| Title
|
Year
|
Director
|
Country
|
Genre
|
Cast
|
Notes
|
| An Adventuress |
1920 |
Fred J. Balshofer |
United States |
Drama |
Julian Eltinge, Virginia Rappe, Rudolph Valentino, Frederick Ko Vert, William Clifford and Leo White |
|
| Hamlet
|
1921
|
Svend Gade, Heinz Schall
|
Germany
|
Drama
|
Asta Nielsen, Paul Conradi, Mathilde Brandt, Eduard von Winterstein, Heinz Stieda, Hans Junkermann, Anton De Verdier, Lilly Jacobson and Fritz Achterberg
|
a.k.a. Hamlet: Ein Rachedrama (Hamlet: The Drama of Vengeance); features a female Hamlet
|
| Manslaughter |
1922 |
Cecil B. DeMille |
United States |
Drama |
Leatrice Joy, Thomas Meighan, Lois Wilson, John Miltern, George Fawcett, Julia Faye, Edythe Chapman, Jack Mower, Dorothy Cumming, Casson Ferguson, Mickey Moore, James Neill, Sylvia Ashton, Raymond Hatton, Mabel Van Buren, Ethel Wales, Dale Fuller, Edward Martindel |
Based on the novel of the same name by Alice Duer Miller; considered the first American feature film to show an erotic kiss between two members of the same sex
|
| Salomé |
1922 |
Charles Bryant |
United States |
Biography, drama |
Alla Nazimova, Michael Lewis, Rose Dione, Earl Schenck, Arthur Jasmine, Nigel De Brulier, Frederick Peters, Louis Dumar |
Based on the play of the same name by Oscar Wilde, which itself is a loose re-telling of the biblical story of Herod Antipas and his execution of John the Baptist
|
| La Garçonne
|
1923
|
Armand du Plessy
|
France
|
Drama
|
France Dhélia, Renée Carl, José Davert, Pierre Delmonde, Georges Deneubourg and Gaston Jacquet[1]
|
Based on the novel of the same name by Victor Margueritte.
|
| Ponjola |
1923 |
Donald Crisp |
United States |
Drama |
Anna Q. Nilsson, James Kirkwood, Tully Marshall, Joseph Kilgour, Bernard Randall, Ruth Clifford, Claire Du Brey, Claire McDowell, Charles Ray, Eddie Sturgis (credited as Edwin Sturges) |
Based on the novel of the same name by Cynthia Stockley
|
| The Soilers |
1923 |
Ralph Ceder |
United States |
Short, comedy |
Stan Laurel, Ena Gregory, Mae Laurel, James Finlayson, Billy Engle, Eddie Baker |
|
| Leblebici Horhor |
1923 |
Muhsin Ertuğrul |
Turkey |
Musical, romance |
Behzat Butak, Elena Artinova, Maurice Méa, Gavros Toloyan and Jenya Gordenskaya[2] |
a.k.a. The Chickpea Seller, based on the operetta of the same name by Tigran Chukhajian
|
| Augusto Anibal quer casar |
1923 |
Luiz de Barros |
Brazil |
Comedy |
|
|
| Michael |
1924 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
Germany |
Drama |
Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison, Max Auzinger, Didier Aslan, Alexander Murski, Grete Mosheim, Karl Freund |
a.k.a. Mikaël: Chained, The Story of the Third Sex and Heart's Desire; based on the novel Mikaël by Herman Bang
|
| Beverly of Graustark |
1926 |
Sidney Franklin |
United States |
Comedy, romance |
Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno, Creighton Hale, Roy D'Arcy, Albert Gran, Paulette Duval, Max Barwyn, Charles Clary |
Based on the novel of the same name by George Barr McCutcheon
|
| The Fiddler of Florence
|
1926
|
Paul Czinner
|
Germany
|
Comedy
|
Elisabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt, Nora Gregor, Walter Rilla, Grete Mosheim and Ellen Plessow
|
|
| The Girl in Tails
|
1926
|
Karin Swanström
|
Sweden
|
Comedy, drama
|
Einar Axelsson, Magda Holm, Nils Aréhn, Georg Blomstedt, Karin Swanström, Kar de Mumma, Carina May, Lotten Olsson, Anna-Lisa Baude and Gösta Gustafson
|
a.k.a. Flickan i frack; based on the novel of the same name by Hjalmar Bergman
|
| Irene
|
1926
|
Alfred E. Green
|
United States
|
Comedy, romance
|
Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, George K. Arthur, Maryon Aye, Ida Darling, Edward Earle and Bess Flowers
|
Based on the musical of the same name by James Montgomery.
|
| The Crystal Cup
|
1927
|
John Francis Dillon
|
United States
|
Drama
|
Dorothy Mackaill, Rockliffe Fellowes, Jack Mulhall, Clarissa Selwynne, Jane Winton, Edythe Chapman and Yvonne Pelletier
|
Based on the novel of the same name by Gertrude Atherton.
|
| Why Girls Love Sailors |
1927 |
Fred Guiol |
United States |
Short, comedy |
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Viola Richard, Anita Garvin, Malcolm Waite |
|
| A Wanderer of the West |
1927 |
Robin Williamson, Joseph E. Zivelli |
United States |
Western |
|
|
| Gesetze der Liebe |
1927 |
Magnus Hirschfeld, Richard Oswald |
Germany |
Documentary |
|
a.k.a. Laws of Love; includes an abridged version of the 1919 film Different from the Others
|
| Beggars of Life |
1928 |
William A. Wellman |
United States |
Adventure, drama |
Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Bob Perry, Blue Washington, Roscoe Karns |
|
| Different Women
|
1928
|
Heinz Hanus
|
Austria
|
Drama
|
Rina De Liguoro, Vivian Gibson, Mary Kid, Mizi Griebl, Oscar Beregi, Hans Peppler and Oskar Marion[3]
|
a.k.a. Andere Frauen; based on the novel Das entfesselte Wien by Hugo Bettauer[4]
|
| Sex in Chains |
1928 |
William Dieterle |
Germany |
Drama |
William Dieterle, Gunnar Tolnæs, Mary Johnson, Paul Henckels, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski |
a.k.a. Geschlecht in Fesseln
|
| The Broadway Melody
|
1929
|
Harry Beaumont
|
United States
|
Musical
|
Anita Page, Bessie Love, Charles King, Jed Prouty, Kenneth Thomson, Edward Dillon, Mary Doran, Eddie Kane, J. Emmett Beck, Marshall Ruth and Drew Demarest
|
|
| Pandora's Box |
1929 |
Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
Germany |
Crime, drama |
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer |
a.k.a. Die Büchse der Pandora; based on the plays Earth Spirit and Pandora's Box by Frank Wedekind
|
| That's My Wife |
1929 |
Lloyd French |
United States |
Short, comedy |
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy |
|
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