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* ''Anime/{{Kite}}'' was initially released censored with a 16+ age recommendation by Creator/MediaBlasters; later "director's cut" and "special edition" releases restored the graphic sex scenes. In countries such as Australia where one of the scenes would be likely to be refused classification (due to it featuring the underage protagonist), only the standard edition has been released.

* ''Film/{{Fall}}:'' The UK Blu-Ray contains the "Theatrical release" and the "Uncut version." The Uncut version is ''two seconds shorter'' than the theatrical release (Theatrical is 1:46:52, Uncut is 1:46:50), and the whole package is rated 15, so don't get your hopes up if you're looking for a festival of extreme content.

* The unrated version of ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' is a pretty bad offender--the only added full-length DeletedScene is less than two minutes long and isn't any more mature than the rest of the film. The real draw, however, is a single deleted close-up shot of Chucky masturbating - hence the packaging blurb, "UNRATED AND [[DoubleEntendre FULLY EXTENDED]]: Featuring A [[IncrediblyLamePun First-Hand]] Look At Chucky's Dirtiest Deed!"

* The third ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' movie, ''Descent'' had two edits in Japan due to graphic content. The theatrical version was given the Japanese-equivalent of an R rating while the blu-ray release has the unedited NC-17 content.

* The video game example, ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' (''Indigo Prophecy'' in America) had an Adults Only-rated 'Director's Cut' in America, containing two (plot-irrelevant) sex scenes from the European edition. Oddly enough, [[SameContentDifferentRating the remastered edition includes them, but is only rated M]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Conker|sBadFurDay}}: Live & Reloaded'' was originally announced as "Conker: Live & Uncut" and promised as a remastered, more extreme version of the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 classic for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}. The game that actually emerged, however, was even more censored than the original.

* ' 'Film/{{Martyrs}}'' got released in the United States in this way. It was released directly to DVD in both an R-rated version that featured several scenes deleted from the French version, and an unrated version, which was the full length uncut edition of the film.

Movies targeted at young male viewers often include a fair bit of raunch - as much as the [[MediaWatchdog MPAA]] will allow, generally. Usually some of the "good stuff" ends up cut in order for the movie's theatrical release to obtain an R or even PG-13 rating, since most theaters won't show NC-17 movies (leaving the rating essentially the province of [[DoingItForTheArt art films made without the goal of making back their investors' money]]) and even an R may exclude a lot of [[{{Demographics}} teenagers with ready spending cash]].

* ''Film/{{Mirrors}}'', a horror film featuring Kiefer Sutherland, came on a DVD with both the theatrical R version, and an unrated version.

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* At least the German TV version of ''Film/{{Blade}}'' was censored: It was hinted, that the vampires were exploding (with blood flying everywhere), when Blade shot them with these darts with the special serum... In the DVD version, it was '''shown'''.

* The unrated version of ''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Epic Movie]]'' features full-frontal nudity for some scenes. For example, when the wardrobe is first opened, a girl runs out and tells Lucy not to go in there. In the theater cut, she's wearing a bikini. In the unrated DVD version, she's entirely nude. The gross vomiting scene is also extended in the unrated version.
* ''Film/EuroTrip'' has some fun with this--all the pictures on the back of the unrated DVD's box contain nudity, with the word "Unrated" used as a substitute for the CensorBox.

* ''Film/{{The Girl Next Door|2004}}'': The video release came wrapped in a cardboard band[[note]]labeled "Unrated Version"[[/note]] that covered Creator/ElishaCuthbert's picture from her (bare) shoulders to her (bare) thighs, suggesting she was naked underneath. In true faux-CensorBox form, the picture under the band differed only slightly from the VanillaEdition cover.[[note]]In fact, the only additional "skin" on the Unrated version's cover is her bare shoulders - already visible before the band is removed.[[/note]]

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* Rare inversion: the unrated version of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' is actually the drastically edited version. This is because most animated direct-to-video features aren't submitted to the MPAA, since it's not required for video release and since they're [[AnimationAgeGhetto all assumed to be kid-friendly]]. Creator/WarnerBros sent out promotional copies of the movie before they decided to edit it, so certain animation sites were able to spot the differences in the retail version and report them to the public. WB eventually released the "Original Uncut Version" with a PG-13 rating to accommodate the content, which ranged from minor things such as extra punches to major things such as an alternate death scene.
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* The third ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' movie, ''Descent'' had two edits in Japan due to graphic content. The theatrical version was given the Japanese-equivalent of an R rating while the blu-ray release has the unedited NC-17 content.
* ''Anime/AfroSamurai'' has two DVD versions available; one which is the edited version broadcast by Spike TV, and the other which is unedited and contains some more profane lines and some more skin during the sex scene in episode 2.

