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The Top 10 Banned Films of the 20th Century

alternativereel.com — Unbelievable, absurd, and downright unnecessary, or simply masterpieces ahead of their time? You decide as you enjoy this look at the top 10 banned films of the 20th century.

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  • ramises, on 04/16/2008, -12/+5#4- Last Tango in Paris

    I wonder how long until we see the Hilton version of that one.
  • funkymoose, on 04/16/2008, -0/+38I guess the bans worked. I've never seen any of them.
    Also youtube link for the butter scene for Last Tango in Paris = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNjF8otfUQs
    • exomni, on 04/16/2008, -0/+7WTF? You haven't seen All Quiet or Last Tango? Those are two of my favorite films.

      Any Taxi Driver fan has to see Jag är nyfiken.

      And Cannibal Holocaust is a cult classic. I don't understand how anyone would manage to get through high school without seeing all the italian cannibal/zombie movies.
      • zapperdude60, on 04/16/2008, -2/+12the cannibal movies are just wrong. they torture and kill animals on camera.
      • Nerfdude, on 04/16/2008, -1/+6cannibal holocaust is entertaining, except when there are just cut scenes of animals getting hacked up.
      • exomni, on 04/16/2008, -5/+7I 100% agree with the zapper and nerf dudes. I was even disgusted when I heard the sacrifice scene in Apocalypse Now was real, and that was just documentation of a tribal custom that was going on regardless of the filming.

        I'm a huge free speech supporter, but I would readily welcome banning a film that tortured and cut up animals just for the film's sake.
        • fjc8, on 04/16/2008, -7/+6"I'm a huge free speech supporter, but I would readily welcome banning a film that tortured and cut up animals just for the film's sake."

          You are not a free speech supporter; you are a hypocrite.
          • corvairkid, on 04/17/2008, -1/+2I may not agree with what someone has to say but I will defend to the death their right to say it.
          • exomni, on 04/17/2008, -1/+3Torturing an animal is not "speech" in any way.

            I bet you wouldn't say a damn thing if we were talking about people publishing child pornography. It's the same thing to a debatably lesser degree.

            Unless you support people's right to publish toddler rape porn, you are a hypocrite.
          • zapperdude60, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1freedom of speech and freedom of expression are two completely different things
        • witcompe, on 04/16/2008, -2/+7You cannot support free speech in one hand and censor something in the other. If you are in fact a "huge free speech supporter" then you would know that speech that you might not like or agree with should be allowed and never censored.
          • screensnot, on 04/16/2008, -3/+2*****. I consider myself to be a free speech supporter, but I still believe we need laws against libel and slander.

            I agree with what exomni said. You can film an animal sacrifice, and show it to people, if your film is not the reason the animal is being sacrificed.

            I dugg you up, witcompe, but it was purely accidental.
          • fjc8, on 04/17/2008, -1/+3@screensnot
            Libel and films depicting violence against animals are not the same. There are laws against libel because maliciously publishing false/misleading information can actually harm someone's reputation (and there are specific legal criteria for libel cases).

            Your arbitrary emotional criteria are meaningless.
          • exomni, on 04/17/2008, -2/+1fjc8, you're an idiot. Laws against libel are far more anti-free-speech than laws against animal cruelty. If speech is truly free, then people would be able to publish false and misleading information all they wanted. That is the very definition of free speech: freedom to say what you want regardless of anything.

            There are laws against animal cruelty because maliciously torturing animals DOES actually harm the animal.

            Your nonsensical absurd criteria is meaningless. Libel is speech. Slander is speech. If we had true freedom of speech both would be allowed. Torturing an animal isn't. Gaining revenue from torturing an animal should not be allowed.
          • exomni, on 04/17/2008, -1/+1***to clarify, libel is writing, which is a form of speech
          • fjc8, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1People *are* allowed to publish false and misleading information. You are allowed to publish all the libelous material you like, but you may be sued for damages. There is no prior restraint.

