Basic Instinct, Scream, and American Psycho are among the best, boundary-pushing R-rated movies that were nearly slapped with an NC-17 rating.

The NC-17 rating is seen as taboo, but it lets movies explore the darker parts of human life, like in the films Perfect Blue and Mysterious Skin.

From A Serbian Film to Dawn of the Dead, these are essential X and NC-17 rated horror movies viewers need to see.

Some classic movies had to make changes to avoid getting slapped with the dreaded NC-17 rating. Here are 14 movies that made edits to be rated R.

The MPA's often vague reasoning for rating a film NC-17 calls into question how a number of R-rated straight films narrowly evaded the stigmatizing rating, like 1999's ...

Ana de Armas’s new Marilyn Monroe biopic is about to drop on Netflix, and the movie is fully rated NC-17. 👀 Which apparently came as a surprise to Ana. Speaking to Lofficiel USA, she said ...

Films rated NC-17 are rarely commercial. Pedro Almodovar s 2004 film Bad Education has the highest box-office tally of any NC-17 film with just over $5 million.

Basic Instinct, Scream, and American Psycho are among the best, boundary-pushing R-rated movies that were nearly slapped with an NC-17 rating.