What do you think are the most controversial films of all time? Here are the ones I could think of off the top of my head:

1. Caligula
2. A Clockwork Orange
3. Salo
4. KIDS
5. The Triumph of the Will
6. The Exorcist
7. The Wild Bunch
8. I Am Curious - Yellow
9. Happiness
10. The Last Temptation of Christ

Make your own list...let's see what we can come up with.

Maybe "Deep Throat" or "Beyond the Green Door," if only for mainstreaming porn?

The original Manchurian Candidate. I believe it was banned for a long time. I still find it shocking that it came out so close to the assasination of Kennedy.

"Straw Dogs"
"Deliverance"
"A Clockwork Orange"
"Joe"
"The Exorcist"
"Midnight Cowboy"
"JFK"
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Loved the Bomb"
"Happiness"
"Irreversible"

Bad Lieutenant. An ugly film.

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Originally posted by NietzscheX:
What do you think are the most controversial films of all time? Here are the ones I could think of off the top of my head:

10. The Last Temptation of Christ

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The Passion of the Christ had it's share of controversy, from all sorts of circles...

A couple in particular that I have seen are Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and loved the bomb and The Exoricst.

Passion of the christ
Farenheit 9/11

The Birth of a Nation

Yes, the film's original title was "The Klansman", and it was a heroic portrayal of the KKK saving the South from various "undesirables". But it's rep at the time was that it was the largest-scale, most-epic, plot-driven American film ever made. Director D.W. Griffith made a ton of money from this film, but he felt so ashamed, he immediately sank most of it into another epic, trying to right his wrong. The classic result was "Intolerance", a film which bombed at the box office.

"Henry: Portrait of a serial killer."

This movie sickened me to the core.

As I see it, It's pretty hard to beat John Waters "Pink Flamingoes" (1972)

The IMDB plot summery should give you a general idea:

"Sleaze queen Divine lives in a caravan with her mad hippie son Crackers and her 250-pound mother Mama Edie, trying to rest quietly on their laurels as 'the filthiest people alive'. But competition is brewing in the form of Connie and Raymond Marble, who sell heroin to schoolchildren and kidnap and impregnate female hitchhikers, selling the babies to lesbian couples. Finally, they challenge Divine directly, and battle commences..."

Living in LA at the time of their releases, "New Jack City" (Westwood Riot), "Colors", and "Boyz 'N The Hood" were extremely controversial in my neck of the woods. "Menace II Society" also, but that didn't generate the kind of media blitz that the other three did.

From today's perspective, they may each seem rather non-controversial, but trust me, at the time in Los Angeles, they stirred quite a few folks up.