13 Shocking Movie Posters That Were Banned

3. The People Vs Larry Flynt

Fittingly, for a movie about a provocateur as notorious as pornographer Larry Flynt, the poster was pretty much a triple-pronged attack on American sensibilities. Not only does it go after religious groups by posing Woody Harrelson's titular "hero" as Christ on the cross, but also giving him a diaper made of the American flag and putting him in front of a giant vagina.

So that's religious symbolism, sex and patriotism all in one fell swoop. No wonder it ended up being banned in double-quick fashion by the MPAA, just as Columbia Pictures probably intended it to be in the first place to fit in with the film's firebrand subject matter.