film censorship movies

Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
6.309 / 10

Horror

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who...

Censor (2021)
5.8 / 10

Horror, Mystery

A film screener at the BBFC, who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of control...

This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
7.12 / 10

Documentary

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates...

Chuck Norris vs Communism (2015)
7 / 10

Documentary, History

In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the...

A Tale of Two Kitties (1942)
6.6 / 10

Animation, Comedy

Two alley cats, Babbitt and Catsello, decide to make a meal out of Orson as he sleeps in his nest atop a telephone pole. The gullible (and loud)...

A Forbidden Orange (2021)
5 / 10

Documentary, History

Spain, 1970s. A Clockwork Orange, a film considered by critics and audiences as one of the best works in the history of cinema, directed by Stanley...

The Secret Life of Brian (2007)
7.6 / 10

Documentary

A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy.

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)
6.3 / 10

Documentary, History

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth...

Forman vs. Forman (2019)
7.8 / 10

Documentary

A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic childhood,...

Video Nasties: Draconian Days (2014)
8 / 10

Documentary, Horror

The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and...

Todos los nombres de Sara (2019)
4 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-2013) conquered Mexico, Hollywood, and the hearts...

Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary (2019)
7 / 10

Documentary

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in...

Iranian Kiss (2019)
0 / 10

During a film shoot in Tehran the director is trying to film a romantic scene but the government censor keeps interrupting and getting involved.

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils (2002)
6.9 / 10

Documentary

Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the film’s...

Danube (2021)
4.3 / 10

Documentary, History

Argentina, 1968. In the midst of the Cold War, the dictatorship of Juan Carlos Onganía (1966-70) organizes the 9th Mar del Plata Film Festival in...

El Cepa Returns (2019)
2 / 10

Documentary

Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to...

Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror (2014)
6 / 10

Documentary

In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was...

Cut (2004)
8 / 10

Comedy

A musical, all-singing, all-dancing, attack on censorship in Singaporean movies

An Important Premiere (2015)
5.4 / 10

Documentary

For many years, Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of the best places in the world for a film buff; but from the mid-sixties onwards, successive...

The Forbidden Reel (2020)
8 / 10

Documentary, History

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art and creation; but there is another tale to be...