Synden Lockar

Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.

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

The Price He Paid

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

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

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 threaten...

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

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 Vera...

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

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

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...

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...

In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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