Jesus Movies: Top 5 Most Controversial Jesus Christ Movie

It appears whenever a film depicts religion, controversy, and headlines quickly pursue. Here we take a look at some Jesus movies that went onto start religious hullabaloo when released.

5. The Devils (1971)

Ken Russell savored his notoriety for being a provocateur, and his mid-'70s dramatization, The Devils was a prime target for the tabloids for the film’s delineation of black magic, express nudity, and "Vanessa Redgrave" as a nun who jerks off. The film normally fell foul of rating board and was intensely edited for the initial release.

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The Devils earned recharged enthusiasm from the mid-'00s when commentator Mark Kermode found lost film... the way that it contained a sequence named 'Rape of Christ' most likely goes some approach to featuring exactly why it was so controversial.

4. The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Both Dan Brown's epic and the resulting Ron Howard film project brought lots of resentment from the Catholics for proposing that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a girl who was a piece of 2,000-year-old concealment from the congregation.

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The Vatican denounced the movie on its 2006 film discharge, while nations running from Jordan to Samoa restricted the film by and large. This was apparently to do with The Da Vinci Code's hot potato religious substance and not Tom Hanks' very weird hairdo.

3. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis' book showed Willem Dafoe's Jesus thinking about human allurements, including licentious wants for Barbara Hershey's Mary Magdalene. A scene of Jesus fulfilling his marriage with Mary and his execution, where Satan shows up as a gender-ambiguous tyke, drew religious fury for withdrawing from the gospel. The last Temptation ended up being restricted in a few nations and still hasn't been released in the Philippines or Singapore.

2. Dogma (1999)

Kevin Smith's fourth element film gained protests from the Catholic League because of its story of two fallen holy messengers attempting to get over into Heaven. Smith was flooded with hate mail around the time of Dogma's release and, hilariously, the writer/director actually joined a New Jersey group to go against his own movie.

1. The Passion of the Christ (2004)

This Jesus Christ movie from actor/director, Mel Gibson grimly depicts the last hours of Jesus' life, with the chief's very own hands springing up in an additional shot to pound Christ to the cross. The film was inundated with backlashes from the Jewish people group, who felt it was blaming them for the demise of Jesus.

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Gibson denied this and protected the scenes of outrageous brutality, saying: "If you don't like it, don't go. If you want to leave halfway through, go ahead." The film is the highest grossing Christian film ever and fifth most astounding earning R appraised film in the United States. It got three Academy Award nods in 2005.