15 Movies Banned Overseas For Ridiculous Reasons

4. Finland Was Scared Of The Soviet Union - Dr. Strangelove

The Reason: For fear it would offend their neighbouring nation, the Soviet Union (Finland).

Even accepting the delicate nature of postwar Finland's relationship with the Soviets, this is pretty cowardly stuff. After all, it's not as though Stanley Kubrick's indelible war satire is a Finnish movie, and would the Soviets really have been petty enough to lambaste Finland for screening a movie? Wait, maybe don't answer that.

Dr. Strangelove remains a fiercely intelligent and hilarious mockery of the Cold War era - and of the post-nuclear world in general - and the fact that a nation literally deemed it too dangerous to screen is almost too apt.