All films on this list were or are banned in different countries, and for different reasons. Which film, or which of the reasons for it being/having been banned in certain places, are you most surprised to find on the list?
Banned in China because of the government's belief that time travel is a dangerous element in fiction and because the actions of Marty McFly are highly inappropriate. (according to wikipedia)
Banned in Indonesia as a film that is sympathetic to the Jewish cause. (according to wikipedia) Also banned in Malaysia, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt, due to its scenes of "violence, torture and nu…
Banned in Malaysia because the censors found it to be unacceptable for children to watch, without providing any further explanation. (according to wikipedia)
Banned in Ireland because it was considered blasphemous. Ban lifted in 1987. It was also banned for a year in Norway, but marketed in neighbouring Sweden as "The film so funny that it was banned …
Dragon Tattoo It was banned in India for its adult scenes of rape and torture. The Central Board of Film Certification demanded that these scenes be cut, which the director David Fincher refused to d…
This Nazi propaganda film can presently only be shown for use in college classrooms and for academic purposes in Germany; exhibitors must have formal education in "media science and the history o…
An adaption of probably the most famous work of Irish literature by one of the foremost writers the country ever produced and a Nobel Prize laureate for Literature, James Joyce, this film, shot in Ire…
"Valley of the Wolves: Palestine" Banned in Germany, because of FSK's initial concerns over the film's perceived anti-Israeli and anti-American overtones. (according to wikipedia)
Both New Zealand and Sweden initially banned the film, the former due to the scene where Goose is burned alive inside his vehicle. It mirrored an incident with a real gang shortly before the film's re…
Banned in North Korea because the year 2012 coincides with Kim Il Sung's 100th birthday. The year had also been designated "the year for opening the grand gates to becoming a rising superpower.&q…
Banned in Samoa outright after church leaders watching a pre-release showing filed a complaint with film censors. Also banned in Singapore. (according to wikipedia)
Banned in many Western countries until after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953 for fear it could inspire a revolution (France) or promote Marxism (Germany) and similar reasons. (several sources, incl…
Banned in China for containing "propaganda of superstitious beliefs, namely Christianity." (Never given permission to screen). (according to wikipedia)
The film was banned in many Arab countries - but not Jordan, where much of it was filmed with the support of the the King - as they felt they were misrepresented. Omar Sharif arranged with President G…
The film was banned in Germany by Nazi Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick on the grounds that it ignominiously represented Germans as cowards. Ironically, in neighboring Poland, that country's cen…
Banned in Israel in a unanimous decision by the censorship board that Alec Guinness's Hitler was represented in too human a light. (according to wikipedia)
The French government placed enormous pressure on United Artists, the European distributor, to refrain from releasing the film. As a result, the film was not submitted to French censors, and was not s…
Banned in Israel for a short time. It had played for six weeks before the Nazi past of Gert Fröbe, who played the title villain, was disclosed; it was unbanned after a few months after a man went to t…
Banned in Thailand by the Ministry of Culture due to sexual content (characters showing how to make their own pornographic video; teens may try to mimic). (according to wikipedia)
Banned in the USSR under the regime of Joseph Stalin, after a test screening in Poland. The film showed that even the poorest Americans could afford an automobile, unlike in the Soviet Union. (accordi…
The Walt Disney documentary was banned in New York in 1956 because it showed a buffalo giving birth. The ban was lifted after a complaint by the American Civil Liberties Union. (according to wikipedi…
In 1980, the film was first cut, and then banned as child pornography by the Ontario Censor Board in Canada. On June 25, 1997, following a ruling made by State District Court Judge Richard Freeman, wh…
On initial release, the film was banned by the strict censorship board in Ireland on the grounds that it portrayed an adulterer in a sympathetic light. (according to wikipedia)
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