            Laws against animal cruelty DO NOT matter in this situation; we are discussing a film that depicts these acts. Even if the acts depicted were not staged and were illegal, the film itself is not. Your arbitrary emotional response against animal cruelty is meaningless in this discussion.
        • exomni, on 04/17/2008, -2/+2Torturing and cutting up an animal is not speech in any sense of the word.
    • bluezinc, on 04/16/2008, -2/+5Cannibal Holocaust is actually a good movie with a pretty good message. It explores the ethics of filmmakers who manipulate situations for the camera and present it as reality. The protagonists end up being the antagonists and we root for the villagers in the end. It's got a lot going for it.
    • J0415, on 04/17/2008, -0/+4#01 - CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST [1980]
      Full Movie:
      http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-191455775 ...
  • dtele, on 04/16/2008, -1/+24#09 - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT [1930]
    One of my favourites - a good thing you can still get the original B&W anti-war film on dvd now.
    Its shocking, like Saving Private Ryan, but made in the 30's, and IMHO much better than the Ernest Borgnine remake. Banned because the governments of the time were afraid their people would not agreeably go to war after seeing it !
  • robthom, on 04/16/2008, -19/+2They should ban most films. Only about 2 or 3 out of a thousand are worth watching.
    • suzywang3000, on 04/16/2008, -2/+8especially in this day and age...
    • TotalHalibut, on 04/16/2008, -2/+10How very edgy of you. Way to stick it to the man.
    • Sabretou, on 04/17/2008, -1/+1Absolutely. Go Democracy!
  • gonzomarte, on 04/16/2008, -2/+21Malcom?...http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3246/2399319619_319 ...
    • nycmac247, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Actually, the kid was played by David Bennent but Malcolm was certainly in Caligula
    • TheKingInYellow, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3he's that kid/faun thing in "legend"
  • neognostic, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Thanks for the list! I've only seen three of them, will try to get the other 6 worth seeing, somehow I don't think I'll miss not seeing the last one..............
  • suzywang3000, on 04/16/2008, -3/+6wasn't A Clockwork Orange banned?
    • allywilson, on 04/16/2008, -1/+1No, i think Stanley Kubrick pulled it due to a lot of people misunderstanding it. It was allowed to be released/shown after he died though (not sure if that's because the copyright passed to someone else or whatever).
    • Panzwhore, on 04/16/2008, -2/+2The film was rated C (for "condemned") by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Office (which forbade catholics to see the film) ; the rating repealed in 1982 and rated O (for "morally objectionable")
    • exomni, on 04/16/2008, -1/+1It was almost officially banned in the UK, but Kubrick decided to just withdraw it from circulation in the UK before it was actually banned. In the US it was rated X, which is essentially a ban in most respects, so Kubrick had to edit out about 30 seconds of footage to get an R rating. All the DVD versions of the film are back to the original "X" version.
  • prompel, on 04/16/2008, -2/+37"Life of Brian" was banned in Norway for being blasphemous. Blasphemy FTW!
    • fishgeekva, on 04/16/2008, -0/+8More surprising is that Norway is pretty secular today!
  • whitezombie420, on 04/16/2008, -8/+15dugg for including cannibal holocaust. great movie, not for the weak.
    • thomsamuels, on 04/16/2008, -6/+4Cannibal Holocaust is many things but 'great movie" isn't one of them. There's more to films than shock value.
      • whitezombie420, on 04/16/2008, -1/+1please dont assume that the reason i like the movie is purely shock value, i assure you that my cinematic tastes are alot deeper than that.
    • YKKonMyZipper, on 04/16/2008, -1/+4I was browsing supernova a few years back when it was full of content, and almost every torrent was seeding fast. I was interested in the gore section so I decided to pick a random movie from there list. The movie I picked was cannibal holocaust. I had no idea what the movie was about but the name caught my eye. I will go as far as saying it was the most ***** up movie I have ever seen. It truly shocked me and will forever be in my memory. This is coming from a person that has seen more then one faces of death tape.. It is interesting that people really thought it was a snuff film. At the time I first watched it I was almost convinced it had to be all real.

