Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "controversial-film"

1. Immaculate (2024)

R | 89 min | Horror

Cecilia, a woman of devout faith, is warmly welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clear to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.

Director: Michael Mohan | Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Álvaro Morte, Simona Tabasco, Benedetta Porcaroli

Votes: 20,335

2. Animal (I) (2023)

Not Rated | 204 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The hardened son of a powerful industrialist returns home after years abroad and vows to take bloody revenge on those threatening his father's life.

Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga | Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Rashmika Mandanna

Votes: 89,469

3. Lolita (1997)

R | 137 min | Drama, Romance

An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.

Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella

Votes: 66,580 | Gross: $1.40M

4. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

TV-MA | 117 min | Drama

In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti

Votes: 65,867

5. Kids (1995)

Unrated | 91 min | Drama

A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.

Director: Larry Clark | Stars: Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloë Sevigny, Sarah Henderson

Votes: 84,677 | Gross: $7.42M

6. Pretty Baby (1978)

R | 110 min | Drama

A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Frances Faye

Votes: 12,842 | Gross: $5.79M

7. Blonde (2022)

NC-17 | 167 min | Drama, History

The story of American actress Marilyn Monroe, covering her love and professional lives.

Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Ana de Armas, Lily Fisher, Julianne Nicholson, Tygh Runyan

Votes: 72,011

8. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

R | 164 min | Drama

The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Paul Greco

Votes: 63,171 | Gross: $7.63M

9. Pink Flamingos (1972)

NC-17 | 93 min | Comedy, Crime

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Director: John Waters | Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole

Votes: 27,914 | Gross: $0.18M

10. Rust (VI)

Western | Completed

A boy left to fend for himself and his younger brother following their parents' deaths in 1880s. Kansas goes on the run with his long-estranged grandfather after he is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher.

Director: Joel Souza | Stars: Travis Fimmel, Frances Fisher, Alec Baldwin, Jake Busey

11. Wolf Creek (2005)

R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller

Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.

Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Nathan Phillips, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, John Jarratt

Votes: 78,386 | Gross: $16.19M

12. The Last House on the Left (1972)

R | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln

Votes: 40,303 | Gross: $3.10M

13. Saw III (2006)

R | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Jigsaw abducts a doctor in order to keep himself alive while he watches his new apprentice put an unlucky citizen named Jeff through a brutal test.

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman | Stars: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh

Votes: 212,484 | Gross: $80.24M

14. Persepolis (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux

Votes: 100,210 | Gross: $4.45M

15. Cuties (2020)

TV-MA | 96 min | Drama

Eleven-year-old Amy starts to rebel against her conservative family's traditions when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance crew.

Director: Maïmouna Doucouré | Stars: Fathia Youssouf, Médina El Aidi-Azouni, Esther Gohourou, Ilanah Cami-Goursolas

Votes: 32,585

16. Kabir Singh (2019)

Not Rated | 173 min | Action, Drama, Romance

An exalted but short-fused surgeon plunges into a spiral of drugs, alcohol and rage after his intense relationship with his girlfriend turbulently ends.

Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga | Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Kiara Advani, Nikita Dutta, Soham Majumdar

Votes: 40,390

17. Hail Mary (1985)

Not Rated | 72 min | Drama

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Manon Andersen

Votes: 3,732

18. Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Horror

Three tales of punishment and torture set in Japan in the Middle Ages.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Fumio Watanabe, Reiko Mikasa

Votes: 676

19. Born Innocent (1974 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama

A young girl runs away from her abusive family and ends up in a girls' juvenile detention center, where she's raped and brutalized by her sadistic peers. Only one honest social worker shows interest in helping her.

Director: Donald Wrye | Stars: Linda Blair, Joanna Miles, Allyn Ann McLerie, Mary Murphy

Votes: 1,189

20. Marighella (2019)

155 min | Action, Drama, History

Facing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition, writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by the regime.

