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Queer Cinema: LGBTQ Films Coded and Explicit 1887-2025
Volume 1: 1887-1919 (List of film titles
included by year)
The Kiss (1887, Eadweard Muybridge)
“various male athletes” (1887, Eadweard Muybridge)
Dutch Dykes (with
Eadweard Muybridge moving video (2002, Andrew Tovey)
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894 or 1895,
William Kennedy Dickson
Le méprise (1896-1901, Léon Beaulieu, based on film images by Georges Méliès)
L’amant supris (1896-1901, LĂ©on Beaulieu, based on film images by Georges MĂ©liès)
Ladies’ Skirts Nailed to a Fence (1899, James Bamforth)
Le Duel d'Hamlet (1900, Clément Maurice)
Au bal de Flore (At the Floral Ball) (1900, Alice Guy [Blaché])
Le depart d’Arlequin et de Pierrette (Le
Fredaines de Pierrette) (Pierrette’s Escapades) (1900, Alice Guy [BlachĂ©])
Sage femme de première Classe (Midwife to the
Upper Class) (1901, Alice Guy [Blaché])
The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken (1901, Edwin S. Porter
and George S. Fleming)
The Old Maid in Her Drawing Room (1901, Edwin S.
Porter)
Par le trou de la serrure (What Is Seen Through a Keyhole)
(1901, Ferdinand Zecca)
Le Cake-Walk au Nouveau Cirque (1903, Louis Lumiére)
Meet Me at the Fountain (1904, Sigmund Lubin)
Le Matela alcolique a.k.a Le matelas pileptique (The
Drunken Mattress) (1906, Alice Guy Blaché and Romeo Bosetti)
Les résultats du féminisme (The Consequences
of Feminism) (1906, Alice Guy Blaché)
Eclipse de Soleil en pleine Lune (Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907,
Georges Méliès)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908, Otis Turner presumed director) [Lost film] (see
“Queer Street,” 1920)
Narren-Grappen (Jester’s Joke) (unknown, 1908)
The Planter’s Wife (1908, D. W.
Griffith)
Pranks (1909, D. W. Griffith)
How Percy Won the Beauty Competition (1909, Alf Collins)
Oliver Twist (1909, J. Stuart
Blackton)
Skilda tiders danser (Dances Through the Ages) (1909,
Walfrid Bergström (photographer))
The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War (1909, Sidney Olcott)
(see “Rebel Without a Good Cause”)
The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy (1910, Sidney Olcott) (see “Rebel Without a
Good Cause,” 1909)
The Bravest Girl in the South (1910, Sidney Olcott) [Lost or Unavailable
Film] (see “Rebel Without a Good Cause,”
1909)
The Love Romance of the Girl Spy (1910, Sidney Olcott) [Lost or Unavailable
Film] (see “Rebel Without a Good
Cause,” 1909)
The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg (1910, Sidney Olcott) (see “Rebel Without a
Good Cause,” 1909)
The House with Closed Shutters (1910, D. W.
Griffith)
The Red Girl and the Child (1910, James Young
Deer)
Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor (1910, Lewin
Fitzhamon)
Taming a Husband (1910, D. W. Griffith)
Tom Pouce suit une femme (Tom Thumb in Love) aka Mary Long
and Tommy Short (1910, Adrien Barrère?)
Twelfth Night (1910, Eugene Mullin and Charles Kent)
Dorian Grays Portræt (The Picture of Dorian Gray) (1910, Axel
Strøm) [Lost
film] (see “Hidden Pictures,” 1910)
To the Aid of Sonewall
Jackson: An Exploit of the Spy Girl (1911, Sidney Olcott) [Lost or unavailable film] (see” Rebel Without a
Good Cause,” 1909)
L’orgie romaine (aka HĂ©liogabale)
A Roman Orgy (aka Heliogabalus) (1911, Louis Feuillade)
A Range Romance (1911, unknown)
Billy and His Pal (1911, William Haddock)
Billy the Kid (1911, Laurence Trimble) [Lost film]
Kitty and the Cowboys (1911, Frederick A. Thomson)
Queen for a Day (1911, Unknown) [Difficult to obtain, possibly lost]
The Leading Lady (1922, Ned Finley) [Difficult to obtain, possibly lost]
The Pasha’s Daughter (1911, Francis Boggs?)
Le Rembrandt de la rue Lepic (The Rembrandt
in Rue Lepic) (1911, Jean Durand)
Cupid and the Comet (1911, Alice Guy Blaché)
The Adventures of Billy (1911, D. W. Griffith) (see “Edna Foster, Boy
Performer”)
A Country Cupid (1911, D. W. Griffith) (see “Edna Foster, Boy Performer”)
A Terrible Discovery (1911, D. W. Griffith) (see “Edna Foster, Boy
Performer”)
The Baby and the Stork (1911, D. W. Griffith) (see “Edna Foster, Boy
Performer”)
Billy’s Stratagem (1912, D. W. Griffith) (see “Edna Foster, Boy
Performer,” 1911)
La signorina Robinet (1912, Marcel Perez) (see “Both Sides of
the Bed,” 1919)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912, Lucius Henderson (see “Queer Street,”
1920)
Making a Man of Her (1912, Al Christie)
Algie the Miner (1912, Harry Schenck, Edward Warren, and Alice Guy Blaché)
A Cave Man Wooing (1912, Otis
Turner) [Difficult to obtain]
His Double (1912, Alice Guy Blaché)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913, Phillips Smalley) [Lost film] (see ‘Hidden Pictures,” 1910)
Cousins of Sherlocko (1913, Alice Guy BlachĂ©) (see “Disguised
Doubles,” 1912)
What Happened to Officer Henderson (aka Officer
Henderson (1913, Alice Guy BlachĂ©) (see“Disguised Doubles,” 1912)
Hilda Wakes (1913,
unknown) [Lost Film] (see “The Sissy,” 1912)
Sissybelle (1913, Lem B. Parker) [Lost Film]
(see “The Sissy,” 1912)
The 'Pay-as-You-Enter' Man (1913,
unknown) [Lost Film] (see “The Sissy,” 1912)
The Reformers; or, The Lost Art of Minding One's Business (1913, D. W.
Griffith)
Der Student von Prag (The Student of Prague) (1913, Paul
Wegener and Stellan Rye)
Bunny’s Dilemma (1913, Wilfrid North)
Bunny’s Honeymoon (1913, Wilfrid North) [Difficult to obtain, possibly lost]
Jugend und Tollheit (Lady Madcap’s Way) (1913, Urban Gad) [Lost film]
Beverly of Graustark (1914, unknown) (see “The Man That
Got Her Way: Marion Davies in the 1920s, 1922)
A Florida Enchantment (1914,
Sidney Drew)
Zapatas Bande (Zapata’s Gang) (1914, Urban Gad)
Judith of Bethulia (1914, D. W.
Griffith)
The Barefoot Boy (1914, Robert. G. Vignola) [Difficult to obtain, possibly lost]
His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (aka The New
Wizard of Oz) (1914, J. Farrell MacDonald)
Mabel’s Blunder (1914, Mabel Normand)
Lillian’s Dilemma (1914, Wilfrid North) [Difficult to obtain
or Lost film]
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914, Mack
Sennett and Charles Bennett)
A Busy Day (aka The Militant
Suffragette) (1914, Mack Sennett)
The Masquerader (1914, Charles
Chaplin)
The Sweedie Comedies (1914-1916, starring Wallace Beery)
Sweedie
the Swatter (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie and the Lord (1914) [Lost film or
Unavailable]
Topsy-Turvy
Sweedie (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
and the Double Exposure (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
Springs a Surprise (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie’s
Skate (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie’s
Clean-Up (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Golf
Champion ‘Chick’ Evans Links with Sweedie (1914) [Lost film or
Unavailable]
The
Fickleness of Sweedie (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
Learns to Swim (1914)
She
Landed a Big One (aka She Landed a Lord) (1914) [Lost film or
Unavailable]
Sweedie
the Laundress (1914)
Sweedie
the Trouble Maker (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Countess
Sweedie (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
at the Fair (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
A
Maid of War (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
and the Hypnotist (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
Collects for Charity (1914) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
and the Sultan’s Present (1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie’s
Suicide (1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
and Her Dog (1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
The
New Teacher (1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
Goes to College (1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie’s
Hopeless Love (1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie
Learns to Ride (1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie in Vaudeville
(1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie’s
Hero (1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Sweedie’s
Finish (1915) [Lost film or Unavailable]
Portret Doryana Greya (The Picture of Dorian Gray) (1915,
Vsevolod Meyerhold and Mikhail
Doronin) [Lost film] (see
“Hidden Pictures,” 1910)
A Woman (1915, Charles Chaplin) (see “Chaplin in Drag,” 1914)
Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers (1915, Roscoe “Fatty”
Arbuckle)
Hearts and the Highway (1915, Wilfrid North) [Lost Film]
Filibus (Filibus: The Mysterious Air Pirate) (1915, Mario
Roncoroni)
Keep Moving (The Mishaps of Musty Suffer #2)
(1915, released 1916, Louis Myll) (see “The Sissy,”
1912)
He Became a Regular Fellow (1916, Roy Clements) [Lost film] (see “The
Sissy,” 1912)
Sweedie, the Janitor (1916, Wallace Beery) [Lost film] (see “The
Sweedie Comedies,” 1914)
Les Vampires, Episode 6 – "Les Yeux Qui Fascinent" ("Hypnotic
Eyes") (1916, Louis Feuillade)
The Snowbird (1916, Edwin Carewe)
Vingarne (The Wings) (1916, Mauritz Stiller)
Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916, D. W.
Griffith)
A Woman’s Way (1916, Barry O’Neil) [Status unknown]
The Danger Girl (1916, Clarence G. Badger)
Das Liebes-ABC (The ABC of Love) (1916,
Magnus Stifter)
Diana, the Huntress (1916,
Charles W. Allen and Francis Trevelyan Miller)
Busted Hearts (1916, Bobby Burns and Walter Stull) [Status unknown]
Dollars and Sense (1916, Walter Wright)
The Waiter’s Ball (1916, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)
His Wife’s Mistakes (1916, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)
Behind the Screen (1916, Charles Chaplin)
The Rink (1916, Charles Chaplin)
Das bildnis des Dorian Gray (The Picture of
Dorian Gray) (1917, Richard Oswald) [Lost film] (see “Hidden
Pictures,” 1910)
His Wedding Night (1917, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle) (see “The Sissy,”
1912)
The Cure (1917, Charles Chaplin)
The Amazons (1917, Joseph Kaufman) [Lost film]
A Modern Musketeer (1917, Allan
Dwan)
Clubs Are Trump (1917, Hal
Roach)
Pinched (1917, Harold Lloyd
and Gilbert Pratt)
The Butcher Boy (1917, Roscoe “Fatty”
Arbuckle)
Coney Island (1917, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)
Are Waitresses Safe? (1917,
Victor Heerman and Hampton Del Ruth) [Status unknown]
The Clever Mrs. Carfax (1917, Donald Crisp) [Lost film]
The Countess Charming (1917, Donald Crisp) [Lost film]
A Peaceful Flat (1917, Johnny and Emma Ray)
Az Élet királya (King of Life) (1918, Alfréd Deésy) [Lost Film] (see
“Hidden Pictures,” 1910)
The Bell Boy (1918, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)
Tarzan of the Apes (1918, Scott Sidney)
The Dream Lady (1918, Elsie Jane Wilson)
Know Thy Wife (1918, Al Christie)
A Gasoline Wedding (1918,
Alfred J. Goulding)
Hey There (1918, Alfred J. Goulding)
Good Night, Nurse! (1918, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)
The Widow’s Might (1918, William C. deMille) [Difficult to obtain]
The Cook (1918, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)
Ich
möchte kein Mann sein (I Don’t
Want to Be a Man) (1918, Ernst Lubitsch)
Die Puppe (The Doll) (1919, Ernst Lubitsch)
Die Austernprinzessin (The Oyster Princess) (1919, Ernst
Lubitsch)
Phil-for-Short (1919, Oscar Apfel)
Anders als
die Andern (Different from the
Others) (1919, Richard Oswald)
Die Pest
in Florenz (The Plague in
Florence) (1919, Otto Rippert)
The Hoodlum (1919, Sidney A. Franklin)
Rowdy Ann (1919, Al Christie)
Chickens in Turkey (1919, Marcel Perez)
Back Stage (1919, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)
Love (1919,
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)
Ask Father (1919, Hal Roach)
Bumping into Broadway (1919, Hal
Roach)
Hearts and Flowers (1919, Edward F. Cline)
Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919, F. Richard Jones)
The Lads of the Village (1919, Harry
Lorraine)
Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren (A Man’s
Girlfriend) (1919, Paul Legband and Julius Rhode) [Lost film]
The Breath of the Nation (1919,
Gregory La Cava)
Male and Female (1919, Cecil
B. DeMille)