      • sgtpppr, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6Deodato was arrested after it was released and was forced to bring in the actors to show they weren't actually killed. The main reason the film was banned in so many countries is because of the animal killings...which are real. Now, there are strict laws about animal safety in movies, but he very frankly has animals killed and butchered on film.

        It's not the gore actually that makes the movie so bad, but the brutality and cruelty displayed all around. It's a VERY strong judgment on 'civilized man' as being just as brutal or worse than primitive man.
  • ANT1138, on 04/16/2008, -13/+1I found Cannibal Holocaust hilarious.
    • TEHxINTERWEBS, on 04/16/2008, -6/+1I agree, a wooden stake stabbed through a girl's vag (or even ass?!?) to the mouth is quite hilarious.
      • ANT1138, on 04/16/2008, -2/+1I concur.
        • directrix13, on 04/16/2008, -1/+1He was already agreeing with you. Concurring is just redundant. ;-)
      • jmpeagle, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3it's called impalement

        "The condemned man is made to lie down with his legs spread-eagled and his hands tied behind his back. For the executioner to not be distracted from his work, the victim is rendered motionless by having one the executioner's helpers sit on a saddle placed upon the prisoner's back. The executioner then facilitates the entry of the wooden stake by smearing it with lard, after which he grasps it with both hands and forces it into the victim as deeply as he can. He then pounds it in with a mallet so that it penetrates another fifteen or twenty inches more. The victim is then hoisted upright and the stake is firmly implanted into the ground as the tortured soul is left to expire in indescribable pain and suffering. Because he is unable to secure a foothold, his own weight forces the stake deeper into the victim's body, until the point finally exits, usually from an armpit, the chest, or the abdomen."
        http://www.e-grammes.gr/2004/11/souvlisma_en.htm
  • jmpeagle, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4Robocop 2 was one of many movies banned in Norway until 2003
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/3154 ...
    • panzermeyer, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Why?
      • jmpeagle, on 04/16/2008, -1/+1read the link
      • MRintheKeys, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3Cain: You want me?
        RoboCop: Dead or alive.
        Cain: One of us must die.
        RoboCop: Dead, then.
  • Ianki, on 04/16/2008, -0/+10# 11 Rules of the Game, Banned by the french for making fun of its aristocrats, destroyed by the germans for being too french, still one of the best films of all time.
    • craftyminx, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2It actually won the top non-English film of all time title on that blog critics' survey last year. IIRC "The Seven Samurai" was #2. Both very great films.
  • swrostmore, on 04/16/2008, -2/+2Does the FCC's censorship of Taxi To The Dark Side's original movie poster count as a ban? How about the GOP's ban of Iraq For Sale from being shown as part of the filmmaker's testimony on contractor fraud? Also shoutout to Conspiracy of Silence.
    • exomni, on 04/16/2008, -1/+1That was the MPAA who censored Taxi to the Dark Side's poster, and it's one of the most despicable acts of American censorship in modern times. The MPAA and everyone who works for them are the scum of the earth.
  • KillaJazzBass, on 04/16/2008, -2/+19"A Clockwork Orange" Was banned for a very long time in England due to immense outrage and copycat gangs.
    • FunkyWorm, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6It wasn't banned - Kubrik pulled it from distribution due to copy-cat killing of a tramp in London during the week of release in cinemas.
    • exomni, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2Actually, Kubrick withdrew it from circulation in the UK before it was ever officially banned. But either way, it would still fit fairly well on the list.
  • ELCad, on 04/16/2008, -0/+8The site's been banned! Or maybe it's just down. Mirror?
  • wbeavis, on 04/16/2008, -2/+0Did the web server somehow get banned?
  • Jovensdesciple, on 04/16/2008, -13/+5I think we should ban Algores "An inconvienent truth" because it promotes retardation and it makes poor little children cry because the movie tells them they are polar bear murderers. Algore is gay.
  • darkone2007, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1banned? whats this?
  • exomni, on 04/16/2008, -1/+47Site's down. Here's the list:

