r/Controversial_Movies

From the Italian master Lucio Fulci comes his unofficial sequel to George A Romero’s: Dawn of the Dead 1978. The film belongs to the “Video Nasties” era and upon release was forced to cut around 2 minutes of footage deemed too disturbing for Western audiences at the time. Starring the Scottish actor and farmer Ian McCulloch and female co-star Tisa Farrow (both starring in multiple Italian exploitation films of the time) and Lucio Fulci himself as a police chief. With an amazingly haunting soundtrack by Goblin, this film pushed many boundaries with its confronting sleazy gore. A must watch for anyone into zombies; but get ready to be disappointed as the film crescendos into one of the worst endings ever released to celluloid. You will easily find free full movie uploads if you search YouTube. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080057

Green elephant calf (зелёный слоник) is a Russian experimental horror directed by Svetlana Baskova. The plot follows two soldiers who are imprisoned in a military detention cell, the walls of which are painted in a green color.

This is a really disturbing movie, I find the first half particularly uncomfortable to watch although it contains no graphic violence compared to the second half. The dialogue is preposterous yet somewhat interesting, and gory scenes are also unconventional.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1003080/?ref\_=ext\_shr\_lnk

This movie is mean.

Thats all there is to it.

The best analogy I can think of is a pitch black humor episode of Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I won't break into spoilers here because it could essentially ruin the entire film for people, but I will say that if you haven't seen this, go into it blind.

I will say that if you're a parent, or someone witg a new baby, you might want to consider skipping this.

This film also got better for me on repeat viewings. I think the first time I watched it I was too horrified to fully enjoy the humor, but the second time around I found it funny in a surreal kind of way.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21874760/

The movie is directed by Eva Ionesco based on her own childhood experiences. Eva's mother Irina was a photographer who began photographing Eva when she was a kid. Many of these pictures were controversial because they portrayed Eva in a sexualized way.

In 2011, the same year My Little Princess was released, Eva filed a lawsuit against her mother over the publication and sale of some of those pictures.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1896788/?ref\_=ext\_shr\_lnk

The actress Anamaria was very young at that time so it raises questions about whether asking her to perform in scenes depicting exploitation was ethically appropriate.

Saw this one a few months ago and I have never seen anyone else talk about it, but it is definitely kind of dark and fucked up. I'd consider the topic very controversial.

I don't want to give too much away and don't recommend reading the IMDB before viewing, but it deals with the idea of what some people might use human like robots for. I didn't have any idea of what it was really about and because of that it had a larger impact than it could have if I'd known. In the first 5 minutes I thought, "what the fuck did I get into here?"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5584906/

Definitely not as graphic or gory as other movies on this sub, but I found it extremely disturbing when I watched it as a teenager.

A man wakes up in an empty white room except for the buttons on the walls, and must figure out which button to press to get what he wants.

This is a documentary about the Norwegian black metal scene in the early 1990s. It focuses on some key figures and presents their perspectives through interviews and archival footage.

The participants include Varg Vikernes, Bård Eithun, Gylve Nagell, Jan Axel Blomberg etc. Most of them were musicians, a few committed serious crimes. For example, Varg murdered Euronymous in 1994 and set fire to several historic churches.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014809/?ref\_=ext\_shr\_lnk

Man I still think about this movie sometimes. Its impact on me was massive. I remember watching this during opioid withdrawals, maybe that’s why it was so memorable and even more disturbing from my perspective. I would honestly probably kill myself if I woke up in a place like that. This movie was just so brutal and raw and made you feel like you were trapped no matter what. This movie wants to make you crawl out of your skin.

C’est un « teenage movie » réalise par Roger Avary adapté du livre du même nom de Breat Easton Ellis, très sous estimé qui raconte les dérives d’une université américaine rongé par de nombreux excès (drogues, sexe et autre) et qui sert de toile de fond à un triangle amoureux. Le film use d’un faux emballage de teenage movie et parle de drogue, de viol et de suicide tout en gardant une ambiance très années 2000 et en utilisant des acteurs très connus pour leur apparition dans des programmes pour adolescents.

