Editing Bleu Nuit

{{short description|Canadian softcore pornography television series}}
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'''''Bleu Nuit''''' (English: "Midnight Blue"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/bleu%20nuit|title = Bleu nuit translation in English &#124; French-English dictionary &#124; Reverso}}</ref>) is a [[television series]] that was [[Broadcasting|broadcast]] late night on the Télévision Quatre Saisons, or TQS, [[television network]] (now called [[Noovo]]) in [[Quebec]], Canada, from 1986 until 2007. The content of the series was [[softcore pornography]], mostly [[Europe]]an films. The series was popular with both [[francophones]] and [[English-speaking Quebecker|anglophones]] living in Quebec, as well as in other provinces in Canada that received the network. ''Bleu Nuit'' was considered a mainstay part of [[Culture of Quebec|Québécois culture]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/042502/c4.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020831073553/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/042502/c4.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2002-08-31 |title=Nocturnal emissions - Slow Monday's ''Bleu Nuit'' nights are a softcore score |accessdate=2008-07-23 |publisher=Montreal Mirror }}</ref>

== Films shown on ''Bleu Nuit'' ==
*''[[Beau Pere|Beau-père]]'' (''Stepfather''), (1981) Note: it was the broadcasting block's debut film on Bleu Nuit broadcast on September 13, 1986, six days after the channel station's launch.
* ''[[Black Emanuelle]]'', (''White Emanuelle'') (1976)  Note: Italian Version of ''Emmanuelle'' with one "M". Stars [[Laura Gemser]]
* ''Black Emanuelle 2'' (1976)
* ''[[Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez]]'' (''The Fashioned in Saint- Tropez'') (1983)
* ''Coups de Matraque avec Cynthia'' (''Clubbing with Cynthia'')
* ''Deux femmes en or'' (''Two Women in Gold'') (1970)
* ''[[Emmanuelle (1974 film)|Emmanuelle I]] (1974), Emmanuelle II (1975), Emanuelle III/Goodbye Emmanuelle (1977), Emmanuelle IV'' (1984)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=119MfwL0_d4 Youtube]</ref>
* ''Emmanuelle & The White Slave Trade'' (1978) Note: the sex scene at an [[Africa|African]] [[automobile repair shop]] under a vehicle hoist was highly discussed.
* ''L'Enchainee'' (''The Chained'') (Italy 1985)
* [[Équateur (film)|''Equateur'']] (''Equator'') (broadcast 9 June 1990)<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Qh5Z_vBjo80C&dat=19900609&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Le Devoir (9 June 1990) p.16]</ref>
* [[Fanny Hill (1983 film)|''Fanny Hill'']] (1983) (broadcast 21 July 1990)<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Qh5Z_vBjo80C&dat=19900721&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Le Devoir (21 July 1990) p.12]</ref>
* ''Die heissen Nächte der Josefine Mutzenbacher'' (''The Hot Nights of Josefine Mutzenbacher'') (1981)
* ''Hôtel Exotica'' (1998)<ref>[http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2005/050308b.php CBSC Decision] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523185646/http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/2005/050308b.php |date=May 23, 2012 }} Feb. 10, 2005</ref>
* [[Je t'aime moi non plus (film)|''Je t'aime moi non plus'']] (''I Love You, Me Neither'') (broadcast 28 July 1990)<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Qh5Z_vBjo80C&dat=19900728&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Le Devoir (28 July 1990) p.C-7]</ref>
* ''[[La Bonne]]'' (''The Maid'') (1986)
* ''La Chiave'' (''The Key'') (1983) ([[Tinto Brass]] film with Italian actress [[Stefania Sandrelli]])
* [[Loulou (film)|''Loulou'']] (1980)
* ''La Vie secrète de Roméo et Juliette'' (''The Secret Life of Romeo and Juliet'') (1969)
