Controversial films tend to have one of two effects: Potential moviegoers steer clear of the big screen, heeding critics' warnings to beware, or the promise of something contentious makes viewers want ...

Over 50 years after its release, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, remains one of the most controversial films ever put to the big screen. But in 1975, it wasn't legally possible to screen in most ...

“Pasolini” is not a biopic of the late Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini (played here by Willem Dafoe). The complicated director of “The Gospel According to St. Matthew,” “Teorema” and “Salo, or ...