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The BBFC cut the 2007 Darker Enterprises DVD: Distributor chose to remove scenes of explicit and unsimulated cunnilingus, masturbation and ejaculation onto a woman's face. R18 uncut was available.

Taggart: Devils Advocate

1996 UK TV police drama by Marcus D. F. White with James MacPherson, Blythe Duff and Iain Anders. See IMDb

Passed 15 after 4s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1998 Clear Vision VHS

Taggart: Rogue's Gallery

1990 UK TV police drama by Alan Macmillan with Mark McManus, James MacPherson and Edita Brychta. See IMDb

Passed 15 after 3s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1997 Clear Vision VHS

Tai-Chi Master

• The Tai Chi Master
• Twin Warriors
• Tai ji: Zhang San Feng

Passed 15 without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2010 Showbox R2 DVD titled Tai-Chi Master

• UK 2002 Buena Vista R2 DVD titled Twin Warriors

• UK 1993 cinema release titled The Tai-Chi Master

Take an Easy Ride

The BBFC cut the 1975 cinema release

Taken

See trailer from youtube.com

 

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

The Extended Cut/Harder Cut was passed 18 uncut For

• UK 2009 20th Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2009 20th Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release featuring the Extended Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2009 20th Century Fox RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2009 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

See decision from the BBFC:

Taken is a thriller about a retired spy who must rescue his daughter and her friend from a sex-trafficking gang. The film was passed '18' for 'strong violence and an extended scene of torture'. Besides a kidnapping scene where the terrified daughter is dragged screaming from under the bed where she is hiding, the film features several other scenes of strong violence - notably a cold-blooded shooting of a villain's innocent wife, a moment where the ex-spy is throttled in close-up leading to a heavy beating of a villain with a fire-extinguisher, and a fight where the ex-spy repeatedly plunges a broken bottle into the chest of a man who has slashed him with a curved knife.

The torture scene, which is longer and stronger than the same scene in the film release, involves the kidnapper being electrocuted several times by the ex-spy as he tries to force the man to reveal his daughter's whereabouts. The man is seen to judder, a spike driven is into his leg, and his face shows his agony. He is left screaming off-screen at the end of the scene when the ex-spy leaves him being electrocuted. This scene, in dwelling on the torture, exceeded the boundaries of the strong violence permitted by the '15' Guidelines which state that 'Violence may be strong but may not dwell on the infliction of pain or injury', and tipped the classification into '18'

Other scenes of gun and fight action occur throughout the film.

The violence elsewhere is tonally strong, but is largely conveyed by sound effects and implied action. For example, gunshots and blows rarely result in blood, the stabbing with the bottle is shown without clear detail or sight of injury. Where detail of injury or the process of the violence is shown, it is brief and not dwelt upon.

The film also deals with the theme of young women being kidnapped, trafficked and sold into the sex industry. There are scenes of the ex-spy visiting a red-light district where he tries to glean information from a prostitute as she loses customers, a moment featuring drugged young women in the arms of men in a makeshift brothel, and a scene where women are sold to male bidders at an auction. The trade is depicted as cruel and seedy, and is not condoned or glamorised.

In addition, the film also contains a crunchy scene where a man is shown to be hit forcefully by a truck at a distance, and a muffled use of strong language.

cut

PG-13

• UK 2008 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb

It has an alternate electrocution torture sequence. In the original version, Neeson stabs two metal spikes into the legs of his hostage and connects the jump leads to them. In the UK version, he simply attaches the leads to the metal chair. This is completely different footage redone to secure a lower rating.

Also cuts to the shoot outs, and some fisticuffs have been shortened in length for the film's US release to secure a PG-13 rating.

See pictorial cuts from movie-censorship.com

The Takeover

Tale of a Vampire

• Warlock: Tale of a Vampire

A short US version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2010 Lions Gate video

• 2001 Metrodome R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• 1993 Columbia/TriStar VHS
• 1992 cinema release

Tales From the Crypt

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 15 uncut for:

• UK 2010  Media Sales/Final Cut R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release is uncut for:

• US 2007 20th Century Fox Midnite Movies Double Feature R1 at US Amazon

• UK 1988 CBS/Fox VHS
• UK 1972 cinema release

From cuts details on IMDb

• A brief shot of a man's exposed intestines was removed

The BBFC noted the submitted running time as 92:38s = 88:56s

Talihina Sky: The Story Of Kings Of Leon

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• US 2011 RCA R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

Passed 15 after BBFC cuts for category for:

• UK 2011 Revolver Online
• UK 2011 Revolver RB Blu-ray
• UK 2011 Revolver R2 DVD
• UK 2011 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

• Company chose to remove brief images of real sex (vaginal penetration by penis seen on a television screen) in order to achieve a 15 classification. An uncut 18 classification was available.

Tamara Drewe

21s

A doubly pre-cut Version was passed 15 for:

• UK 2011 Technicolor/Momentum Online
• UK 2011 Technicolor/Momentum RB Blu-ray
• UK 2011 Technicolor/Momentum R2 DVD
• UK 2010 cinema release.

