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For nearly the entire history of film production, certain films have been banned by film censorship or review organizations for political or moral reasons. Censorship standards vary widely by country, and can vary within an individual country over time due to political change or shifting moral attitudes.

Many countries have government-appointed or private commissions to censor and rate productions for film and television exhibition. While it is common for films to be edited to fall into certain rating classifications, this list includes only films that have been explicitly prohibited from public screening.

Bans by country

Argentina

Australia

Australia's OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification) uses the Commonwealth Classification Act 1995 as a guide for the majority of the censorship within the country, however each state and territory is free to make additional legislation. See also Censorship in Australia.

In practice, films still get a short cinematic run before they are reviewed & prevented from being shown at cinemas or released on DVD.

Year Name Reason Citation
1907 The Story of the Kelly Gang Banned in Benalla and Wangaratta due to bushranger content. [2]
1911 The Story of the Kelly Gang Banned in Adelaide due to bushranger content. [2]
1912 The Story of the Kelly Gang Banned in New South Wales due to bushranger content. [2]
1929 Applause Sexual themes. [3]
1936 Klondike Annie (starring Mae West) Violence [4]
? Compulsory Hands ? [citation needed]
1931 Cape Forlorn ? [citation needed]
1928 The Ladies Man sexual overtones [citation needed]
? White Cargo interracial themes [citation needed]
? The Five Year Plan discussed communism [citation needed]
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front ? [citation needed]
? Gang Bullets ? [citation needed]
? Each Dawn I Die ? [citation needed]
1939 Hell's Kitchen ? [citation needed]
? The King and the Chorus Girl ? [citation needed]
? The Birth of a Baby "not in the public interest"[citation needed] [citation needed]
? The Green Pastures ? [citation needed]
? Susan and God blasphemy [citation needed]
? Reefer Madness ? [citation needed]
1939 Of Mice and Men sex and violence in combination [citation needed]
1942 The Monster and the Girl, The Man With Two Lives, Invisible Ghost, and King Kong, Frankenstein, Dracula plus their respective sequels Banned due to high impact scary violence and cruelty. [citation needed]


