In 2020, the uncut film was granted a license for screening by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The film was shown at the VII Fantastic Film Festival in Porto Alegre and was selected for the Fantastic Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro. Depictions of nudity, sometimes sexually explicit, are allowed in the context of sex education as appropriate for the age of the students. Banned for representing dockers who refused to dispatch military supplies for use in the Indochina War. Another perspective of these carvings is presented by James McConnachie in his history of the Kamasutra.

Banned in Nazi Germany for "presenting criminal acts so detailed and fascinating that they might tempt copy-cats". The General Security Department did not state the reason behind banning the documentary, which covered the Lebanese Civil War. In the case of attractive models this attention is due to the visual pleasure the images provide; in other cases it is due to the relative rarity of such images. On August 13, 2023, just three weeks after its release on July 19, the screenings of Barbie were halted in film theaters in Algeria.The Ministry of Culture claimed that it received several questions on the film's contents, primarily concerning "distortion of historical facts, peculiar treatment of events before, during and after the Great Patriotic War and images and characters of Soviet people of that era". O massacre da serra elétrica' completa 40 anos e será exibido dentro e fora do Brasil | Divirta-se mais | Tudo sobre entretenimento, cinema, shows, celebridades e promoções".

Documentário polêmico sobre a Globo completa dez anos" (Controversial documentary about Globo celebrates ten years) Archived 24 February 2010 at the Wayback Machine, O Estado de S. Banned for "insane romance, numerous sex sequence, the use of violence during sex" and for being "entirely related to sexual matters that are too extreme for Khmer society".Public bathing for purification as well as cleanliness is part of both Shintoism and Buddhism in Japan. Banned during the conservative period of authoritarian governments known as " Infamous Decade" (1930–1943), for lampooning Nazi Germany; Argentina had declared itself neutral during World War Two. This film had its age rating suspended and the harmful qualification for the public was declared by the Ministry of Culture under the mandate of the Minister Ángeles González-Sinde and the PSOE government, which bans its screening. Taken out of cinemas over a scene showing the nine-dash line that is used by the People's Republic of China to lay claim to parts of the South China Sea. Prime Minister Dom Mintoff personally banned the screening of the film claiming the film promotes violence against an independent nation.