List of films condemned by the Legion of Decency

• Adolf Strongarm, a Swedish import (Adolf Armstarke).
• Extase or Ecstasy (1933), an import from Czechoslovakia.
• Elysia (1933), an exploitation pseudo-documentary about nudism by Bryan Foy
• Les Amours de Toni (1935), a French import directed by Jean Renoir.
• Carnival in Flanders, a French import
• Gambling with Souls, an exploitation film described by The New York Times as "a so-called exposé of the vice racket".{{cite news | accessdate = April 4, 2017 | date= September 21, 1936 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1936/09/21/93530493.pdf | title= Of Local Origin | work= The New York Times }}
• Living Dangerously, an English import produced by British International Pictures.
• Pitfalls of Youth, possibly an alternative title for the exploitation film Marihuana, by Dwain Esper.
• The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), an English import starring Charles Laughton.
• Whirlpool of Desire, a French import originally titled Remous.

• Assassin of Youth, an exploitation film about marijuana.
• Club de femmes (1936), a French import.
• Damaged Goods, an exploitation film released by Grand National Films Inc., a minor producer-distributor that operated from 1936–1939. Also distributed as Marriage Forbidden.
• Damaged Lives, a sexploitation film about venereal disease, purportedly commissioned by a health council.
• The Lie of Nina Petrovna, a French import.
• Lucrezia Borgia (1935), a French historical drama directed by Abel Gance.{{cite news | work = New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/10/13/94439033.pdf | date= October 13, 1937 | title= The Gallic Film-Makers Turn Inquisitive Eyes Upon 'Lucrezia Borgia' and Her Family at the Belmont |accessdate = April 5, 2017 |first= Frank S. |last = Nugent |quote=The biography is more charitable than the Legion of Decency will give it credit for.}}
• Slaves in Bondage, an exploitation film about prostitution.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | date = December 24, 1937 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1937/12/24/101016821.pdf | title = Of Local Origin }}

• Children of the Sun, an exploitation pseudo-documentary.
• Human Wreckage, a sexploitation film about venereal disease, also distributed as Sex Madness.
• It's All in the Mind (1937), an exploitation film by Bernard B. Ray, dealing with hypnosis with a sex-positive message.
• The New Testament {{aka}} Indiscretions, a French comedy from Sacha Guitry.
• Orage, a French import, which the Legion calls L'Orage.
• The Pace That Kills (1935), an exploitation film about cocaine use.
• The Puritan, a French import.
• Race Suicide, an exploitation film about prostitution and abortion.
• The Wages of Sin, an exploitation film about prostitution.

• The Human Beast (1938), a French import originally titled La Bête Humaine, directed by Jean Renoir.
• Le Jour Se Lève or Daybreak, a French import directed by Marcel Carné, condemned for its "general atmosphere of sordidness and abnormality".
• {{ill|Last Desire (1939 film)|lt=Last Desire|fr|Dernière Jeunesse}}, a French–Italian import.
• Mad Youth, an exploitation film by Willis Kent.
• Rasputin, a French import directed by Marcel L'Herbier.
• Reefer Madness, an exploitation film about marijuana by George Hirliman, also distributed as Tell Your Children.
• Sinful Daughters, a sexploitation film about abortion endorsing birth control.
• Smashing the Rackets, an exploitation film loosely based on the early career of Thomas E. Dewey.{{efn|The Legion used the title Smashing the Vice Racket.}}
• With a Smile, a French import directed by Maurice Tourneur.

