Rated X or NC-17
A list of X/NC-17 rated films and films originally X/NC-17 or threatened with one. Most Info taken from imdb, filmratings.com, and movie-censorship.com
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- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsPeter WellerNancy AllenDan O'HerlihyIn a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.Edited for re-rating
- DirectorTony RandelStarsDoug BradleyAshley LaurenceClare HigginsKirsty is brought to an institution after the horrible events of Hellraiser (1987), where the occult-obsessive head doctor resurrects Julia and unleashes the Cenobites and their demonic underworld.Edited for re-rate after appeal
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael BatesIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
- DirectorMelvin Van PeeblesStarsMelvin Van PeeblesHubert ScalesJohn DullaghanAfter saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.Self applied X, Submitted to mpaa in 1974 and got R rating.
- DirectorRalph BakshiStarsSkip HinnantRosetta LeNoireJohn McCurryIn the late 1960s, a pretentious, womanizing young cat drops out of college, starts a riot in Harlem, hits the road with an ex-girlfriend and gets mixed up with domestic terrorists.
- DirectorRalph BakshiStarsJoseph KaufmannBeverly Hope AtkinsonFrank DeKovaAn underground cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his art.
- DirectorDavid E. DurstonStarsBhaskar Roy ChowdhuryJadin WongRhonda FultzA group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them tries to get even--with deadly results.Edited for re-rate after appeal
- DirectorShigehiro OzawaStarsShin'ichi ChibaGoichi YamadaYutaka NakajimaAfter failing to reach a deal with her enemies, a mercenary karateka protects the daughter of a recently-deceased oil tycoon from the evil conglomerate gunning for her inheritance.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanJon VoightSylvia MilesA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsVanessa RedgraveOliver ReedDudley SuttonIn 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsMarlon BrandoMaria SchneiderMaria MichiA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsMickey RourkeRobert De NiroLisa BonetA private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.Edited for re-rate after appeal
- DirectorRonald W. MooreStarsEdwin NealMarilyn BurnsGabriel FolseThe star of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" returns in a story about frat boys lost in the big city while hunted by a violent leader and his elite gang of gun-happy guards.Edited for re-rating
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEllen SandweissRichard DeManincorFive friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellSarah BerryDan HicksAsh Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.Shot as a R-rated film but given an X like the original. Ultimately released unrated.
- DirectorFrank HenenlotterStarsJames LorinzJoanne RitchiePatty MullenA medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.Edited for re-rate after appeal
- DirectorJeff BurrStarsKate HodgeKen ForeeR.A. MihailoffA California couple and a survivalist encounter Leatherface and his family.Edited for re-rate after appeal. Had entire scenes cut. Unrated DVD restores some of the gore scenes.
- DirectorLuigi ScattiniLee FrostStarsAlberto BevilacquaWill GeerAnton LaVeyA mondo style report of satanic rites from around the world. Includes devil worshipping, voodoo cults, church of satan, black magic, naked exorcism and pagan rituals.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsJonathan WardenRobert De NiroGerrit GrahamThree friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voyeurism, computer dating, and everything else.
- DirectorMichael WinnerStarsCharles BronsonDeborah RaffinEd LauterArchitect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.Appael overturned
- DirectorJim WynorskiStarsGail ThackrayKaren Mayo-ChandlerDeborah DutchWhile doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorised by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings years back, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.
- DirectorJack CardiffStarsMarianne FaithfullAlain DelonRoger MuttonA married woman leaves her husband and zooms off on her motorcycle to see her lover.
- DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsFrank KressAmy FarrellHedda LubinA young reporter enlists the help of a top notch private eye to solve the murder of a female stripper at a Chicago nightclub.
- DirectorBrad F. GrinterSteve HawkesStarsSteve HawkesDana CullivanRandy GrinterA biker gets a job at a turkey farm and agrees to act as guinea pig for some chemicals that need tested, failing to anticipate the murderous side effects.
- DirectorHaskell WexlerStarsRobert ForsterVerna BloomPeter BonerzA TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- DirectorJack NicholsonStarsWilliam TepperKaren BlackMichael MargottaThe star player of a college basketball team starts to go off the rails with an illicit love affair and his roommate going crazy to avoid the war draft.Appeal overturned
- DirectorRomain GaryStarsJean SebergMaurice RonetPierre BrasseurOn a beach, a group of sailors have sex with a depressed young woman. Madam of a nearby brothel takes her in but she leaves with an artist who lives close by. Meanwhile, her old rich husband and his sinister chauffeur are looking for her.