* The first ''Literature/MardockScramble'' film was released in Japan in two separate forms: a PG-12 theatrical version which left the most explicit material implied, and an unrated "director's cut" which shows the main character, a teen prostitute, in various graphic sex scenes.

* At least the German TV version of ''Film/{{Blade}}'' was censored: It was hinted, that the vampires were exploding (with blood flying everywhere), when Blade shot them with these darts with the special serum... In the DVD version, it was '''shown'''.

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* ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'' cut a ClusterFBomb for the original release, because multiple uses of the F-word result in an automatic R rating. The unrated edition restores it.
* Averted with ''Film/Anchorman2TheLegendContinues'', as the studio theatrically released a ''Super Sized R-Rated Version'' for a week, a month ahead of the home media release. The home media release itself, however, featured a separate unrated version along with the original and ''Super Sized'' versions.
* ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard''/''Die Hard 4.0'' (outside of North America). Most notably [=McClane's=] catchphrase "Yippee-Ki-Yay, motherfucker" is uncensored from the PG-13 theatrical release.

* ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'' had one, and in the case of ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'', the Region 2 release's ''Extreme Combat Edition''.
* ''Film/{{Alexander}}'' had ''two'' of these... besides the VanillaEdition, there was a Director's Cut with unseen footage, and ''Alexander Revisited'', which was promoted as the most [[strike: HoYay-filled]] [[strike: raunchy]] historically accurate version of the three.
* The unrated version of ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' is a pretty bad offender--the only added full-length DeletedScene is less than two minutes long and isn't any more mature than the rest of the film. The real draw, however, is a single deleted close-up shot of Chucky masturbating - hence the packaging blurb, "UNRATED AND [[DoubleEntendre FULLY EXTENDED]]: Featuring A [[IncrediblyLamePun First-Hand]] Look At Chucky's Dirtiest Deed!"
* The ''Film/{{Doom}}'' movie actually ''did'' include porn in its unrated version, assuming a not-all-that-explicit T&A sequence featuring a nude, blood-soaked, demonically-possessed woman with a severed arm qualifies as porn.

* ''Film/EuroTrip'' has some fun with this--all the pictures on the back of the unrated DVD's box contain nudity, with the word "Unrated" used as a substitute for the CensorBox.
* ''Film/RoadTrip'' is a particularly shining example of the rule about the inverse relationship of the size of the "unrated" stamp and the amount of good stuff. The entire cover except for Amy Smart's face is covered with brown paper, and the stamp is at least half the front of the box. New content consists of two seconds of one naked girl oiling another naked girl, right after five minutes of toplessness that were considered perfectly acceptable for the rated version.

* ''Film/{{Adventureland}}'' had an astonishing example that bordered on false advertising. There's a stamp on the cover that says "UNRATED"... and in smaller letters beneath it, "bonus features." If you're new to [=DVDs=]: '''Almost all bonus features are unrated on any DVD'''. Needless to say, the movie on the disc was the movie shown in theaters.
* ''Film/{{Mirrors}}'', a horror film featuring Kiefer Sutherland, came on a DVD with both the theatrical R version, and an unrated version.

* In the 2005 version of ''Film/TheDukesOfHazzard'' there is an unrated scene of the boys crashing in on topless college coeds.
* ''Film/BasicInstinct'' was the movie that put unrated editions into the mainstream. Not only was there more violence and nudity, but it was also the director's preferred version of the film.
* The unrated [[{{Recut}} Director's Cut]] edition of ''Film/RoboCop1987'' features numerous shots that were altered or removed in the eleven edits the film had to go through in order to knock it down from an X rating to an R rating. Such scenes include longer versions of ED-209's obliterating of Kinney and Boddicker's gang killing Murphy, close-ups of Bobby being shot in the leg and Boddicker being stabbed in the neck, and a cut shot of Boddicker's blood splattering onto [=RoboCop=] after the aforementioned neck-stabbing. These re-inserted scenes are generally agreed to improve the film, given how one of its goals was to satirize violence in the media by exaggerating its own gore to the point where it becomes funny.

