The highest-grossing 18-certificate movies of all time
AKA the real reason they kept making Fifty Shades films...
This year, Deadpool inhaled a pound of cocaine, ripped off a dozen heads and eviscerated someone with a chainsaw to earn a 15 certificate from the BBFC. Meanwhile, Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan did a bit of soft-core spanking to an Ellie Goulding song and got an 18 – proving once again that there's no such thing as an adult movie if millions of kids are willing to pay to see it. While producers are usually willing to edit away a few nipples to get their movies to the biggest possible audience, some films are still grown-up enough to keep their 18-certificate – and big enough to break records at the box office. Digital Spy takes a look at the highest-grossing 18-rated movies of all time in the UK. (Note: figures are not adjusted for inflation.)
20th: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Release date: December 30, 2011
Total UK box office takings: £12,311,347
19th: Snatch
Release date: September 1, 2000
Total UK box office takings: £12,398,744
18th: Trainspotting
Release date: February 23, 1996
Total UK box office takings: £12,433,450
17th: Pulp Fiction
Release date: October 21, 1994
Total UK box office takings: £12,650,491
16th: The Departed
Release date: October 6, 2006
Total UK box office takings: £12,858,056
15th: Fatal Attraction
Release date: January 15, 1988
Total UK box office takings: £12,902,455
14th: Basic Instinct
Release date: May 8, 1992
Total UK box office takings: £15,441,584
13th: Django Unchained
Release date: January 18, 2013
Total UK box office takings: £15,736,884
12th: Brüno
Release date: July 10, 2009
Total UK box office takings: £15,786,364
11th: T2: Trainspotting
Release date: March 17, 2017
Total UK box office takings: £15,834,498
10th: The Silence of the Lambs
Release date: May 31, 1991
Total UK box office takings: £17,119,333
9th: Fifty Shades Freed
Release date: February 9, 2018
Total UK box office takings: £19,027,675
8th: Se7en
Release date: January 5, 1996
Total UK box office takings: £19,516,175
7th: Legend
Release date: November 20, 2015
Total UK box office takings: £20,893,048
6th: Fifty Shades Darker
Release date: February 10, 2017
Total UK box office takings: £21,364,473
5th: American Beauty
Release date: January 28, 2000
Total UK box office takings: £21,385,440
4th: Hannibal
Release date: February 16, 2001
Total UK box office takings: £21,578,566
3rd: Gone Girl
Release date: October 3, 2014
Total UK box office takings: £22,370,392
2nd: The Wolf of Wall Street
Release date: January 17, 2014
Total UK box office takings: £22,699,724
1st: Fifty Shades of Grey
Release date: February 13, 2015
Total UK box office takings: £38,570,543
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