    #10 - THE OUTLAW [1943]

    Notable for bringing sex to the Western genre, Howard Hughes’ The Outlaw was shelved for years before finally receiving approval by the Hollywood Production Code Administration. The whole controversial production seems to have gone forward for one reason: To showcase actress Jane Russell’s magnificent breasts. The film’s slogan was "What are the two biggest reasons for Jane Russell’s success?" During filming, Hughes once commented, "We’re not getting enough production from Jane’s breasts." In her memorable screen debut, Russell portrayed "Rio McDonald." Oh yeah, The Outlaw also starrred Walter Huston (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), Thomas Mitchell (It's a Wonderful Life) and Jack Buetel as "Billy the Kid."

    #09 - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT [1930]

    Directed by Lewis Milestone, All Quiet on the Western Front was based on the critically acclaimed Erich Maria Remarque novel, Im Westen nichts Neues, and starred Lew Ayres as the disillusioned soldier, Paul Baumer. The film, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture, was eventually banned in Germany due to its anti-war theme: "You still think it's beautiful to die for your country. The first bombardment taught us better. When it comes to dying for country, it's better not to die at all." However, during the film's brief run in Germany, the Nazis released rats into the theaters to scare off movie patrons. All Quiet on the Western Front was also banned in Italy until 1956.

    #08 - I AM CURIOUS (YELLOW) [1967]

    Banned in Massachusetts for being pornographic, this notorious Swedish film (Jag är nyfiken - gul) faced a landmark court battle in the United States and was eventually found to be not obscene by the United States Court of Appeals. Directed by Vilgot Sjöman, the film starred Lena Nyman and is a companion film to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968). The films were named after the colors of the Swedish flag. I Am Curious (Yellow) contains documentary elements, including an interview with Martin Luther King, Jr.

    #07 - THE BIRTH OF A NATION [1915]

    Based on Thomas Dixon's novel, The Clansman, D. W. Griffith's controversial and extremely influential silent film classic caused riots in Boston, Philadelphia and other major cities. The NAACP organized protests at the various premieres of the film around the country. In addition, The Birth of a Nation was outright banned in several cities such as Chicago, Pittsburgh and Kansas City due to its racist themes. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson commented that the movie, which starred Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh, was "like writing history with lightning." Griffith's next silent film masterpiece, Intolerance, was made in reaction to the negative response he received from The Birth of a Nation.

    #06 - THE TIN DRUM [1979]

    "A savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos." Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel (Die Blechtrommel) by Günter Grass, The Tin Drum won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. However, the film was banned in several countries, including parts of Canada, as well as in Oklahoma City for a short time, due to a controversial scene that appears to show minors engaging in oral sex.

    #05 - HAIL MARY [1985]

    In Hail Mary (Je vous salue, Marie), the Virgin Mary is a gas station attendant whose boyfriend, Joseph, drives a taxi. Even Pope John Paul II jumped into the battle over this controversial, modern retelling of the virgin birth story from Jean-Luc Godard, claiming that the film "deeply wounds the religious sentiments of believers."

    #04 - LAST TANGO IN PARIS [1973]

    Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi) details the bizarre relationship of an American widower (Marlon Brando) and a young Parisian woman (Maria Schneider). The film caused much controversy for the so-called "butter scene," which is extremely tame by today's standards. Schneider, who claims she is still haunted by the scene, was quoted in the New York Post (July 23, 2007), claiming that the scene wasn't part of the original script: "The truth is it was Marlon who came up with the idea . . . I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script . . . I was crying real tears. I felt humiliated and, to be honest, I felt a little raped . . . Thankfully, there was just one take . . . I never use butter to cook anymore - only olive oil." According to a court in Bologna that banned the film: "Obscene content offensive to public decency . . . presented with obsessive self-indulgence, catering to the lowest instincts of the libido, dominated by the idea of stirring unchecked appetites for sexual pleasure, permeated by scurrilous language . . . accompanied off screen by sounds, sighs and shrieks of climax pleasure."

