Banned Films You Never Knew Existed

Almost throughout the history of film production, film censorship, political, moral and controversial content, like racism, have prohibited certain films. Censorship standards vary widely among countries and are subject to changes in politics or morality in one country over time.

Titicut Follies (1967)

In 1967, Titicut Follies documentary revealed the sordid and horrible condition of Bridgewater State Hospital for criminal insanity of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Frederick Wiseman's potent and depressive—Roger Ebert called it desperate—and this is probably a better word.

The camera of Wiseman watches with no emotion, whipping patients, mocking them, stripping, drugging them and holding them in the mischievously indifferent wards of the institution, social workers and psychiatrists in the midst of humanity. The film is a narrator-less collection of some of the most dreadful movie truth images in the history of film. The film "Titicut" featuring the prisoners is like something straight from a Harmony Korine movie, the New Year's Eve's talent show. In a different scene, a medical doctor smokes a cigarette and hangs a long ash over a funnel when he inserts a long rubber tube into the nose of a patient for force feeding.

Eventually a State court ordered that all copies of the movie be destroyed, but the appeal of Wiseman — fortunately an advocate — to the Supreme Court of Justice of Massachusetts led to the film being shown for doctors, lawyers, judges, health workers and students from the fields in question.

Titicut Follies was the first film in America to be banned for reasons other than vulgarity or domestic security. In 1991 Titicut Follies was released by a Superior Court Judge citing the transitional period and the end of privacy issues (many patients were previously dead) and concerns related to the First Amendment.

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

The Last Temptation of Christ," where the critics appoint themselves as arbiters of Jesus Christ's manhood or godliness, and rarely mention the direction, the writing, the performance, pictures, or hard music of Peter Gabriel. Or Scorsese may have grasped. The temperament of the time can be remembered. Scorsese had accusations of blasphemy and worse, the film was the target for the Christian right. It was taken out of the MGM production program; Scorsese was targeted at death threats and the TV evangels' jeremiades after Universal reactivated the project on a smaller budget.

Christ himself is a character that differs dramatically from most previous film portraits. He is a fatigued, self-doubtful person, unwilling to carry on man's souls. Sometimes, it seems that he doesn't know or believe he is the son of God, and he uses that knowledge to rebuke his mother and Joseph's memory. He counters and hectares his followers and mainly trusts in Judas, who in this story is dramatically transformed into a good man who follows only instructions.

In fact, the film is blasphemous technically. The revisionism has a long tradition, including the stupidities of the Da Vinci Code. Kazantzakis, Scorsese, and Schrader's story grapples with the central mystery that Jesus was both God and man. It explored the consequences of this paradox through freedom of fiction.

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

A Clockwork Orange is a randomly ultra-violent, over-indulgent, graphically styled, short-term film by producers-director-screenwriters Stanley Kubrick. The film adaptation of the 1962 satirical, futuristic novel by Anthony Burgess was a dreadful, gaudy adaptation.

The film's title plays on the background with an orange shading. The film will be set in the near future by England. Purcell's 'Elegy on the Death of Queen Mary' is a funeral dirge. In the background, a gothic-sounding organ.

The memorable opening photo represents the intimate close-up of the blue staring eyes and smirking face of young ebullient punker Alex de Large, who wears the hat of a bowler and adorns his right eye with one wrong eyelash. His cufflinks and suspenders have a shrill, ripped eyeball ornamentally decorated.

A large amount of his camera work is deliberately completed, with few panels or a lot of lateral/ horizontal motion to underline the aggressive nature of the film content. Kubrick withdrew the film about a year after its release because of the copy-cat violence for which it was accused. [In 1973 a 17-year-old Dutch girl in Lancashire was raped in the hands of men singing Singing in the Rain shortly following the introduction of the ban. And, while carrying Alex's white overalls uniform, black bowler cap and fighter boots, a 16-year-old boy beat a younger child. After the fact that the film had an impact on violence in society, the two of them were seen as 'proof.'