The BBFC noted that the distributor Momentum further cut the film just to get a toned down customer advice:

Tamara Drewe was originally classified 15 on 9 July 2010 with the consumer advice Contains very strong language, strong sex and sex references. Subsequent to this to company submitted a revised version with minor changes in two scenes. In one case, some explanatory captions had been removed and in the other case, a single use of very strong language had been removed. This amended version was classified 15 on 28 July with the revised consumer advice Contains strong language, sex and sex references.

The BBFC further explained the 15 rating:

TAMARA DREWE is a film about a young woman who returns to her home town and ruffles feathers within the community. It was classified 15 for strong language, sex and sex references.

At 15 the BBFC's Guidelines state that There may be frequent use of strong language (for example, 'fuck'). The strongest terms (for example, 'cunt') may be acceptable if justified by the context. Aggressive or repeated use of the strongest language is unlikely to be acceptable. During TAMARA DREWE there are over thirty uses of strong language and one mouthed but inaudible use of very strong language, which is drowned out by background noise.

The Guidelines at 15 also state that Sexual activity may be portrayed without strong detail. There may be strong verbal references to sexual behaviour, but the strongest references are unlikely to be acceptable unless justified by context. The strong sex in the film includes a scene in which a man thrusts into a woman during sex. In another sequence, a character takes off her knickers and lies on a counter as a man stands in front of her prior to offscreen sex. However neither of these scenes contain any strong visual detail. The verbal sex references include a teenage schoolgirl fantasising about a man licking her teapot lids, and elsewhere she makes a reference to her v-plates melting. She also fantasies about lying on a bed with a man entering the room before lifting her into his arms, but the scene ends before any sexual activity takes place.

Throughout the film there is occasional sight of nudity, such as when Tamara is seen lying naked on her bed with her buttocks visible. Other scenes also feature her naked, but without any strong detail. The film also contains a brief verbal reference to a character having grown marijuana in the past, while there is occasional sight of characters (including teenage girls) smoking cigarettes. In one scene, two characters fantasise that another may have tried to commit suicide and this is represented by a vision of the would-be victim lying on the floor beside a bottle of pills, with vomit on her clothing. However this is merely a fantasy, with the character in question not carrying out such an act.

• UK 2010 cinema release (not released)

The BBFC commented:

This film was originally shown to the BBFC in an unfinished version. The BBFC advised the company that the film was likely to receive an 18 classification but that the requested 15 certificate could be achieved by making cuts to remove two aggressive uses of very strong language. When the finished version of the film was submitted, these aggressive uses of very strong language had been removed and the film was classified '15.

Tandem

• Chikan densha hitozuma-hen: Okusama wa chijo

The video was cut when submitted in 1997

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum:

During opening sequence, the impact of the sex scenes was reduced by keeping the sound going but replacing the strongest visuals with shots of the mens's faces remembering or imagining the experience. (One scene of both men brooding required retention of both vision and sound of their silence).

Cuts were made as follows -

When fat, middle-aged man recalls or imagines scene of mutual masturbation on commuter train, explicitness of visuals was reduced by replacing the four strongest sections with shots of him thinking, as follows:

1. After woman's hand is inserted in man's unzipped trousers and she starts to masturbate him, cut away (vision only) after brief LS of them standing in corridor and insert MCU of him thinking, followed by bug CU of same, resuming on tight shot of their heads on train
2. When camera pans from their hands masturbating each other to tighter shot of her hand masturbating him, replace remainder of this shot with low-angle CU of him thinking, resuming on tight shot of their heads
3. After above tight shot, insert big CU of him thinking to replace CU of masturbation, resuming on tight shot of his hand insider her underwear, panning to include her hand in his shorts
4. After brief establishment of above masturbation shot, insert big CU of him thinking, followed by separate insert of a high angle mid shot of him at table, followed by separate insert of wide angle of two-shot of both men at separate tables, resuming on tight shot of mutual masturbation. After she climaxes and he watches her walking away in station, reduce younger man's memories of raping his girlfriend, as follows -

1. After he is established sitting astride her, remove all sight of him forcibly removing her bra, replacing visuals with insert of very tight profile of him, followed by separate mid-shot of him sitting at table on right of frame, followed by wide angle of both men sitting in silence (synch sound), resuming on tight shot of violent struggle on bed
2. after above struggle, insert CU of rapist remembering as he drinks tea, followed by wider shot as he puts down cup, resuming on tight shot of rape as he turns her over
3. after he turns her onto her back and begins to insert, replace visuals with CU of him thinking morosely to left of frame, followed by repeat of same insert to increase length, resuming on rape just before he kisses her and she begins to respond.

