Ranking Best and Worst NC-17-Rated Films; 'Shame' On Blu-ray April 17 (Video)

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• Brent | April 26, 2012 2:56 PMReply

  What about Requiem for a Dream? It is definitely a must see.

• dawn | April 3, 2012 12:16 AMReply

  No, LIE? That film was amazing. But now that I think about it, it might have been released unrated.

• James | March 28, 2012 5:12 PMReply

  "Bad Liutenant" was not remade by Werner Herzog.
  
  The Nicolas Cage with was not a remake of the earlier film. Just like the Crash staring Sandra Bullock and Matt Dillon isn't a remake of the Croneneberg film of the same name. ;p

• Charles Cochran | March 28, 2012 11:22 AMReply

  Crash should be in the Must See section and Bad Lieutenant should be in the Your Call section.

• Dave H. | March 28, 2012 11:43 AM

  I concur.

• Rob | March 28, 2012 11:17 AMReply

  Crash isn't about Holly Hunter's character. She's, what, fourth lead at best?
  
  Bad Education played widely outside of festivals and New York, and made about $5 million at the box office, a good number for any foreign language film.
  
  Showgirls is essential viewing.

• apricoco | March 28, 2012 11:10 AMReply

  You are missing a biggie in my honest opinion: Kids. I'd personally put it in the catagory of 'your call' but you can't deny that Harmony Korine made a film worth mentioning, even if it is for the lack of moral compass normally found in films. Telly as a character is highly watchable and makes your stomach turn. Plus, debut performaces of two future hollywood stars: Chloe Sevigny and Rosario Dawson.

• Michael Mayo | March 28, 2012 2:16 AMReply

  No "The Devils" or "Performance"?

• The Pope | March 28, 2012 8:14 AM

  Michael,
  I see what you're asking, but the rating NC-17 didn't exist back in the late sixties/early seventies.
  I reckon they would have been given an X, right?

• Zachary W. | March 28, 2012 12:12 AMReply

  It should be noted that "Showgirls" has developed a devoted following--and not just among cultists and camp-lovers. This is Verhoeven at his most unhinged and wildly savage; there are few American films in the last couple decades as searing in their indictment of Hollywood's "A Star is Born" mythology. Forget the ironic camp. Anybody who can't tell that this is a satire frankly isn't looking very hard.