sexual contentHarm to childrenHarm to animalsMedical traumaGraphic violence & goreAbuse & manipulationSubstance abuse
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A Chinese railroad worker is grabbed by a group of men and thrown from a high rail bridge to his death; the moment of impact is not shown but the scene is described as upsetting.
A man is struck and killed by a falling tree branch at a logging site.
A brief implied sex scene between husband and wife; dimly lit, only faces visible, suggested by sound and movement.