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...

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of 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 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...

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

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

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

Describes the symptoms of gonorrhea and syphilis, with warnings of the consequences of avoiding treatment. Discusses some of the prevalent myths...

The Price He Paid

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

Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers. Mary Lee gets the facts, while...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.