    #03 - THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST [1988]

    "I am here to set fire to the world!" Martin Scorsese directed this adaption of Nikos Kazantzakis' controversial 1953 novel that is notable for the scandal it caused as well as for its bizarre casting that included Willem Dafoe as Jesus, Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene, Harvey Keitel as Judas Iscariot, David Bowie as Pontius Pilate and Harry Dean Stanton as Paul. Numerous religious leaders throughout the United States organized protests against The Last Temptation of Christ (many of whom didn't bother to make an effort to watch the film!) and several Southern cities such as Savannah, Georgia, banned the film. In addition, Blockbuster Video initially refused to carry the title in its stores. Scorsese was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for his efforts (Barry Levinson ended up winning the award for Rain Man).

    #02 - TITICUT FOLLIES [1967]

    "Don't turn your back on this film . . . if you value your mind or your life." A fascinating (and extremely disturbing!) black and white documentary dealing with the mistreatment of patients at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, a prison hospital for the criminally insane, Titicut Follies was banned in the United States after a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court determined that the film violated the patients' right to privacy. However, many critics believed that the film was removed from circulation by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protect its own reputation. Finally, in 1992, the film aired on PBS and is now widely available.

    #01 - CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST [1980]

    "Oh, good Lord! It's unbelievable. It's horrible. I can't understand the reason for such cruelty!" Directed by Italian filmmaker Ruggero Deodato and filmed in the Amazon Rainforest, Cannibal Holocaust was banned in many countries upon its initial release due to its graphic gore and sexual violence, as well as for several gruesome (and genuine!) animal slayings that appear in the film. Rumors also circulated that it was a snuff film (which at least proved to be untrue!). Countries that banned the movie at one time or another include Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Burma, Norway, South Africa, Finland, Turkey, Singapore, Germany, Iran and Morocco. Believe it or not, Cannibal Holocaust remains banned in several countries to this day . . . "Man is omnipotent; nothing is impossible for him. What seemed like unthinkable undertakings yesterday are history today. The conquest of the moon for example: who really talks about it anymore? Today we are already on the threshold of conquering our galaxy, and in a not too distant tomorrow, we'll be considering the conquest of the universe, and yet man seems to ignore the fact that on this very planet there are still people living in the stone age and practicing cannibalism."
  • thenameisfinger, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Google Cache:
    http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:rgLzsfm9O6MJ: ...
  • lcollado, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3Hey! what about Jodorowsky's "Fando and Lis", Any film where the director has to escape a lynch mob audience has to be in the list.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fando_y_Lis
  • aserer511, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1missing so many italian horror classics
  • shyboy2008, on 04/16/2008, -3/+1Midnight Cowboy anyone?
    • xsquirrel378x, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2it was just the first X-rated movie. dont know that it was actually banned anywhere
    • hollyminkowski, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1It's a great film...sooo sad when Ratso dies on the bus at the end :-(
  • Auryn, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3No Ken Park?
    • levelred, on 04/16/2008, -0/+0I was thinking the same thing...
    • hollyminkowski, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Ken Park is a sick film. I downloaded it and after watching a bit just deleted the piece of filth.
  • lololol1, on 04/16/2008, -1/+1Digg: 10
    Alternative reel: 8
  • Misinformant, on 04/16/2008, -7/+5Just the cover of #1 made me cringe. I couldn't even tell you the name of it I closed the window so damn fast.
  • elizabethb221, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3Howard Hughes is my second cousin thrice removed.