* ''[[Last Tango in Paris|Le Dernier Tango à Paris]]'' (''Last Tango in Paris'') (1972)
* ''Le Gigolo'' (''The Male Prostitute'') (1960, France)
* ''Le journal de désirs'' (''The Journal of Desires'') (2000)
* ''L'été en pente douce'' (''Summer on a Gentle Slope'') (1987, France)
* ''Malizia'' (''Malice'') (1973) (by Salvatore Samperi, with Laura Antonelli)
* ''Malena'' (2000) – [[List of Italian actresses|Italian actress]] [[Monica Bellucci]] seduces a young man. The film is set in [[Sicily]] in [[1940s|1940]] during [[World War II]] [[Italian campaign (World War II)|just as Italy enters the war]]. Malena's husband, who left to join [[Italian Armed Forces|the military]] is presumed dead and she is seduced by a young man.
* ''[[:it:La seconda moglie (film 1998)|La Seconda Moglie]]'' (''The Second Wife'') (1998) – Italian actress [[Maria Grazia Cucinotta]] stars in this film based in [[1960s|early 1960s]], [[Sicilians|a Sicilian]] [[Single parent|single mother]] marries an older, crass widowed truck driver with a handsome stepson. When the driver is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends up falling in love with her stepson.
* ''[[ Nana, the True Key of Pleasure|Nana : Le Désir]]'' (Nana, the True Key of Pleasure) (1983)
* ''[[9½ Weeks]]'' (1986)
* ''[[On se calme et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez]]'' (''Let's Calm Down and Drink Fresh in Saint-Tropez'') (1987)
* ''[[Paprika (1991 film)|Paprika]]'' (1991)
* ''{{ill|Rasputin – Orgien am Zarenhof|de}}'' (''Rasputin – Orgies at the Tsar’s Court"'') (1983)<ref>[Le Devoir (2 Nov.1990) p.12)</ref>
* [[Rendez-vous (1985 film)|''Rendez-vous'']] (''Appointment'') (1985)
* ''[[Rosa la rose, fille publique]]'' (''Rosa the Rose, public Girl'') (France, 1985)
* ''Samanka Ile des Passions'' (''Samanka Island of Passions'') (1982)
* ''[[Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981 film)|Tarzan, the Ape Man]]'' (1981) <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryhi6nPW5K8 Youtube]</ref> 
* ''Tendres Cousines'' (''Tender Cousins'') (1980) - An erotic film that was highly discussed in Canadian society broadcast in 1987 with the famous "Touche Les" ("Touch them") scene. In the summer of [[1939]] in Provence, France: the 14-year-old Julien has a crush on his cousin Julia, who lives together with his family in their small hotel. Julien has a famous barn house scene with a much older woman [[Breast fetishism|who asks him to touch her breasts]].
* ''Wild Orchid'' (1989)
* ''[[A Woman in Flames (film)|A Woman in Flames]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Y Tu Mamá También]]'' (''And Your Mom Too'') (2001) – Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, rich teenagers Tenoch and Julio meet [[Cougar (slang)|older woman Luisa at a wedding]]. Trying to impress Luisa, the friends tell her they are headed on a road trip to a beautiful, secret beach.

== Television series shown on ''Bleu Nuit'' ==

*''[[Softly from Paris]]'' (''Série rose'')
* ''Super Sexy''<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Qh5Z_vBjo80C&dat=19900602&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Le Devoir (2 June 1990) p.16]</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[The Baby Blue Movie]]'', a softcore programming block that aired on [[Citytv]] in Ontario
* ''[[CFVO-TV#Cinérotique controversy|Cinérotique]]'', a softcore programming block that aired on [[CFVO-TV]] in Quebec

== References ==
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[[Category:Television shows filmed in Quebec]]
[[Category:Noovo original programming]]
[[Category:Pornographic television shows]]
[[Category:Canadian late-night television programming]]
[[Category:1980s Canadian anthology television series]]
[[Category:1990s Canadian anthology television series]]
[[Category:Canadian motion picture television series]]