  • 1964 - 1970: R. J. Prowse is appointed Chief Censor and Campbell goes into the Appeals Board. During the 1960s many more films were being banned including The Miracle, Viridiana, La Dolce Vita, Satyricon, The Silence, Blowup and Zabriskie Point. [citation needed]
  • 1971: Customs Minister Don Chipp begins the development of a new classification system which includes the much-needed R18+ rating for adult content, meaning movies that were once banned are gradually released. [citation needed]
  • 1972: Pink Flamingos was banned until 1984, when it is passed with an X18+ rating. Soon after the X18+ guidelines were amended and the film was effectively banned again. In 1997, the 25th anniversary of its release, the uncut version of the film was refused classification.[5]
  • 1974: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre[6]
  • 1975: Under pressure from Western conservatives, the OFLC viewed the arthouse Belgian film Vase de Noces (also known as Wedding Trough) and banned it from being played at the Perth International Film Festival (before this, film festivals were not held by restrictions of the censors). In a controversial move, the board lifted the ban on appeal, and the film was allowed to be screened. [citation needed]
  • 1976: Pasolini's Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma was banned at the time of release. This ban was then reversed in 1993, but re-instated in 1998. It was then approved for DVD-only release in 2010.[7]
  • Vase de Noces is re-banned, and it remains banned to this day. [citation needed]
  • 1982: Four years after its 1978 international premiere, a cut version of I Spit on Your Grave is released with an R18+ classification. [citation needed]
  • 1984: A governmental conference is held, resulting in the X18+ rating being introduced to cope with the upsurge in hardcore pornographic films, and the later abolition of X18+ rated material in most Australian states (ownership of hardcore porn remains legal). Cannibal Holocaust, an extremely graphic cannibal film by director Ruggero Deodato, was banned until 2005. [citation needed]
  • 1986: Lucker the Necrophagous is banned due to its graphic necrophilia content. [citation needed]
  • 1986: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 was banned due to its violent content. The original uncut version that was issued on video to retailers throughout Australia was done so illegally by a duplicating house and without the knowledge of the OFLC; When word leaked amidst the video industry, a number of retailers and the duplicating house was raided by Federal Customs. [citation needed]
  • 1987: I Spit on Your Grave survives an appeal to have the film banned. [citation needed]
  • 1990: Gail Malone is fired and the Queensland Film Board of Review is disbanded when the new Labor Premier Wayne Goss is outraged that the Board had banned an edited version of Bad Taste after a three-week run in cinemas (the South Australian Classification Council cut it by a further 4 min 30 sec for an M rating). It is later released uncut on DVD. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors was also banned for a brief period, but later released on VHS and DVD. [citation needed]
  • 1992: The Chinese gore film Dr. Lamb, previously banned, is released with 9 m 30s cut. Nekromantik, its sequel Nekromantik 2 and Joe D'Amato's Buio Omega are banned for necrophilia content, The Beast in Heat is banned for excessive sexual violence and Final Exit are banned for controversial themes after customs confiscations. Urotsukidoji: Legend Of The Overfiend becomes the first animated feature to be banned in Australia. A censored version of the film is later released, as are all its sequels. [citation needed]
  • 1993: The ban on Pasolini's Salò is lifted. The MA15+ classification is introduced. [citation needed]
  • 1995: Twelve queer films are banned from Tasmania's Queer film festival, including Spikes and Heels, Coming Out Under Fire, What a Lesbian Looks Like, Mad About the Boy, 21st century Nuns and Sex Fish. [4]
  • 1996: The Frighteners was banned in Tasmania because of sensitivity to the nature of the then recent Port Arthur massacre (including a similar appearance of the film's antagonist and the gunman, Martin Bryant). The film has since been televised and released on VHS and DVD without problems. [citation needed]
  • 1997: Pasolini's Salò is re-banned, a ban still in force. I Spit on Your Grave is banned.
  • 2000: Romance is banned, but is later passed on appeal by the OFLC with an R18+ rating. [citation needed]
  • 2002: Baise-moi is banned after initially being passed with an R18+ rating. [citation needed]
  • 2003: Ken Park is banned, and NSW police close down a planned screening of the film. [citation needed]
  • 2004: The uncut version of I Spit on Your Grave was unbanned and awarded an R18+ classification. [citation needed]
  • 2005: Wolf Creek was temporarily banned in the Northern Territory to avoid influence during the trial of Bradley John Murdoch for murder. It was re-released in the Northern Territory in January 2006.[8] The OFLC unbanned a number of previously banned films including Cannibal Holocaust [citation needed] and The New York Ripper [citation needed] after a lengthy review. The South Australian Classification Council upgrades the classification of 9 Songs from R18+ to X18+, effectively banning it in South Australia (it remains R18+ in the rest of the country). [citation needed]
  • 2006: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 was finally passed for official release in Australia on November 30. [citation needed]

Brazil

Burma

Main article: Censorship in Burma

Bhutan

(*)=Banned Outright

Cambodia

Canada

Prior to the late 1980s and early 1990s, all Canadian provinces banned films with no purpose other than the display of explicit sexuality or excessive violence. [citation needed]

At present, only films containing prohibited material (such as child pornography) or under court order (such as libel or copyright infringement) are banned in Canadian Provinces. [citation needed]

Chile

People's Republic of China

Because only 20 imported films are granted permission to screen each year in China[when?][vague], only blockbuster or widely known films are listed. It may be noted that many films which do not arrive in theatres nonetheless become widely available as pirated DVD editions, thus making the term "banned" somewhat inaccurate.[vague]


See also: Censorship in the People's Republic of China, Film

Denmark

Egypt

Finland

Other films banned in Finland include:

France

NB : Paths of Glory was never banned but not distributed by United Artists, fearing reactions and boycotting from army supporters, or simply by commercial cowardice. The movie saw its first French release in 1975, meeting public acclaim.[citation needed]

