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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  1. 71 -1

    The Last Temptation of Christ

    1988, in 7 top lists Check
  2. 88 -1

    South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

    1999, in 8 top lists Check
  3. 67 -1

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  4. 84 -1

    Crash

    1996, in 9 top lists Check
  5. 64 -1

    Twilight Zone: The Movie

    1983, in 3 top lists Check
  6. 92 -1

    El crimen del Padre Amaro

    2002 — a.k.a. The Crime of Padre Amaro, in 4 top lists Check
  7. 85 -1

    Lolita

    1997, in 1 top list Check
  8. 32 -

    The Devils

    1971, in 12 top lists Check
  9. 21 -

    Lolita

    1962, in 11 top lists Check
  10. 41 -

    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
  11. 103 -1

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
  12. 31 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  13. 99 -1

    Fahrenheit 9/11

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
  14. 108 -1

    United 93

    2006, in 5 top lists Check
  15. 117 -1

    La vie d'Adèle

    2013 — a.k.a. Blue Is the Warmest Colour, in 13 top lists Check
  16. 98 -1

    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
  17. 91 -1

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  18. 82 -1

    Natural Born Killers

    1994, in 9 top lists Check
  19. 76 -1

    JFK

    1991, in 13 top lists Check
  20. 35 -

    Straw Dogs

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
  21. 33 -

    Dirty Harry

    1971, in 17 top lists Check
  22. 43 -

    The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

    1974, in 15 top lists Check
  23. 4 -

    L'âge d'or

    1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check
  24. 28 -

    Midnight Cowboy

    1969, in 22 top lists Check
  25. 27 -

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
  26. 9 -

    Triumph des Willens

    1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check
  27. 12 -

    The Outlaw

    1943, in 2 top lists Check
  28. 7 -

    Scarface

    1932, in 16 top lists Check
  29. 2 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  30. 60 -

    Heaven's Gate

    1980, in 8 top lists Check
  31. 25 -

    Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult

    1967 — a.k.a. I Am Curious (Yellow), in 5 top lists Check
  32. 18 -

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  33. 17 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  34. 102 -1

    The Passion of the Christ

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  35. 77 -1

    Aladdin

    1992, in 14 top lists Check
  36. 74 -1

    Do the Right Thing

    1989, in 25 top lists Check
  37. 73 -1

    The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

    1989, in 10 top lists Check
  38. 62 -

    The Evil Dead

    1981, in 8 top lists Check
  39. 56 -

    Life of Brian

    1979 — a.k.a. Monty Python's Life of Brian, in 18 top lists Check
  40. 51 -

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
  41. 29 -

    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
  42. 24 -

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  43. 11 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  44. 6 -

    Freaks

    1932, in 19 top lists Check
  45. 5 -

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  46. 3 -

    Un chien andalou

    1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check
  47. 101 -1

    9 Songs

    2004, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 47 -

    Ai no korîda

    1976 — a.k.a. In the Realm of the Senses, in 16 top lists Check
  49. 112 -1

    Antichrist

    2009, in 8 top lists Check
  50. 16 -

    Baby Doll

    1956, in 6 top lists Check
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