I worked at theaters showing Henry and June and Showgirls. With Henry and June, we really had to card people and we had it playing in several auditoriums during its run. Showgirls only had 1 showing and we had it for a week. Have both in my collection and I treasure it. Thanks for showing it some love.

The 1978 horror masterpiece Dawn of the Dead almost got an X-Rating for violence... until the producers decided to release it unrated! When "Clockwork Orange" was first released it got an X. As a result several news papers wouldn't carry ads for the film. After the removal of less than a minute's worth of footage (!) it got an R, allowing certain papers to print the ads. Angel Heart has a similar story...

Seriously props to this channel for giving the info title info up front!

I was about to say that “Requiem for a Dream” wasn’t NC-17, but evidently, the version most people have seen is a very slightly edited R-rated cut.

I've seen Requiem once, and never again.

I'd add the 1995 movie 'Kids' to this list.

I'm surprised that the other Lars Von Trier favorite" Anti Christ " wasn't included as well as Penthouse " Caligula."

Agree with the comments about what a tough watch Requiem for a Dream is, but I'd like to add that I think Ellen Burstyn's performance in that movie is cinema's greatest acting accomplishment.

I luv what you said about Requiem for A Dream...and that's FoSho... One of my favorite films.

It can still be artistry and not "exploitation" even if it gets an NC-17. And that's true even if topics like assault or incest are depicted. Art isn't necessarily supposed to be pretty or comforting.

Well... John Singleton once said (I'm paraphrasing) in movies violence and murder are okay, but when you include (even tasteful) sex scenes the rating hits the ceiling. Or in other words: Killing people is accepted everyday life in movies but sex is evil. That (very american) bigotry is kinda sad I think.

Lust Caution, In The Realm of The Senses, Bent, Crash, and Young Adam should be included

Matthew McCaughey in Killer Joe with the fried chicken blew my mind when I first seen it

The movie Shame predicted the future of our bleak world.

Irreversible (2002) The War Zone (1999) And nearly all of the scenes in Blue is the Warmest Colour

Please do not watch Requiem for a Dream if you aren't in a good headspace. Its the only movie I have to self-assess to make sure I'm okay enough to watch.

1:34 it might be one of the most disturbing sexual acts ever to be put on screen Spartacus: Am I a joke to you?

Blonde has not only destroyed Marilyn’s image and legacy, but ruined and canceled Ana’s career. Definitely the worst biopic movie ever.

I think we all know that anything set within the realms of possibility based on history is likely to be taken too seriously. Some hope (like I do, but learned all are bullshit) that they can enjoy a film while learning history in a way they can digest easily. Making something up for "artistic liberties" is very irresponsible of writers and directors when it comes to depictions of real people. Abraham Lincoln killing vampires is one thing, Kennedy raping Monroe without any known evidence of it is crossing a line somewhere.

As much as ‘Requiem for a Dream’ messed me up, I thought it was a great movie. Life never ends, and instead of finishing this movie on a positive note, they ended it on a bad one. It was refreshing in a way. And Jennifer Connelly being my favourite actress, I bought it on DVD having never seen it before. That was a rude awakening.

Requiem was a one-and-done viewing for me. I still bought and own the DVD, but I doubt I'll ever watch it again. Not because I thought it a bad movie, just... hit too close to home. A few friends (well, former friends) of mine went through a scenario very similar. Obviously not as dramatic as what's in the movie, but it was close enough.

Oh America, Movies can freely show people getting killed in whatever gruesome manners, but dear God to whoever does nudes

Depicting someone who is real as a rapist to be artistic is morrally disgusting and the Kennedys should sue.

Requiem for a dream produced wonderful music score, the main song was frequently used in trailers for movies

Blonde is a fictional book highly disrespectful

James Cameron's "Titanic" NEEDS to be on this list. Pure smut.

Killer Joe--great movie btw--is NC-17 because of the bloody beatdown Emile Hirshe gets. Ouch

Requiem for a Dream is fantastic. Ellen Burstyn should of won the Oscar for it.

Love all these films, and even love genres that are black and white and silent. I try and appreciate great story telling of all ages.

‘requiem for a dream’ was an awesome movie but its impact on me was both massive and depressing. i kept looking for the smallest thread of light at the end of the tunnel. sadly, it does not exist.

Requiem is a great one 🕐❤

Everyone here is for "research"

I guess "Below Her Mouth" and The Brown Bunny" didn't make the list because neither was submitted for a rating.

The director of that trash heap Blonde is damn lucky Caroline Kennedy is a private person. Anyone else would have sued him into a tent on Skid Row for that film

I thought NC-17 was a lower rated score than “R.”

I have seen the "Requiem for a Dream", and I must say that there wasn't a single scene where I would laugh. It was very disturbing and I have to say I had to watch another film after that in order to even be able to sleep. Not sure if I'm going to watch that film again, probably not. But I'd recommend that film to anyone who might think of getting their hands on drugs. It serves as a great anti-ad to drugs.

Requiem For A Dream is a brilliant film but can only be watched rarely.

Surprised Anti-christ wasn't in here.

You know you're a freak when you get excited about a vid like this, but realize that you've already seen ALL the movies on the list before 😂 Except the gay one. Not that one lol

Romance 1999 on Tubi has more nudity and graphic stuff than any of this.

