Love Comes But Once

The Sweet Girl (German: Das Süße Mädel) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Manfred Noa.

Film by Manfred Noa.

A doctor who believes that only the immoral catch syphilis reconsiders his stance.

After two brothers have sold a French property, one gambles away his francs on the Riviera and encounters a couple of chiselers.

After the Jewish Mordecai refuses to bow down to Haman, the king's minister, Haman plots to have all of the Jewish population of the kingdom killed. Mordecai places his hopes on his young and beautiful ward Esther to save their people by ingratiating herself with the king.

A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.

Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the enlightened sultan Saladin and the (initially anonymous) Templar bridge their gaps between Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.