• Hôtel du Nord, a French import directed by Marcel Carné.
• The Kiss of Fire, a French import
• Lash of the Penitentes (1936/1937), an exploitation film from Harry Revier.
• The Merry Wives, a Czech import.
• Pépé le Moko (1937), a French import directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Jean Gabin.{{cite news | work = The New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date = March 18, 1941 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/03/18/85466348.pdf | title = Of Local Origin}}
• Souls in Pawn, a sexploitation film, one of several directed by Melville Shyer.
• Stolen Paradise, a sexploitation film by George Hirliman, also released as Adolescence and condemned by the Legion under that title.
• Strange Cargo, initially condemned.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 1, 2017 | date =March 28, 1940 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/03/28/92927356.pdf | title = Gable Film Censured }} Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made revisions and the Legion changed its rating to "unobjectionable for adults".{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 1, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/10/07/112765194.pdf | title = Ban on Film Modified | date= October 7, 1940}}
• This Thing Called Love, initially condemned for failing to reflect the "Christian concept of marriage"; the Legion revised the rating to B after Columbia Pictures removed fifteen lines of dialogue the Legion objected to.{{cite book| last=Dick |first=Bernard F. |date=2006 |title=Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell |publisher=University Press of Mississippi | page=79 |isbn=9781604731392 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Vp7i1FSO4g8C&pg=PA79 |access-date = April 3, 2016}}
• Time in the Sun, a documentary compiled from footage shot by Sergei Eisenstein. The Legion called its account of Mexican history "an ideological perversion of the subject to purposes of Marxian Communism".{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date = October 21, 1940 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/10/21/112770425.pdf | title = Of Local Origin}}

• City of Sin, a sexploitation film
• Fighting the White Slave Trade, a sexploitation film.
• Nine Bachelors, a French import.
• The Girl from Maxim's (1933), a British import.{{cite book| first=Anthony | last = Slide | access-date = April 2, 2017 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zOp2WxH5yscC&pg=PA4 | title = Banned in the U.S.A.: British Films in the United States and their Censorship | publisher= I.B. Tauris | date= 1998 | page= 4| isbn = 9781860642548 }} The Legion said: "Vice is portrayed attractively; virtue ridiculed."
• No Greater Sin, a sexploitation film about a campaign to prevent the spread of venereal disease.
• Le Roi (1936), a French import.
• Two-Faced Woman, Greta Garbo's last film, initially condemned for its "immoral and un-Christian attitude toward marriage and its obligations; impudently suggestive scenes, dialogue, and situations; [and] suggestive costumes".{{cite book|last1=Doherty |first1=Thomas |title=Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration| date=2007|publisher=Columbia University Press|page=144|isbn=9780231512848 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c8ih7OuhdugC&pg=PA144|access-date=3 April 2017| quote=It was the first studio release to be condemned by the Legion....}}{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 3, 2017 | title= Condemns Garbo Movie | date = November 24, 1941 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/11/24/99327010.pdf }} Within a month Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made changes sufficient for the Legion to revise its rating to B.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 3, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/12/18/99265585.pdf | date= December 18, 1941 | title= Lifts Ban on Garbo Film}}{{efn|The New York Times described the resulting film as "slightly laundered". It said "this ancient fable of the wife who parades as her own gaudy twin sister to get her husband back" was altered at the Legion's insistence by "the insertion of a telephone call wherein the husband learns in advance of his wife's intended deception."{{cite news|title=At the Capitol|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A04E5DA1739E33BBC4953DFB7668389659EDE|accessdate=April 3, 2017|work=New York Times|date=January 1, 1942}}}}
• {{ill|Volpone (1941 film)|lt=Volpone|fr|Volpone (film)}}, a French film directed by Maurice Tourneur.

• Passion Island, a Mexican import directed by Emilio Fernández as La Isla de la Pasiòn.

• {{ill|¡Ay qué tiempos señor don Simón!|es}}, a Mexican import.
• Child Bride (1938), also presented under the title Dust to Dust, an exploitation film about underage marriage.
• Confessions of a Vice Baron, a sexploitation film.
• Tentaciòn, a Spanish import directed by Fernando Soler.
• The Outlaw, a Western produced and directed by Howard Hughes, initially condemned. Rating changed to B in 1950 after revisions.

• Mom and Dad,{{cite news | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/12/21/104395645.pdf | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 3, 2017 | title = By Way Of Report | date= December 21, 1947 | first = A.H. | last = Weiler}} a sexploitation film that purported to teach sexual hygiene.

