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...

Hapless Agnes repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, and is reincarnated a century later. As she experiences romantic misfortune...

An upstanding doctor is transformed into a cold-blooded serial killer after being attacked by terrorists in Vietnam.

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

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

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...

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

The Price He Paid

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.

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 groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

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

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 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 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).

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

A wife and her husband have both contracted syphilis and don't know how to tell each other.

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