Haha, I can't stop laughing! Legendary humor! 😂 👄👄👄🍆🍆🍆

Blonde is one of the worst, most repugnant & exploitative films I’ve ever seen. The director basically misled Anna de Armas into making his own personal porno rather than a compelling look at who Marilyn Monroe actually was. Rather than show the multifaceted person she was: a confident & funny sex icon who had a dark past & some personal demons, he chose to solely focus on sex scene after sex scene 💀 Hope that director never works again.

I was today years old when I found out an R rating isn't the highest rating...

That scene with Mathew and the chicken leg totally horrified me and havent been able to watch movies with him since then. Terrible

Requiem is still a great movie but you'll only wanna watch it once.

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Blonde is not the story of Marilyn monroe, however it is an entertaining movie at best !

What is the first movie

A perfect Ending has some really hot scenes too.

It's wild to me that the US has 17 as the age for explicit content to be ok where other countries such as the UK have 18, which also happens to be the legal drinking age (among a multitude of other 'adult' rights) whereas the US has 21 for drinking, LITERALLY the stand-alone country with the highest age limit. I just don't get it. Police spending time and resources "busting" 19, 20-year olds (who can vote, go to war, etc.) for drinking privately is simply madness.

Interesting about JFK, considering the several interviews by Mr. Mike Wallace on CBS' 60 Minutes.

I just watched "Showgirls" a couple of days ago, I love Paul Verhoeven movies, Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, he is the master of satire and commentary disguised as blockbuster movies; and I think the same was for "Showgirls", while steppeing out of what he is known for, the movie is a critique on the entertaiment industry and the explotation of women in said industry, so to make his point across he made it a Sexploitation movie, what's funny is when the movie came out everything that was about Nomi's story and how she slowly gets corrupted more and more to get what she wants, and how everyone around her is more rotten the higher she gets, and how Vegas in this movie really honors the name of "Sin City", and on top that is beautifully shot, really the city itself becomes another character; all of these was pushed aside by the critics and the audience because all they could see was the sex, which proofs the movie's point, since sex is all the public wants to see, whether to enjoy it or criticized it, then that is the what the industry will sell, positive or negative attention the audience give it by loads to this movie for the same reasons they think it's shouldn't get any.

I couldn't believe why Stanley Kubrick's last movie , Eyes Wide Shut , got an NC-17 rating . It got an NC-17 because of about 5-7 seconds of some guy's hips thrusting in simulated sex acts at the private party .

Can You Guys Do Forgotten Debut Programming From well known networks ????

wow i got here way to early its a little embarrassing

Do you really wanna know how I got these calluses on my hand ✋️?

Don’t worry Looper will never have to make this video again as Hollywood has removed all romance between men and women all together and sex scenes all together from any new film. What we got is all there will be until that echo chamber is torn down.

Wasn't Monroe doing both Kennedy brothers?

nymphomania sucks the storytelling is horrible and the philosophy the main character tries to sell you as their state of thinking makes no sense whatsoever.

I wouldn't mind this kind of rating if it were purely advisory. I don't find any of it shocking or offensive.

They should have shown the jfk d sk scene properly

It needs to go further. I’m not watching looper trash.

9 1/2 weeks, Realm of the Senses, Monsters Ball, earlier... Last Tango in Paris.

365 Days should have been NC 17. There is one scene you wonder how the act is not real..

Requiem is a really good movie, but I could only watch it once. Irreversible is another one timer. The rape scene is beyond brutal. I Spit on your Grave, the original one from the 70's has some brutal scenes also.

No mention of Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut? 🤔

Blue is close to a porn film I ever watched. The 1st time I knew anything about it, was when I watched a clip on porn hub. After seeing some scissoring, I went to watch the full film.

You guys missed two movies. “Kids” and “The pillow Book”. Cheers

The US can’t define woman, you expect common sense when defining adult?

i have a lot of googling to do

anyone see Simpsons on Sunday???? homer gets obsessed with tipping and busts a wad on moe

Not sure you understand the meaning of assault.

So why was Y Tu Mama, Tambien only rated R?

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Caligula?

Blonde was just a bad movie that tried to hard to be to "artistic".

USA is a joke in some ways with such Hypocrisy....NC 17 because some scenes have too much sex? But agr if consent in many states is as Young as 13? And the avg agr of consent is what? 15? Ridiculous Consent age Laws need to be revisec and raised to at Least 17, should be 18

It’s never to far push the limits as far as you can go And even further That’s why we have the 1st amendment

...given who JFK was...there WOULDN'T have been a record of any assault if it happened

Puritanical rubbish

Wtf is NC17? And who the fuck cares 😂

boooooooooooooooooooooring

How dare a movie imitate life...*sigh

JFK made Bill Clinton look like a choir boy.

Naked guys is definitely pornographic and should be shunned. Naked chicks is art and should be celebrated. Attempting to shame directors for featuring naked chicks is horrific and anyone doing so should be ignored by the masses.

@$$ to @$$!

Notable that the best of these are excellent films that stumbled into the rating. Meanwhile, others are self-important yet silly, “arty” yet trashy, “titillating” yet boring tripe that, in many cases, aimed for the rating & the controversy… only to be controversial because viewers said, “Much ado about nothing.”🥱