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Cinema Paradiso(1988)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.2/5 (with 1,845 votes)

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Demolition Man(1993)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 55min | Crime, Action, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 1,622 votes)

Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, who had also been cryogenically frozen after being wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.

The Master and Margarita(2024)

2h 37min | Drama, Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Moscow, 1930s. A prominent writer's works are suddenly censored by the Soviet state and the premiere of his theatrical play about Pontius Pilate is canceled. He's kicked out of the Soviet Writer's Union, and quickly turns into an outcast with no means to survive. Inspired by Margarita - his lover, he begins working on a new novel in which all the characters are satirically reinterpreted from his life. The novel's central character is Woland - a mystical dark force who visits Moscow to revenge all those who caused the writer's downfall. As the Master sinks himself deeper and deeper into his novel, adding himself and Margarita as characters, he gradually stops noticing as the border between reality and his imagination fades away.

Directed by Michael Lockshin - With August Diehl, Yevgeny Tsyganov, Yuliya Snigir, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Claes Bang, Aaron Vodovoz, ...

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 379 votes)

The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and created Wonder Woman in 1941.

Taxi(2015)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 22min | Comedy, Drama, Documentary
3.5/5 (with 179 votes)

A yellow cab is driving through the vibrant and colourful streets of Tehran. Very diverse passengers enter the taxi, each candidly expressing their views while being interviewed by the driver who is no one else but the director Jafar Panahi himself. His camera placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio captures the spirit of Iranian society through this comedic and dramatic drive….

Directed by Jafar Panahi - With Jafar Panahi

Censor(2021)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 24min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 143 votes)

Film censor Enid takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences from the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled movies she pores over. Her sense of duty to protect is amplified by guilt over her inability to recall details of the long-ago disappearance of her sister. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film from the archive that echoes her hazy childhood memories, she begins to unravel how this eerie work might be tied to her past.

Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond - With Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th(2013)

6h 40min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 42 votes)

Taking inspiration from Peter M. Bracke's definitive book of the same name, this seven-hour documentary dives into the making of all twelve Friday the 13th films, with all-new interviews from the cast and the crew.

Cobweb(2023)

2h 15min | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

In the 1970s, Director Kim is obsessed by the desire to re-shoot the ending of his completed film Cobweb, but chaos and turmoil grip the set with interference from the censorship authorities, and the complaints of actors and producers who can't understand the re-written ending. Will Kim be able to find a way through this chaos to fulfill his artistic ambitions and complete his masterpiece?

Porn to Be Free(2016)

1h 19min | Documentary, History
2.8/5 (with 37 votes)

Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.

His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th(2010)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring interviews with cast and crew from the twelve films spanning 3 decades.

Lord of the Ants(2022)

2h 14min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 69 votes)

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic(2013)

1h 23min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 23 votes)

Mike Epps, Richard Pryor Jr. and others recount the culture-defining influence of Richard Pryor - one of America's most brilliant, iconic comic minds.

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Freedom to Love(1969)

1h 23min | Documentary, Drama
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

It is a sex education film of sorts dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.

Afterimage(2016)

1h 38min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.

Historia de la frivolidad(1967)

42min | Comedy, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.

Intimate Parts(2013)

1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Residents of a big city, each of whom has their own sexual problems and desires, secret and, most often, shameful from the point of view of society, need to solve them. Each of the characters tries to solve their problems in their own way: someone sublimates them, someone turns to a psychotherapist for help, someone rushes into experiments... but sooner or later they all return to where they started, and they have to overcome themselves again and again to get at least a little, even a millimeter closer to their happiness.

University of Laughs(2004)

2h 1min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.

Directed by Mamoru Hoshi - With Kōji Yakusho, Gorō Inagaki

The Cleaners(2018)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

A deep dive into the hidden industry of digital cleaning, which rids the Internet of unwanted violence, porn and political content.

Directed by Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck

The Wikipedia Promise(2021)

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of knowledge, monopolized by the elites for centuries. But is Wikipedia really a utopia come true?

Directed by Jascha Hannover, Lorenza Castella - With Katherine Maher, Jimmy Wales, Andrew Keen, Felix Nartey, May Hachem, Achim Raschka, ...

Manda huevos(2016)

1h 35min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A look at the different masculinities portrayed in Spanish cinema through time. (A sequel to “Barefoot in the Kitchen,” 2013.)

Directed by Diego Galán - With Carmen Machi

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth(2000)

1h 15min | Documentary, Horror
3.5/5 (with 9 votes)

A documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Directed by David Gregory

Barefoot in the Kitchen(2013)

1h 24min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

What was the role of women in Spanish cinema from the 1930s to the present explained through fragments of different films, both fiction and non-fiction. (Followed by “Manda huevos,” 2016.)

Directed by Diego Galán - With Carlos Hipólito

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood(2008)

1h 8min | Documentary, History
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape(2010)

1h 12min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A documentary analyzing the furore which so-called "video nasties" caused in Britain during the 1980s.

Directed by Jake West - With Andy Nyman

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema(2007)

1h 10min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.

Cleanflix(2009)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

When a small Utah-based edited movie company is caught sanitizing Hollywood's copyrighted material, the film industry strikes back with a devastating blow.

Princess Diana: The Mourning After(1998)

50min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

In "Diana: The Mourning After" Christopher Hitchens sets out to examine the bogusness of "a nation's grief", tries to uncover the few voices of sanity that cut against the grain of contrived hysteria. His findings suggested that the collective hordes of emotive Dianaphiles sobbing in the streets were not only encouraged but emulated by the media. In the aftermath of Diana's death a three-line whip was enforced on newspapers and on TV, selling the sainthood line wholesale. The suspicion was that journalists, like the public, greeted the death as a chance to wax emotional in print, as a change from the customary knowing cynicism, to wheel out all those portentous phrases they'd been saving up for the big occasion. Sadly, they just seemed to be showboating; the eulogies, laments and tear-soaked platitudes ringing risibly hollow.

Censored without Censorship(2007)

57min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Through the conversation with Yugoslav film authors and excerpts from their films, this documentary film tells a story of a film phenomenon and censorship, and its focus is, in fact, a painful epoch of Yugoslav film called “a Black Wave”, which was the most important and artistically strongest period of Yugoslav film industry, created in the sixties and buried in the early seventies by means of ideological and political decisions. The film tells a great “thriller” story of the ideological madness which characterised the totalitarian psychology having left multiple consequences felt up to our very days. It stresses similarities between totalitarian regimes defending their taboos on the example of the persecution of the most important Yugoslav film authors. Those film authors have, however, made world careers and inspired many later authors. The film is the beginning of a debt pay-off to the most significant Yugoslav film authors.

The Emma Bovary Trial(2021)

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for contempt of public morality and religion. The accused, the real one, is, through him, Emma Bovary, heroine with a thousand faces and a thousand desires, guilty without doubt of an unforgivable desire to live.

Video Nasties: Draconian Days(2014)

1h 37min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 5 votes)

The highly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE documentary, director Jake West and producer Marc Morris continue uncovering the shocking story of home entertainment post the 1984 Video Recordings Act. A time when Britain plunged into a new Dark Age of the most restrictive censorship, where the horror movie became the bloody eviscerated victim of continuing dread created by self-aggrandizing moral guardians. With passionate and entertaining interviews from the people who lived through it and more jaw dropping archive footage, get ready to reflect and rejoice the passing of a landmark era.

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