Highest-Grossing R-Rated Movies of All Time

Told in a documentary style, “The Blair Witch Project” is about three young movie makers seeking evidence of a legendary witch in the woods in Maryland. They vanish but their equipment is recovered and the found footage documents their project up until their disappearance. The critically acclaimed film was made for less than $1 million and is one of the most profitable films of all time.

The four buddy-cop Lethal Weapons films, all starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, have grossed more than $487 million domestically, but this one outpaced all the others..

The Mike Nichols-helmed farce “The Birdcage” stars Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as gay parents of a son who plans to marry the daughter of a conservative couple. A favorite of both critics and audiences, the movie is a remake of the French film “La Cage aux Folles.”

With Keenan Ivory Wayans at the helm and brother Marlon co-writing and co-starring, “Scary Movie” takes a lampoon sledgehammer to every horror movie cliché. The parody spawned four other films and the franchise has made about $712 million in domestic ticket sales gross in total.

“Hannibal,” one of two Ridley Scott-directed films on the list, is the sequel to “Silence of the Lambs.” Anthony Hopkins reprises his role as the brilliant cannibalistic killer, now on the loose in Europe, and disgraced FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore, in place of Jodie Foster from the original movie) is dangled as bait to catch him.