The famous "mattresses" montage sequence features various newspapers with real-life photographs of killings of gangsters and mobsters. Although they a quite brief and relatively unimportant to the plot, the idea that those are real events and not pictures taken for the film might be a bit disturbing.
The film opens on a man describing a violent attack on his daughter and the injuries she received.
Sonny Corleone beats up his sisters man Carlo in the street. He even bites his hand and throws a trash can over him.
A man is shot four times by another man through a glass door, blood on the glass is seen. A man and woman in bed are shot to death with machine guns, brief but a bit bloody.
A man is stabbed in the hand and then garroted, a trickle of blood is seen on his hand. Lasts for roughly 18 seconds as he struggles before the scene cuts.
A man is shot in the eye, he slumps down dead. We see his glasses crack, and blood streaming for a second. Not too graphic.
A man shoots two men with some blood.
A man is shot five times in the back (from a distance).
A man is shot dead in a car (not visible).
Three men are shot by a policeman imposter; they die. Some blood is around two of the bodies briefly.
A man is punched once. He is then seen with a rather swollen face and subtle black eye.