• Black Narcissus, a British import from the Powell and Pressburger team about Anglican nuns challenged by life in an exotic environment, initially condemned. The Legion reclassified it A-II (morally unobjectionable for adults) after revisions to "all prints of this film".{{cite book | title= Motion Pictures Classified by the National Legion of Decency, February 1936 – October 1959 |location = New York | date=1959 | access-date = April 3, 2017 | url = https://archive.org/details/motionpicturescl00nati }}
• Forever Amber, when 20th Century Fox encountered distribution problems because of the C rating, its president Spyros Skouras got the Legion to call off its pickets and boycott campaign by making cuts to the film, adding "an innocuous prologue", and making "a humiliating public apology" to the Legion.{{cite book | access-date = April 3, 2017 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bkU7CKBubgMC&pg=PA204 | pages= 204–5 | title = The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code | first1=Leonard J. | last1= Leff | first2=Jerold L. | last2=Simmons | edition=Second | publisher = University Press of Kentucky | date= 2001| isbn=9780813171074 }}
• Nais, a French import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 5, 2017 | date = July 5, 1948 | title = French Film Condemned | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/07/05/86904971.pdf }}

• The Bandit, an Italian import starring Anna Magnani.
• César, a French import from 1936 by Marcel Pagnol, in which the Legion found "Irreverent and blasphemous treatment of religious practices".
• Dedee, a French import condemned for its "low atmosphere" and "sordidness".{{cite news | work= New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/06/13/85643276.pdf | accessdate = April 5, 2017 | date = June 13, 1949 | title= Of Local Origin }}
• Devil in the Flesh, a French import condemned for its "sympathetic portrayal of illicit actions."{{cite news | work = New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/05/30/84566524.pdf | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date= May 30, 1949 | title= Legion 'Condemns' Film }}
• Fric-Frac, a French import produced a decade earlier.{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 4, 2017 | title = Legion Bans 'Fric-Frac' | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/06/28/96595487.pdf | date = June 28, 1948}}
• The Genius and the Nightingale, an Italian import produced in 1943 and titled Maria Malibran, a biopic of soprano Maria Malibran (1808–1836).
• Incorrigible, a Swedish import (Rötägg) directed by Arne Mattsson.
• Merry Chase, an Italian import (La resa di Titì) starring Rossano Brazzi.
• Passionelle, a 1947 French film by Roger Blin, also known as Pour une nuit d'amour, initially condemned. Rated B following revisions for copies distributed in the U.S. and Canada.
• The Room Upstairs, a French import starring Marlene Dietrich and Jean Gabin.
• Sins of the Fathers, a Canadian import.
• Street Corner, an exploitation film.
• Torment, 1944 Swedish film with a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, initially condemned.{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 1, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/06/14/84538402.pdf | title = Two Films Condemned | date = June 14, 1948}} When revised, its rating was changed to B for prints distributed in the U.S.
• {{ill|When Love Calls|it|Il segreto di Don Giovanni}}, an Italian romantic musical.

• The Blue Lagoon, a British import from director Frank Launder, starring Jean Simmons, condemned as "too shocking and almost pornographic". Universal-International cut 15 minutes for its U.S. release to satisfy the Legion of Decency.
• The Devil's Sleep, an exploitation film.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 4, 2017 | title = Hit by Legion of Decency | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/06/27/84571309.pdf | date= June 27, 1949}}
• Germany, Year Zero, an Italian import from director Roberto Rossellini.
• Hollywood Burlesque, an exploitation film featuring a filmed performance from the Hollywood Theater, San Diego.
• {{ill|Just a Big Simple Girl|fr|Une grande fille toute simple}}, a French import condemned as "totally lacking in moral compensation".{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 5, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/10/31/84579866.pdf | date= October 31, 1949 | title = Of Local Origin }}
• Rozina, the Love Child, a Czech import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | date = September 5, 1949 | title = Of Local Origin | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/09/05/86783656.pdf}}
• The Story of Bob and Sally, an exploitation film.
• {{ill|The Wench|fr|Bagarres (film)}}, a French import.

