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Eight sensational transgender movies you really need to see, from Paris is Burning to Tangerine
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The Paris is Burning documentary is on Netflix. (Paris is Burning)
From transgender movies on Netflix and Amazon Prime to independent shorts by trans and non-binary filmmakers on YouTube, here’s a round-up of the best trans films.
We asked trans and bisexual man Stephan Kyriacou, and non-binary pansexual Cara Buchanan, to share their favourite transgender movies to watch – and why.
Watch the video below to see their transgender movie reviews:
“We’ve both included films in this list that involve cis actors playing trans roles, and I know that’s a controversial topic. I know that’s not something that’s as acceptable nowadays and shouldn’t be as acceptable nowadays, I agree, because there’s a lot more resources, there’s a lot more resources,” explains Stephan.
“But in terms of these films, for the time they were made in, I don’t think they should be completely be written off.”
Cara agrees: “If it’s an old film, you can appreciate it for what it is – trans people were practically erased at that point.
“Nowadays I feel like there isn’t really an excuse for it.”
This 1988 biographical film is a dramatisation of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man played in the film by Hilary Swank.
“Even before I knew I was trans, I watched this and was floored,” says Stephan.
“I feel like it does quite accurately what a lot of trans people go through.
“The biggest criticism for that film would just be that he was played by a cis woman but considering the time it was made, that I feel is just quite impressive – the fact they wanted to give a voice to this person.”
To rent or buy Boys Don’t Cry follow the links below:
2019 indie film TRANSFINITE was directed by non-binary, Indian filmmaker Neelu Bhuman .
The sci-fi feature film is composed of seven standalone short stories where supernatural trans and queer people from various cultures use their powers to ‘protect, love, teach, fight and thrive’.
“It was so trippy – I had no idea what’s going on but I love it,” says Cara.
To rent or buy TRANSFINITE go to Amazon here.
Written by and starring transgender filmmaker Jake Graf , Brace is a short film available to view on YouTube.
The short tells the story of two trans men who don’t realise upon meeting that the other person is transgender.
“It basically deals with a lot of internalised transphobia – it’s relatable and it’s real,” says Stephan.
The controversial documentary about queer ballroom culture that inspired POSE and many RuPaul’s Drag Race catchphrases is one of Cara’s top picks.
“When I watched it I didn’t know what a trans person was – it really opened up my mind,” says Cara.
Boy Meets Girl is a rarity among transgender movies for being a rom com with a happy ending.
The main character, Ricky, is a transgender woman living in a small town in Kentucky, looking for love, when she gets a crush on a girl.
“She’s funny, she’s rude, she’s got no filter,” says Cara. “Absolutely loved it.”
The film is available on Amazon Prime Video . You can stream it for free as part of an Amazon Prime membership which comes with a 30-day free trial and then costs £7.99 per month. To sign up go to Amazon here.
Ma Vie en Rose , or My Life in Pink, is a 90s Belgian movie is about a young kid named Ludovic who is viewed by the community as a boy but wishes to be seen as a girl.
“There’s this one scene where she’s playing with her mum’s make-up – it’s such a mood,” says Cara.
The film was unusually given a R rating in the US, rumoured to be because it was about being transgender.
Filmed entirely on an iPhone, Tangerine sheds light on what it’s like to be a trans sex worker.
“It summarised chasers really well, which is something that’s good to talk about because I never see that in films, how trans people are fetishised,” says Stephan.
“Normally it’s disguised in transphobia but I don’t think there’s ever a focus on the people who are nice to trans people because they want to hook up with them.”
“It does happen but it’s not addressed,” adds Cara. “If you’re a trans person you can spot chaser behaviour in films but it’s never addressed.”
To rent or buy Tangerine go to the links below:
Romeos is 2011 German tragicomedy film about a transgender man who is also gay – something we often don’t get to see in films.
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“I mean, that’s like all of my friendship group,” laughs Cara.
The movie show the trans character using a binder, dealing with using toilets, and in one scene he even removes his packer and sticks it on the side of the bath.
