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The Deuce is a TV show that explores the rise of the porn industry in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. It follows the story of twin brothers, Vincent and Frankie Martino, as they become involved in the world of pornography and the various characters that inhabit it. The show delves into the seedy underbelly of the industry, including the pimps, prostitutes, mobsters, and police officers who all play a part. It also touches on social and political issues of the time, such as women's rights activism and the impact of pornography on society.

American Grindhouse is a documentary film that delves deep into the history of grindhouse cinema. From its origins in the early 1900s to its heyday in the 1970s, the film explores the various aspects of this unique and often controversial style of filmmaking. With interviews from industry experts and filmmakers, American Grindhouse provides a comprehensive look at the impact and legacy of grindhouse cinema.

In the gritty streets of 1980s New York City, a tough cop must navigate through corruption and violence to bring down a powerful drug lord. With explosions, shootouts, and a renegade cop on a mission, it's a high-stakes battle for justice.

Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.

Broadway dancing star Adele Dorey who, overworked and exhausted, suddenly ups and leaves New York in favor of a country village. But when promoter Bobby Lewis (Egan) of the barnstorming Gay Girlies Burlesque Company arrives in town, he picks an incognito Adele among all the pretty village girls to star in his new show. On a lark, Adele introduces her maid Jane (Louise Fazenda) as her mother and accepts a contract. When Adele's identity is finally revealed, the slumming star apologizes for her deception by offering Bobby a Broadway job.