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vkm91941:
The British magazine Time Out has named a list of the 10 most controversial films of all time -- and somehow folks just assumed that BROKEBACK would be one of them. Surprisingly or not, it was not included. Here is the magazine's choices:

1 Salò (1975) Pier Paolo Pasolini
2 Natural Born Killers (1994) Oliver Stone
3 Crash (1996) David Cronenberg
4 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Martin Scorsese
5 The Devils (1971) Ken Russell
6 Pretty Baby (1977) Louis Malle
7 Birth of a Nation (1915) DW Griffith
8 Straw Dogs (1971) Sam Peckinpah
9 Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Terry Jones
10 Bandit Queen (1994) Shekhar Kapur


Well I would add these because each in their own day and time were considered controversial:

Freaks
Peyton Place
The Children’s Hour
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Cruising
Midnight Cowboy
Last Tango in Paris
Clockwork Orange
Caligulia 
The Last House on the Left
Basic Instinct
Henry and June ( the film the NC-17 rating was created for)


Are there any others?

Pipedream:
Die Sünderin (= The Story of a Sinner), 1951, directed by Willi Forst
This is the best example for a German "Skandalfilm". It was the first movie to contain a modest nude scene in postwar Germany and made young Hildegard Knef famous (the religious moralists never forgave her, of course):



Wasn't she beautiful?

Pipedream:
Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962):

Pipedream:
La Dernière femme (= The Last Woman), 1976, directed by Marco Ferreri, starring Gerard Depardieu and Ornella Muti;
(In)famous for it's shocking finale: Depardieu castrating himself with an electric knife (very much like Monroe's). Grrrr...



 

slayers_creek_oth:
I'm surprised that The Passion of the Christ was not included either...

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