| Title | Year | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
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| The Seventh Victim | 1943 | | United States | Horror, film-noir | | |
| Children of Paradise | 1945 | | France | Drama, romance | | a.k.a. |
| The Lost Weekend | 1945 | | United States | Film-noir, drama | | Although Billy Wilder's adaptation hews closely to Charles R. Jackson's novel, the novel differed in one respect: Birnam, played by Ray Milland in the movie, is described in the novel as being tormented by a homosexual incident in college. That is omitted from the film. |
| Crossfire | 1947 | | United States | Film-noir, crime | Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Paul Kelly, Sam Levene, Jacqueline White, Steve Brodie, George Cooper, Richard Benedict, Tom Keene (credited as Richard Powers), William Phipps, Lex Barker, Marlo Dwyer | Based on the novel The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks |
| Quai des Orfèvres | 1947 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France | Police Procedural, Drama | Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Pierre Larquey, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Claudine Dupuis, Charles Dullin, Henri Arius, Jacques Grétillat | |
| Fireworks | 1947 | | United States | Drama | | |
| Germany, Year Zero | 1948 | | Italy | Drama | | |
| Red River | 1948 | | United States | Western | John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Chief Yowlachie, Paul Fix, Hank Worden, Ray Hyke, Wally Wales, Mickey Kuhn, Robert M. Lopez | |
| Rope | 1948 | | United States | Crime, drama | | Based on the play of the same name by Patrick Hamilton |
| Words and Music | 1948 | | United States | Musical, biography | | Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) was a homosexual in an era when such was flatly unacceptable; the pressures of the closet drove him into a wildly self-destructive alcoholism that ultimately killed him. None of this is in the movie. |
| The Trip to Marrakesh | 1949 | | West Germany | Drama | Luise Ullrich, Maria Holst, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Paul Dahlke, Grethe Weiser, Ludwig Linkmann, Michael Korrontay, Günther Evers, Viktor Afritsch, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer | |
| Thirst | 1949 | | Sweden | Drama | Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth, Hasse Ekman, Mimi Nelson, Bengt Eklund, Gaby Stenberg, Naima Wifstrand, Verner Arpe, Calle Flygare, Sven-Eric Gamble, Helge Hagerman, Else-Merete Heiberg, Estrid Hesse, Gunnar Nielsen, Sif Ruud, Monica Weinzierl | Based on the novel of the same name by Birgit Tengroth |
| Entre onze heures et minuit | 1949 | | France | Drama, Mystery | | There are two homosexual guns-for-hire | |
