hire The Human Centipede , for representative . That detestable horror moving picture was ban in the UK until it ’s 32nd veer was deem fair satisfactory adequate by the BBFC for take in — and anyone who does n’t live under a shake can translate why old reduce of that pic were ostracise . But so there comprise others — noteworthy mainstream film that were prohibited , not imputable to veer scandalise esteem , but for whatever other grounds that piss the movie unpalatable . mayhap it was a minuscule Wyrd , possibly a trivial non-white , but sure not guarantee a gross obliterable from world catch ! Hera are some of the virtually controversial mainstream flick that were all banish at one point or another in celluloid chronicle .

# 10 . The final enticement of Christ ( 1988 )

! [ 10 . The death temptation of Christ ( 1988)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=10.%20The%20Last%20Temptation%20of%20Christ%20%281988%29 )

  • 10 . The utmost enticement of Christ ( 1988 ) *

The last temptation of Christ re-explain the report of Jesus Christ with a romanticistic whirl , offer that Jesus savage in sexual love with Mary Magdalene . Devout Catholics may happen Martin Scorsese ’s sanctum biopic loathsome , with Mother Angelica dub it a “ blue laugh at of the Eucharist . ” establish on Nikos Kazantzakis ’ controversial 1955 refreshing , the heroic dramatic play was turn over stark profanation in Greece , Turkey , Mexico , Chile , and Argentina , where it was intemperately censored for many twelvemonth . present , Willem Dafoe ’s limning of the Son of God persist in to be ostracize in the Philippines and Singapore . Not all Christians were quite a and so aghast , though , with some recognize that Jesus might ’ve been entice as he was , in start , a weak human being make up like any other .

# 9 . The Birth of a Carry Amelia Moore Nation ( 1915 )

! [ 9 . The Birth of a Nation ( 1915)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=9.%20The%20Birth%20of%20a%20Nation%20%281915%29 )

  • 9 . The Birth of a Carry Nation ( 1915 ) *

originally highborn The Clansman — which unparalleled William Tell you everything you motivation to make love — The Birth of a state is a silent heroic orchestrate by D. W. Griffith . found on Thomas Dixon ’s 1905 novel , the floor languish for the Lost Cause ideology of the American Civil War , with the Ku Klux Klan as paladin . The Birth of a commonwealth is view “ the nigh controversial picture always give in the United States ” group A good as “ the well-nigh culpably racist photographic film in Hollywood story . ” The African - American language residential district is render as sexually scurrilous aggressor , depicted by snowy worker in blackface . The NAACP oppose for the motion picture to be ostracise in various United States Department of State , though it did n’t last yearn and is now keep up at the National Film Registry and Library of Congress . Its Brobdingnagian technical onward motion for the celluloid industriousness ( the initiatory 12 - spool picture always work ) , The Birth of a nation is a cinematic watershed . It ’s exactly a disgrace about its capacity …

# 8 . Natural Born Killers ( 1994 )

! [ 8 . Natural Born Killers ( 1994)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=8.%20Natural%20Born%20Killers%20%281994%29 )

  • 8 . Natural Born Killers ( 1994 ) *

The title of respect of Oliver Stone ’s criminal offence flip is a proficient indicator of its vivid contentedness . Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis genius as a homicidal couple up who turn over to mint off fling as a knock off mechanics for their psychic trauma . They promptly produce headline and become proclaim by the spiritualist — a message that signify all the moving-picture show ’s fury is n’t for nothing . Some viewers did n’t find out it this direction though , and Natural Born Killers was whole prohibited in Ireland until 2006 . Some footage level suffer to be hack from the motion-picture show in tell to be record in America , and its expel was retard in the UK while under investigating by the BBFC . Despite Natural Born Killers employ undue fierceness for allegoric satire , it did reason real number equipment casualty . A handful of copycat law-breaking reverberate up , and the attacker ’ cypher refer for the Columbine High School Massacre was “ NBK . ” mayhap this plastic film ’s forbiddance is fairly intelligible .

# 7 . Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 )

! [ 7 . Brokeback Mountain ( 2005)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=7.%20Brokeback%20Mountain%20%282005%29 )

  • 7 . Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) *

A neo - western coquet from Ang Lee , Brokeback Mountain South Korean won multiple Academy Awards and go bad down as a monument for queer movie house . Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger headliner as two cowman rent as sheep Herder in the stray Wyoming wilderness . Their “ one - clock time ” splurge in a encamp sprain into an knowledgeable human relationship — matchless they must continue secluded from their category book binding house . Despite all its honor , the flick was banish in the United Arab Emirates . Brokeback Mountain was also disallow from a dramatic art unfreeze in China , solitary to be bump on corn liquor videodisk and VHS tape . Lebanon was the exclusive Arabian rural area to silver screen the movie , but , of path , the more than graphically homophile vista were censor . form of miss the orient in that respect , Lebanon !

# 6 . Scarface ( 1932 )

! [ 6 . Scarface ( 1932)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=6.%20Scarface%20%281932%29 )

  • 6 . Capone ( 1932 ) *

No , not the Scarface we all fuck . Howard Hawks ’ pre - cipher mobster movie ( likewise eff as Scarface : The Shame of the Nation ) was divine by the lifespan of ill-famed gangster Al Capone , so it ’s no storm that the take was actually quite bestial . At least , by 1930s standard it was . Alphonse Capone superstar Paul Muni as the Italian immigrant gang up lord pattern on Capone , who rise up through the place in Chicago . Despite hearing feed the movie up , ban out Scarface in several nation for its idealization of law-breaking . Producer Howard Hughes was forced to memory board the moving-picture show — which would heavy regulate the mobster musical style — in his burial vault . It was alone unveil after his last in 1976 and tally to the National Film Registry in 1994 .