Tango & Cash

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

18 rated versions are uncut:

• 2009 Warner R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2009 Warner R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2000 Warner VHS
• 1990 Warner VHS

The US release is uncut and R Rated for:

• 2009 Warner R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 1997 Warner R1 DVD via US Amazon

• 2009 Warner Online
• 1999 Warner R2 DVD
• 1990 cinema release

See cuts details from dvdcompare.net. The BBFC cuts are:

• Deleted two shots of a Chinese guy being pushed to the floor by Cash with a chair.
• Thugs come off worse in a prison fight against Tango & Cash. A hit to the head with a metal box, a hit in the balls, hits with a baseball bat, and a head being smashed into the glass of a laundry machine, all being deleted.
• Deleted shots of  Tango & Cash & Conan being dipped into water containing live electricity cables.
• Deleted shots of Tango & Cash shooting bad guys in Perret's place and resultant blood spurts. Deleted deaths of Quan and Lopez.
• Soon after a 19s brutal fight is deleted
• Cut to Cash putting a grenade down Requin's pants
• Cut to Perret getting killed

Tapeheads

A Re-edited Version was passed 15 uncut for the 2009 Anchor Bay DVD

• Cut to remove all footage of nunchakus and butterfly knives.

Taqdeerwala

Same cut version for cinema and video

Tarzan and his Mate

The 2005 extended version  wasn't cut by the BBFC but the animal cruelty had been pre-cut

Tarzan and the Karate Warriors

Tarzan Escapes

Cut when submitted in 2002 (51s) and 2005 (26s) with the following BBFC comment: Cuts required to sight of animal cruelty (big cats tied up / tripped by wires)

Tarzan Takes the Bronx

Taste the Blood of Dracula

No further BBFC cuts when resubmitted in 2004

From Tim on the Anchor Bay Forum:

This version is still missing the original cinema cuts but the 5 minutes missing from the VHS releases has been restored

The cinema cuts apply to this release but the VHS print was based on a US PG release missing about 5 minutes

• Brothel customer removed from the opening brothel sequence
• Cut to the murder of Geoffrey Keen where a staking shot was replaced with one of 'less impact'

Taxi Driver

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2011 Sony RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2007 Sony R2 DVD
• UK 2006 Sony R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2006 cinema release
• UK 1993 Columbia/TriStar VHS

The US release is definitive and MPAA R Rated for:

• US 2011 Sony RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• US 2007 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

Thanks to Gavin Salkeld:

To avoid an X rating back in the 70s, Scorcese toned down the reds in the final shootout during final processing of the film stock to make the blood less bright and obvious, and therefore make the scene less intense. These changes persist to this day. Apparently he thought the change worked for the better, anyway!

Passed 18 after 1s of BBFC cuts for:

• UK 1990 VCI VHS
• UK 1986 RCA/Columbia VHS
• UK 1976 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were.

• 1s has been cut from the scene where the underage Jodie Foster unzips Robert De Nero's fly on the grounds it would otherwise contravene the Protection of Children Act.

The BBC clearly did not agree though as at that time it screened the film uncut.

Taxi Zum Klo

• Taxi to the Toilets

Uncut version is available at:

Passed 18 uncut with BBFC cuts waived for:

• UK 2011 Peccadillo R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• UK 2011 cinema release
• UK 2004 Film Four video version. For TV showing not released on DVD

This decision is particularly notable as it contains explicit real gay sex and also includes an unsimulated golden shower scene (one man urinating in another's mouth)

Review from IMDB: Good Film

I watched this film on Film4 with the customary warnings from the announcers and introduction by Mark Kermode.

Thank god, a person who makes films with good content and not afraid to add in explicit content, as an adult I was glad that I had the choice to watch such a film and not have it cut by the censors.

An excellent film, worth watching. Anybody wanting to learn about the secret lives many gay men have to live to have their sexuality kept secret should watch this film.

• UK 1994 Pride VHS

This time, the director agrees to the cuts because they are less heavy than the cuts originally required in 1981 (some sight of erections and anal detail is permitted).

• At 10 minutes - During scene in toilet, clear sight of man's anus removed.
• At 11 minutes - During same scene, sight of erect penis being touched by man after it is poked through hole in cubicle wall ('glory hole') removed.
• At 41 minutes - Explicit gay sex scene reduced by removing explicit sight of fellatio, anal sex, masturbation, ejaculation and handling of penis.
• At 47 minutes - During medical examination in STD clinic, shots of gaping anus removed.
• At 55 minutes - During 'film within a film' (in fact an educational film made by the German authorities for use in schools to warn children about strangers) , shots showing man's hand on boy's crotch and man apparently forcing boy's hand into his trousers removed. [Supposedly under the Protection of Children Act, although because of the close shots used you can't actually tell if it's the boy's crotch or the boy's hand].
• At 77 minutes - Golden shower scene cut to remove all sight of stream of urine coming from man's penis and going over other man's face and mouth. [This is done in a single continuous pan so it is clearly real].

This was released to cinemas without a certificate in 1982 but the educational film was cut  to avoid falling foul of the Child Protection Act.

• UK 1981 cinema release (but not actually released)

The BBFC required extensive cuts to explicit sex, explicit anal detail, urolagnia and a scene that could be in breach of the Protection of Children Act. This was to a (genuine) German educational film called Christian and his Stamp Collector Friend, all about the dangers of speaking to strange men, extracts from which are shown in the film.

The director refused to make cuts and withdrew his film from classification (hence no record of this submission on the BBFC website)