Syphilis Movies

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The...

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn...

An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats...

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a...

Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently...

The film centres around the young woman Erika, desperately seeking for love and escape from the depression of the times, drifting, and in the end...

A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.

This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes...

A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that she has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is...

A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is...

A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.

In New York City, a relationship is threatened when a young man discovers he's caught syphilis from a tryst with a waitress named Ellie. This...

A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.

Swedish-language parallel version of the film Synnin jäljet (Traces of Sin).

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a...

A doctor who believes that only the immoral catch syphilis reconsiders his stance.

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...

Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.