Germany

Year Name Reason Citation
1919 Different from the Others Banned due to homosexual themes [5]
1936 The Bohemian Girl (1936 film) This Laurel & Hardy film was banned in Nazi Germany, because it depicted gypsies. [16]
West Germany

Greece

Hungary

  • 1948 - Ének a búzamezőkről (Song of the Wheat Fields): banned for political reasons. [citation needed]
  • 1956 - Keserű igazság (Bitter Truth) and Az eltüsszentett birodalom: both banned for political reasons. [citation needed]
  • 1957 - A nagyrozsdási eset: banned for political reasons. [citation needed]
  • 1969 - A tanú (The Witness): banned for political reasons. [citation needed]
  • 1974 - Bástyasétány '74: banned for political reasons. [citation needed]
  • 1983 - Álombrigád (Dream Brigade): banned for political reasons. [citation needed]


Iceland

Year Name Reason Citation
1984 The Last House on the Left Banned due to high impact violence, rape, and cruelty. [citation needed]
1984 Friday the 13th Banned due to high impact violence and gore. [citation needed]
1984 Cannibal Holocaust Banned due to high impact violence and animal cruelty. [citation needed]
1985 - 1999 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Banned due to high impact scary violence and cruelty. A censored version was later released. [6]
1986 To All a Good Night Banned due to high impact scary violence. [citation needed]
1987 Re-Animator Banned due to high impact scary violence. [citation needed]
1987 Amazonia Banned due to high impact violence. [citation needed]
1990 Halloween 5 Banned due to high impact scary violence. [citation needed]
1996 Halloween 6 Banned due to high impact scary violence. [citation needed]
2006 Hostel Banned due to high impact scary violence, cruelty, rape, and torture. A censored version was later released. [citation needed]
2007 Hostel: Part II Banned due to high impact scary violence, cruelty, rape, and torture. A censored version was later released. [citation needed]


India

Indonesia

Iran

Note: all films depicting anything deemed contrary to Islamic morals is banned outright in Iran.

Iraq

Ireland

Due to the small size of the Republic of Ireland, films banned by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) were rarely even submitted for release in Ireland, due to the high costs of promotion and distribution for such a small audience. Similarly, BBFC cuts are often left in DVD releases due to the difficulties in separating the two supplies.

This changed in 2000 and meant that many of these films have since been un-banned and rated anywhere from PG to 18. During that review process it was decided that no more films would be banned for either theatre or video release, but some bans are still in place. Banned movies can still be viewed at private members clubs with 18+ age limits.

Italy

Although there is a censorship board run by the government and in which one member is drawn from the Roman Catholic Church, very few movies are not certified for release.

  • Cannibal Holocaust, was banned in Italy from 1980-1984. It was banned on the belief that the actors were actually killed for the movie (i.e. that it was an actual snuff film). When this was proven false, it was banned by an animal cruelty law (the film features the actual slayings of many animals), until the verdict was overturned in 1984. [citation needed]

Israel

Israel banned all films produced in Germany from 1956 until 1967.[22]

  • 1957: The Girl in the Kremlin was banned because it may have harmed Israel's diplomatic relations with Moscow.[23]
  • 1957: China Gate was banned in Israel for indulging in excessive cruelty. The Israeli film censorship board indicated the film depicted Chinese and Russian soldiers as "monsters".[24]
  • 1965: Goldfinger played for six weeks before the Nazi past of Gert Fröbe, who played the title villain, was disclosed.[25]
  • 1973: Hitler: The Last Ten Days was banned in a unanimous decision by the censorship board that Alec Guiness's Hitler was represented in too human a light.[26]
  • 1988: Martin Scorcese's The Last Temptation of Christ was banned on the grounds that it could hurt the feelings of Christian believers in the Holy Land.[27]
  • 2002: Jenin, Jenin was banned by the Israeli Film Ratings Board on the premise that it was libelous and might offend the public. The Supreme Court of Israel later overturned the decision.[28]

Japan

Despite Japan's strict censorship policy on nudity (see Pornography in Japan), very few films are banned there. [citation needed]