Director: Wagner Moura | Stars: Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Humberto Carrão

Votes: 56,050

21. Girl Blood Sport (2019)

354 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Chaos follows a deadly duo of maniac assassins after they host a brutal, no-holds-barred tournament inside a sinister steel cage surrounded by razor-sharp barb-wire after luring hungry, ... See full summary »

Director: Russell Brown | Stars: Miss Mercedes 9, Abby, Lisa Acosta, Stephanie Adduci

Votes: 275

22. The Red Pill (2016)

TV-14 | 108 min | Documentary

The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The Red Pill explores today's gender war and asks the question "what is the future of gender equality?"

Director: Cassie Jaye | Stars: Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Attila Vinczer, Dean Esmay

Votes: 12,047

23. The Trouble with Being Born (2020)

94 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

Director: Sandra Wollner | Stars: Lena Watson, Dominik Warta, Ingrid Burkhard, Jana McKinnon

Votes: 1,447

24. Orgies of Edo (1969)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror

A collection of stories dealing with punishment toward women.

Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Toyozô Yamamoto, Masumi Tachibana, Michiko Ai

Votes: 569

25. Life Lessons (2013 Video)

27 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

In this Story by Richard Price, Lionel Dobie is an acclaimed artist who finds himself unable to paint before a gallery exhibition and uses his messy lifestyle to create artwork.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: David Fichtenmayer, Kellie Marie McGhee, Hayley Pendergrass, Alexander Raye Pimentel

Votes: 55

26. Something Happened (1987)

24 min | Short, Drama

An educational film about AIDS contracted by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, later to be withdrawn due to its controversial content.

Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Klas-Gösta Olsson, Anne Tubin, Lennart Björklund, Sandy Mansson

Votes: 732

27. Flordelis: Basta Uma Palavra Para Mudar (2009)

100 min | Biography, Drama

Portrays the life of Flordelis, an evangelical woman who lives in Favela do Jacarezinho in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She adopted 37 children. Based on a true story.

Directors: Anderson Corrêa, Marco Antônio Ferraz | Stars: Letícia Sabatella, Fernanda Machado, Deborah Secco, Alinne Moraes

Votes: 59

28. Xuxa: O Documentário (2023)

Documentary, Biography

The life and times of Xuxa, the Brazilian TV personality who rose to international fame in the 1990s.

Stars: Xuxa, Pedro Bial, Sasha Meneghel, Sergio Mallandro

Votes: 326

29. Trail of the Hunter (1970)

GP | 91 min | Documentary, Adventure

Several hunters are depicted pursuing duck, rabbit, jaguar, mountain lion, buffalo, antelope, mule deer, and elk. Also, deep-sea fishing for dolphin and marlin in the Pacific. Wildlife conservation and the balance of nature are discussed.

Stars: Victor Jory, Danny Thompson, Ned Payne

30. Fresh Laid Plans (1951)

9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A comedy of errors befalls a chicken community as a result of trying an owl-professor's "crackpot" ideas on price guarantees, farm payment, consumer subsidies, rationing, black market policing and taxation to pay the costs.

Director: George Gordon | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Daws Butler, Pinto Colvig, Joseph Kearns

Votes: 17

31. El caso Rocío (2013)

75 min | Documentary

'The Rocío affair' narrates the making, prosecution and persecution of the film 'Rocío', directed by Fernando Ruiz Vergara and released in 1980, which has gone down in history as the first ... See full summary »

Director: José Luis Tirado | Stars: Fernando Ruiz Vergara, Ana Vila, Victor Estevão, Isidoro Moreno

32. Artifact (2013)
Episode: CruxEnigma (2017)

Action, Adventure, Drama

In a Stroy by Allan Linder, a fallen Astronaut searches the unknown for a way home. What he finds will change the future of humanity forever.

Votes: 22

33. Artifact (2013)
Episode: First Contact (Pilot) (2013)

Action, Adventure, Drama

An excavation team's Captain must save his crew from being consumed and driven mad by a recovered artifact.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Daniel Begus, Cesar D' La Torre, David Fichtenmayer, Rich Finley

Votes: 28

34. Artifact (2013)
Episode: Dissimulation (2015)

Action, Adventure, Drama

A Captain searching for an Artifact on a desolate planet, exposes the truths of his mission.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel

Votes: 27