List of LGBT-related films of the 1930s
Title Year Director Country Genre Cast Notes
Borderline 1930 Kenneth MacPherson United Kingdom Drama , avant-garde Paul Robeson , Eslanda Goode Robeson ( credited as Eslanda Robeson ) , H.D . ( credited as Helga Doorn )
Morocco 1930 Josef von Sternberg United States Drama Gary Cooper , Marlene Dietrich , Adolphe Menjou , Ullrich Haupt , Francis McDonald , Eve Southern , Paul Porcasi Based on the novel Amy Jolly by Benno Vigny
Sunny Skies 1930 Norman Taurog United States Comedy Benny Rubin , Marceline Day , Rex Lease , Marjorie Lane , Harry Lee , Wesley Barry , Greta Granstedt , Robert Livingston ( credited as Robert Randall ) , Eddy Chandler ( credited as Eddie Chandler )
Way Out West 1930 Fred Niblo United States Comedy , western Stan Laurel , Oliver Hardy , Sharon Lynn ( credited as Sharon Lynne ) , James Finlayson , Rosina Lawrence , Stanley Fields , Vivien Oakland , The Avalon Boys
Mädchen in Uniform 1931 Leontine Sagan Germany Drama , romance Hertha Thiele , Dorothea Wieck , Emilia Unda Co-written by Christa Winsloe , based on her stage play Gestern und huete ( Then and Now )
The Maltese Falcon 1931 Roy Del Ruth United States Crime Bebe Daniels , Ricardo Cortez , Dudley Digges , Una Merkel , Robert Elliott , Thelma Todd , Otto Matieson , Walter Long , Dwight Frye , J. Farrell McDonald Based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett
Manhattan Parade 1931 Lloyd Bacon United States Comedy Winnie Lightner , Charles Butterworth
The Public Enemy 1931 William A. Wellman United States Action , crime James Cagney , Jean Harlow , Edward Woods , Joan Blondell Based on the unpublished novel Beer and Blood by John Bright and Kubec Glasmon
The Blood of a Poet 1932 Jean Cocteau France Drama , fantasy Enrique Riveros a.k.a . Le sang d'un poète
The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale United States Horror Boris Karloff ( credited as KARLOFF ) , Melvyn Douglas , Raymond Massey , Gloria Stuart , Charles Laughton , Lilian Bond , Ernest Thesiger , Eva Moore , Brember Wills Based on the novel Benighted by J . B. Priestley
Call Her Savage 1932 John Francis Dillon United States Drama Clara Bow , Gilbert Roland , Thelma Todd , Monroe Owsley , Estelle Taylor , Weldon Heyburn , Willard Robertson One of the first portrayals of homosexuals on screen
Hell 's Highway 1932 Rowland Brown United States Drama Richard Dix , Tom Brown , Rochelle Hudson , C. Henry Gordon , Oscar Apfel , Stanley Fields , John Arledge , Warner Richmond
Diplomaniacs 1933 William A. Seiter United States Comedy Bert Wheeler , Robert Woolsey , Marjorie White , Phyllis Barry , Louis Calhern , Hugh Herbert , Edgar Kennedy , Richard Carle , William Irving , Neely Edwards , Billy Bletcher
Lot in Sodom 1933 James Sibley Watson , Melville Webber United States Drama Friedrich Haak , Hildegarde Watson , Dorothea Haus , Lewis Whitbeck
Ladies They Talk About 1933 Howard Bretherton , William Keighley United States Drama , romance Barbara Stanwyck , Preston Foster , Lyle Talbot , Dorothy Burgess , Lillian Roth , Maude Eburne , Ruth Donnelly , Harold Huber , Robert McWade Based on the play Women in Prison by Dorothy Mackaye and Carlton Miles
Myrt and Marge 1933 Al Boasberg United States Comedy Myrtle Vail
Our Betters 1933 George Cukor United States Comedy , drama , romance Constance Bennett , Anita Louise , Gilbert Roland , Violet Kemble-Cooper , Charles Starrett , Grant Mitchell , Minor Watson , Hugh Sinclair , Alan Mowbray , Tyrell Davis based on the play of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham
Queen Christina 1933 Rouben Mamoulian United States Drama , biography Greta Garbo , John Gilbert , Ian Keith , Lewis Stone
Stage Mother 1933 Charles Brabin United States Drama , musical , romance Alice Brady , Maureen O'Sullivan , Franchot Tone , Phillips Holmes , Ted Healy , Russell Hardie , C. Henry Gordon , Alan Edwards , Ben Alexander , Jay Eaton , Larry Fine Based on the novel of the same name by Bradford Ropes
Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo France Short , comedy , drama a.k.a . Zéro de conduite : Jeunes diables au collège
1930s