- DirectorFranz Josef GottliebStarsBiggi FreyerKatarina HaertelOrtrud GrossThe story begins with an emphatically serious discussion between Kolle, the sex researcher Prof. Hans Giese and the psychologist Wolfgang Hochheimer.
- DirectorSergio GobbiStarsMarie-France BoyerPierre VaneckPierre MassimiFrançois, a journalist, is approached on the train home by a pretty blonde. She leaves at the same station as him and follows him until he ends up inviting her to his house.
- DirectorArt NapoleonStarsMichael SmithLesley TaplinTom MaierMike, a college student, makes an impassioned anti-war speech on campus, which is carried on live television, causing a storm of controversy. His girlfriend leaves him, but he finds himself attracted to her roommate Lee, and they fall in love. He must choose between his love for Lee and his dedication to the anti-war cause.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsPeter SchildtKerstin TideliusRoland HedlundDuring a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between demonstrators and the military who open fire and five people are killed and five injured.
- DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsJacques BrelClaude JadeBernard AlaneIn the amorous mid 18th century under Louis XV, a country doctor risks danger and prison to pursue his seduction of the women of the bourgeoisie.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsDavid HemmingsJoanna PettetGeorge SandersIn Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsJean-Louis TrintignantEwa AulinRoberto BisaccoBernard meets Jane in a night club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but she thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in-law. In the same night club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So they run away followed by the police and a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But she doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsCarroll BakerLou CastelColette DescombesA rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.
- DirectorHarvey CortStarsAnne LindenMary KahnPeter BurnsIn this modern sexual morality thriller, a pair of modern country couples lounge around, eyeing each other with heavy-lidded salaciousness, then pairing off illicitly, while one of the wives recounts to a detective how she accidentally toppled her husband over the rim of Croton Reservoir upstate New York. Or was it an accident?
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsMonica VittiGiorgio AlbertazziMaria Grazia BuccellaPietro is a bourgeois young lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty but slightly unbalanced girl he met at a party full of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsNicol WilliamsonAnna KarinaJean-Claude DrouotA married middle-aged art critic and 16-year-old Margot begin an affair and develop a troublesome mutually parasitic relationship.
- DirectorNorman J. WarrenStarsSimon BrentGeorgina WardPaula PattersonThe sexual shenanigans of DJ Stevee Daly, who can't decide whether to fix his marriage to Suzanne or to yield to his many loving conquests.
- DirectorErrikos AndreouStarsPetros FyssounElli FotiouNikos RizosA proud sponge-diver revolts against a cruel noblewoman, who exploits the islanders. When she finds out that her daughter is in love with him, she marries her off to his friend, and now, the knives have the final say. Can reason prevail?
- DirectorUgo LiberatoreStarsBernard De VriesRosemary DexterDoris KunstmannFour people (three women and a man) set off on a boat trip through the fjords of Yugoslavia. Two of the women are lesbian lovers. Influenced by LSD, the female passengers freely engage in nudity.
- DirectorSimon NuchternStarsLinda BoyceDiane GobleLarry HunterShy and awkward, Marvin Swift loses his job at an underwear factory and bungles lovemaking with his girl friend. He becomes locked in the boiler room of an apartment building, and there Lucibel, who says she is the devil, promises to grant him any wish. He becomes the head of a company that makes sex exploitation films. But he hasn't lost his awkwardness; he becomes excited by the simulated sex and stumbles over the equipment, wrecking the set and losing his actors and production crew. Marvin next wishes to become irresistibly attractive, and he agrees to give Lucibel, in return for granting his wish, exclusive rights to him for 6 months. He is overwhelmed by her demands upon him, and he finally trades his soul for everlasting youth--believing that his immortality will prevent her from collecting the debt. He begins to enjoy his newfound freedom and goes to a party where he is accosted at once by all the women in attendance. They follow him into the bedroom, shed their clothing, and begin to tear at his clothes.
- DirectorKen OsborneStarsDon EppersonRobert DixCasey KasemA group of surfers use dune buggies to protect their beach from a gang of invading bikers.Edited for re-rating
- DirectorJoseph W. SarnoStarsHelli LouiseGio PetréOle WisborgKatja lives alone with her widowed father, and the two of them share a deep affection. One day Katja's idyllic life is forever shattered when her father re-marries.
- DirectorBenjamin OnivasStarsLuanne RobertsRoger GentryEdward BlessingtonA group of rebellious students, who practice free love and anarchism, tries to get their conservative dean to give in to their demands. He refuses, but his nymphomaniac wife is willing. Things end in tragedy for some.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsMaria RohmMarie LiljedahlJack TaylorAn innocent girl goes to spend the weekend on an island with a woman and her brother, but soon finds herself entangled in a web of sexual experiments.