    Should I brag about being related to someone who went insane?

  • Crosshare, on 04/16/2008, -2/+1I'll never forget when James Dobson and Focus on the Family got Any Given Sunday banned here in Colorado Springs for showing full frontal male nudity. It's scary to think how much power the religious right has in this area.
  • magneteye, on 04/16/2008, -0/+17I am surprised that "Salo - 120 Days of Sodomy" isn't on that list. Banned in many countries, and a ***** insane movie.

    "Set in the Nazi-controlled, northern Italian state of Salo in 1944, four dignitaries round up sixteen perfect specimens of youth and take them together with guards, servants and studs to a palace near Marzabotto. In addition, there are four middle-aged women: three of whom recount arousing stories whilst the fourth accompanies on the piano. The story is largely taken up with their recounting the stories of Dante and De Sade: the Circle of Manias, the Circle of ***** and the Circle of Blood. Following this, the youths are executed whilst each libertine takes his turn as voyeur"

    -First part of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Death. The subsequent two parts were never filmed because Pasolini was murdered some months after he has finished this movie.
    • FMDC, on 04/16/2008, -0/+0I was definitely expecting to see that one really close to number 1.
    • sgtpppr, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Salo is definitely an 'interesting' movie. I can deal with pretty much anything, but scat is just too much for me. It's another extreme metaphor for abuse of power and hypocrisy.
    • jarsilver, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2I was coming here to say the exact same thing. Salo is a masterpiece and is probably banned in at least as many countries as Cannibal Holocaust. It's still almost impossible to find.

      If you're offended by its obscenity, the joke is on you.
  • thesoze, on 04/16/2008, -0/+8CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST - the film where the makers of Blair Witch Project stole the idea from....
  • xutopia, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2For same intent and purpose Idocracy should be on that list.
  • psg188, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3No "Triumph of the Will"?
    That movie was banned forever and was incredibly powerful, it deserves a watch.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Will
    • sgtpppr, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2I don't think many people actually consider it (or Birth of a Nation) as a real film, but instead political propaganda. I do believe it should be on the list though as it is banned in a number of countries and would even be considered offensive to a lot of people here.
  • invisiblehat, on 04/16/2008, -1/+10Dugg up for 'Cannibal Holocaust' (and almost Dugg down for the omission of 'Salo'.
    To this day, the turtle destruction scene in 'Cannibal Holocaust' is the most disturbing thing I have witnessed in any film (and I have seen all of the Miike movies, 'Men Behind the Sun', 'Salo', 'August Mordum's Underground', etc.
    So disturbing because it is real.
    • moptop313, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1yeah that movie ruined me as a child lol. I just knew that movie had 2 be number 1. To this day i haven't seen a movie worse than Cannibal Holocaust. Great movie though IMO
    • sgtpppr, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2I agree. Cannibal Holocaust has this feeling to it that other 'extreme' movies just don't have. I've seen most of the ones you've listed here too, but CH just has a bad feeling to it. It's brutality and exploitation to the point of nausea. i also love the irony of the main premise that people will pay to see this stuff and civilized people still yearn for brutality...as a person is watching a film showcasing the brutality whether it be animals killings, murders, rapes, dismemberments, cannibalism, forced abortion, impalement, burning alive, etc.. The soundtrack on top of it is also haunting. One of the few movies that will make you feel dirty. Most of cannibal ferox is pretty sappy, but the very end is also pretty brutal. Same general premise too: 'civilized people who feel they are superior because they aren't savage like the natives decide to hypocritically and savagely exploit the natives until the natives do exactly what they are accused of'.
  • Rwned, on 04/16/2008, -2/+1"The film caused much controversy for the so-called "butter scene," which is extremely tame by today's standards."

