Arthur Schnitzler

To save the family, a mother pressures her daughter to succumb to a man's desires.

An aging postal worker is drawn into a group of young creatives after they rediscover the poetry he wrote in his youth.

Leo Bernardi is a successful Italian director. He's approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie which is inspired by Schnitzler's novel, Casanova. (cineuropa)

A look at what happens when partners from different social backgrounds engage in in physical relationships. (imdb)

After a startling confession from his wife, a wealthy New York doctor spirals into a night-long odyssey of sexual temptation and secret ritual. His descent is triggered by jealousy and curiosity, leading him through the city's hidden world of masked orgies and privileged decadence. He struggles to reconcile his ordinary life with the dark, surreal underworld he has briefly entered, ultimately straining the foundations of his marriage.

Story about Casanova's desire to return to his home of Venice and conquer a woman who is indifferent to him. (imdb)

A pack of cigarettes is passed between partners in a string of chance sexual encounters around the world.

A play-based erotic anthology about Manhattan's vibrant, lusty and seedy nightlife and 9 sleazy trysts of the rich and the streetwise New Yorkers. Features Penthouse Pet Corinne Alphen and then unknown Willem Dafoe in a cameo. (imdb)

A pensive man and woman reminisce and debate love in a quiet corner of a New Year's party.

Dr. Fridolin's thoughts and psychological transformations over a two-day period after his wife confesses that she's had sexual fantasies involving another man. In this short time, he meets many people who give clues to the world Schnitzler creates. This culminates in the masquerade ball, a wondrous event of masked individualism, sex, and danger for Fridolin as the outsider. (imdb)

A promising young pianist commits suicide. He spent his last evening in the company of the industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter. His wife Genia is in possession of a farewell note, in which the pianist explains that she had refused to have an affair with him and that he had shot himself out of unrequited love. Genia's sacrifice and commitment to marital fidelity cause the notorious womanizer Hofreiter to hastily leave for the mountains, where he begins a new affair.

Director Roger Vadim's remake of Max Ophuls' classic post war film "La Ronde," about various people having affairs, eventually forming a chain that comes full circle. Billed as "The Married Woman", Jane Fonda is a wife who has a fling with a young student - one of a chain of sexual liaisons that take place in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the day Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated. (imdb)

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house (imdb)

Bankrupt due to gambling debts, a man sends his beautiful adolescent daughter to ask a sculptor for money. The artist accepts to lend the money - but in exchange for seeing the girl nude.

Alternate language version of Liebelei.

Willi, a brash young lieutenant in the Austrian Imperial Guard, bent on an evening of pleasure, visits a house of ill repute and gambling parlor. (imdb)

Fräulein Else (English: Miss Else) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Albert Bassermann and Albert Steinrück. It was based on the 1924 novella of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler. Bergner had previously played her role on stage to great acclaim. However, it was felt that the film was hindered by being silent given the strength of the story's dialogue. (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of confrontations with Medardus, his mother and sister, the blind exiled Count of Valois, his ambitious daughter, and Napoleon himself (portrayed as a cool strategist), including several brief flashbacks. (imdb)

Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation that he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment only to have her two-time him. He comforts the near suicide Annie only to have her rob him of his wallet. "Satan" Synne, the "wickedest woman in New York," looks promising but she's only plying her trade to help raise funds for her husband's surgery. He decides to return to his wife, with all her faults, only to find her carousing with his best friend Max. (imdb)

Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself. (imdb)

Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is in a relationship with a married woman when he meets Christine and both fall in love.