Time Out New York, a popular magazine, presented a list of the most scandalous films of the XX and XXI centuries. These films are characterized by rigidity, provocativeness and the absence of any framework.
Below is a list of films that top the rating compiled by the magazine.
10. Poison | 1990
The film consists of three short stories. They are not related to each other, but they are nevertheless united by a common theme - rejection. Each part is distinguished by a certain pace of narration and a peculiar style.
The first short story imitates a documentary, the second - a science fiction picture, and the third - copyright gay films of the eighties.
However, in general, the film turned out to be completely unique, new, despite some borrowings. All short stories complement each other perfectly and immerse viewers in an indescribable atmosphere.
9. Bonnie and Clyde | 1967
Bonnie Parker works as a waitress. One day she has a new acquaintance, Clyde Barrow. He tried to steal Mom Bonnie's car. The girl was tired of living in the outback, and the pretty criminal made a great impression on her, talking about how to get easy money.
Clyde and Bonnie begin to travel together, hunting robbery and robbery. They rob banks, shops, gas stations. First, they are lucky: they manage to hide from the police without any problems. Over time, they become more confident and merciless.
8. The last tango in Paris | 1972
The end of the 60s, Paris. In the city of love, a woman and a man met by chance. She is a young resident of Paris, wayward and eccentric. He is a forty-five year old resident of the United States who is depressed after the death of his wife.
A spark runs between the characters, and they start a novel, but they don’t even tell each other what their name is. The relationship is very passionate, but Jeanne will have a marriage, and Paul does not stop thinking about his dead wife, considering himself guilty of what happened.
7. Viridian | 1961
Viridiana is so pure in soul that she only dreams of serving the Lord. This kind girl actively cares for the poor and the weak. One of the main features of Viridiana is naivety, which once encounters brutal reality. The heroine is going to become a nun, but before that she goes to her uncle's country house.
Uncle Viridiana notes that the niece looks very much like his late wife. He asks Viridiana to put on the dead wife’s wedding dress. As a result, it turns out that uncle is passionately in love with his niece, and this makes the girl so impressed that she decides not to go to the monastery.
6. Freaks | 1932
Not only “normal” people perform in a traveling circus, but also artists with various deviations. Cleopatra is a beauty who pleases the audience with acrobatic numbers. A dwarf named Hans falls in love with her.
Cleopatra gives preference not to the midget, but to the strongman Hercules. However, it suddenly turns out that Hans inherited a huge fortune, and the insidious beauty decides to pretend to be in love with the dwarf.
Cleopatra and Hercules decide to kill the midget after the wedding. It seems that everything is going according to plan, but at the wedding the acrobat gets drunk and starts laughing at the freaks, revealing her true attitude towards others. Artists begin to suspect Cleopatra of unclean intentions and decide to follow her.
5. A Clockwork Orange | 1971
Merciless Alex is the head of a gang of teenagers. Together with its other members, he commits murder, robbery, rape and other serious crimes. As a result, Alex nevertheless ends up in prison, and there they try to treat him, to “process” him in order to suppress the young man’s subconscious desire for cruelty.
However, corrective measures do not change anything. Outside the gates of the prison, life is cruel in itself, and the criminal again embarks on a slippery slope. This film was banned for a long time due to the abundance of violence and sex.
4. The birth of a nation | 1915
Camerons are a happy family living in South Carolina. The doctor and his wife have two daughters, Flora and Margaret. The spouses have sons: Duke, Wade and Benjamin.
Friends from Pennsylvania come to the Camerons to visit: Phil, Tod and their father Austin Stoneman. Then the war began. Camerons stand on the side of the southerners, the Stonemen - on the side of the northerners.
3. Fat, or 120 days of Sodom | 1975
The film director decided to film the book of the Marquis de Sade, and the results of his work were very impressive. The action takes place in northern Italy, in the fascist republic of Salo.
People from high society abduct nine girls and the same number of boys. They torment, humiliate the captives, scoff at them in every way. Representatives of the elite feel their doom and finally want to fully satisfy the base instincts. For 120 days, an isolated villa turns for captives into a real hell.
2. The triumph of the will | 1935
In this picture, the speeches of the ideologists of Nazism (Goebbels, Hitler) are heard, the Nuremberg Congress of the National Socialist German Workers' Party is shown. The film was edited so that it could be called revolutionary in the field of filming techniques.
Leni Riefenstahl, film director, used 120 assistants and 30 cameras during her creation. As a result, this propaganda film turned out to be very outstanding.
1. The Passion of Christ | 2004
In this scandalous motion picture, Mel Gibson tried to recreate the last day of the life of Jesus Christ. The film shows everything from events that took place in Gethsemane to the very death of Jesus. He was approved by various Christian denominations.
This picture proved that Gibson has not only acting, but also directorial talent. In the film, he dispensed with computer graphics, which made all the scenes as realistic as possible.