Producers and directors of saucier than average films often fear that they will get tarnished by the NC-17 rating which is usually bad for business so they submit to the MPAA's demands and snip away at their film for a milder 'R' rating. Apparently, NC-17 is bad news at the box office but for thrill seekers like me, the NC-17 rating is a total come on to watch films that have been labelled perverted, too sexy, too violent for a mainstream audience. Just as the X certificate used to act as a pervert's guide to cinema, so does NC-17 which attract those who like the forbidden. Channel 4 used to show scandalous foreign films in the 1980s like Themroc and WR: Mysteries of the Organism. After the Daily Mail squealed blue murder that Channel 4 was corrupting the nation, the station decided to put little triangles of the screen so the UK viewers would know it was a film with adult material. Of course, this happened to lure even more viewers into watching foreign smut on Channel 4 and the triangle was a come on for those who wanted naughtiness. The NC-17 rating is a bit like Channel 4's old triangle on the screen. You know you are getting la creme de la creme of sauciness. In this article I am writing about movies that currently hold an NC-17 certificate and did not resort to cutting out footage for an R rating. The ones that stayed true.