    WTF.. that scence is ten times raunchier than 99% of anything Hollywood has put out in the last 20 years. Even anything, censorship has gotten worse.
  • Rizmaster, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1All of these are definite must sees.
  • TimeWrecker, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2Birth of a nation was a film that inspired the 2nd rise of the KKK. the fact that it was a purely racist film is not mentioned in this article. It instead only cites it as a classic enjoyed by the president... They should have gone into more detail there...
  • cykyc, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Now I know what to add to my Netflix queue!
  • Brainclone, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3I am surprised faces of death wasn't banned at one time or another... those are disturbing.
    • sgtpppr, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Most of those are straight up boring. It's like watching a 1950s war documentary. Faces of Death aren't even movies. They're simply news reels of violent ***** (most of it really old and no where near as bad as what you see on the Web out of Iraq). It's only still around cause college kids rent it because of it's notoriety.
  • digiital, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvflno8ydJk

    So is this something like Two girls and a cup? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM4yt6SVn60

    After watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_ZPgLO9-IM

    Full movie: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-191455775 ...

    Xvid: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1297348
    http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/29109294/cannib ...
  • ElGigi, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1"Last temptation of Christ" was banned here in Chile for years. It was released when Chile was under the militar dictatorship of Pinochet, so it was not so strange, but the ban lasts until 2001, due to pressure of catholic church and right-wing politicians (traditionally right-wing is associated with Catholic religion beliefs in Chile). A shame to the new democracy and free-speech rights in chile that lasts more than ten years.

    Finally the ban was removed after a sentence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, but by that time almost everyone in chile have seen the movie on "illegall copies" on VHS. :)
  • bigbill780, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Cannibal Holocaust is insane. They actually killed a bunch of animals during the filming and include it as part of the journey through the jungle.
  • nestafett, on 04/16/2008, -0/+6Birth of a nation was a fully racist movie that glorified the klan and helped its re-emergance. The article makes it sound as if Wilson didn't like it but he fully embraced it. (the full quote is..."It is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that its all true" ---the story was about klansmen that save a white girl from the primitive blacks)
    • frieddonuts, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah few people realize it but Wilson was an unabashed racist...
      • ConceptJunkie, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1A lot of famous historical people were, a lot of famous contemporary people are...
  • goffy59, on 04/16/2008, -4/+1I despise religion. I seriously hope it gets eradicated off the earth in the future. Its a virus. Maybe when religion is gone, we can achieve world peace.
  • loquax, on 04/16/2008, -0/+2I was in Montgomery, Alabama when they "banned" The Last Temptation of Jesus Christ. The movie theater across from my school was the only place brave enough to show it (years after it was released even). I was floored by the movie. If anything it really did more for humanizing the story of Christ than even _The Passion_. Here is a guy who could have had a normal life, filled with love, children, and family, but he died for his faith in what he was doing.
  • maxpower2911, on 04/16/2008, -0/+3This list forgot Les Cousins Dangereux.
    • dbsmoker, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Heheheh! Good one! Arrested Development rocks!
  • Phlieger, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1I actually just watched Cannibal Holocaust this past weekend. It's a good movie, but the animal deaths were awful. Especially when they killed the turtle and were digging through its guts.
  • zaprowsdower, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1Funny how a lot of those movies were banned for simply having something important to say. I guess the truth just hurts.
  • oMeSSiaHo, on 04/16/2008, -0/+1When I worked at Circuit City, we got a copy of The Outlaw to play on the TVs. I guess you can say times have changed!
  • watt300, on 04/17/2008, -0/+0What about Salt of the Earth?
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047443/
  • camilos007, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1Last Tango - Maria Schneider : "I felt humiliated and, to be honest, I felt a little raped . . . Thankfully, there was just one take . . . I never use butter to cook anymore - only olive oil."

    Is it just me or is she exaggerating just a wee bit?
    • domdunc, on 04/17/2008, -0/+2Yeah, she's acting as if she didn't have to option to say no. All she had to do was break character and the takes couldn't be used. Sure she might have been fired but it's better than feeling raped.
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