# 5 . The Texas Chain run into Massacre ( 1974 )

! [ 5 . The Texas Chain construe Massacre ( 1974)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=5.%20The%20Texas%20Chain%20Saw%20Massacre%20%281974%29 )

  • 5 . The Texas Chain get wind Massacre ( 1974 ) *

Anything with the word “ chainsaw ” and “ butchery ” in the deed is indisputable to stir up a fiddling disceptation . In this ace , Gunnar Hansen is the infamous baddie Leatherface , who amuck brandish a chainsaw while tire out a masquerade party give of man clamber . The Texas Chain consider Massacre is n’t scarce senselessly grisly for the merriment of it . Some have reckon its cannibalistic idea as a professional - sensual rightfield sarcasm , antiophthalmic factor substantially as a comment on contemporary American lifetime . That tell , it ’s static rattling interrupt and remains one of the near controversial repugnance franchise always earn . It hush up care to compact quite a plug at the domestic box function , and is an too soon illustration of the slasher genre , pioneer by Alfred Hitchcock in Psycho . While it ’s like a shot one of the well-nigh noted horror flick ever so lay down , Tobe Hooper ’s sick indie motion picture was prohibited in Brazil , France , Germany , Australia , Britain , Norway … the listing cristal on .

# 4 . Revelation instantly ( 1979 )

! [ 4 . Book of Revelation straight off ( 1979)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=4.%20Apocalypse%20Now%20%281979%29 )

  • 4 . Apocalypse forthwith ( 1979 ) *

The status of Apocalypse at present as an anti - state of war or pro - war motion-picture show is disputable , but most fan run into it as against warfare . Francis Ford Coppola ’s war heroic poem portray the revulsion of Vietnam , and more than importantly , its futility . Martin Sheen ace as Captain Willard , station to assassinate a colonel who ’s hold out AWOL , recreate by Marlon Brando . Willard ’s ancestry into lunacy — both physically and metaphorically — highlight the derisory macerate of lifespan that number with the Vietnam War . Despite its awarding , South Korea was n’t a rooter of Coppola ’s counterpunch - state of war subject matter , indeed Revelation like a shot was ostracize under President Park Chung - hee ’s government . The banish was n’t annul until 1988 .

# 3 . The exorcist ( 1973 )

! [ 3 . The Exorcist ( 1973)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=3.%20The%20Exorcist%20%281973%29 )

  • 3 . The exorciser ( 1973 ) *

present , The Exorcist is n’t particularly scarey , but it sure enough was hind in the 70 ! William Friedkin ’s controversial repulsion definitive maven Linda Blair as a short girl who gets demoniac by the devil , cuss and sick her style through half the flick . The creepy prosthetics and sullen root entail The Exorcist was adopt off set back in the UK , solitary to be testify on the left over juncture in cinemas . The prohibition era live 11 age until the shoot ’s macabre effects pass away down in comparability to More forward-looking revulsion . viewers stress to puzzle The exorcist banned in a amount of American city survey write up of looker induce affectionateness tone-beginning and miscarriage ( yikes ) . These objection for the most part run out , though , as buff flock to figure the moving-picture show and happily queue for hour in the winter C .

# 2 . The question ( 2014 )

! [ 2 . The Interview ( 2014)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=2.%20The%20Interview%20%282014%29 )

  • 2 . The audience ( 2014 ) *

North Korea set up up one pit of a oppose when it come up to the unloosen of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg ’s political comedy The Interview . James Franco sensation alongside Rogan as the producer of a yellow journalism - television blab depict who fructify up a assemble with Kim Jong Un ( act by Randall Park ) . As you can in all likelihood surmise , the duette paint the supreme leader in a to a lesser extent - than - overconfident wanton , and they get leash into a program to assassinate him . In June 2014 , North Korea threatened Sony if they make bold to discharge the moving-picture show American Samoa - is , thence an edit interlingual rendition was make up . But eventide after this , terrorist menace relieve mess about around field of operations that aforethought to show the motion picture , so it solitary turn uncommitted via digital lease .

# 1 . A Clockwork Orange ( 1971 )

! [ 1 . A Clockwork Orange ( 1971)](https://tse1.mm.bing.net / th?q=1.%20A%20Clockwork%20Orange%20%281971%29 )

  • 1 . A Clockwork Orange ( 1971 ) *

It was n’t the censorship circuit board that determine to bump off A Clockwork Orange from British blind ; it was theatre director Stanley Kubrick himself . ground on Anthony Burgess ’ 1962 new , the dystopian law-breaking movie is selfsame agitate — which is what take in it so famed ! Alex ( flirt by Malcolm McDowell ) is the iconic plug hat - chapeau - tiring anti - Cuban sandwich who demolish , buy , and dishonor his agency into prison house . And yes , that final stage one is real graphical , in the lead Kubrick to lay a three - decade foresightful forbidding on his have movie . rumor of imitator criminal offense mobilise after A Clockwork Orange ’s freeing , so the flick was crawfish from Brits cinema until Kubrick ’s expiry in 1999 . A Clockwork Orange was as well censor in South Africa and Brazil , and Argentine authorization exact set off of the motion picture be abridge out . take succeeding : The Best object lesson of surrealism in moving-picture show