A couple of the countless previously banned and censored films in France:

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* 1939: Beau Geste was banned until 1977 for portraying the Foreign Legion in a negative light and insulting French culture
* 1943: Le Corbeau was banned until 1969, first by the Nazis, then the French government, for dealing with collaboration.
* 1953: Les statues meurent aussi, a short film by Alain Resnais was banned. Its theme was that Western civilization is responsible for the decline of black art. The film was seen at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953 but subsequently banned by the French censor.[4]
* 1957-1975: Paths of Glory was banned because it suggested that French soldiers in World War I executed their own soldiers for cowardice. [5] This was done by the Italian and British armies, but there is no evidence that it was done by the French.
* 1960: Le Petit Soldat was banned on political grounds and the ban was lifted in 1963 with certain cuts.[6]
* 1970: Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal, also known as Do not Deliver Us from Evil, was a movie based on the Parker-Hulme murder that was banned for blasphemy.