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Film / Game Title Director Year Issues

9 Songs

Michael Winterbottom 2004 Real sex

A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick 1971 Sexual Violence, Violence

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

1979 Animal Cruelty
Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein 1925 Political Propaganda
Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn 1967 Crime, Violence, Social Attitudes
Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee 2005 Language, Sex
Bully Rockstar 2006 Violence, Antisocial Behaviour, Video Games
Caligula Tinto Brass 1979

Sex, Sexual Detail, Sexual Violence

Canis Canem Edit Rockstar 2006 Violence, Antisocial Behaviour, Video Games
Cannibal Holocaust Ruggero Deodato 1980

Sexual Violence, Animals Act

Crash David Cronenberg 1996 Sex, Violence
Dawn Of The Dead George Romero 1978 Horror, Violence
Death Wish Michael Winner 1974 Sexual Violence, Violence
Don't Look Now Nicholas Roeg 1973 Sex, Horror
Emmanuelle Just Jaeckin 1974 Sex, Sexual Violence
Fight Club David Fincher 1999 Violence
Freaks Tod Browning 1932 Horror
Happy Together Wong Kar-wai 1998 Sex
I Spit on your Grave Meir Zarchi 1978

Sexual Violence

Juno Jason Reitman 2008 Sex References, Theme , Horror
King Kong Peter Jackson 2005 Violence, '12A' category
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Simon West 2001 Weapons, Imitable Techniques
Last Tango in Paris Bernardo Bertolucci 1972 Sex
Nagisa Oshima 1976 Sex, Protection of Children Act
Lynne Ramsay 2002 Sex, Drugs, Animals Act
Rockstar 2003 Violence, Video Games
Rockstar 2007 Violence, Video Games
Natural Born Killers Oliver Stone 1994 Violence
Peeping Tom Michael Powell 1960 Violence
Reservoir Dogs Quentin Tarantino 1992 Violence
Reservoir Dogs - The Video Game Eidos 2006 Violence, Video Games
Pier Paolo Pasolini 1975 Violence, Sexual Violence, Sadomasochism
Solaris Andrei Tarkovsky 1972

Theme

Spider-Man Sam Raimi 2002

Violence, '12A' category

Straw Dogs Sam Peckinpah 1971

Sexual Violence

Sweet Sixteen Ken Loach 2002 Language
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Melvin Van Peebles 1970 POCA
Talk To Her Pedro Almodovar 2002 Animal Cruelty, Sexual Violence
Taxi Zum Klo Frank Ripploh 1981 Sex
The Devils Ken Russell 1971 Sex, Nudity, Religion
The Evil Dead Sam Raimi 1982 Horror
The Exorcist William Friedkin 1973 Horror
The Last House on the Left Wes Craven 1972 Horror, Sexual Violence
The Last Temptation of Christ Martin Scorsese 1988 Blasphemy
The Passion of the Christ Mel Gibson 2004 Violence
The Punisher THQ 2005 Violence
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Tobe Hooper 1974 Violence, horror
The Wicker Man Robin Hardy 1973 Horror, Sex
The Wild Bunch Sam Pekinpah 1969 Violence
The Wild One Laslo Benedek 1953 Violence, Anti Social Behaviour

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock 1958

Theme

Visions of Ecstasy

Nigel Wingrove 1989

Blasphemy

WW2 films - Part 1 Various 1939-1945 War films, political censorship
WW2 films - Part 2 Various 1939-1945 War films, political censorship
NSFW Case Studies:      
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Dito Montiel 2007 Language, Sex References, Drugs
Adulthood Noel Clarke 2007 Violence, Weapons, Language, Sex References, Drugs
Ben X Nic Balthazar 2008 Theme
Brick Rian Johnson 2006 Language, Violence, Drugs
Bullet Boy Saul Dibb 2005

Language, Sex, Violence

Cloverfield Matt Reeves 2008 Horror
Don't Look Now Nicholas Roeg 1973 Sex, Horror
Elephant Gus Van Sant 2005 Language, Violence
Half Nelson Ryan Fleck 2006 Language, Drugs
Hot Fuzz Edgar Wright 2007 Language, Violence, Horror
Kidulthood Menhaj Huda 2006 Sex, Drugs, Language, Violence
Little Miss Sunshine Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris 2006 Language, Drugs
Love + Hate Dominic Savage 2005 Racism, Language, Violence
Mean Creek Jacob Aaron Estes 2004 Language, Sex References
Mischief Night Penny Woolcock 2007 Language, Drugs, Racism
Notes on a Scandal Richard Eyre 2007 Language, Sex References
Paranoid Park Gus Van Sant 2008 Violence, Gory Images
Peeping Tom Michael Powell 1960 Violence
Redacted Brian De Palma 2008 Sexual Violence, Language, Violence
Severance Christopher Smith 2006 Language, Violence
Sunshine Danny Boyle 2007 Violence, Horror, Imitable Techniques
The Woodsman Nicole Kassell 2005 Theme, Language, Sex, Violence
Them (Ils) David Moreau, Xavier Palud 2007 Horror
Tsotsi Gavin Hood 2005 Language, Violence

 

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