C’est vraiment un film à voir pour toute les idées de mise en scène qu’il a proposé et son message qui parle à mon avis à beaucoup de monde. De plus, c’est probablement ce qui se rapproche le plus d’une suite de American Psycho le personnage principal, Sean Bateman, étant le frère de Patrick Bateman dans l’univers des livres de Breat Easton Ellis

Christiane F. is directed by Uli Edel, based on the true story of Christiane Felscherinow. The story is about a 13 year old girl in 1970s west Berlin who becomes a drug addict after entering the city's nightclub scene. The movie shows the impact of addiction, prostitution, and the failures of families, schools and society in protecting young people.

It is very realistic, the detox scene is intense. I watched it when I was a teenager and it really shook me.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082176/?ref\_=ext\_shr\_lnk

A movie about a struggling author who's books have not been selling well but when his son dies he ueses it as an opportunity to become famous probably one of Robin William's best movies.

A dark comedy about death and grief it's also talks about how fake society can be sometimes and about how we pretend like to curtain things just because it's trendy or whenever someone passes away we often pretend that we liked them even though we really didn't know anything about them it's really tough watch but a really good movie.

Ichi the killer is directed by Takashi Miike, based on the manga by Hideo Yamamoto. The story is about a sadistic Yakuza enforcer Kakihara as he searches for his missing boss. His search leads him to Ichi, a deeply traumatized person who appears timid but becomes a violent killer when triggered.

This is one of the movies that genuinely makes me feel sick. It's filled with gratuitous scenes of murder and torture, along with a bunch of twisted characters. Kakihara is both a sadist and a masochist, he craves the ultimate experience of pain and this is the reason why he is so eager to find his missing boss because that person is the only one who could give him the most intense pain imaginable. Ichi is usually timid and cowardly, but after being hypnotized, he turns into a killer. The ending is bleak with all the major characters dead.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296042/?ref\_=ext\_shr\_lnk

Never thought I would ugly cry at a movie no matter how many times I've watched it. Bjork is a fantastic actor who captures whimsy and sadness in such a realistic way...it makes me sad she doesn't act anymore.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/?ref\_=ext\_shr\_lnk

Brokeback Mountain is an American western adapted from the 1997 short story by the same name

In the film, the two main characters (Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist) are working class cowboys hired as ranch hands up on the fictional Wyoming mountain away from most civilization during the summer of 1963. Far from a quick romp in the sun, the two men strike up a lifelong homosexual affair 

The longterm infidelity, overt depiction of gay sex, and a hate crime scene proved to be more controversial than anything else being shown in theaters at the time 

Brokeback Mountain was banned in China, Russia, Malaysia, UAE, and the Bahamas over “spreading gay propaganda”

In the US, the movie was removed from Utah cinema chain Megaplex and also banned in Massachusetts’ Norfolk men’s prison over “graphic content” concerns 

Actor Ernest Borgnine spoke out about the direction of westerns- even going as far as to claim “John Wayne must be fuming in his coffin” over the way midcentury American cowboys were being emasculated. Mark Wahlberg was also asked by director Ang Lee to audition for a lead role but got “too creeped out” after reading 15 pages of the script and ultimately turned down the opportunity 

The American Family Association also held an unsuccessful protest campaign to get the DVD’s removed from Walmart shelves- writing that the movie was “Neo-Marxist homosexual propaganda intended to normalize subversive sexual ethics” 

Despite such strong opposition, Brokeback Mountain is now a cult classic that won three Oscar’s and was even turned into an opera that premiered in Madrid, Spain in 2014

Now 21 years old, Brokeback Mountain is often now considered a “quintessential LGBT movie” by supportive fans

LINK: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/

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Trainspotting follows a young heroin addict named Mark Renton living in Edinburgh. Mark and his friends spend much of their time addicted to heroin, bouncing between getting high, committing petty crimes, partying, and trying to get rid of their addictions.

It includes disturbing scenes of drug addiction, infant death, overdose, violence, and sexual content. One scene ("the worst toilet in Scotland") is particularly shocking.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/?ref\_=ext\_shr\_lnk

A 2011 Spanish psychological thriller directed by Jaume Balagueró who also did the REC films and another underground gore fest called Inside (2016). Led by the actor Luis Tosar who plays the role of the miserable, psychotic concierge perfectly; with the female co star Marta Etura playing the victim. This movie will make you want to check under your bed before going to sleep… With an excellent twist at the end. For the films trailer and shorts: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1437358/