• Bitter Rice, an Italian import (Riso Amaro), initially condemned{{cite book|first=Gregory D.|last= Black |title = The Catholic Crusade Against the Movies, 1940-1975 | location=Cambridge |publisher= Cambridge University Press | date=1998 |pages=90–91 |isbn= 9780521629058 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KWGGRWY9_mcC&pg=PA90}} for "Suggestive situations and costuming. Suicide in plot solution." Revisions earned a B rating, which applied only to prints in the U.S.
• The Blue Angel (1930), a release of the original German-language version of the film starring Marlene Dietrich.
• Bullet for Stefano, an Italian import starring Rossano Brazzi{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | title = Of Local Origin | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/10/28/84825568.pdf | date= October 28, 1950}}
• Flesh Will Surrender, an Italian import.
• Gigi, a French import starring Danièle Delorme.
• {{ill|Hoboes in Paradise|fr|Les Gueux au paradis}}, a French import.
• Jungle Stampede, which according to the Legion "purports to be a documentary and educational in nature" but condemned for its handling of its subject matter, "native customs and habits".
• Lovers of Verona, a French import.
• Manon, a French import; the Legion said it "condones immoral actions".{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/02/17/96218302.pdf | title = Twi Films 'Condemned' | date = February 17, 1951}}
• No Orchids for Miss Blandish, a British gangster film.
• Oh, Amelia, a French import.
• The Paris Waltz, a French import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 6, 2017 | title = Legion Condemns Film | date= September 25, 1950 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/09/25/86458747.pdf }}
• {{ill|a Royal Affair (film)|lt=A Royal Affair|fr|Le Roi (film, 1949)}}, a French import starring Maurice Chevalier.{{cite news | work = New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/04/24/87022989.pdf | title= Legion Bans Two Films | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | date= April 24, 1950}}
• Scandals of Clochemerle, a French import.
• {{ill|The Sinners (film)|fr|Au royaume des cieux|lt=The Sinners}}, a French import directed by Julien Duvivier.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/12/04/91121177.pdf | date= December 4, 1950 | title = Catholic Group Condemns Film }}
• Los Olvidados (also known as The Young and the Damned), a Mexican film directed by Luis Buñuel.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/04/12/84310331.pdf | title = Of Local Origin |date = April 12, 1942}}

• Behind Closed Shutters, an Italian import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | title = Of Local Origin | date = June 21, 1952 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/06/21/96492664.pdf }}
• It's Forever Springtime, an Italian import.
• Latuko, a sexploitation film in the form of an anthropological pseudo-documentary about a tribe in Sudan better known as the Lotuko people.
• A Lover's Return, a French import.
• La Marie du port, a French import starring Jean Gabin.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 5, 2017 | title = Legion Against French Film | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/10/01/91646213.pdf | date = October 1, 1951}}
• Miss Julie, a Swedish import.
• {{ill|Paris Nights (film)|lt=Paris Nights|fr|Nuits de Paris}}, a French import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 6, 2017 | title= Catholic Unit Bans French Film | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/09/29/93579626.pdf | date= September 29, 1952}}
• The Raven, a French import.{{efn|Likely the 1943 French film.}}
• La Ronde, a French import directed by Max Ophüls starring Simone Signoret.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 5, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/11/05/81775896.pdf | date= November 5, 1951 | title = Legion Bans 'La Ronde'}}
• Scarred, an Italian import starring Anna Magnani.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/12/03/89820994.pdf | title = Catholic Group Bans 'Scarred' | date= December 3, 1951}}
• She Shoulda Said No!,{{cite news | accessdate = April 1, 2017 | work = New York Times | date = April 30, 1951 | title = Legion of Decency Bars Film | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/04/30/87044685.pdf }} a film about the dangers of marijuana.
• The Ways of Love, the umbrella title used for distributing three foreign language films, which the Legion condemned as a group.{{cite news | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/12/25/82088590.pdf | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 2, 2017 | date= December 25, 1950 | title = 'Miracle' Banned Throughout City}} The principal film, both in length and in terms of the controversy it generated, was Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle (1948), distributed in Europe as L'Amore with a companion film, The Human Voice, also by Rossellini. The two other short films that The Ways of Love included were Jean Renoir's "A Day in the Country" (1936) and Marcel Pagnol's Jofroi (1933).
• White Cargo, a French film.{{cite news | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/04/16/86994697.pdf | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 2, 2017 | title = Of Local Origin | date = April 16, 1951}} Listed by the Legion of Decency as French White Cargo.

• Cocaine: The Thrill That Kills ({{aka}} Letter at Dawn), an Italian import.{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date = March 25, 1952 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/03/25/84246249.pdf | title = Of Local Origin}}
• Of Love and Bandits, an Italian import.
• {{ill|The Savage Triangle|fr|Le Garçon sauvage}}, a French import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | date = October 8, 1952 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/10/08/84588094.pdf | title= French Film is Scored }}
• {{ill|The Strollers (film)|lt=The Strollers|fr|Quai de Grenelle}}, a French import.{{cite news | work =New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date= August 1, 1952 | title = Of Local Origin | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/08/01/84339338.pdf }}
• Women Without Names, an Italian import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date= February 11, 1952 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/02/11/84190422.pdf | title= Of Local Origin }}

• Girls Marked Danger, an Italian import.
• The Moon Is Blue, an Otto Preminger comedy for United Artists. Denied Production Code approval as well.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 1, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/11/26/84084156.pdf | title = Catholic Unit Lauds Film Self-Censorship | date = November 26, 1953}}
• Le Plaisir, a French anthology film import directed by Max Ophüls.
• The Seven Deadly Sins, a French–Italian production.{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/08/26/84050151.pdf | title = Of Local Origin | date= August 26, 1953}}
• Three Forbidden Stories, an Italian import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | date = December 21, 1953 | title = Catholic Unit Condemns Film }}
• Times Gone By, an Italian import.{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | title= Of Local Origin | date = November 7, 1953 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/11/07/84428796.pdf }}

• The Bed, a French import.
• The French Line, an RKO musical starring Jane Russell, condemned for "grossly obscene, suggestive and indecent action, costuming and dialogue". The Legion said it was "capable of grave, evil influence upon those who patronize it, especially youth".
• Garden of Eden, a sexploitation film set in a nudist colony.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 4, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/10/16/85669972.pdf | title= Of Local Origin }}
• Karamoja, a sexploitation film.
• Mademoiselle Gobete, an Italian import that the Legion said "dwells constantly on a farcical presentation of the virtue of purity".
• One Summer of Happiness, a Swedish import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | title= Of Local Origin | date= June 28, 1954 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/06/28/83763100.pdf }}
• Sensualità, an Italian import starring Marcello Mastroianni.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/03/29/84115231.pdf | title = Catholic Unit Condemns Film |date = March 29, 1954 }}
• Summer Interlude, a Swedish import directed by Ingmar Bergman. Condemned under the title Illicit Interlude.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 5, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/11/20/86791652.pdf | date = November 20, 1954 | title = Of Local Origin }}
• Violated, a U.S. crime drama.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date = January 2, 1954 | title = Of Local Origin | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/01/02/83744056.pdf }}
• We Want a Child!, a Danish import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date = July 28, 1954 | title = Of Local Origin | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/07/28/84128519.pdf }}

• Adorable Creatures, a French import.
• The Desperate Women, a Majestic Pictures film; the Legion said that "it ignores completely essential and supernatural values associated with questions of this nature".
• A Husband for Anna, an Italian import.
• I Am a Camera, a British import the Legion condemned{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zOp2WxH5yscC&pg=PA80 | pages= 80–1 | first=Anthony | last= Slide | title = Banned in the U.S.A.: British Films in the United States and their Censorship, 1933–1960 | publisher= I.B. Tauris | date= 1998 | isbn= 9781860642548 |access-date= April 2, 2017}} for its "basic story, characterization, dialogue and costuming".
• The Game of Love, a French import.{{cite news | accessdate = April 4, 2017 | date =January 29, 1955 | work = New York Times | title = Of Local Origin | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/01/29/84144835.pdf }}
• Rififi, a French import, initially condemned; assigned a B after "substantial revisions".
• Son of Sinbad, RKO film described as "a challenge to decent standards of theatrical entertainment" and "an incitement to juvenile delinquency".{{cite news | work = New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/05/06/93740654.pdf | date = May 6, 1955 | title = Decency Legion Scores 'Sinbad' }}