“The amount of times I was like: ‘Oh my god, me! Oh my god, same! Relatable!'” says Stephan.
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While Golden Globe winning TV like Transparent and the prominence of Orange Is The New Black ’s trans actor and activist Laverne Cox may have convinced you that trans issues have been integrated into the mainstream, cinema still has a way to go before it catches up with television’s evolving attitudes to the world beyond cis-gendered perspectives.
The history of trans characters in cinema isn’t a particularly happy one. Prior to the 1960s, audiences who wanted to seek out non-cis characters would be forced to fall back on men in drag like in Some Like It Hot . Still, while SLIH was offensive, it wasn’t as malevolent as something like Psycho , whose killer was famously troubled by his gender and who dressed in his dead mother’s clothes.
Thankfully, the past few decades have ushered in a more progressive exploration of trans identity. While many of the films below aren’t perfect (often starring high-profile straight, cis actors in trans roles in lieu of trans actors), they do function as a good jumping off point for getting into modern transgender movies.
This fictitious love story was loosely inspired by actual people: Danish artist and transgender pioneer Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Elbe was born Einar Wegener, a landscape painter who was married to artist Gerda Wegener and who in his own words “could withstand storms.” However, he felt he was two people in the same body and his other self, Lili Elbe, was, as she herself recorded in notes for an autobiography, a “thoughtless, flighty, very superficially-minded woman.” Still, Lili grew stronger every day and by February 1930, Wegener felt he could no longer resist: “I am finished,” he wrote. “Lili has known this for a long time. That’s how matters stand. And consequently she rebels more vigorously everyday.”
While it’s a beautiful film, it does have some notable weaknesses. As Vulture journalist Kyle Buchanan has noted, the film centers more on Elbe’s wife Gerda than it does Elbe. Eddie Redmayne did in-depth research into the experiences of trans women, telling Out Magazine “I felt like, I’m being given this extraordinary experience of being able to play this woman, but with that comes this responsibility of not only educating myself but hopefully using that to educate [an audience]. Gosh, it’s delicate. And complicated.” However, his cloying, vague performance as Lili suggests the LGBTQ complaints that an actual transgender woman should have played the role are justified. Still, it’s a moving, visually striking account of someone’s attempt to be themselves in an era when transgender surgery was at its very infancy.
This 2005 film earned 30 awards including a Golden Globe for actress Felicity Huffman and was nominated for 19 further awards, including a Best Actress Oscar. Bree (Felicity Huffman) is less than two weeks away from the final operation that will complete her transition from a male to female body when she learns she has a teenage son, Toby, as she receives a call from him from a New York city jail hoping that his dad, Stanley (her dead name) will bail him out. Bree is unwilling to do so but when her therapist refuses to sign a consent form for the sex-change operation until Bree reaches closure, she’s forced to fly to New York to collect Toby. She poses as a church do-gooder who is mysteriously willing to drive him to LA to fulfil his dream of becoming a porn actor. It’s a parent-son road trip movie with one key twist: Toby has no idea that he’s sharing a car with his biological father.
While there’s inaccuracies in the way the transition and surgery-approval process is portrayed, overall it’s a warm, sensitive drama about the difficulties of parenthood and gender.
Trans issues lie at the center of this smart, nuanced drama from legendary Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. The film opens on Manuela’s attempt to locate her late son Esteban’s father – she never revealed to Esteban that his father, like her best friend, is a transsexual woman, Lola.
The film treats trans issues with dignity but never accords them the sentimentality you see in so much cinema on the same topic, with Agrado’s monologue on authenticity exciting our admiration over our pity. This wasn’t the only time that one of Almodóvar’s films starred trans actors and characters — The Law Of Desire (1987), High Heels (1991), Bad Education (2004) and The Skin I Live In (2011) all structure their narrative around transsexual and transvestite characters and actors. But perhaps Almodóvar’s focus on all types of femininity, cis or trans, wasn’t for LGBTQ progress, so much as expedience: in a 1981 interview, he said "I write better for women than for men, who are dramatically boring for me.”
*Spoilers ahead* Hilary Swank earned herself an Oscar for starring in this moving drama about a budding romance between a trans boy and a cis girl (played by Chloë Sevigny) in not-so-LGBT-friendly '90s Nebraska. Based on the true story of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was sexually abused and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, the film has been criticized for its stereotypical painful trans person death – but let’s face it, the ending not only reflects Teena’s life but those of so many trans people today. As do the film’s other unhappy themes: transgender homelessness (one in five trans individuals will experience homelessness at some point in their lifetimes) and mistreatment at the hands of the police (transgender people are seven times as likely to experience police violence as cis people) are all sadly still par for the course over twenty years after Teena’s death.
It’s Christmas Eve and transgender sex worker Sin-Dee Rella has just gotten out of jail and discovered from her BFF Alexandra that her pimp-boyfriend Chester has been cheating on her with a cis-woman. She decides to take matters into her own hands by avenging herself on her love-rival; and so begins this chaotic, salty comedy.
Sure, the technology used to record the film is exciting: Tangerine was shot mostly on iPhones augmented with other devices and the film suffuses with an orange glow that evokes the title. But it’s really the film’s treatment of its two trans protagonists that’s genuinely innovative. There’s no pity and no sentimentality here, though the film recognizes how hard these two women have it — how many smart, irreverent trans-led comedies do you get to watch?
Jennie Livingston’s debut documentary transports us back to 1980s New York’s queer culture, following African-American and Hispanic gay men, transgender women and drag queens as they compete in vogue-dancing battles while sporting different costumes (think: "Town and Country", "Luscious Body").
Livingston has been accused by critics like feminist scholar bell hooks of voyeurism and encouraging cultural appropriation (given the popularity of phrases the documentary launched, like “shady” or “fierce,” she makes a good point). Whether or not you agree with these accusations, they pushed trans issues into the mainstream, with Madonna taking inspiration, and directly pulling cast members from the documentary, for her “Vogue” video and it winning the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. While trans characters dying in fictional films is something of a cliche, real-life trans woman Venus Xtravaganza's murder during filming is completely heartbreaking and confronts cis audiences with the horrific reality of the high murder statistics that trans women account for.
Laurence Anyways took the Queer Palm Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival while actress Suzanne Clement took home Best Actress in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard category and it’s easy to see why — the film isn’t just touching, but visually compelling, with writer/director Xavier Dolan’s movie focusing on the love between cis woman Fred (short for Frederique) and a transgender woman Laurence being compared to Stanley Kubrick’s late-career work.
The film is smart and observant about the difficulties of a relationship where one partner wants to restart their life in a different gender — while Fred is initially supportive of Laurence’s struggle, as their community turns against them, she finds their life harder to deal with.
Arguably, this is New German Cinema pioneer and director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most personal film; he shot it shortly after the suicide of his lover Armin Meier (who appeared in many of his movies). Fassbinder himself ranked it second on his list of “The Top 10 Of My Own Films” (found in the book The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes by Rainer Werner Fassbinder).
This is unsurprising, since this unflinching, closeup portrayal of the last few days of transgender woman Elvira’s life contains multitudes: a Goethe recitation, a musical comedy number staged by gangsters, autobiography – whether of Fassbinder or Meier remains unclear, history (it focuses on the first post-World War II generation and this is relevant to the plot, with Elvira transitioning in response to a throwaway “If only you were a woman” from a Holocaust survivor she’s in love with). Given the relentlessly bleak tone the film establishes, with Elvira effectively being rejected by everyone she comes into contact with and 13 Moons ’ negative portrayal of surgery, this is difficult viewing for trans audiences. However the film remains invaluable as a screenshot of a earlier, much harder time for people who didn’t identify as cis.
Centering on three travellers: a drag queen, a transvestite and transsexual woman Bernadette, the musical extravaganza Priscilla follows the trio as they trek across the Australian desert to perform in a drag queen residency show. Priscilla was a landmark movie in Australia, where its seductive combination of s
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