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Coney Island
Coney Island (1917)
, 24minutes
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Roscoe Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Jimmy Bryant, Joe Bordeaux, Alice Mann

The twenty-four minute film follows Arbuckle's antics at Coney Island, the New York City amusement park and beach resort, where he sneaks away from his wife to enjoy the attractions, gets a rival for another woman arrested, and disguises himself as a woman. The Keystone Kops are also featured.
The Isle of Love
The Isle of Love (1920)
, 50minutes
Directed by Fred J. Balshofer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Julian Eltinge, Rudolph Valentino, Frederick Ko Vert, Virginia Rappe, William Clifford, William Clifford

An island ("The Isle of Love"), run by a crazed-with-power duke, is in turmoil. The peasants plan a revolt, with two buddies, including Cliff (Julian Eltinge), planning to overthrow the corrupt Duke.
Down to the Sea in Ships
Down to the Sea in Ships (1922)
, 1h23
Directed by Elmer Clifton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee, Clara Bow, Pat Hartigan, William Cavanaugh, Anita Louise

Captain Charles W. Morgan (William Walcott) is a well-respected businessman who owns a fleet of whaling ships in the Quaker town of New Bedford, Massachusetts. He is very close to his shy, obedient daughter, Patience (Marguerite Courtot), and tells her that she must marry a man who is a whaler and a Quaker, like him. His son and daughter-in-law were lost ten years before while on a whaling expedition; eventually, their baby, his granddaughter Dot (Clara Bow), was found floating near shore on a raft made of branches. He has raised her ever since. Dot is a mischievous, rebellious child, who wants to be a whaler when she grows up, an ambition that is not acceptable for a female among her people.
Another Fine Mess
Another Fine Mess (1930)
, 28minutes
Directed by James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Transgender in film, Buddy films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard, James Finlayson, Bobby Burns, Thelma Todd

Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel are vagabonds being chased by the police. They hide in the cellar of the mansion of a Quatermain-esque adventurer, Colonel Wilburforce Buckshot (James Finlayson), who departs for a safari in South Africa. The mansion is to be rented out until his return, but the staff sneak off for a holiday, leaving the house empty. The boys are surrounded by police and have to deceive a honeymooning couple wanting to rent the house. Ollie disguises himself as Buckshot and Stan disguises himself as both butler Hives and chambermaid Agnes.
The Devil-Doll
The Devil-Doll (1936)
, 1h18
Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano, Robert Greig, Lucy Beaumont

Paul Lavond (Barrymore), who was wrongly convicted of robbing his own Paris bank and killing a night watchman more than seventeen years ago, escapes Devil's Island with Marcel (Henry B. Walthall), a scientist who is trying to create a formula to reduce people to one-sixth of their original size. The intended purpose of the formula is to make the Earth's limited resources last longer for an ever-growing population. The scientist dies after their escape.
Beru and These Women
Beru and These Women (1968)

Directed by Guy Lefranc, Michel Lang
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Transgender in film, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Gérard Barray, Jean Richard, Paul Préboist, Marcel Bozzuffi, Roger Carel, Maria Mauban

Assistant du commissaire San Antonio, l'inspecteur Bérurier hérite d'une maison close. Par contre de terribles événements viennent troubler la joie du nouveau propriétaire; le locataire est victime d'un meurtre et lorsque la charmante tenancière subit le même sort, l'inspecteur n'a d'autre choix que d'intervenir. Pendant ce temps, San Antonio enquête sur la curieuse disparition de vaccin, volé par de petites frappes. Madame Albertine, la tenancière, meurt après avoir mis Bérurier et San Antonio sur la piste des responsables, un laboratoire pharmaceutique au centre d'un trafic de drogue. Une course-poursuite effrénée s'engage alors.
The Matchmaker
The Matchmaker (1958)
, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Ford, Robert Morse, Russell Collins

Set in 1884, the story focuses on Dolly Gallagher Levi, a widow who supports herself by a variety of means, with matchmaking as her primary source of income. Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy but miserly merchant from Yonkers, New York, has hired her to find him a wife, but unbeknownst to him Dolly is determined to fill the position herself. When he expresses his intent to travel to New York City to woo milliner Irene Molloy, Dolly shows him the photograph of a woman she calls Miss Ernestina Simple and tells him the buxom beauty would be a far better choice for him. Horace agrees to have dinner with Ernestina at the Harmonia Gardens after visiting Irene.
Ménage
Ménage (1986)
, 1h24
Directed by Bertrand Blier, Bertrand Arthuys
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Transgender in film, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Michel Blanc, Miou-Miou, Michel Creton, Mylène Demongeot, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Antoine (Michel Blanc) et Monique (Miou-Miou) forment un couple à la dérive malgré l'amour qu'Antoine porte à Monique. Un soir alors qu'ils se trouvent dans un bal, Monique houspille violemment Antoine en lui reprochant sa situation désastreuse, ceux-ci en étant désormais réduits à vivre été comme hiver dans une caravane vétuste.
Little Sister
Little Sister (1992)
, 1h35
Directed by Jimmy Zeilinger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Jonathan Silverman, Alyssa Milano, George Newbern, Moon Zappa, Michael Berryman, Leilani Sarelle

