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Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American independent drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgendered male who was raped and murdered on December 31, 1993 by his male friends after they found out he had female genitalia. The film...

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  • Oct 22, 1999

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Different for Girls

Different for Girls is a 1996 British/French comedy film in which one of the protagonists is a transsexual. The film is directed by Richard Spence and written by Tony Marchant, starring Rupert Graves and Steven Mackintosh. Paul Prentice (Rupert...

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  • 1996

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Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Frank Pierson. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, and Charles Durning. Based on the events of a bank robbery that took...

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  • 1975

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Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill is a 1980 suspense thriller/horror film written and directed by Brian de Palma. It stars Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio. The film is marketed with the tagline ...

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  • Jun 23, 1980

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Flawless

Flawless is an American film that stars Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The 1999 film features De Niro as Walter Koontz, a homophobic New York police officer who suffers a stroke that leaves him partially paralyzed and with a severe...

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  • Nov 26, 1999

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Glen or Glenda?

Glen or Glenda is a 1953 exploitation film written, directed by and starring Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi, and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller. The movie is a docudrama about cross-dressing and transsexuality, and is semi...

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  • 1953

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Just Like a Woman

Just Like a Woman is a 1992 British film by Christopher Monger starring Julie Walters, Adrian Pasdar and Paul Freeman. Gerald, a finance executive (Adrian Pasdar), finds himself thrown out by his wife when she discovers women's underwear in their...

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  • 1992

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Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman (Portuguese: O Beijo da Mulher Aranha) is a 1985 Brazilian-American drama film. It was directed by Argentine-born Brazilian director Héctor Babenco, and adapted by Leonard Schrader from the Manuel Puig novel of the same name...

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  • 1985

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Let Me Die a Woman

Let Me Die a Woman (1978) is a semi-documentary film by exploitation film director Doris Wishman, who started production in 1972. The film features interviews with sex reassignment surgeon Dr. Leo Wollman and various transsexuals. Between the...

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  • 1978

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Ma vie en rose

Ma vie en rose (English translation: My Life in Pink) is a 1997 Belgian film directed by Alain Berliner. It tells the story of Ludovic (Georges du Fresne), a child who was born male but consistently insists that he is supposed to be a girl. The film...

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  • 1997

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Normal

Normal (2003) was a made-for-TV movie produced by HBO Films which became an official selection at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Jane Anderson, the film's writer and director, adapted her own play, Looking for Normal, about a midwestern factory...

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  • 2003

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Orlando

Orlando is a 1992 film, based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth. It was directed by Sally Potter. Actor Toby Stephens...

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  • 1992

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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy drama film about three drag queens (two gay men and a transsexual woman) who travel across the Australian outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a coach they have named...

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  • 1994

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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole is a 1998 comedy-drama film written and directed by Tod Williams and starring Adrian Grenier as the title character. In June 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole joins his mother, stepfather, and sister...

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  • 1998

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Transamerica

Transamerica is a 2005 independent dramedy produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. The film tells the story of Bree, a transsexual woman (Felicity Huffman), who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son Toby (Kevin Zegers). The movie is...

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  • Dec 23, 2005

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Better Than Chocolate

Better Than Chocolate is a 1999 Canadian romantic comedy movie shot in Vancouver directed by Anne Wheeler. Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) has recently moved out on her own, and has started a relationship with another woman, Kim (Christina Cox). However,...

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  • Feb 14, 1999

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The Christine Jorgensen Story

The Christine Jorgensen Story is a 1970 biographical movie about transgendered Christine Jorgensen. It was directed by Irving Rapper and based on Christine Jorgensen's autobiography. George/Christine is played by John Hansen. The film attempts a...

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  • 1970

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Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort is a 2001 documentary film about the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by two dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a...

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  • 2001

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The Badge

The Badge is a 2002 film starring Billy Bob Thornton as a small town Louisiana lawman, Sheriff Darl Hardwick, who investigates the death of a local transsexual.

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  • 2002

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Beautiful Boxer

Beautiful Boxer (Thai: บิวตี้ฟูล บ๊อกเซอร์) is a 2003 Thai biographical-drama-sports film by Singapore-based director Ekachai Uekrongtham. It tells the life story of Nong Thoom, a famous kathoey (male-to-female transgendered person), Muay Thai...

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  • 2003

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Breakfast on Pluto

Breakfast on Pluto is a 2005 Irish comedy-drama film directed by Neil Jordan and based on the novel of the same name by Patrick McCabe, as adapted by Jordan and McCabe. This dark comedy stars Cillian Murphy as a transgender orphan searching for love...

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  • Nov 16, 2005

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Holiday Heart

Holiday Heart is a 2000 TV movie starring Ving Rhames, Alfre Woodard, and Mykelti Williamson. It was directed by Robert Townsend and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on a play by Cheryl L. West. It involves a gay drag queen befriending a...

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20 centímetros

20 centímetros (English title 20 Centimeters) is a Spanish film released in 2005, about a narcoleptic transsexual woman's life as she works to get the surgery to fix her "20 centimetro" problem. The film was written and directed by Ramón Salazar,...

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  • Jun 10, 2005

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a 2001 American musical film based on the stage musical of the same title about a fictional rock and roll band fronted by an East German transgendered singer. The film was adapted and directed by John Cameron Mitchell,...

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  • Jul 20, 2001

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En Soap

A Soap, (Danish: En Soap), (2006) is a Danish melodramatic comedy film directed by Pernille Fischer Christensen which incorporates many of the austere techniques of the Dogme style. The movie, starring Trine Dyrholm and David Dencik, follows the...

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  • Apr 7, 2006
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