Films with theme "Transgender in film", sorted by revenue

Directed by Sathyan Anthikad
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Mohanlal, Meera Jasmine, Bharath Gopi, Innocent, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Oduvil Unnikrishnan

Premachandran (Mohanlal) is a carpenter who lives along with his father, Balan Master (Bharath Gopi), and works along with his friend, Manikandan (Innocent). They are now working on a house near the house of a rich landlord. Kanmani (Meera Jasmine), who was sold by her mother, works in that house as a servant and is ill-treated. Seethamma (KPAC Lalitha) lives along with her daughter, Kumari (Muthumani), who has a liking towards Premachandran. One night, Premachandran goes to his workplace to take his tools. He sees Kanmani leaving the house and is puzzled. He follows her. She was on the verge of committing suicide when Premachandran rescues her. He gives her shelter in one room in a building owned by Chettiyar (Oduvil Unnikrishnan), telling Chettiyar that his friend did not get the bus to go back home. Kanmani dresses up as a boy by the name of Velayuthan Kutty and soon starts working with Manikandan and Premachandran. Balan Master starts liking the disguised boy. One day, Premachandran tells Kanmani that he has planned to rescue her by sending her to Tamil Nadu to work in a banian company where Premachandran's friend is working. Kanmani refueses to go. Premachandran accidentally confesses to Manikandan that Velayuthan Kutty is actually the missing Kanmani. Manikandan has no peace and shouts out the truth in the middle of the night. Two policemen, accidentally hear this and take Premachandran and Kanmani into custody.

, 1h32
Directed by Gordon Chan
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance, Martial arts
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Martial arts films, Wuxia films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung, Anthony Wong, Li Bingbing (李冰冰), Cheung Tat-ming, Chapman To

Zhan Zhao (Andy Lau) is a court officer who learns of a plot to assassinate Judge Bao (Anthony Wong). While on holiday he meets a young man named Bai (Cecilia Cheung) who turns out to be a woman. Zhan Zhao tries to recruit Bai to help him stop the assassination of Judge Bao.

, 2h25
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Dileep, Biju Menon, Aju Varghese, Raai Laxmi, Mythili Balachandran, Baburaj

The film starts with a plane accident in which a small child narrowly escapes. He is then looked after by his maternal uncle (Vijayaraghavan), and all the family's wealth will be inherited to him. As per their astrologer, in the future he should marry a young woman whose star is Chothi Nakshatra, only then will he prosper in life. The boy grows up to be a young man Balakrishnan (Biju Menon), who is unsuccessful in anything he does.

, 1h45
Directed by François Ozon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz, Isild Le Besco, Aurore Clément, Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat

Après la mort de Laura sa meilleure amie, Claire tombe en dépression. Un jour, elle découvre que David, le mari veuf de son amie et père d'un nourrisson, est en fait une femme trans. Claire d'abord surprise et choquée va finalement accepter de l'écouter et essayer de la comprendre. Une étrange relation va alors se former entre les deux êtres qui finira par devenir fusionnelle.

, 1h30
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Transgender in film, Comedy science fiction films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sean Young, Timothy Daly, Lysette Anthony, Harvey Fierstein, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jeremy Piven

Richard Jacks (Tim Daly) is a perfumer fed up working at a major fragrance company, where he is the butt of jokes with many employees. His projects are failures and the sexist chief executive (Polly Bergen) is thinking of replacing him with a woman.

, 1h34
Directed by Mike Sarne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Raquel Welch, Mae West, John Huston, Farrah Fawcett, Rex Reed, Roger C. Carmel

Myron Breckinridge, étudiant en cinématographie, va en Europe pour y subir une opération de changement de sexe ; revenu en Amérique il se fait appeler Myra et part pour Hollywood. Une fois là-bas il cherche à prendre sa revanche des torts qu'on lui a faits et dont il se souvient, et il le fait avec une astuce toute féminine.

, 1h30
Directed by Lucía Puenzo
Origin Argentine
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ricardo Darín, Inés Efron, Valeria Bertuccelli, Ailín Salas

Alex Kraken is a 15-year-old intersex person, with both male and female genitals, who has been living as a girl and using medicines to suppress masculine features, such as a beard, and to attempt to have more feminine features. However, recently Alex has stopped taking her medication.

, 1h39
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, Films about royalty, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen

Queen Christina of Sweden (Greta Garbo) is very devoted to her country and the welfare of her people. As queen, Christina favors peace for Sweden. At one point in the film she argues for an end to the Thirty Years' War, saying:

, 1h39
Genres Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Kim Kang-woo, Kim Q-ri, Lee Soo-kyung, Kim Gyu-ri, Park Won-sang, Kim Sung-ryung

Kyung-yoon (Kim Kang-woo) and Eun-ju (Kim Min-sun) investigate a grisly murder of an affluent entrepreneur. The victim was slashed over 20 times and there’s blood everywhere in his apartment. The killer was careful not to leave behind incriminating evidence, but nevertheless, a strand of the killer’s hair is found. The police are then able to determine that the killer is male and has AB blood type.

, 2h45
Directed 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.

, 24minutes
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle, Neil Jordan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Roscoe Arbuckle, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Buster Keaton, Stephen Rea, Al St. John

The story involves Arbuckle working as the butcher boy in a country store. He falls in love with the cashier, who is the daughter of the store owner. He follows her, disguised as a female cousin, to an all-girl boarding school.

, 1h43
Directed by Mary Harron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Stephen Dorff, Martha Plimpton, Lothaire Bluteau, Anna Thomson

The film opens with a flashforward to moments after the shooting. This is quickly followed by a scene with Valerie Solanas (Lili Taylor) in custody for the shooting of Andy Warhol (Jared Harris). The film then takes us back to a time when Valerie is living in New York making a living as a sex worker. A series of further flashbacks point to her difficult childhood, and success in studying psychology at college. Here, Valerie discovers that she is a lesbian, that she can write, and that she has a distinctive view of the world. This leads her to New York City and its downtown underworld. Through her friend Stevie (Martha Plimpton), she meets Candy Darling (Stephen Dorff), who in turn introduces her to Andy Warhol.

, 1h57
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Citti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Erotic, War, Thriller, Horror, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Rape in fiction, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Transgender in film, Films about psychiatry, Political films, LGBT-related films, Same-sex marriage in film, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Paolo Bonacelli, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto, Ines Pellegrini, Elsa De Giorgi, Hélène Surgère

In 1944 in the Republic of Salò, the Fascist-occupied portion of Italy, four wealthy men of power, the Duke, the Bishop, the Magistrate, and the President, agree to marry each other's daughters as the first step in a debauched ritual. They recruit four teenage boys to act as guards and four young soldiers (called "studs", "cockmongers", or "fuckers"), who are chosen because of their big penises. They then kidnap nine young men and nine young women and take them to a palace near Salò. Accompanying them are four middle-aged prostitutes, also collaborators, who recount arousing stories for the men, who sadistically exploit their victims.

, 1h44
Directed by Darnell Martin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Lauren Vélez, Jon Seda, Griffin Dunne, Jesse Borrego, Rita Moreno, Lisa Vidal

Lisette Linares (Velez) is a young mother of three children, married to Chino (Seda), a bicycle messenger. Although he is always reliable as the breadwinner of the family, Chino is having an affair with the neighborhood tramp, Magdalena (Vidal). One summer evening, a blackout sweeps the neighborhood, and Chino finds himself in jail after being arrested for looting.

, 1h42
Directed by Uli Edel
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about the labor movement, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach, Stephen Baldwin

A group of prostitutes, union workers, and drag queens all lead difficult lives within an existence of drugs, crime and violence in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood.