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Albert Nobbs (2011)
, 1h53Directed by Rodrigo García
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Janet McTeer, Pauline Collins, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close) is a woman living as a man in order to find work in the harsh environment of 19th-century Ireland. After living as a male for thirty years, Albert, working as a hotel waiter, is known for his extreme dedication to his job, as well as for a very introverted personality. Albert has been secretly saving all his earnings to buy a tobacco shop to gain some measure of freedom and independence.
Karuvarai Pookkal (2011)
, 2h25Genres Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Karuvarai Pookkal, the first Tamil film about transgender people, is a docu-feature film. It illustrates the difficult life and folklore of transgender people in India especially in Tamil Nadu. It portrays the critical situation of the family where a transgender child is born, discusses the difficulties and taboos of bringing up that child, and the difficulties of the child itself.
Kanchana (2011)
, 2h50Directed by Raghava Lawrence
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors R. Sarathkumar, Raai Laxmi, Raghava Lawrence, Kovai Sarala, Devadarshini, Sriman
Raghava (Lawrence Raghavendra) is a typical jobless youth who spends his days playing cricket with friends. He suffers from an irrational fear of ghosts, and retreats to the safety of his home after sunset. His fear is so great he prefers to sleep with his mother (Kovai Sarala) and have her accompany him to the bathroom at night. This creates major annoyance in the household, including Raghava's brother (Sriman), sister-in-law (Devadarshini) and their children.
Murder 2 (2011)
, 2h7Directed by Mohit Suri
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime, Slasher, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Emraan Hashmi, Jacqueline Fernandez, Prashant Narayanan, Sulagna Panigrahi, Sudhanshu Pandey, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal
Arjun Bhagwat (Emraan Hashmi) is an ex-police officer who is hungry for money and earns his bread by doing wrong things. He is an atheist (Nastik) but regularly visits church to donate money to orphans. Priya (Jacqueline Fernandez), a model, is in a passionate but confused relationship with Arjun. Whilst Priya is in love with Arjun, Arjun merely lusts for her and he forces upon her in the beginning of movie but she too enjoys his company.
Open (2011)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
When the young hermaphrodite Cynthia (Gaea Gaddy) meets Gen (Tempest Crane) and Jay (Jendeen Forberg), a couple recovering from plastic surgery, she learns of Pandrogyny, in which two people merge their facial features in order to reflect their evolution from separate identities into one unified entity.
Famine (2011)
, 1h17Origin Canada
Genres Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Comedy horror films, Films about school violence, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
At Sloppy Secondary High School, new teacher Ms. Vickers has put together a 24 Hour Famine (volunteers stay in the school gym and starve themselves for a day) for charity, the first famine held since an incident occurred during the last one five years prior. Ten students (Cathy, Sarah, Darren, Nick, Terry, Vanessa, Andrea, Katie, Jenny and Peterson) sign-up for the event, wanting the extra credit. Vickers asks Jenny what happened at the last famine, and is told that rumor has it the organizer, Philip Balszack, was accidentally disfigured by acid when he tried to have sex with Cathy in the chemistry lab. Balszack disappeared, and Cathy was supposedly briefly institutionalized.
Melting Away (2011)
, 1h26Origin Israel
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about Jews and Judaism, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Hen Yanni
Shlomo Shapira discovers one day that his teenage son Asaf likes to wear women's clothes. With the silent consent of his wife Galia, he decides to teach his son a lesson. On a rainy night Asaf returns to his parents' home after a party but they refuse to open the door, even though he cries. Shlomo tell Galia that after Asaf discovers the hard world outside he will come back home and will forget all of this nonsense, but he was wrong.
, 1h43Directed by John Whitesell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Obésité, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about disabilities, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Martin Lawrence, Brandon T. Jackson, Jessica Lucas, Mari Morrow, Tony Curran, Michelle Ang
FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) is elated to learn that his stepson, Trent Pierce (Brandon T. Jackson), has been accepted to attend Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. However, Trent is uninterested and instead wants Malcolm to sign a recording contract for him since he is underage. When Malcolm refuses, Trent's best friends encourage him to ambush Malcolm on the job in order to obtain the signature. Malcolm, in an attempt to capture Russian gang member Chirkoff (Tony Curran), uses an informant named Canetti to deliver a flash drive to the gang, while Trent attempts to ambush Malcolm on the job. Canetti (Max Casella) reveals that the flash drive is empty and a duplicate is hidden with a friend at the Georgia Girls School for the Arts.
Gun Hill Road (2011)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Esai Morales, Judy Reyes, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Harmony Santana, Míriam Colón, Felix Solis
Ex-con Enrique ([[Esai Morales]]) returns home after a stint in prison. His wife Angela has had an affair while he was away, and his child Michael, who is a young trans woman in the process of transitioning and coming out, is exploring life, leaving Enrique with decisions to make regarding his family's future.
Bol (2011)
, 2h45Directed by Shoaib Mansoor
Origin Pakistan
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Feminist films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Humaima Malick, Atif Aslam, Mahira Khan, Iman Ali, Shafqat Cheema, Manzar Sehbai
The film starts by showing the protagonist, Zainab (Humaima Malick), about to be hanged. She tells her story to media right before this happens. She grew up with six sisters, a mother and a father. The father always wanted a son so that the son could help with the financial issues of the family; the father doesn't believe in women being gainfully employed. They have a transgender child (khawajah sara in Urdu) named Syed Saifullah Khan or Saifi (Amr Kashmiri). The father (Hakim) doesn't like Saifi since she is identified as a girl. Saifi is deeply loved by the rest of her family. Zainab is married to a guy who keeps harassing her for not giving birth. Hence, she comes back to her father's house. Zainab's mom keeps having babies that are born dead. Zainab arranges a tubal ligation for her. When Hakim (Manzar Sehbai) finds out, he becomes very angry.
Eating Out: Drama Camp (2011)
, 1h31Directed by Q. Allan Brocka
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Chris Salvatore, Rebekah Kochan, Aaron Milo, Harmony Santana, Mink Stole, Garikayi Mutambirwa
Filmmaker Jason (Garikayi Mutambirwa) is shooting a movie featuring Zack (Chris Salvatore). Upon learning of a drama camp owned by Dick Dickey (Drew Droege), the pair apply along with Zack's boyfriend Casey (Daniel Skelton). Their applications are all successful and the group travel to the drama camp. At camp they meet Benji (Aaron Milo) an attractive camper whom insists that he is not gay, Penny (Lilach Mendelovich) a sweet camp help who is an aspiring actress, Lily (Harmony Santana) a headstrong trans woman, and Genieveve (Marikah Cunningham) a rich and untalented actress who likes Benji. At orientation Dick enforces a no sex rule at the camp - much due to Dick himself not having had sex for 7 and a half years.
Woman in Love (2011)
Directed by Detlev Buck
Origin German
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, L'usurpation d'identité, Transgender in film, Escroquerie, LGBT-related film
Actors Matthias Schweighöfer, Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina, Detlev Buck, Maximilian Brückner, Denis Moschitto, Sunnyi Melles
Le jeune acteur Alexander Honk se déguise en femme pour les besoins de la pièce de théâtre La Marraine de Charley dans lequel il joue le rôle principal, mais son frère et agent Jürgen voudrait le voir jouer au cinéma, dans des projets plus prestigieux et lucratifs. Il lui trouve un petit rôle dans un film américain sur les nazis qui se tourne aux studios Babelsberg. Mais les producteurs du film en question lui donne un rôle de femme et croit réellement qu'il en est une, se basant sur le style de son site web dont son frère Basti Honk est le webmestre et son rôle dans la pièce. Alexander décide alors de faire ses essais en cachant son identité sexuelle et en assumant son travestissement dans le film comme dans la vie et devient Alexandra. Il obtient le rôle.
Narthagi (2011)
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Leema Babu, Shaam
Mozart's Sister (2010)
, 2hDirected by René Féret
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Enfant musicien, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau, Clovis Fouin, Dominique Marcas
During the Mozart family grand tour, a cracked carriage axle forces Leopold Mozart, his wife Anna, 14-year-old Nannerl and a rambunctious 11-year-old Wolfgang to seek shelter in the nearby Fontevraud Abbey. There Nannerl develops a friendship with 13-year-old Princess Louise of France, who is being brought up in the Abbey, along with two of her sisters. This leads to an encounter at Versailles with her brother, Louis, Dauphin of France. Nannerl, an accomplished harpsichordist and singer who helps support the family as part of a brother - sister act, yearns to compose music and play violin, but her father, Leopold, forbids it. The young, but recently widowed Dauphin takes an interest in her and her music that edges toward romance. But he breaks off the relationship when he becomes engaged to Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony. Princess Louise enters a convent and urges Nannerl to stay away from the Dauphin who is struggling to avoid the debauchery of his father, King Louis XV. A bizarre final encounter with the Dauphin and his new wife ensues. Nannerl and Princess Louise reflect on how their fates would have differed had they been born male.
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Kalabhavan Mani, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Jagathy Sreekumar, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Bijukuttan, Shivaji Guruvayoor
Annarakkannanum Thannalayathu movie tells the story of Changampuzha Pavithran (Kalabhavan Mani) who is a do-gooder who hails from the land of the great poet. Pavithran is bound to be around if a soul finds itself in distress. A bachelor who dreams about meeting his lady love some day, Pavithran's life goes topsy-turvy when an astrologer predicts that he would get married to a widow who would transform his entire life.