Those that are banned are usually put under self imposed studio bans by the companies that produced them. [citation needed]

  • 1945: The Akira Kurosawa directed movie The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail was temporarily banned by the SCAP because it portrayed feudalism in a positive light. [citation needed]
  • 1955: The Toho production Half Human, directed by Ishirō Honda was put under a self imposed ban by Toho after it was feared that the film would be seen as degrading portrayal of Japan's Ainu minority. The film was never released on laserdisc or DVD, even though there were several home video releases and to this day the only way to see it is through its heavily edited US version. [citation needed]
  • 1958: Varan the Unbelievable was put under a self imposed studio ban by Toho for some of the same reasons that Half Human was but was finally released in the 1980s on VHS and laserdisc (with a few lines of reportedly racist dialogue removed from the film). [citation needed]
  • 1969: Teruo Ishii's exploitation flick Horrors of Malformed Men‎ was put under a studio ban by Toei due to the film's numerous offensive elements. These days, with the film currently unavailable in any format in Japan, the only way to see it is through the occasional screening and the 2007 USA DVD release of Horrors of Malformed Men. [citation needed]
  • 1974: Toho placed yet another one of their films under a self imposed ban, this time Prophecies of Nostradamus, an apocalyptic disaster film after a group of hibakusha, or nuclear radiation survivors, saw the film and were highly offended by sequences showing a research party being attacked by radioactive cannibals and a pair of horribly deformed post-apocalyptic mutants fighting over a worm. After airing the film uncut on television in 1980, Toho withdrew the film from circulation entirely. Toho attempted releasing this film onto VHS in the late 1980s but was stopped due to protests. The only way to see the film is through the film's US version The Last Days of Planet Earth or through a grey market copy of the uncut version containing the time code at the top of the screen. [citation needed]
  • 1984: Cannibal Holocaust banned due to banning on extreme cruelty to animals and was unable to make bootleg copies. [citation needed]

Kazakhstan

Kuwait

Lebanon

Malaysia

Morocco

The Netherlands

  • 1932: Scram On its initial cinematic release in the Netherlands this Laurel & Hardy film was banned by Christian moral watchdogs who claimed the scene where the duo sat on a bed with a woman whom they weren't married to was "indecent". Today the film isn't banned anymore in the country.[30]

New Zealand

North Korea

  • 2009: 2012. Banned because the year 2012 coincides with the 100th anniversary of Kim Il Sung's birth. The year had also been designated "the year for opening the grand gates to becoming a rising superpower."[38]

Norway

Year Name Reason Citation
1964 - 1971 491 Banned due to homosexual themes. A censored version was later released. [citation needed]
1974 - ? The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [6]
1977 - 2003 Suspiria Reason unknown. Ban lifted [citation needed]
1980 - 2008 Friday the 13th Banned due for high impact violence and extreme cruelty/torture. A censored version is later released. [citation needed]
1980 - 2006 Monty Python's Life of Brian Banned due to offensive jokes to religious people. Ban later lifted. [6]
1984 - 2005 Cannibal Holocaust Banned due to high impact violence and animal cruelty. A censored version was later released. [citation needed]
1990-2003 Robocop 2 Banned due to high impact violence. [citation needed]
1998 Kite Banned due to high impact violence, cruelty and child pornography. A censored version was later released. [citation needed]
2009 Ichi the Killer Banned due to high impact violence and cruelty. [citation needed]


Oman

Philippines

  • 1977: Hubad na Bayani:[39] Depiction of human rights abuses during the martial law era.
  • 2000: Toro/Live Show:[40] Banned for explicit sexual content.

