Venereal Diseases Movies

Toni van Eyck became known with her leading role in this early "Aufklärungsfilm" (education film) Gefahren der Liebe/A Woman Branded (Eugen Thiele, 1931) opposite Hans Stüwe. She played a rape victim, who finally becomes a murderess.

This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes cover the stories of students looking to pick up prostitutes, a careless medical student, a wet nurse who has infected an infant, and a country girl...

The Price He Paid

In this film, servicemen are strongly urged to forgo illicit and casual sex because it is degrading and contrary to divine will. The joys of marriage and family are stressed. Long-term happiness should be the goal, not immediate gratification. A medical officer discusses sexual abstinence, saying...

A docudrama aimed at propagandizing the prevention of venereal disease

Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.

Shows how people, faced with the possibility or reality of being infected with venereal disease, cope with their individual situations.

A short animated War Office commissioned health education film, showing the fate of each of the 6 jungle soldiers.

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

After a historical excursus on the most common venereal diseases, doctors report on various cases of infection, each illustrated in the manner of amateurish reportage films.

A quack doctor 'cures' a victim of venereal disease, whose baby is later born infected.

Adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

Mathieu and Mattéo are in the same fire station. On leave, Mathieu walks down a lively street and is whistled at by a prostitute on the balcony of a hotel room. A little bit later, Mattéo stops in front of the same hotel… Mathieu and Mattéo contract syphilis. Through the crossover portraits...