- DirectorRon DorfmanPeter NevardStarsTen Years AfterAlvin LeeJoe CockerThis documentary on rock 'n' roll groupies, including the infamous Plaster Casters, features performances (musical) by such bands as Ten Years After, Terry Reid, Spooky Tooth, and Cat Mother.
- DirectorRussel VincentStarsJohn AgarLeslie BrooksGrant WilliamsJack Romanti runs a theater company that offers sexual therapy as well as a break in the movie business to insecure and inexperienced young new talents. This boils down to them being pimped out to sponsors but they all benefit from it.
- DirectorJoseph W. SarnoStarsUta EricksonSheila BrittBarbara LanceMarcy and her friend June rebel in their own way against the rumors circulating the small town, with the townsfolk each fighting their own battle with loneliness and sexuality.
- DirectorAllen FuntStarsJoie AddisonLaura HustonMartin MeyersFrom Candid Cameraman Allen Funt comes a hysterical feature films that tells and shows all. Witness America's response to one of the most titillating stunts of all time in this hilarious expose of sex and society.
- DirectorRobert Downey Sr.StarsJoe MaddenJames GreenMariclare CostelloIn a pound, 18 dogs wait to be adopted.
- DirectorJörn DonnerStarsRitva VepsäJörn DonnerKirsti WallasvaaraFinnish porn-movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly-small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late-1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
- DirectorWilliam StaggStarsDon AuldRobert BallPeter DebA jewel thief comes out of retirement to retrieve stolen goods, foil a blackmail attempt, and bring satisfaction to many.
- DirectorRay LaurentStarsIsaac BonewitsAnton LaVeyDiane LaVeyA documentary that takes a look inside the "Church of Satan", founded in California in the 1960s by Anton Szandor LaVey, a former circus lion tamer.
- DirectorAlfonso BresciaStarsOrchidea De SantisFranco ResselSusy AndersenTake a guided trip with Emilio Servadio on a journey of sexual excess including a insatiable nymphomaniac, a sex killer, a lesbian and fetishists of every type.
- DirectorBill GunnStarsEdward Michael BellLinda MarshRichard DowIn this unreleased film, Michael and Lee Berger are an unhappily married couple looking to rekindle their marriage. After moving to Puerto Rico to live in his brother's house that Michael inherited after a murder-suicide, they decide to try swinging - with disastrous results.
- DirectorAmin Q. ChaudhriStarsBetty HarrisonArthur RobertsGrace JonesGambler Mark Stevens is brutally beaten and murdered by "The Bear" under orders from Big Mike, a New York City gambling syndicate boss to whom Mark owes a sum of money. Betty, a woman with whom Mark has been having an affair while his wife, Helen, is away on a business trip, witnesses the killing and decides to avenge Mark's death. (Betty is a friend of Helen's who has recently arrived in New York and is living with Mark and Helen while looking for a job.) Betty learns how to use the blackjack and razor from a homosexual photographer, and she repays him by allowing him to paint her body in psychedelic colors. Betty then infiltrates Big Mike's syndicate through his procurer, a lesbian, and receives from her a date with the syndicate boss. Betty seduces Big Mike, then beats him to death with a blackjack and castrates him with a razor. Fleeing his apartment, she stumbles into The Bear, slays him, and, pursued by one of Mike's henchmen, joins Helen, waiting outside in her auto. A wild chase takes place up New York's West Side Highway, culminating on the George Washington Bridge. There the women realize they are doomed, and, turning their car around, they crash head on into their pursuer's oncoming car.
- DirectorJosé Ramón LarrazStarsKarl LanchburyVivian NevesPia AnderssonA rich older woman living in a country house brings home a new model to be photographed by a young enigmatic photographer who lives with her. The unsuspecting girl becomes entangled in a web of sex, abuse and death.
- DirectorJoseph W. SarnoStarsGunbritt ÖhrströmHeinz HopfLars LindLisa is an unsuccessful, alcoholic and emotionally unsatisfied fashion designer. She rents a house in the country to have a rest. She meets the attractive Ingrid. Ingrid moves in with Lisa. Casual sexual partners come and go.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsJames CoburnLynn RedgraveRobert HooksAfter winning a game show contest, a newlywed couple travels to New Orleans where the husband seeks to reclaim his ancestral plantation mansion from his biracial stepbrother.
- DirectorBon RossStarsAnn JanninAnn AcresWinston St. IleDoctors operate a controversial laboratory on the campus of a respected metropolitan college, observing and recording volunteers participating in scientific sexual experiments.
