The 20 best NC-17 movies ever made, ranked

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Sundance sensation ‘Passages’ gets an NC-17 rating. Its director calls that ‘censorship’

The upcoming film “Passages,” directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, has received a rare NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Assn., the Los Angeles Times has exclusively learned. A decision has been ...
Variety

Full Frontal Nudity, Oral Sex and More: Why ‘Passages,’ ‘Blonde’ and 19 More Films Earned the NC-17 Rating

Another year brings another NC-17 controversy at the movies. This time it’s for “Passages,” the acclaimed romance drama from Ira Sachs that earned strong reviews out of the Sundance Film Festival ...
Variety

Has the NC-17 Rating Become an Unworkable Anachronism?

Ira Sachs' "Passages" is the latest film to be slapped by the MPA with an NC-17. But is the 33-year-old rating a useful designation or just a scarlet letter? He’s totally right, of course. Yet in the ...