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by amaranta-heredia | created - 06 Jan 2014 | updated - 06 Mar 2018 | PublicMovies about transgender issues
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1. Red Without Blue (2007)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary
The intimate bond between two identical twin brothers is challenged when one decides to transition from male to female; this is the story of their evolving relationship, and the resurrection of their family from a darker past.
Directors: Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills, Todd Sills | Stars: Clair Farley, Jennie Farley, Mark Oliver Farley, Scott Farley
Votes: 504
2. Venus Boyz (2002)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary
A film journey through a universe of female masculinity. A legendary Drag King Night in New York is the point of departure for an odyssey to transgendered worlds, where women become men - ... See full summary »
Director: Gabriel Baur | Stars: Diane Torr, Dréd Gerestant, Del La Grace Volcano, Queen Bee Luscious
Votes: 432 | Gross: $0.02M
3. Kinky Boots (2005)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts, Jemima Rooper
Votes: 21,476 | Gross: $1.82M
4. Ma vie en rose (1997)
R | 88 min | Drama
Ludovic is an innocent seven-year-old child who provokes horror in his community when he dresses in girls clothes and insists he's a girl.
Director: Alain Berliner | Stars: Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Hélène Vincent
Votes: 9,024 | Gross: $2.28M
5. The Skin I Live In (2011)
R | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes
Votes: 165,746 | Gross: $3.19M
6. Almost Myself (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
After finding an unusual website seeking funds to help reverse a sex change, the filmmaker sets out to explore the transgender community.
Director: T. Joe Murray | Stars: T. Joe Murray, Rosalyne Blumenstein, Kate Bornstein, Holly Boswell
Votes: 184
7. She's a Boy I Knew (2007)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
She's a Boy I Knew is a comic, heartbreaking, uplifting autobiography that focuses on the interpersonal relationships of a family who unexpectedly find their bonds strengthening as they ... See full summary »
Director: Gwen Haworth | Stars: Colleen Haworth, Gwen Haworth, Kim Haworth, Nicole Haworth
Votes: 151
8. El último verano de la Boyita (2009)
TV-PG | 93 min | Drama
A teenage girl, feeling babyish and awkward compared to her older sister, finds solace in a childhood friend while spending a countryside summer in her father's old van.
Director: Julia Solomonoff | Stars: Guadalupe Alonso, Nicolás Treise, Mirella Pascual, Gabo Correa
Votes: 978
9. Facing Mirrors (2011)
98 min | Drama
Rana has chosen a path in order to support her family, while Adineh (Eddie) has fled his home and city to escape his complicated situation as a transgender man prevented from living as his ... See full summary »
Director: Negar Azarbayjani | Stars: Shayesteh Irani, Ghazal Shakeri, Homayoun Ershadi, Maryam Boubani
Votes: 641
10. Shinjuku Boys (1995)
Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary
Shinjuku Boys is a 1995 film by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams. It explores the lives of three transgender men who work at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo, Japan.
Directors: Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams | Stars: Gaish, Tatsu, Kazuki, Abe
Votes: 236
11. Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria (2005)
57 min | Documentary
Documentary about transgender women and drag queens who fought police harassment at Compton's Cafeteria in San Francisco's Tenderloin in 1966, three years before the famous riot at Stonewall Inn bar in NYC.
Directors: Victor Silverman, Susan Stryker | Stars: Ray Baxter, Elliot Blackstone, Aleshia Brevard, Felicia Elizondo
Votes: 198
12. Romeos (2011)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A drama centered on the relationship between a two young men, as one of them navigates the difficulties of life as a transgender man.
Director: Sabine Bernardi | Stars: Rick Okon, Max Befort, Liv Lisa Fries, Felix Brocke
Votes: 3,494 | Gross: $0.00M
13. Hit & Miss (2012)
45 min | Drama
Follows the life of transgender contract killer Mia, who travels to West Yorkshire to seek out her ex girlfriend.
Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Roma Christensen, Jorden Bennie, Karla Crome
Votes: 5,010
14. Go Fish (1994)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic tale about finding a soulmate. The only difference here is that both partners are women...in Chicago's lesbian community.
Director: Rose Troche | Stars: V.S. Brodie, Guinevere Turner, T. Wendy McMillan, Migdalia Melendez
Votes: 2,329 | Gross: $2.41M
15. Orlando (1992)
PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville
Votes: 18,709 | Gross: $5.29M
16. Man for a Day (2012)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
The worldwide stage appearances and workshops of the gender activist and performance artist Diane Torr, are legendary. For the past thirty years, the focus of this performance artist's work... See full summary »
Director: Katarina Peters | Star: Diane Torr
Votes: 85
17. Mr. Angel (2013)
68 min | Documentary, Biography
Mr. Angel chronicles the extraordinary life of transgender activist and porn pioneer, Buck Angel. He survived addiction, prostitution, and suicide and now tells a moving story of a man's ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Hunt | Stars: Lux Alptraum, Buck Angel, Elayne Angel, Tyra Banks
Votes: 322
18. Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (2005 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 54 min | Documentary
Examines the diversity of human sexual and gender variance around the globe, with commentary by scientific experts and first-hand accounts of people who do not conform to a simple male/female binary.
Director: Antony Thomas | Stars: Gore Vidal, Calpernia Addams, Beth Aynsley, Max Beck
Votes: 286
19. The Aggressives (2005)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
A pioneering documentary filmed in NYC from 1997-2004 follows a group of "Aggressives," or "AG's" - masculine presenting and/or identifying - queer POC who were assigned female at birth.
Director: Daniel Peddle | Stars: Marquise Balenciaga, Kisha Batista, Octavio Sanders, Trevon Haynes
Votes: 260
20. Something Must Break (2014)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A gritty story taking place in Stockholm, about the passionate love between the self-abusive Sebastian who wants to be a woman, and the easy-going Andreas who is certainly not gay.
Director: Ester Martin Bergsmark | Stars: Saga Becker, Iggy Malmborg, Shima Niavarani, Mattias Åhlén
Votes: 1,597
21. Queen of the Desert (2013 TV Movie)
Documentary
Starlady is not your ordinary youth worker - with fabulous hair and outrageous outfits she is training young indigenous people in the art of hairdressing.
Director: Alex Kelly | Star: Star
Votes: 18
22. Transparent (2006)
61 min | Documentary
A documentary about 19 female-to-male transsexuals from 14 different states who have given birth and, in most instances, gone on to raise their biological children.
Director: Jules Rosskam | Star: Josh Moltane
Votes: 23
23. Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen (2008)
78 min | Documentary
Director: Kortney Ryan Ziegler | Stars: Kylar Broadus, Louis Mitchell
Votes: 18
24. Ångrarna (2010)
58 min | Documentary
Two men in their 60s meet for the first time and discuss their respective sex changes, and subsequent reversals.
Director: Marcus Lindeen | Stars: Orlando Fagin, Mikael Johansson
Votes: 229
25. Angelos (1982)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A handsome young Athenian attempts to escape his abusive alcoholic father and the grinding poverty of his daily life by falling in love with a macho sailor who promises him a better life.
Director: Giorgos Katakouzinos | Stars: Michalis Maniatis, Dionysis Xanthos, Katerina Helmy, Vasilis Tsaglos
Votes: 430
26. Glen or Glenda (1953)
PG | 65 min | Drama
A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. | Stars: Edward D. Wood Jr., Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Timothy Farrell
Votes: 9,182
27. Bubot Niyar (2006)
80 min | Documentary
A group of transgender and gay Filipinos people emigrate to Israel to take care of elderly religious Jewish men. On their one day off per week, they perform as drag performers in a group ... See full summary »
Director: Tomer Heymann
Votes: 190 | Gross: $0.04M
28. A Soap (2006)
Unrated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A tragicomedy focused on the relationship between the owner of a beauty clinic and a transgender woman.
Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, David Dencik, Frank Thiel, Elsebeth Steentoft
Votes: 2,010 | Gross: $0.00M
29. The Trans List (2016 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 57 min | Documentary, Biography
The Trans List explores the range of experiences lived by Americans who identify as transgender (an umbrella term for people whose gender identity does not conform to that typically ... See full summary »
Director: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Stars: Buck Angel, Kylar Broadus, Caroline Cossey, Laverne Cox
Votes: 442
30. Boy Meets Girl (I) (2014)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Boy Meets Girl is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams.
Director: Eric Schaeffer | Stars: Michael Welch, Michelle Hendley, Alexandra Turshen, Michael Galante
Votes: 4,944 | Gross: $0.02M
31. Wariazone (2011)
Documentary
Wariazone explores the notion of trans-gender in Indonesia and relations between gender identity and freedom. It raises questions about the politicization of morality and religion in the country with the world's largest Moslem community.
Directors: Kiwa, Terje Toomistu
Votes: 16
32. Transfixed (2014)
75 min | Documentary, Romance
Transfixed tells the story of highly unconventional romance: Martine Stonehouse and John Gelmon are middle-aged underdogs, living with Asperger Syndrome - an autism spectrum disorder that ... See full summary »
Director: Alon Kol
Votes: 24
33. Raising Ryland (2015)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Presented by CNN Films, RAISING RYLAND is a documentary film by Sarah Feeley that takes an intimate look at parenting with no strings attached. The short focuses on the transgender ... See full summary »
Director: Sarah Feeley
Votes: 22
34. I'm Just Anneke (2010)
12 min | Short
Anneke, a gender non-conforming 12 year old girl, has just started taking a hormone blocker so she can decide if she wants to be a boy, girl or something in between when she grows up.
Director: Jonathan Skurnik
Votes: 7
35. Arianna (2015)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Mystery
As Arianna, 19, deals with the problems of development, memories creep to the surface when she explores her body during a visit to the family lake house.
Director: Carlo Lavagna | Stars: Ondina Quadri, Massimo Popolizio, Valentina Carnelutti, Corrado Sassi
Votes: 743
36. Limina (2017)
14 min | Short, Drama
A curious gender-fluid child embarks on a path of kindness that will forever change the lives of their fellow townspeople in a quaint and picturesque village.
Directors: Luna Ferguson, Florian Halbedl | Stars: Laura Mennell, Chelsey Reist, Beverley Elliott, April Telek
Votes: 18
37. Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Pleasant Danger (2014)
72 min | Documentary, History
For decades, performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender. And, her own identity. Trans-dyke. Reluctant polyamorist. Sadomasochist. ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Feder | Stars: Bevin Bevin Branlandingham, Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Kate Bornstein, Barbara Carrellas
Votes: 203
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