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Michael Welch, Eric Schaeffer, Randall Newsome
Boy Meets Girl is a 2014 romantic comedy film written and directed by Eric Schaeffer.
Troy Garity, Lee Pace, Andre Braugher
In 1997, new Army recruit Barry Winchell (Troy Garity) is assigned to a base in Tennessee. He quickly befriends the quick-tempered Justin Fisher (Shawn Hatosy), who struggles with drug problems. One ... more
Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard
Young female-to-male transgender Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) leaves his hometown under threat when his ex-girlfriend's brother discovers that he's biologically female. Resettling in the small town ... more
Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker
Irish Republican Army member Fergus (Stephen Rea) forms an unexpected bond with Jody (Forest Whitaker), a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude ... more
Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco
A transgender singer faces scorn and discrimination after the sudden death of her older boyfriend.
Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan
Right in the midst of important changes in her life, Bree Osborne (Felicity Huffman) learns that she fathered a son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), 17 years ago. Bailing him out of jail in New York, Bree poses ... more
Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce
When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take his act on the road, he invites fellow cross-dresser Adam (Guy Pearce) and transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to come along. In their ... more
Adepero Oduye, Pernell Walker, Aasha Davis
Teenage Alike (Adepero Oduye) lives in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood with her parents (Charles Parnell, Kim Wayans) and younger sister (Sahra Mellesse). A lesbian, Alike quietly embraces her ... more
Steven Mackintosh, Rupert Graves, Miriam Margolyes
Kim Foyle (Steven Mackintosh) is a postoperative transvestite who values her well-structured lifestyle. That routine, however, is disturbed when a car accident reintroduces Kim to Paul Prentice ... more
Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian
After hearing that her boyfriend/pimp cheated on her while she was in jail, a transgender sex worker and her best friend set out to find him and teach him and his new lover a lesson.
Cecilia Roth, Eloy Azorín, Marisa Paredes
A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. This saying does not hold true for Manuela. The night a car ran over her son Esteban, Manuela cried until ... more
Peter, Masato Harada, Toshiya Fujita
Funeral Parade of Roses is a 1969 Japanese drama film directed by Toshio Matsumoto. It is a loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex set in the underground gay counterculture of 1960s Tokyo. The film was ... more
Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea
As a baby, Patrick (Cillian Murphy) is left by his mother on the steps of the rectory in their small Irish town. He's discovered by Father Liam (Liam Neeson), coincidentally his real father, and ... more
Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Sophie Cattani
A 10-year-old girl (Zoé Héran) moves into a new neighborhood and decides to dress like a boy.
John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor
A German emigrant living in a trailer in Kansas is the victim of a botched sex-change operation. Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theater hit, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" tells ... more
Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo
Elite Manhattan drag queens Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) and Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes) impress regional judges in competition, securing berths in the Nationals in Los Angeles. When the two meet ... more
Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Katelijne Damen
Girl is a 2018 drama film directed by Lukas Dhont. A trans girl who pursues a career as a ballerina faces challenges from everyone she encounters.
Michèle Laroque, Vincent Grass, Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Ma vie en rose is a 1997 Belgian drama film directed by Alain Berliner. It tells the story of Ludovic, a child who is seen by family and community as a boy, but consistently communicates being a ... more
Gilles Tschudi, Liv Lisa Fries, Julia Schäfle
Romeos is a 2011 German feature film. The film was written and directed by Sabine Bernardi. It was released on December 8, 2011. Prior to its release, the film's screenplay won the Best Treatment ... more
Claire Danes, Jim Parsons, Priyanka Chopra
A Kid Like Jake is a 2018 American drama film directed by Silas Howard, based on the 2013 play by Daniel Pearle. Alex (Claire Danes) and Greg Wheeler (Jim Parsons) has always known that their ... more
Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams
Steve Brooks (Perry King), a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he ... more
Pamelyn Ferdin, Quinn K. Redeker, Rod McCary
The Christine Jorgensen Story is a 1970 fictionalized biographical movie about trans woman Christine Jorgensen. While the overall premise of the film is accurate, many of the details are ... more
Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Lothaire Bluteau
In 1600, nobleman Orlando (Tilda Swinton) inherits his parents' house, thanks to Queen Elizabeth I (Quentin Crisp), who commands the young man to never change. After a disastrous affair with Russian ... more
Parinya Charoenphol, Sorapong Chatree, Orn-anong Panyawong
Beautiful Boxer is a Thai biographical sports film by Singapore-based director Ekachai Uekrongtham. It tells the life story of Nong Thoom, a famous kathoey, Muay Thai fighter, actress and model. She ... more
Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson, Hayden Panettiere
After a 25-year marriage to Irma (Jessica Lange), Roy Applewood (Tom Wilkinson) shocks his family when he reveals that he has a gender identity disorder. The Applewood family is further thrown into ... more
Here is a list of the best transgender movies ever made, ranked by movie fans with film trailers when available. This transgender movie list is ordered by popularity, so only the greatest movies about transgender are at the top of the list. If there are any great movies about transgender you believe we missed, please feel free to add them to the list yourself. The films on this list are the most famous transgender and transsexual movies of all time, so use it to find some movies that you haven't seen already. Click on these transgender movie titles for more information about the films.
This list answers the questions, "What are the best transgender movies?" and "What is the greatest transgender movie of all time?"
Various bits of information are included with these popular transgender movies, such as who directed them, when they were released and who starred in the films. Whether you're watching these transgender movies on DVD, Blu-ray or streaming, these good transgender movies can be enjoyed no matter what.
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The transgender community has been historically underrepresented in media, including in film and television. Over the past few years, popular shows starring trans actors , like Pose and Euphoria , have begun to correct that imbalance, but there's still a long way to go.
Movies and documentaries that accurately and sensitively portray the trans and LGBTQ+ experience are essential those who are early in their transition or self-discovery journey, since seeing your own lived experience and the success of other trans people can be life-affirming. But they're also valuable to our culture at large, so that we can all better understand the rich variety and diversity of people that make up our society — something that's more vital than ever before. "We’re inspired by the trans people we see on screen," Laverne Cox told Deadline while discussing her film Disclosure . "We’re very much interested in bettering the lives of trans people in real life ... The relationship between the representations of trans people and violence against us — we have to change those narratives."
Of course, the trans experience isn't a monolith. And many films, even beloved ones, sometimes use cisgender characters to portray trans people, or fall short of depicting the whole story. But if you're looking for a great film to watch during Pride month or to share with a friend, child or loved one who needs to see themselves reflected, these movies are a good start.
In this revelatory documentary, Hollywood insiders like Sam Feder, Amy Scholder and Laverne Cox take a hard look at how trans people have been depicted (and often misrepresented) in media and how that impacts real people, too. It's an important film that holds the industry accountable.
If you love Pose , you've got to watch the film that started it all. This classic takes us into the iconic New York ballroom culture of the 80s, in all its glitz, glamour and drama. But it also reveals the homophobia, transphobia and racism the community experienced, creating a well-rounded picture of the scene.
Some of the best films don't attempt to tackle an entire culture, but focus on one personal journey instead. This French film is one of those, telling the story of a little boy named Ludovic who's certain he's really a girl. It's a sweet portrayal of a young person transitioning, despite disapproval from his family and community.
Two trans women, one revenge plot and a zany hunt for a man who's wronged them: What could go wrong? This odyssey through Los Angeles is both a chaotic romp and a refreshingly funny look at queer lived experience.
Featuring interviews with 11 trans and nonbinary celebrities and public figures, this documentary gets their life stories and experiences right from the source.
Loosely based on the story of the Danish painter Lili Elbe as she transitions to female in the 1930s, as well as her love for fellow artist Gerda Wegener, this film is a beautiful portrayal of unconditional love.
Meet three interconnected people living on a remote Navajo reservation including a sex worker and a beautiful trans woman. It's an authentic portrayal of a trans woman of color, played by a trans woman of color, in a film also written and directed by one.
In seven shorts, this Indie sci-fi flick follows supernatural LGBTQ+ characters as they use their powers to protect, love, teach, fight and thrive.
This gut-wrenching film is based on the true story of Brandon Teena, a trans teen who was sexually assaulted and murdered in 1993. He begins a romance with a cis woman in their close-minded Nebraska town before violence finds him, in a heartbreaking story that will stay with you.
Following three trans men of color, this short documentary explores the intersectionality between race, gender and identity and the struggles that can come with living authentically as a multiply marginalized person.
When Enrique returns from three years in prison, he finds his wife is having an emotional affair and his daughter in the midst of figuring out who she is. Featuring the first trans actress to be nominated for an acting award in the U.S., her powerful performance tackles difficult subjects with strength.
A Colorado family finds themselves in the national spotlight as they fight for their six-year-old trans daughter's rights. Parents of trans kids, or parents in general, give this one a watch.
A film by the legendary Pedro Almodóvar, this one involves a pregnant nun, an aspiring writer and a bereaved mother. It's a moving portrait of motherhood, family and enduring love.
Fernanda, a Brazilian sex worker, travels to Italy to earn enough money to pay for her gender-affirming surgery. While there, she meets Gianni, who might just be the man of her dreams. It's raw, real and deeply touching.
You know those movies that are so bad, they're great? This one definitely fits that description. It's campy, cute and a little over-the-top, so call a few pals and watch it with friends so you can laugh about all the loose ends.
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Find out what made it onto our list of 10 of the best movies about transgender people.
Although German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld popularised the word ‘transvestite’ and co-wrote the first explicitly gay film, Different from the Others (1919), before supervising the first sex reassignment operations, there is little which might be called transgender cinema before the 1960s, disregarding cross-dressing farces such as I Was a Male War Bride (1949) or Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959).
