The Sittenfilm
- a primarily voyeuristic genre that thrives on seduction, fetishism and sexual perversion.
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- DirectorMario BonnardStarsLiane HaidAndré RoanneClaude Mérelle
- DirectorMonta BellStarsZasu PittsTom MooreAnn PenningtonComedienne Maggie falls for musician Al Cassidy. They get married, Al becomes a songwriter and Maggie a housewife. Al is hired to write a number for one of the Follies' most beautiful stars and falls for her. Complications ensue.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsJakob TiedtkeSophie PagayHans StüweAlexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.
- DirectorRudolf MeinertStarsAsta NielsenWerner KraussAlfred AbelTamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter rediscovers her mother appearing on stage. Mangol pursues the daughter, but Tamara intervenes before dying amongst family members.
- DirectorConrad WieneStarsWerner KraussMaly DelschaftVivian GibsonIbrahim Hulam is a notorious girl trafficker. When he discover Anita von Schlenk, who comes from a good family and performs as a dancer in the Imperial Palace, he is in over his head. To win Anita's favor Ibrahim involves her father Eberhard in a shady affair concerning bills of exchange.
- DirectorOtto RippertStarsCharlotte BöcklinGrete WeixlerEmil AlbesFilm made in 1919 by the Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung des Mädchenhandels [Society for the Struggle Against White Slavery or Society for the Prevention of Girl Trafficking (the translation can vary)] to inform the public about the trafficking of European girls and their impressment into prostitution (often in South America).
- DirectorHarry PielStarsHarry PielBruno ZienerAlbert PauligA police deputy in Paris have a lead on an international gang into trafficking. He dresses as a steward to tail the head of the gang to Marseille. On the ship he meets with Madeleine. A girl controlled by the traffickers.
- DirectorHubert MoestStarsFritz DeliusErnst DeutschMaria ForescuAlternative name - "The House of Pillory" - a place where the enemy women captured during wartime were imprisoned so that the people could exploit them as they wished.
- DirectorJaap SpeyerStarsRudolf Klein-RoggeErich Kaiser-TitzFritz AlbertiA young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.
- DirectorHans TintnerStarsGrete MosheimNico TuroffClaus ClausenA fervid drama forcefully illustrates the catastrophic consequences of keeping abortion illegal.
- DirectorFranz HoferStarsIda WüstGerdi GerdtHans MierendorffThe son of a university professor falls in love with the daughter of an engineer, both are under 18. Soon she's pregnant. Looking thru the papers for encrypted ads that offer abortions, they find one by a Madame Lu, who is already suspected of doing abortions (abortions were illegal in Germany at that time) by the police. They ask, offer quite some money, but she refuses after taking the money. Looking for another place they are successful, but the moment before the operation starts, the police raid the place. In the girl's case the Jugendamt (Youth-administration) takes over, the parents are informed, but the stress was too much, the girl has a mis-carriage. Now both are accusing Madame Lu of taking the money, but the police, after raiding her place, find themselves and almost everybody else very surprised over her work and background.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsWilliam DieterleGunnar TolnæsMary JohnsonA young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate and upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.
- DirectorAdolf TrotzStarsMarcella AlbaniMaly DelschaftCarl de VogtFrau Römer's deceased husband once suffered from hemophilia and passed this defect on to his daughter Olga, who has recently become engaged to doctor Münchow, so Olga's mother feels it is her duty to inform the doctor about her daughter's rare disease. Münchow leaves Olga, who much later marry an older banker. They have three children. Allis well till one of Olga's sons has a serious accident.
- DirectorWalter RuttmannStarsWolfgang KleinWalburga GmürHellmut KrausSemi documentary co sponsored by several organizations combatting sexually transmitted infections: three stores of people who become infected with syphilis, "the enemy in the blood."
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsGrete MosheimGustav FröhlichMarija LeikoMilada grew up in a brothel on Rothausgasse, but has not yet become a whore herself. Resigned to fate, she has always followed her mother Katherina, an aging whore who was unable to escape this milieu herself. Now this mother is dying and makes her daughter, who is now 17 years old and working as a chambermaid in Mrs. Goldscheider's new "salon", promise to do everything possible to escape from this environment.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsBernd AldorHugo FlinkNelly LagarstPaul Mauthner, a painter, has syphilis. A quack who promises a cure cannot help. Paul seduces his brother's wife and infects her with syphilis. While he then flees, the young, infected woman dies of the disease. The daughter born of this liaison, also infected, is admitted to a special clinic and can be cured there.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsBernd AldorTheodor LoosRita ClermontThe second syphilis film poses the moral question: namely how far an illness should be considered a human disgrace. The protagonist of this story, a young doctor, believes that only characterless people can contract the disease through reprehensible actions. At a meeting in honor of a venereologist, a violent dispute erupts between the doctor who applies moral categories and a colleague who argues more objectively. Two events make the dogmatic young doctor think: his sister marries a syphilitic who has not yet been completely healed, and he himself falls ill as a result of a kiss from a young woman who also suffers from syphilis. But the doctor is healed and reconsiders his previous attitude.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsWerner KraussElse HeimsHeinrich SchrothIn the third part syphilis is also at the center of the action. This time a landowner falls ill. He proves to be a real fiend, tyrannizes his wife and seduces the daughter of the forester he employs. When the young woman thinks she can't find a way out, she seeks suicide. Finally, the despot also dies and, post mortem, takes his son with him into the misfortune. The latter believes that he too is suffering from syphilis and is soon obsessed with this delusion.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsConrad VeidtLeo ConnardIlse von Tasso-LindTwo male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
- DirectorMasao AdachiStarsMikio TerashimaKozue HidoriAtsushi YamatoyaThe insane gynecologist Dr. Marukido Sadao theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.