Given by a "double X" rating by the MTRCB due to an alleged rape scene. Producers applied to have the film classified as R-18 due to be geared towards a mature audience. It was banned by the MTRCB for "libelous and false" content. It alleged that the Catholic Church cooperated with prominent business leaders to depose Estrada. It was banned for challenging the rule of President Arroyo, who succeeded him after he was ousted in the second EDSA Revolution.
Produced, directed, and starring former President Joseph Estrada while he was detained for one of his many plunder cases. īanned, after Imelda Marcos, on whom the biopic is based, filed a lawsuit. The film tackles the plight of poor Filipino boys and girls resorting to featuring in sex shows in Manila as a means of livelihood. MTRCB's permission for the film to be screened was rescinded by then-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2001 after Cardinal Jaime Sin and other local Roman Catholic leaders lobbied for the ban. The MTRCB has stated that it could reclassify the film as rated R if the offending scene was cut from the film for screening in the Philippines. Given an "X" rating by the MTRCB due to a scene of partial nudity involving the character portrayed by lead actress Meryl Streep.
īanned due to extreme violence and gruesome images. The ban was overturned in 1994 with the film's historical merits cited as a reason. Initially banned for scenes involving humping and nudity involving the film's lead actors which was viewed as "pornographic" by the MTRCB. įor its progressive and subversive message regarding the oppressive new government following the 1986 EDSA Revolution. The Americans at that time maintained bases in Clark and Subic. įor its critical stance towards American military presence in the Philippines. However, it was lifted and changed to R-16 to endure the audiences. It was rated X after its initial release. President Marcos banned the film from showing theatrically, which led to the establishment of a tradition of protesting naked, which became known as the Oblation Run.
The film, released during the martial law era, depicted the human rights violations during the Marcos regime. īanned during the presidency of Diosdado Macapagal for featuring then-Senator Ferdinand Marcos, who was Macapagal's main political opponent. List Feature films Dateįor the depiction of a priest in a villainous role and usage of a hypodermic syringe as a murder tool.