- DirectorGuido MalatestaStarsKen ClarkFranca PoleselloBeryl CunninghamThe granddaughter of Sir Donovan is believed dead in the African jungle. Fifteen years later, vague reports arrive in Europe, and he wants to believe that he has found her.
- DirectorPeter Perry Jr.StarsStacey WalkerWilliam RotslerLinda CochranKissy Hill, the daughter of a notorious madam in 19th Century London, follows in her late mother's footsteps with prositution in catering to various upper class gentlemen.
- DirectorRuss MeyerStarsBabette BardotDarlene GreyPat BarringtonCompletely topless. Completely uninhibited. The craze that began in San Francisco is now exploding across the USA and Europe.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsLena NymanVilgot SjömanBörje AhlstedtTold in a quasi-documentary style, this companion piece to I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) deals with topics such as class society, non-violent resistance, sex, relationships, and tourism to Francoist Spain.
- DirectorAnthony NewleyRichard WilliamsStarsAnthony NewleyJoan CollinsAlexander NewleyHeironymus Merkin (Anthony Newley) screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth, and moral decay.
- DirectorJack CardiffStarsRod TaylorYvette MimieuxPeter CarstenA band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsJanine ReynaudJack TaylorAdrian HovenA performer at an S&M nightclub begins to lose her grip on reality, and is plunged into a nightmarish mental landscape.
- DirectorSusumu HaniStarsHaruo AsanuKazuko FukudaKuniko IshiiA teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsBeryl ReidSusannah YorkCoral BrowneThe life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.
- DirectorAlbert ZugsmithStarsCarol YoungYvonne D'AngersAlyn DarnayA pretty young girl named Sappho is, despite her boyfriend's best efforts, determined to remain a virgin until she marries. One day she picks up a beautiful, busty hitchhiker named Brigitte, and finds herself attracted to the sexy young blonde.
- DirectorLuigi ScattiniStarsEdmund PurdomEnrico Maria SalernoJean TopartIt shows contraceptives for teen girls, lesbian nightclubs, wife swapping, porno movies, biker gangs, and Walpurgis Night celebrations. It also examines Sweden's purported drug, drinking and suicide problems.
- DirectorRuss MeyerStarsErica GavinGarth PillsburyHarrison PageWhile a naive bush pilot flies tourists to the wilderness of Northwest Canada, his nympho wife gets lonely--or does she? A Mountie, a married couple, and her biker brother drop by while hubby's away.
- DirectorArmando BoStarsIsabel SarliVictor BoRomualdo QuirogaA worker in a meat-packing factory becomes the girl of strangers. After she makes love to her boyfriend, she is raped by a fellow worker.
- DirectorGunnar HöglundStarsHans GustafssonLillemor OhlssonBarbro Hiort af OrnäsA young, shy and inexperienced man travels back to Sweden, to spend the summer at his mother's house. He meets a number of women with whom he has sexual relations.
- DirectorHubert FrankStarsMarie LiljedahlThomas AstanRené SchoenenbergerA young woman solemnly swears to remain a virgin for ever until it is clearly demonstrated to her that such a view contradicts the course of the world and is thus foolishly advocated.
- DirectorTinto BrassStarsAnita SandersTerry CarterNino SeguriniA taboo-smasher of the late '60s, featuring interracial affairs, anti-Vietnam statements, violence versus sex. Take a whirlwind trip with a married woman whose journey through the psychedelic English youth scene awakens her to the carnal offerings of an African-American man, all set to a searing soundtrack by Freedom, a tripped-out group formed from the remnants of Procol Harum.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsWilliam HoldenErnest BorgnineRobert RyanAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.Given NC-17 in 1993 for the 25th anniversary.
- DirectorPeter Perry Jr.StarsHarvey ShainWilliam RotslerDee LockwoodAn outrageously bawdy, sexed-up version of the world's most famous love story.Given NC-17 in 1990.
- DirectorMack BingStarsNorman AldenGloria ManonScott GrahamIn a suburban home during one Friday night four couples get together to drink, smirk, paw, watch dirty movies and denounce racial prejudice.
- DirectorFrank PerryStarsBarbara HersheyRichard ThomasBruce DavisonDuring summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
- DirectorAllan SilliphantStarsChristina HartRonald SouthWilliam CondosA single eventful night in the lives of a crew of Los Angeles-based, trans-Pacific stewardesses, as they experiment with drugs and engage in various sexual encounters.
- DirectorPiero SchivazappaStarsPhilippe LeroyDagmar LassanderLorenza GuerrieriA rich man with a penchant for degrading women subjects a female journalist to unpleasant S&M games, but, unbeknownst to him, she's the one who's manipulating him.