The End of the Road

Open Your Eyes

A propagandistic melodrama recounting the dangers and horrors of venereal disease.

1919

Of the World's Horrors

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

1920

The Libertine

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 p

2004

Out of Africa

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 film

1985

Synden Lockar

1946

The Escape

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.

1914

Falsche Scham

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

1926

La terrible lección

1927

The Scarlet Trail

A docudrama aimed at propagandizing the prevention of venereal disease

1918

Sex Madness

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 t

1938

The Quiet Duel

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 patien

1949

Es werde Licht! 3. Teil

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

1918

Es werde Licht! 2. Teil

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

1918

Es werde Licht!

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

1917

Damaged Goods

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

1937

Synnin jäljet

Tuula, Mirri and Aino are roommates at a nurse college. At her hospital internship, Aino works with Dr. Eero who has had an affair with Viivi, the dir

1946

A Woman Branded

Toni van Eyck became known with her leading role in this early "Aufklärungsfilm" (education film) Gefahren der Liebe/A Woman Branded (Eugen Thiele, 19

1931

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

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

1940

The Solitary Sin

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

1919

Birthright

Chicken farmer John Lloyd learns the importance of blood tests when he gives his pregnant wife a dose of the clap after a one-night fling with a lonel

1951