blue movies
X-rated cinema fare
Blue movies are pornographic films.
The term dates from the mid-twentieth century, when such films were shown illicitly in private settings.
Blue here means indecent or obscene, as in blue humor or turn the air blue.
The singular blue movie and the adjective blue-movie also appear: a blue-movie theater.
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