* Inverted with ''Film/Scarface1983'', which was originally rated X for graphic violence. Creator/BrianDePalma was forced to trim several violent scenes for an R rating, but that version was never released; instead, De Palma got sneaky and released the uncut version to theatres with the R rating tacked on.
** Played straight with De Palma's ''Film/DressedToKill''. The theatrical version had a bit of gore, full-frontal nudity, and graphic sexual dialogue trimmed out to avoid an X rating. The unrated version on home video (which is also included in Creator/TheCriterionCollection release) restores all of this.
* The Blu-Ray cuts of ''Film/TheInbetweenersMovie'' (both the Re-edited version and the Writer's cut) included camera angles and words that weren't included or dubbed over in the cinema release which was available as a standard DVD.
* ''Film/{{Caligula}}'' has been released in a number of formats and ratings, but any version considered "unrated" will almost certainly be so for good reason and contain many explicit scenes of hardcore sex, compared to the relatively tame togas-and-boobs costume drama of the general releases.
* The unrated version of ''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Epic Movie]]'' features full-frontal nudity for some scenes. For example, when the wardrobe is first opened, a girl runs out and tells Lucy not to go in there. In the theater cut, she's wearing a bikini. In the unrated DVD version, she's entirely nude. The gross vomiting scene is also extended in the unrated version.
* Although ''Film/PrettyCool'' isn't really overly explicit, the DVD contains alternate versions of some scenes which were more explicit, though still not to porn levels. This version is available on its own under a different title.
* ''Film/TheInternship'' had two versions produced, one targeting PG-13, and one targeting an R rating. Eventually, they decided to release the PG-13 version theatrically, but the [=DVDs=] include both versions, proudly labeled as unrated.
* ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' was shot as an R-rated film, like the first three ''Franchise/DieHard''s, with the director initially unaware it was slated to be PG-13. Reshoots and cuts were made to fit PG-13 for theatres, but the original R-rated version was the one released on DVD and UsefulNotes/BluRay in most markets.
* ''Film/AbsolutelyAnything'': The cinema release of the film is rated 12A, and DVD version rated 12 (Likely because of one of the bonus features). The Blu-ray edition however is rated 15, and according to the box it "contains added filth". But actually all that changed was a dozen or so instances of "feck" being changed to "fuck", and a few lines being added to one scene which contain some more swearing. The difference in run time between the DVD and Blu-Ray is a mere 19.3 seconds.
* The unrated cut of ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' removes the "six months later" epilogue, possibly because the film's status as a critical and commercial failure rendered the SequelHook moot. However, it adds the {{memetic|mutation}} scene where the protagonist, played by Creator/NicolasCage, is [[BeeBeeGun tortured with bees]].
* ''Film/TruthOrDare2018'' was released on home video with an unrated cut...that's a whopping ''thirty seconds'' longer.
* ''Film/JohnWick'':
** The UK theatrical version of ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' had a scene of a character's suicide heavily cut down to remove almost all the detail. This was done so the film could obtain a 15 rating like the previous film; the home release version is uncensored and rated 18.
** The Australian theatrical, DVD and Blu-Ray versions of ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' had a moment in which Wick [[EyeScream drives a knife]] into a {{mook}}'s eye edited so the gory detail is left out of frame. Like the above, this was done so the film could receive an MA 15+ rating, and the 4K UHD version of the film is uncensored and rated R 18+.
* ''Film/{{Fall}}:'' The UK Blu-Ray contains the "Theatrical release" and the "Uncut version." The Uncut version is ''two seconds shorter'' than the theatrical release (Theatrical is 1:46:52, Uncut is 1:46:50), and the whole package is rated 15, so don't get your hopes up if you're hoping for a festival of extreme content.

* The DVD release of ''Series/{{Action}}'' contains profanities that cannot be uttered on prime-time U.S. broadcast television.

* ''VideoGame/{{Conker|sBadFurDay}}: Live & Reloaded'' was originally announced as "Conker: Live & Uncut" and promised as a remastered, more extreme version of the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 classic for the UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}}. The game that actually emerged, however, was even more censored than the original.

* The unrated version of ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' is a pretty bad offender--the only added full-length DeletedScene is less than two minutes long and isn't any more mature than the rest of the film. The real draw, however, is a single deleted close-up shot of Chucky masturbating - hence the packaging blurb, "UNRATED AND [[DoubleEntendre FULLY EXTENDED]]: Featuring A [[IncrediblyLamePun First-Hand]] Look At Chucky's [[ADateWithRosiePalms Dirtiest Deed!]]"

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' received an 18+ "Grotesque Edition" in Japan that included more gore than the vanilla Japanese version, though even that version was censored compared to the international version due to Japanese rating restrictions.

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