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. 112 -1

    Antichrist

    2009, in 8 top lists Check
  2. 108 -1

    United 93

    2006, in 5 top lists Check
  3. 71 -1

    The Last Temptation of Christ

    1988, in 7 top lists Check
  4. 29 -

    The Wild Bunch

    1969, in 25 top lists Check
  5. 34 -

    The Last Picture Show

    1971, in 21 top lists Check
  6. 20 -

    Viridiana

    1961, in 24 top lists Check
  7. 17 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  8. 82 -1

    Natural Born Killers

    1994, in 9 top lists Check
  9. 21 -

    Lolita

    1962, in 11 top lists Check
  10. 74 -1

    Do the Right Thing

    1989, in 25 top lists Check
  11. 76 -1

    JFK

    1991, in 13 top lists Check
  12. 41 -

    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
  13. 33 -

    Dirty Harry

    1971, in 17 top lists Check
  14. 84 -1

    Crash

    1996, in 9 top lists Check
  15. 114 -1

    The Human Centipede (First Sequence)

    2009, in 3 top lists Check
  16. 24 -

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  17. 83 -1

    Kids

    1995, in 5 top lists Check
  18. 93 -1

    Irréversible

    2002 — a.k.a. Irreversible, in 10 top lists Check
  19. 27 -

    Rosemary's Baby

    1968, in 21 top lists Check
  20. 103 -1

    Brokeback Mountain

    2005, in 21 top lists Check
  21. 67 -1

    Blue Velvet

    1986, in 27 top lists Check
  22. 117 -1

    La vie d'Adèle

    2013 — a.k.a. Blue Is the Warmest Colour, in 13 top lists Check
  23. 98 -1

    Oldeuboi

    2003 — a.k.a. Oldboy, in 34 top lists Check
  24. 11 -

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  25. 78 -1

    Basic Instinct

    1992, in 10 top lists Check
  26. 18 -

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  27. 51 -

    The Deer Hunter

    1978, in 26 top lists Check
  28. 91 -1

    Requiem for a Dream

    2000, in 21 top lists Check
  29. 31 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  30. 62 -

    The Evil Dead

    1981, in 8 top lists Check
  31. 102 -1

    The Passion of the Christ

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  32. 106 -1

    The Da Vinci Code

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  33. 77 -1

    Aladdin

    1992, in 14 top lists Check
  34. 101 -1

    9 Songs

    2004, in 2 top lists Check
  35. 47 -

    Ai no korîda

    1976 — a.k.a. In the Realm of the Senses, in 16 top lists Check
  36. 5 -

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    1930, in 19 top lists Check
  37. 16 -

    Baby Doll

    1956, in 6 top lists Check
  38. 69 -1

    Bad Taste

    1987, in 6 top lists Check
  39. 90 -1

    Baise-moi

    2000, in 3 top lists Check
  40. 81 -1

    Bandit Queen

    1994, in 5 top lists Check
  41. 2 -

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  42. 23 -

    Blood Feast

    1963, in 4 top lists Check
  43. 80 -1

    Boxing Helena

    1993, in 2 top lists Check
  44. 79 -1

    Braindead

    1992 — a.k.a. Dead Alive, in 8 top lists Check
  45. 96 -1

    The Brown Bunny

    2003, in 5 top lists Check
  46. 55 -

    Caligola

    1979 — a.k.a. Caligula, in 1 top list Check
  47. 61 -

    Cannibal ferox

    1981 — a.k.a. Cannibal Ferox, in 4 top lists Check
  48. 58 -

    Cannibal Holocaust

    1980, in 6 top lists Check
  49. 30 -

    Carnal Knowledge

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  50. 3 -

    Un chien andalou

    1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check
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