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Samoa

Singapore

Solomon Islands

South Africa

Soviet Union

South Korea

Bans made prior to 1980 have all been lifted. [citation needed]

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Year Name Reason Citation
1922 - 1972 Nosferatu Banned due to high impact scary violence and cruelty. A censored version was later released. [citation needed]
1968 Django Banned due to high impact violence and cruelty. [citation needed]
1974 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Unknown [6]
1981 Mad Max Banned due to high impact violence and cruelty. [citation needed]
1981 The Burning Banned do to high impact scary violence and cruelty for the VHS market.
1984 Tenebre High impact scary violence. [citation needed]
1984 - 1999 Cannibal Holocaust High impact violence and animal cruelty. A censored version has since been classified "15". However, bootleg copies for the uncut version are available and since the beginning of the 2000's it has been legal uncut in Sweden. [citation needed]
1997 Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation High impact scary violence and cruelty [49]


Switzerland

Thailand

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

Year Name Details Citation
1932 - 1963 Freaks Rejected by British censors and banned. It was again rejected for a cinema rating certificate in 1952. Available from 1963 - passed with an X rating. [citation needed]
1954 - 1967 The Wild One Banned from distribution in the United Kingdom until 1967. [citation needed]
1960 - 1968 Black Sunday Mario Bava's movie was banned due to its violent content until 1968. [citation needed]
1968 - 1988 The Trip Roger Corman's film was banned due to glorification of LSD. It is later unbanned, but was not released in Britain until 1988. [citation needed]
1972 - 2002 The Last House on the Left Banned by the BBFC until 2002 and not passed uncut until 2008. [citation needed]
1973 - 1990 The Exorcist
[6][57]
1973 - 1999 A Clockwork Orange Banned, two years after its release, by its own director Stanley Kubrick. This was not because of the copy cat violence allegedly inspired by the film, as is commonly believed. Kubrick received death threats to his family and consequently arranged to withdraw the film from UK cinemas. It was not allowed to be shown again in the United Kingdom until after his death. Throughout the decades the film acquired a mythical status in the country until Kubrick died in 1999 and the ban was finally lifted.
[6]
1974 - 1999 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Banned; it was passed uncut in 1999.
[6][58]
1975 - 2003 Il paese del sesso selvaggio Umberto Lenzi's movie was banned. Passed in 2003 [citation needed]
1989 - present Visions of Ecstasy Banned under blasphemy laws, and is the only film ever to be banned in the UK due to blasphemy. As the UK's blasphemy laws were repealed in 2008, the film is likely to be passed in the near future. [citation needed]
1990 - 2004 Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III Banned; passed uncut in 2004
[59][60]
1993 - present Mikey Rejected by the BBFC for a certificate in 1996. A trailer had previously classified 18 four years before. In the aftermath of the widely-publicised murder of Jamie Bulger, the BBFC (on the guidance of three child psychiatrists) banned the film because it features a child as a killer, which they believed might cause children who watched it to act violently.
[61]
2009 - present Grotesque Banned due to a high level of sexual torture.
[62]
  • 1984 - The infamous video nasty list is created to protect against obscenity. Films on this list were banned and distributors of said films were viable to be prosecuted (some of the films were banned before this list was made). This list banned 74 films at one point in the mid-1980s, but the list was eventually trimmed down when only 39 films were successfully prosecuted. Most of the films (even of the 39 successfully prosecuted) have now been approved by the BBFC either cut or uncut (see Video Recordings Act 1984).

United States

The United States has no federal agency charged with either permitting or restricting the exhibition of motion pictures. Most instances of films being banned are via ordinances or proclamations by city or state governments. Some are instances of films being judicially found to be of an obscene nature and subject to specific laws against such material (i.e. child pornography). Such findings are usually only legally binding in the jurisdiction of the court making such a ruling.

The established film industry in the United States began a form of self-censorship in the late 1920's called the Motion Picture Production Code to forestall any possible formation of a federal censoring agency. In 1968, the Production Code was superseded by the MPAA film rating system.

Theoretically, free speech in the U.S. can also be limited if it might cause a clear and present danger of an imminent lawless action, or constitutes a copyright violation.

Vatican City

Vietnam

Yemen

See also

Notes

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Further reading

  • Forbidden Films: Censorship Histories of 125 Motion Pictures by Dawn Sova ISBN 0-8160-4336-1
  • Behind The Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent Era by Kevin Brownlow, 2nd ed. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992). Contains considerable information about film censorship in pre-1930 America, and discusses banned silent films in great detail.
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