Seitsemän Oscarin romanttinen elokuva kertoo tanskalaiskirjailija Karen Blixenin elämästä vuosisadan alun Afrikassa. Mukavuusavioliiton solminut Karen on aluksi ymmällään mustassa maanosassa, mutta menettää tälle lopulta sydämensä. Hän pyörittää plantaasia, kouluttaa alkuasukkaita, selviää sodasta ja rakastuu sivistyneeseen engelsmanniin, jota esittää ikääntyneen lainelautailijan oloinen Robert Redford.
The Libertine on ohjaaja Laurence Dunmoren ohjaama draamaelokuva, jonka ensi-ilta oli vuonna 2004. Sen pääosissa ovat Johnny Depp ja Samantha Morton.The Libertine kertoo tositapahtumiin pohjautuen 1600-luvulla eläneen Rochesterin jaarli John Wilmotin elämästä ja kuolemasta. Nihilistinen Wilmot tuli tunnetuksi lahjakkaana kirjoittajana, jonka uraa paheelliset elämäntavat varjostivat. Elämänsä aikana Wilmot virui Towerin linnassa, häpäisi Englannin kuninkaan, kirjoitti rivoja runoja, käytti ylenmääräisesti alkoholia ja harrasti runsaasti seksiä molempien sukupuolien edustajien kanssa, kunnes kuoli 33-vuotiaana syfilikseen.
January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime underworld with brute force and corrupting many touchable individuals. Until the day the head of the Untouchables Brigade, Eliot Ness, entered the scene. Since then, a cruel battle between the two of them began, a battle that ended in trial, conviction, disease, insanity and death.
An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
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 finally pregnant
A 1941 film encouraging people to seek treatment if they had, or might have had, syphilis.
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 torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.
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 gets a prudish fairytale version. Their lives separate after graduation, Mary Lee becomes a nurse who falls in proper love with a Doctor, whereas Vera follows her mother's advice and seeks to marry a rich man, but falls for the unlawful and syphilitic charms of a wealthy cad. Mary Lee and her Doctor rescue Vera and help her get proper care after a series of revelations showing actual patients of the loathsome disease. Finally, Mary Lee and her new husband volunteer to help our boys fighting the Huns in France.
Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explains "the birds and the bees" to him, and even takes him to a hospital to see the effects of venereal disease.
A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.
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 threatens his relationship with a new girl. Film critic Amy Taubin co-stars as the new girl who gets the bad news. The director is apparently the same man who edited Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
The Price He Paid
An upstanding doctor is transformed into a cold-blooded serial killer after being attacked by terrorists in Vietnam.
A wife and her husband have both contracted syphilis and don't know how to tell each other.
A doctor who believes that only the immoral catch syphilis reconsiders his stance.
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 afraid of seeking treatment.
A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.
This American Medical Association (AMA) and U.S. Public Health Service (PHS)-sponsored film aims to present the most current knowledge about causes, effects, and treatment of syphilis. Remarks by the heads of the AMA and PHS open the film, and doctors are shown lecturing and describing symptoms and indications of primary and secondary syphilis. Clinical techniques for examining patients and testing for syphilis are shown. Recommended treatments including arsenic, bismuth, and mercury for various manifestations and duration of disease are presented.
Venereal disease threatens to tear a young couple apart.