Although many of the first transsexual and openly transgender-identified people were trans men, the cinema, like newspapers and television, tended to focus on trans women, perhaps because the idea that people might voluntarily relinquish their male privilege mystified the men who controlled the western media. After Ed Wood’s risible Glen or Glenda (1953), which took the fame of American transsexual woman Christine Jorgensen and turned it into a semi-autobiographical story about a man who liked angora sweaters, came Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), based on Robert Bloch’s novel about serial killer Ed Gein, who killed over a dozen women and made a vest of their skins. The depiction of Norman Bates as a gender-troubled murderer set a template for the portrayal of trans people as psychopaths, with 2 further films based on Gein – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991), besides Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill (1980).
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During the 1960s, underground filmmakers cast trans people – and not always in trans roles. Jack Smith put Mario Montez and others in short films such as Flaming Creatures (1963) and Normal Love (1963), as did Ron Rice, and Andy Warhol’s work included actors who challenged the gender binary. Later, in Europe, Pedro Almodóvar and Rosa von Praunheim cast transgender people in transgender roles, but this remains unusual: even when it aims for sympathetic portrayals, popular cinema continues to cast non-trans people in trans roles, most recently Jared Leto’s Oscar-winning turn as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club (2013).
Below is a selection of 10 trans-themed films from the last 50 years. It’s limited to those easily available on DVD , which sadly excludes von Praunheim’s trans/queer musical City of Lost Souls (1983) and a host of others, but offers a crash course in the changing representation of trans people on the big screen.
Paul Morrissey’s Women in Revolt didn’t deal with trans issues, although it spoofed the US radical feminist movement which often excluded trans women, made as a response to SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto author Valerie Solanas coming to the Factory and attempting to kill Andy Warhol.
It opens this list because it features the Factory’s 3 trans ‘superstars’ – Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis – as the leaders of P.I.G. or Politically Involved Girls, a feminist group torn apart by infighting, personal ambition and the lack of coherent goals. Curtis refused to be involved unless Warhol was behind the camera, but Darling in particular shines as their self-appointed, self-interested leader, reproached for her impure motives at the film’s end. Twenty-five years later, Darling was portrayed sensitively by Stephen Dorff in Mary Harron’s biopic of Solanas, I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), which is an excellent companion piece to Women in Revolt and Warhol’s earlier films.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s works were often bleak and few more relentlessly so than In a Year of 13 Moons, conceived as a ‘hate letter’ to Frankfurt and written as the director tried to process his grief and guilt over the death of his former lover, Armin Meier, who killed himself shortly after their relationship ended in 1978.
This film follows Elvira, formerly Erwin, who went to Casablanca for sex reassignment surgery after the man she loved, Anton Saitz, said “I’d love you if you were a woman.” He rejects Elvira, as does everyone she ever cared for: it starts with Elvira being beaten by strangers and then humiliated by a male ex, and becomes progressively more harrowing until its brutal termination. It’s particularly difficult for trans people, not least because of the connection that Fassbinder makes between surgery and butchery, but it’s also an eye-opening exposition of social challenges for gender-variant people of its time.
Jennie Livingston’s documentary about African-American and Latino people of various gender identities who competed in New York’s glamorous balls explores race, class, sexuality and gender with intelligence, sensitivity and humour. Following entrants who walked down a runway, being judged on the ‘realness’ of their clothes – aiming to “look as much as possible like [our] straight counterparts” – and their dancing skills, Paris Is Burning shows the communities formed by contestants who had finally found a place where their difference was celebrated rather than scorned.
The participants speak candidly about facing racism, homophobia, transphobia, poverty and the AIDS crisis, being thrown out of their homes, shoplifting or becoming sex workers as they struggle to survive in “a rich, white world”. Their stories are often sad – Venus Xtravaganza was murdered during filming, and several others died young – but Paris Is Burning continues to excite and inspire. It’s full of brilliant statements of defiance.
On its release in 1992, The Crying Game’s promoters fiercely protected its famous ‘twist’ – which turned out to be the revelation of the genitalia of its leading lady, Dil, played by Jaye Davidson. The audience learned at the same time as Dil’s lover Fergus (Stephen Rea) that she had been born male, her naked body causing him to vomit, before their relationship evolves further.
Like In a Year of 13 Moons, this is a love story involving someone moving between male and female, but Dil is far less passive, becoming caught up in a love triangle with the IRA member who has killed her previous partner (Forest Whitaker) and emerging with the most power. Alongside Sally Potter’s adaptation of Orlando, released in the same year, The Crying Game was one of several mainstream films to rethink the old stereotypes of trans people, encouraging its audience to empathise with Dil without asking only for sympathy.
Starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce as a transsexual woman, a transvestite and a drag queen who travel across the outback to resurrect their
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