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1920s LGBTQ-related films
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The list 1920s LGBTQ-related films includes
Pandora's Box, The Broadway Melody, Beggars of Life, The Desert Song and Salomé.
The list consists of 19 members.
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Pandora's Box
1929 film
Overview: Pandora's Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer. The film follows Lulu ...
Release date: 30 January 1929Genre: Crime, Drama, RomanceDirector: Georg Wilhelm PabstProducer: Heinz Landsmann, Seymour NebenzalWriter: Frank Wedekind, Ladislaus VajdaThe rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
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The Broadway Melody
1929 film
Overview: The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. It was one of the early musicals ...
Release date: 1 February 1929Genre: Musical, RomanceDirector: Harry BeaumontProducer: Harry Rapf, Irving ThalbergWriter: Edmund Goulding, Norman HoustonA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt. 0
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Beggars of Life
1928 film by William A. Wellman
Overview: Beggars of Life is a 1928 American part-talkie sound film that was directed by William Wellman. Although the film featured sequences with audible dialogue, the majority of the film had a synchronized ...
Release date: 22 September 1928Genre: Drama, AdventureDirector: William A. WellmanProducer: Jesse L. Lasky, Adolph ZukorWriter: Benjamin Glazer, Jim TullyAfter killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond... 0
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The Desert Song
1929 film by Roy Del Ruth
Overview: The Desert Song is a 1929 American pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Carlotta King, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy. It was photographed partly in two-color Technicolor ... 0
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Salomé
1923 film by Charles Bryant
Overview: Salomé is a 1922-23 American silent drama film directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova, who also stars. It is an adaptation of the 1891 Oscar Wilde play of the same name. The play itself is a loose ...Release date: 15 February 1923Genre: DramaDirector: Charles BryantProducer: Alla NazimovaWriter: Oscar Wilde, Natacha RambovaSalome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance... 0
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Manslaughter
1922 film
Overview: Manslaughter is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, and Lois Wilson. It was scripted by Jeanie MacPherson adapted from the novel of ...
Release date: 24 September 1922Genre: DramaDirector: Cecil B. DeMilleProducer: Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse L. LaskyWriter: Jeanie Macpherson, Alice Duer MillerThrill-seeking society girl Lydia causes a motorcycle policeman's death and is prosecuted by her fiancé Daniel, who describes in lurid detail the downfall ... 0
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Michael
1924 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Overview: Michael (also known as Mikaël, Chained: The Story of the Third Sex, and Heart's Desire) is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, director of other notable silents such as The ...
Release date: 26 September 1924Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Carl Theodor DreyerCast: Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor, Alexander Murski, Grete Mosheim, Didier AslanProducer: Erich PommerWriter: Herman Bang, Thea von HarbouTriangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess. 0
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Beverly of Graustark
1926 film by Sidney Franklin
Overview: Beverly of Graustark is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno, and Creighton Hale. The film's screenplay was written by Agnes ... 0
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Why Girls Love Sailors
1927 film by Fred Guiol
Overview: Why Girls Love Sailors is a 1927 American comedy short silent film directed by Fred Guiol for Hal Roach Studios. It stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they had become the comedy team of Laurel and ...Release date: 17 July 1927Genre: Short, ComedyDirector: Fred GuiolProducer: Hal Roach, H.M. WalkerStan is young sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain and the captain's wife catches him ... 0
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That's My Wife
1929 film
Overview: That's My Wife is a 1929 synchronized sound short subject film produced by the Hal Roach Studios and starring Laurel and Hardy. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized ...Release date: 23 March 1929Genre: Short, ComedyDirector: Lloyd FrenchProducer: Leo McCarey, H.M. Walker 0
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An Adventuress
1922 film
Overview: The Isle of Love is a 1922 recut of a 1920 American silent drama film Over the Rhine aka An Adventuress starring female impersonator Julian Eltinge. The film also contained two actors unknown during f ... 0
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Geschlecht in Fesseln - Die Sexualnot der Gefangenen
1928 film directed by William Dieterle
Overview: Sex in Chains (German: Geschlecht in Fesseln – Die Sexualnot der Strafgefangenen) is a 1928 silent film directed by William Dieterle.Release date: 24 October 1928Genre: DramaDirector: William DieterleCast: William Dieterle, Gunnar Tolnæs, Mary Johnson, Paul Henckels, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Gerd BrieseProducer: Franz Höllering, Herbert JuttkeA 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 ... 0
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Augusto Aníbal Quer Casar
1923 film
Overview: Augusto Anibal quer casar is a 1923 Brazilian silent comedy film directed by Luiz de Barros and Vittorio Verga, based on a short story written by Carlos Verga. It is considered a lost film. It premiered ...Genre: ComedyDirector: Luiz de BarrosProducer: Luiz de BarrosWriter: Carlos Verga, Vittorio Verga 0
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Irene
1926 film
Overview: Irene is a 1926 American silent romantic comedy film starring Colleen Moore, and partially shot in Technicolor. The film was directed by Alfred E. Green, produced by Moore's husband John McCormick, and ...Release date: 21 February 1926Genre: Romance, ComedyDirector: Alfred E. GreenWriter: George Marion Jr., June MathisIrene, a feisty Irish girl in Philadelphia, clashes with her family and walks out, heading to New York City to seek fame and fortune... 0
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The Violinist of Florence
1926 film by Paul Czinner
Overview: The Fiddler of Florence (German: Der Geiger von Florenz) is a 1926 German silent comedy film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt, and Nora Gregor. The film was shot at ...Release date: 20 December 1926Director: Paul CzinnerProducer: Elisabeth Bergner, Erich PommerWriter: Paul Czinner 0
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The Crystal Cup
1927 film
Overview: The Crystal Cup is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by Gerald Duffy and Mort Blumenstock. It is based on the 1925 novel The Crystal Cup by Gertrude Atherton ...Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: John Francis DillonCast: Dorothy Mackaill, Rockliffe Fellowes, Jack Mulhall, Clarissa Selwynne, Jane Winton, Edythe ChapmanProducer: Henry HobartWriter: Gertrude Atherton, Mort Blumenstock 0
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Gesetze der Liebe
1927 film by Magnus Hirschfeld
Overview: Gesetze der Liebe: Aus der Mappe eines Sexualforschers (English: "Laws of Love: From the Portfolio of a Sexologist") is a 1927 film produced by Magnus Hirschfeld, a sexologist who ran the Berlin Institut ... 0
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Flickan i frack
1926 filmOverview: The Girl in Tails (Swedish: Flickan i frack) is a 1926 Swedish silent comedy drama film directed by Karin Swanström and starring Einar Axelsson, Magda Holm and Nils Aréhn. It was based on the 1925 novel ... 0
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Le ménage moderne de Madame Butterfly
1920 film
Overview: Le Ménage moderne du Madame Butterfly is a bisexual, hardcore pornographic film from France. It is notable for being the earliest known adult film to incorporate bisexual and homosexual intercourse.Cast: J.H. Forsell 0
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