Tim Dirks's 100+ Most Controversial Films of All-Time
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Films always have the ability to anger us, divide us, shock us, disgust us, and more. Usually, films that inspire controversy, outright boycotting, picketing, banning, censorship, or protest have graphic sex, violence, homosexuality, religious, political or race-related themes and content. They usually push the envelope regarding what can be filmed and displayed on the screen, and are considered taboo, "immoral" or "obscene" due to language, drug use, violence and sensuality/nudity or other incendiary elements. Inevitably, controversy helps to publicize these films and fuel the box-office receipts.
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Scarface
1932, in 16 top lists Check -
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Peeping Tom
1960, in 20 top lists Check -
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Victim
1961, in 7 top lists Check -
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967, in 28 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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Dirty Harry
1971, in 17 top lists Check -
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971, in 12 top lists Check -
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Pink Flamingos
1972, in 13 top lists Check -
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Cruising
1980, in 2 top lists Check -
66 -1
Year of the Dragon
1985, in 4 top lists Check -
67 -1
Blue Velvet
1986, in 27 top lists Check -
68 -1
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1986, in 7 top lists Check -
73 -1
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1989, in 10 top lists Check -
74 -1
Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
81 -1
Bandit Queen
1994, in 5 top lists Check -
82 -1
Natural Born Killers
1994, in 9 top lists Check -
83 -1
Kids
1995, in 5 top lists Check -
90 -1
Baise-moi
2000, in 3 top lists Check -
93 -1
Irréversible
2002 — a.k.a. Irreversible, in 10 top lists Check -
104 -1
Hard Candy
2005, in 3 top lists Check
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