Movie
Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-ups
2026 • NR
A powerful drug cartel pulls the strings behind a facade of sun-soaked beaches as a gritty, violent underworld power struggle emerges during the crumbling of Portuguese colonial rule.
Content advisory
LGBTQ+ Characters/Relationships
Unrated
Language
Unrated
Mature Themes
heavy — The film deals extensively with mature themes such as death, grief, family betrayal, trauma, psychological illness (split personality), crime, revenge, and suicide. Characters experience killings in the family, betrayals, spiraling mental health issues, and suicide is depicted.
Scary/Intense Content
moderate — The film contains scenes of attempted assassinations, shootouts, and tense confrontations that build sustained moments of fear and peril. The assassination attempt during a circus involving clowns disguising assassins is a disturbing and scary moment.
Sexual Content & Nudity
moderate — There are romantic relationships involving Raya: with Salvador's daughter Rebecca and circus performer Nadia, and later marriage to a woman named Melissa. A pregnancy is mentioned and a wedding night scene is implied. Nudity is not specifically detailed but implied sexual relationships are present. No explicit sex scenes are described.
Substance Use
moderate — At one point Raya is described as drunk while driving which causes his car to fall off a cliff. This suggests use of alcohol. No glorification or central focus on substance use is indicated.
Violence & Gore
heavy — The film contains multiple scenes of intense and graphic violence including shootings, assassinations, torture-like loyalty tests, and shootouts. Characters are frequently killed, stabbed, or shot; blood and realistic consequences are shown. The violence is serious and sustained throughout much of the story.