The use of profanity in films has often been controversial, but has increased significantly in recent decades.
[4] The Hays Code banned the use of profanity outright,[5] but the Motion Picture Association established a system of ratings to use as a guide and have each films with inappropriate content in 1968.
In some cases, filmmakers appealed the rating because audiences may avoid all R-rated films about profanity.
The list of non-pornographic and English language feature films has over 150 counts for the word fuck (or one of its derivatives), ordered by the number of such uses.
It does not contain spoken uses of instances that are preceded by “mother.” Bronagh Gallagher and Joe Pesci are tied for using the word.