# List of LGBTQ-related films of the 1950s

This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer-related films released in the 1950s. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.

## 1950

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Caged | John Cromwell | United States | Crime, drama | Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Hope Emerson, Betty Garde, Sheila MacRae, Lee Patrick, Jane Darwell | Parker plays a woman sent to prison for attempted armed robbery. In prison, she meets several lesbian characters. |
| In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | United States | Drama, film-noir | Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Martha Stewart, Jeff Donnell, Robert Warwick, Morris Ankrum, William Ching, Steven Geray, Hadda Brooks | Based on the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes |
| Un chant d'amour | Jean Genet | France | | | a.k.a. A Song of Love |
| Young Man with a Horn | Michael Curtiz | United States | Drama | Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez, Jerome Cowan, Mary Beth Hughes, Nestor Paiva, Walter Reed | Based on the novel of the same name by Dorothy Baker, which itself is based on the life of Bix Beiderbecke; an example of film noir with Bacall playing a central female character who is bisexual. |
| Girl with Hyacinths | Hasse Ekman | Sweden | Film-noir, crime, Drama | Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Anders Ek, Birgit Tengroth, Marianne Lofgren, Gösta Cederlund, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Keve Hjelm, Anne-Marie Brunius | |

## 1951

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Olivia | Jacqueline Audry | France | Drama | Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Marie-Claire Olivia, Yvonne de Bray, Suzanne Dehelly, Marina de Berg, Lesly Meynard, Danièle Delorme, Rina Rhéty, Tania Soucault, Elly Norden, Nadine Olivier | a.k.a. The Pit of Loneliness; based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Dorothy Bussy |
| Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | United States | Film-noir, crime, mystery | Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll | Based on the novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith |

## 1953

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Calamity Jane | David Butler | United States | Musical, comedy | Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson, Paul Harvey, Chubby Johnson, Gale Robbins, Francis McDonald, Monte Montague, Bess Flowers | Explores an alleged romance between American frontierswoman of the same name and Wild Bill Hickok |
| Glen or Glenda | Edward D. Wood Jr. | United States | Drama | Ed Wood, Timothy Farrell, Dolores Fuller, Bela Lugosi | |
| Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Howard Hawks | United States | Musical, comedy | Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, Taylor Holmes, Norma Varden, George Winslow, Steven Geray | Based on the musical of the same name by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields, which itself is based on Loos' novel of the same name |
| I Vitelloni | Federico Fellini | Italy | Drama, comedy | Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste | |

## 1954

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Adam is Eve | René Gaveau | France | Comedy | Michèle Carvel, Jean Carmet, Thérèse Dorny, Mireille Perrey, Antoine Balpêtré, Anouk Ferjac | Lead's name is sometimes listed as Micheline Carvel |
| Air of Paris | Marcel Carné | France Italy | Drama | Jean Gabin, Arletty, Roland Lesaffre | Implicit homosexuality in the relation between the characters played by Lesaffre and Gabin |
| Huis clos | Jacqueline Audry | France | Drama | Arletty, Gaby Sylvia, Frank Villard, Yves Deniaud, Nicole Courcel, Danièle Delorme, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Chabassol, Arlette Thomas | a.k.a. No Exit; co-written by Jean-Paul Sartre, based on his stage play of the same name |
| Johnny Guitar | Nicholas Ray | United States | Western | Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, John Carradine, Royal Dano, Frank Ferguson, Paul Fix, Rhys Williams, Ian MacDonald, Robert Osterloh | Based on the novel of the same name by Roy Chanslor |
| Miss Hanafi | Fatin Abdel Wahab | Egypt | Comedy | Ismail Yassine (credited as Ismail Yasseen) | a.k.a. El Anesa Hanafy; based on an actual news article |

## 1955

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Rebel Without a Cause | Nicholas Ray | United States | Drama | James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper | Homosexual subtext |
| The Big Combo | Joseph H. Lewis | United States | Crime | Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace | Implicit homosexual relationship between two hitmen |

## 1956

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Tea and Sympathy | Vincente Minnelli | United States | Drama | Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erikson, Edward Andrews | Screenplay by Robert Anderson, based on his stage play of the same name |

## 1957

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Different from You and Me | Veit Harlan | West Germany | Drama | Christian Wolff, Paula Wessely, Paul Dahlke, Hans Nielsen | a.k.a. Anders als du und ich (censored version title) / Das dritte Geschlecht (original title) / Bewildered Youth / The Third Sex (American alternative titles) |

## 1958

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Richard Brooks | United States | Drama | Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson, Madeleine Sherwood, Larry Gates, Vaughn Taylor | Based on the play on the same name by Tennessee Williams; homosexual subtext |
| Les Tricheurs | Marcel Carné | France Italy | Drama | Pascale Petit, Andréa Parisy, Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Dany Saval | |
| Mädchen in Uniform | Géza von Radványi | West Germany France | Drama | Hertha Thiele, Dorothea Wieck, Emilia Unda | Co-written by Christa Winsloe, based on her play of the same name |

## 1959

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Ben-Hur | William Wyler | United States | Action, drama | Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe | Based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace |
| Come Dance with Me | Michel Boisrond | France | Drama, crime | Brigitte Bardot, Henri Vidal, Dawn Addams, Darío Moreno, Serge Gainsbourg | Based on the novel The Blonde Died Dancing by Kelley Roos |
| Compulsion | Richard Fleischer | United States | Crime, drama | Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman | Based on the novel of the same name by Meyer Levin |
| Pillow Talk | Michael Gordon | United States | Romance, comedy | Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter | |
| Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | United States | Romance, comedy | Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon | |
| Suddenly, Last Summer | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States | Drama, horror | Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift | Based on the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams |