Gustav von Aschenbach, played by queer actor Dirk Bogarde, gets a makeover in queer filmmaker Luchino Visconti’s controversial 1971 film DEATH IN VENICE.

Sami Bouajila stars in Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau’s 2000 film Drôle de Félix (aka The Adventures of Felix).

The French film UN CHIEN QUI RAPPORTE (1932) features a coded lesbian character in the Countess of Noyant, played by Laure Diana.

The French film CINDERELLA, directed by Pierre Caron in 1937, features a scene ambiguously showing the homosexuality of the character of Mr. Jolibois, a choreographer of music hall dancers - played by the actor Jacques Josselin.