• And God Created Woman, a French import directed by Roger Vadim and starring Brigitte Bardot.
• Baby Doll, produced by Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams; the Legion called its subject matter "morally repellent both in theme and treatment" and said its "scenes of cruelty are degrading and corruptive".
• Bed of Grass, a Greek import the Legion charged with "sheer animalism", originally titled Agioupa, to koritsi tou kampou.
• Female and the Flesh, also released as The Light Across the Street; a French import.
• {{ill|Fruits of Summer|fr|Les Fruits de l'été}}, a French import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 4, 2017 | date= August 7, 1956 | title = Of Local Origin | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/08/07/91147543.pdf }}
• Letters from My Windmill, a French import directed by Marcel Pagnol.{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 5, 2017 | date= January 14, 1956 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/01/14/86499501.pdf | title = Catholics Divide on French Movie}}
• The Miller's Beautiful Wife, an Italian import.
• Passionate Summer, a French–Italian import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 6, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/08/21/84916281.pdf | title = Of Local Origin | date= August 21, 1957}}
• Rossana, a Mexican import.{{efn|The Legion's 1959 listing misidentifies this film as Italian.{{cite news | work = New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/04/20/121638048.pdf |accessdate = April 7, 2017 | title = Of Local Origin | date = April 20, 1956 }}}}
• The Naked Night, a Swedish import directed by Ingmar Bergman, also distributed as Sawdust and Tinsel.{{cite news | work= New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/04/20/121638048.pdf | date= April 29, 1956 | title = MarchmOf Local Origin }}
• Sins of the Borgias, a French import.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 7, 2017 | title = Of Local Origin | date = March 3, 1956 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/03/03/86536638.html }}
• Stella, a Greek import starring Melina Mercouri.
• Stain in the Snow, a French import the Legion called Snow was Black.
• Nana, a French import.
• Woman of Rome, an Italian import.{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date = December 15, 1956 | title = Of Local Origin | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/12/15/86971149.pdf }}

• The Flesh Is Weak (1957), a British import.
• Mademoiselle Striptease (1956), a French import also distributed as Please! Mr. Balzac.
• Maid in Paris (1956), a French import.
• Mitsou (1956), a French import.
• The Night Heaven Fell, a French import.
• Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), a Swedish import from Ingmar Bergman; condemned for "unmitigated emphasis on illicit loves and sensuality".
• Untamed Youth (1957){{efn|The Legion says a revised version of this film was rated B but does not mention an earlier rating, presumably C.}}

• Heroes and Sinners (1955), a French import.
• Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955), a French import starring Danielle Darrieux.
• Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956), a German import.
• Love Is My Profession (1958), a French import.
• Lovers of Paris (1957), a French import, originally Pot-Bouille and based on the Zola novel of that name.
• A Question of Adultery (1958), a British drama condemned for justifying artificial insemination.

• The Third Sex (1957), a German import directed by Veit Harlan; also known as Bewildered Youth or Different from You and Me, originally Das dritte Geschlecht.{{cite news | work = New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/03/23/80766527.pdf | date = March 23, 1959 | title = Of Local Origin }}

• Breathless, French import directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
• Never on Sunday, Greek import directed by Jules Dassin.
• Oscar Wilde, a British import starring Robert Morley.
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde, a British import starring Peter Finch.{{cite news | work= New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 |date = July 2, 1960 | title = 7 Foreign Films Set for Release | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/07/02/105444011.pdf }}

• L'Avventura, Antonioni's 1960 Italian film was deemed "totally unacceptable", "grossly suggestive and pornographic in intent". The Legion said that "the theme of this film is developed in an atmosphere of complete moral ambiguity".{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 1, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/01/12/87312359.pdf | date = January 12, 1962 | title = Legion of Decency Hits Film}}
• A Cold Wind in August
• Jules and Jim
• Viridiana The Vatican protested when this film shared the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival.{{cite news|last1=Archer|first1=Eugene|title=Movie by Bunuel to be Seen Here|work=New York Times|date=September 22, 1961}}

• Boccaccio '70{{cite news | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1962/10/18/90544900.pdf | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 2, 2017 | date = October 18, 1962 | title = Legion of Decency and Chain in Rift }} The Legion objected to its "grossly suggestive concentration upon indecent costuming, situations and dialogue". By this time the Legion had adopted a policy of not reconsidering a film's rating once it was widely distributed, even if revised, but in this case the Legion allowed that the film's C rating would not be valid once the film was edited for television broadcast.{{cite news | work = New York Times | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/04/09/356088972.pdf | accessdate = April 2, 2017 | date = April 9, 1966 | title= Catholic Film Office Is Easing Policy}}

• 8½, Italian import directed by Federico Fellini.
• Contempt (Le Mépris), French-Italian import directed by Jean-Luc Godard

