Various countries or regions have film classification boards for reviewing movies and
| rating their
| content in
| terms of its suitability for particular audiences For many countries movies are required to be advertised as having a particular
| certificate or
| rating forewarning audiences of possible objectionable
| content The nature of this objectionable
| content is determined mainly by contemporary national
| social religious and political standards The usual
| criteria which determine a film s
| certificate are violence and sexuality with mature situations and especially blasphemy and political issues often being considered
| more important outside the Western world This is by no means a hard and fast rule see the Hays Production Code for an example In some
| cases a film classification board exhibits censorship by demanding changes be made to a movie in order to receive a certain
| rating As many movies are targetted at a particular age
| group studios must
| balance the
| content of their films against the demands of the classification board Negotiations are common studios agree to make certain changes to films in order to receive the required
| rating The IMDb uses the
| term | Certificate as opposed to
| Rating to avoid confusion with
| ratings meaning the opinions of critics See also Banned NC-17 PG G XXX
- only individual words found (there may be no translations for some thesaurus entries in the bilingual dictionary)