Bobby graduates high school with his friend Mike. His father encourages him to forge his own identity and gives him a book of romantic poems. At college, Bobby and Mike join a fraternity where Bobby can be himself and not follow in his dad's footsteps. The fraternity leader tells Bobby to instruct his fellow pledges to be more like his father.
I Can't Sleep
I Can't Sleep (1994)
, 1h50
Directed by Claire Denis
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Serial killer films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Katerina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Alex Descas, Manuela Gourary, Laurent Grévill, Line Renaud

Daiga (Yekaterina Golubeva), a woman from Lithuania immigrates to Paris with little money hoping to secure herself a job as a dancer. When her plans fall through she begins work as a maid in the hotel of a friend of her great-aunt's.
Cul-de-sac
Cul-de-sac (1966)
, 1h53
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Transgender in film, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander, Jack MacGowran, Jacqueline Bisset, Iain Quarrier

The film begins with gruff American gangster Dickey pushing his broken-down car along a causeway through rising seawater while his eccentric companion Albie lies inside, bleeding from a gunshot wound after a bungled robbery. Cut off by the unexpected rising tide, they are on the only road to a bleak and remote tidal island (Lindisfarne in Northumberland), where, in a dark castle on a hilltop, a highly neurotic Englishman named George lives with his pretty and promiscuous young French wife Teresa. Dickey disconnects the phone lines and proceeds to hold the two hostage while awaiting further instructions from his underworld boss, the mysterious Katelbach.
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970)
, 1h25
Directed by Michel Audiard
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Annie Girardot, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc, Sim, Catherine Samie, Jean Le Poulain

Germaine, une femme de ménage, a trois clients : M. Alexandre Liéthard, un caissier suppléant à la prévoyance de crédit, obsédé sexuel qui pioche dans la caisse pour financer ses frasques, Francine Marquette, une présentatrice télé considérée comme la future Première dame de France et M. Phalempin, un éducateur d'enfants dans les quartiers défavorisés de la capitale. Au fil des jours, Germaine apprend certains de leurs secrets (Alexandre a assassiné son supérieur hiérarchique et l'a enterré dans son jardin, Phalempin travaille comme artiste travesti la nuit dans un cabaret, et Francine, ancienne prostituée a participé à des parties fines avec des hommes politiques). En révélant habilement ces secrets, au détour des conversations plutôt anodines, elle arrive à ce que le caissier fasse chanter la présentatrice qui, elle, fait chanter l'éducateur qui, lui, fait chanter le caissier.
Lady Oscar
Lady Oscar (1979)
, 2h4
Directed by Jacques Demy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, Histoire de France, French Revolution films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Patsy Kensit, Christine Böhm, Georges Wilson, Jonas Bergström

Oscar Françoise de Jarjayes (Catriona MacColl) is a young woman whose father, a career military man, wanted a boy. After she was born her father took to dressing Oscar in boy's clothes and raising her as a man. Privately Oscar acknowledges her feminine side, she dresses as a man and gains an honored position as a guard of Marie Antoinette (Christina Bohm). In her youth, Oscar is in love with Andre (Barry Stokes), the son of the family's housekeeper. Years later, when the French Revolution begins, Oscar and Andre's paths cross for the first time in years. With the assault on the Bastille, Oscar and Andre find themselves fighting on opposite sides of the revolution.
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007)
, 1h49
Directed by Éric Rohmer
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Stéphanie Crayencour, Andy Gillet, Cécile Cassel, Rosette, Véronique Reymond, Jocelyn Quivrin

Céladon est le fils d'une famille de petite noblesse d'une communauté gauloise du V siècle vivant à l'écart de la civilisation romaine. Il aime une bergère nommée Astrée et vit tel un berger pour être auprès d'elle. Les amants sont contraints de passer de multiples épreuves avant de pouvoir goûter en toute quiétude à leurs amours.