Czech filmmaker Gustav Machaty's romantic drama tells of one sexually-frustrated child-bride (a 19-year-old Hedy Lamarr) and her impotent, elderly husband. Censored for a nude bathing swim, a naked forest romp, and a love scene that depicts the first female orgasm from oral sex (albeit off screen), the film is credited in part for inspiring the Hays Code even as the U.S. Customs Department destroyed the movie, making it one of the first films blocked for censorship. Even until only recently, versions were revised with the nudity removed.

Ecstasy, Hedy Lamarr, 1933. Courtesy of the Everett Collection.