10 More Movies So Awful They Were Pulled From Cinemas

2. United Passions

A film about FIFA, funded 90% by FIFA themselves, was never going to paint the corporation in a negative light. Allegedly that was the entire point of United Passions' existence though, with the movie being commissioned to transform the image of the organisation in the public eye, after years of claims of corruption and shady business practices came to define the footballing board.

Unsurprisingly, the movie was immediately torn apart by critics, not only for its self-aggrandising skewed presentation of the subject matter, but because even without that bogging it down, it was just a poorly made film. Allegedly, the director and Tim Roth attempted to include ironic moments and hint towards the real-life perception of the corporation, but even a quick glance at the end product shows they definitely didn't succeed.

While a bad reception alone isn't enough to get a movie pulled from theatres, a stroke of pure irony is. The film, made to put a friendly face on a controversial organisation, had the misfortune of releasing in the very same week that FIFA was going through their biggest ever scandal. The USA release coincided with the 2015 FIFA corruption investigation, ensuring a meagre three-day run in theatres, with the film only making around $300,000 of it's $30 million budget.