# Censored Movies You Love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/censored-movies-you-love/852211 "2020-04-20T19:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/censored-movies-you-love/852211/1 "2020-04-20T19:50:14Z")
“Ucho” (The Ear) was “released” in 1970, but not officially until 1990 (end of the USSR). It’s a fine movie, and very well executed. I’ll paste the IMDB description, since I don’t want to spoil it, but if there are some who have seen it, we can always use the Spoiler tool on here to get more in-depth. “After coming home from a Party gathering one night, a Czechoslovakian official becomes convinced that he is about to be the subject of a political purge and tries to do damage control, while also dealing with his turbulent marriage.” A good way I’d describe it is “The Lives of Others” meets “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” I’m going to look into this movie more, but very eager to throw this out there “before its too late!” [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/The_Ear_%281990%29_Film_Poster.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/The_Ear_%281990%29_Film_Poster.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/censored-movies-you-love/852211/2 "2020-04-20T20:21:51Z")
So you are asking about banned movies, not bowdlerized ones? Man, are you going to get lots of unwanted replies from people who read only the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/censored-movies-you-love/852211/3 "2020-04-20T21:11:11Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > So you are asking about banned movies, not bowdlerized ones? Man, are you going to get lots of unwanted replies from people who read only the thread title. I’m sure everyone will read the body 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/censored-movies-you-love/852211/4 "2020-04-20T22:32:55Z")
I can’t offhand think of a movie that was once banned that didn’t turn out to be so tame that I wondered what the fuss was about. I suppose there might be some snuff films out there that qualify as deservedly restricted, but whatever. My favourite censorship-made-it-better movie moment is the “Ballad of Rock Ridge” song from _Blazing Saddles_, where the last word of the song ("… shit.") gets drowned out by a loud _MOO!_ Since I’m not even slightly scandalized by a cinematic use of the word “shit” (I cheerfully assume movie audiences in 1974 felt differently, of course), the modified version just sounds funnier to me. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/censored-movies-you-love/852211/5 "2020-04-21T03:14:08Z")
Comments courtesy: [List of banned films - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_films) _Häxan_ (1922) – “Banned until 1929 due to the use of torture and nudity. Its themes of witchcraft and Satanism may also have had an effect.” _The Skeleton Dance_ (1930) – Classic Disney short was banned in Denmark as “too macabre.” _L’Age d’Or_ (1930) - Banned in Paris “in the name of public order.” _Duck Soup_ (1933) – Banned in Italy for poking fun at dictators, and in Nazi Germany (along with all other Marx bros movies) because the bros were Jewish. _The Testament of Dr. Mabuse_ (1934) – Banned in Nazi Germany. _Paths of Glory_ (1957) – Banned in France and elsewhere in Europe. _Peeping Tom_ (1959) – Banned in Finland until 1981. _Viridiana_ (1961) – Banned in Spain until 1977. _The Battle of Algiers_ (1965) – Banned in France for 5 years. _Goldfinger_ (1965) – Briefly banned in Israel following reports that Gert Fröbe had a Nazi past. _Horrors of Malformed Men_ (1969) – Not clear why Japan banned this, but it probably had something to do with the depictions of malformed men hitting too close to a-bomb survivors. _Z_ (1969) – Banned in Greece. _The Devils_ (1971) – Banned in a bunch of places. _District 9_ (2009) – Banned in Nigeria. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/censored-movies-you-love/852211/6 "2020-04-21T04:43:04Z")
did Luis Buñuel ever make a film that wasn’t banned somewhere ? it seems he tried to be as offensive as possible (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing) ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/censored-movies-you-love/852211/7 "2020-04-21T12:27:24Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > did Luis Buñuel ever make a film that wasn’t banned somewhere ? it seems he tried to be as offensive as possible (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing) I think that was “Viridiana”