• Kiss Me, Stupid, produced and directed by Billy Wilder.{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date = December 13, 1964 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/13/moral-brinkmanship.html | title = Moral Brinkmanship | first = Bosley | last = Crowther }}
• Of Human Bondage

• The Pawnbroker, condemned "for the sole reason that nudity has been used".{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 9, 2017 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/05/12/101546100.pdf | date= May 12, 1965 | title = City is Promoted as Movie Locale }}

• Blowup,{{cite news | work = New York Times | accessdate = April 8, 2017 | date = October 13, 1967 |title= Filmmakers Show Less Fear of Catholic Office | first = Vincent | last = Canby | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1967/10/13/90407627.pdf }} Michelangelo Antonioni's first English language film. One of the known films that would eliminate the Hays Office Code in favor of the MPAA rating system in 1968. It was condemned for its explicit sexual content.{{cite web|title=Re: The MPAA|url=http://www.skepticfiles.org/en001/mpaarate.htm|work=The Skeptic Tank|access-date=1 August 2012|date=25 May 1993|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818092954/http://www.skepticfiles.org/en001/mpaarate.htm|archive-date=18 August 2017|url-status=dead}}

• Beach Redp. 68 Phillips, Kendall R. Controversial Cinema: The Films That Outraged America Praeger June 30, 2008
• Hurry Sundown
• The Penthouse
• Reflections in a Golden Eye
• Valley of the Dolls

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• Barbarella,{{cite news | work = Village Voice | accessdate = April 2, 2017 | date = October 5, 2011 | first = J. | last = Hoberman | url = http://www.villagevoice.com/film/weekend-when-godard-burned-the-movie-house-down-6433180 | title = Weekend: When Godard Burned the Movie House Down}} condemned for the main reason nudity is used. It was later edited to earn the PG rating by removing such obscene content in the 1970s.
• Birds in Peru, a French film starring Jean Seberg
• If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
• The Magus
• Rosemary's Baby, a horror film with depicted Satanism.
• Weekend, a French import directed by Jean-Luc Godard

• The April Fools
• Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
• I Am Curious (Yellow)
• The Killing of Sister George
• Marlowe

• Billy Jack
• A Clockwork Orange
• The Devils
• The Last Picture Show, a coming-of-age drama film in an early 1950s setting with excessive sexual content.

• The Carey Treatment
• Pink Flamingos, a black comedy film condemned for its explicit content before it received the NC-17 rating later in 1997.{{cite magazine |last=Van Sant|first=Gus|date=April 15, 1997|title=Timeless trash|author-link=Gus Van Sant|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T2QEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT41|pages=40–41|magazine=The Advocate|issn=0001-8996|publisher=Here Publishing|issue=731|access-date=March 14, 2024}} It was banned in several countries because of it.[http://refused-classification.com/censorship/films/p.html#pink-flamingos Films: P]. Refused-Classification.com. Retrieved March 14, 2024.

• High Plains Drifter
• Last Tango in Paris, an erotic drama film condemned by the Legion for its raunchy nature.{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9EeK5s3aw44C&pg=PA289 | page = 289 | first= Tino | last= Balio | access-date = April 4, 2017 | volume= 2 | title = United Artists: The Company that Changed the Film Industry | publisher = University of Wisconsin Press | date= 1987 | isbn = 9780299230135 }}
• Lemora, A Child's Tale of the Supernatural, deemed notorious for its consideration of anti-Catholicism.
• The Wicker Man

• The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a musical comedy horror film with LGBT themes and sexuality.

• Carrie, a supernatural horror film based on Stephen King’s novel that was deemed obscene and religiously insensitive.
• J. D.'s Revenge
• The Omen
• The Outlaw Josey Wales
• Taxi Driver

• Dawn of the Dead
• Ice Castles, one of the last few films condemned by the Legion for the use of foul language and abuse.
• Pretty Baby, one of the last few films condemned by the Legion due to child pornography concerns.{{Cite magazine |last=McMurran, Kristen |date=May 29, 1978 |title=Pretty Brooke |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20070948,00.html |url-status=dead |magazine=People |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160925180107/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20070948,00.html |archive-date=September 25, 2016}}
• Same Time, Next Year

• Motion Picture Production Code
• Motion Picture Association of America film rating system

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