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51. Casanova (2005)
TV-MA | 58 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
After a life spent seeking pleasure and decadence, Casanova seeks his one true love, Henriette.
Stars: David Tennant, Rose Byrne, Peter O'Toole, Rupert Penry-Jones
Votes: 5,460
52. Wonder Women (1973)
PG | 82 min | Action, Crime, Horror
While looking into the disappearance of a jai alai athlete, an insurance investigator is targeted by the sexy all-girl army of rogue transplant surgeon Dr. Tsu.
Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil | Stars: Nancy Kwan, Ross Hagen, Maria De Aragon, Roberta Collins
Votes: 1,023
53. Black Moon (1975)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
To escape a gender war, a girl flees to a remote farmhouse and becomes part of an extensive family's unusual, perhaps even supernatural, lifestyle.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Cathryn Harrison, Therese Giehse, Alexandra Stewart, Joe Dallesandro
Votes: 6,244
54. The Story of Adele H (1975)
PG | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott, Joseph Blatchley
Votes: 9,007
55. You Are Beautiful (2009)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Go Mi-Nyu, a girl about to become a nun, is asked to cover for her indisposed twin brother, Mi-Nam, who's on the verge of becoming a k-idol. To do so, she disguises herself as a boy and joins A.N.Jell, a really popular boy band.
Stars: Park Shin-hye, Jang Keun-suk, Jung Yong-hwa, Hong-ki Lee
Votes: 5,321
56. Sunset (1988)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway
Votes: 4,638 | Gross: $4.59M
57. The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
R | 121 min | Drama, Romance, Western
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins, Ian McKellen, David Chung
Votes: 1,784 | Gross: $0.54M
58. The Associate (1996)
PG-13 | 114 min | Comedy
A comedy about making it on Wall Street. Prejudices are hard to break and Laurel Ayres quickly learns that in order for people to take her seriously she has to work for an older white man or be one.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly
Votes: 9,108 | Gross: $12.77M
59. Purple Sea (2009)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, History, Romance
Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend and great love, Sara in a 19th century Italian village.
Director: Donatella Maiorca | Stars: Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini, Giselda Volodi
Votes: 1,781
60. Outrageous Fortune (1987)
R | 99 min | Comedy
Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky
Votes: 8,697 | Gross: $52.86M
61. The Gore Gore Girls (1972)
X | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A young reporter enlists the help of a top notch private eye to solve the murder of a female stripper at a Chicago nightclub.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis | Stars: Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Hedda Lubin, Henny Youngman
Votes: 2,821
62. Jamaica Inn (2014–2015)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, Mystery
A young woman moves in with her aunt and uncle and soon discovers unsavory happenings in her new home.
Stars: Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew McNulty, Sean Harris, Joanne Whalley
Votes: 1,968
63. Pope Joan (2009)
149 min | Drama, History, Romance
A woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim in the ninth century disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
Director: Sönke Wortmann | Stars: Johanna Wokalek, David Wenham, John Goodman, Iain Glen
Votes: 9,121
64. The Scholar Who Walks the Night (2015)
Action, Fantasy, History
Jo Yang-sun disguises himself as a bookseller after the fall of his family. Meet Kim Sung-yeol, a vampire obsessed with his former love's double Choi Hye-ryung. The evil vampire Gwi conspires to deny the ascension of the Crown Prince.
Stars: Lee Joon-gi, Lee Soo-hyuk, Kim So-eun, Jang Hie-jin
Votes: 1,141
65. Mayo chiki! (2011)
TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Romance
When you've got acute gynophobia, even a pretty girl can be a malady, and as the sparring partner for his family of female wrestlers, Sakamachi Kinjiro has the worst case EVER!
Stars: Yuka Iguchi, Satoshi Hino, Eri Kitamura, Blake Shepard
Votes: 1,387
66. Carry on Girls (1973)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor
Votes: 3,196
67. Conquest 1453 (2012)
Not Rated | 162 min | Action, Drama, History
After the death of his father Murat II, Mehmet II ascends to the Ottoman throne. After braving internal and external enemies, he decides to complete what he was destined to do - conquer Constantinople.
Director: Faruk Aksoy | Stars: Devrim Evin, Ibrahim Celikkol, Dilek Serbest, Cengiz Coskun
Votes: 59,135 | Gross: $0.07M
68. The Magician (1958)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Naima Wifstrand
Votes: 10,993
69. Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, Biography, Mystery
A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.
Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel | Stars: Vivian Maier, John Maloof, Daniel Arnaud, Simon Amédé
Votes: 15,117 | Gross: $1.51M
70. Osama (2003)
PG-13 | 83 min | Drama
After the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the restriction of women in public life, a pre-teen girl is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to find work to support her mother and grandmother.
Director: Siddiq Barmak | Stars: Marina Golbahari, Zubaida Sahar, Khwaja Nader, Mohammad Arif Herati
Votes: 9,543 | Gross: $1.13M
71. After the Ball (2015)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy
After a young fashion designer runs afoul of her corrupt stepmother and stepsisters, she dons a disguise to help save the family business for her father.
Director: Sean Garrity | Stars: Portia Doubleday, Marc-André Grondin, Chris Noth, Lauren Holly
Votes: 3,683 | Gross: $0.16M
72. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, History, Romance
A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser
Votes: 7,265
73. Children of the Century (1999)
135 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A story of doomed passion between two genius writers of the 19th century - novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset.
Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci
Votes: 2,023 | Gross: $0.05M
74. Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010)
TV-Y | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the Joseon era, Kim Yoon-hee masquerades as a boy to earn a living as a book transcriber. Her family's dire circumstances and the encouragement of a noble's son finally drive her to attend Sungkyukwan University, forbidden for females.
Stars: Park Min-Young, Park Yoo-chun, Yoo Ah-in, Song Joong-ki
Votes: 1,898
75. Mr. India (1987)
179 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Amrish Puri, Satish Kaushik
Votes: 16,603
76. Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)
G | 122 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc.
Directors: Ken Annakin, Sam Itzkovitch | Stars: Bourvil, Lando Buzzanca, Walter Chiari, Peter Cook
Votes: 2,557 | Gross: $1.00M
77. The Great Queen Seondeok (2009)
60 min | Biography, Drama, History
Story of Queen Seondeok who was born a princess, brought up among commoners and overcame many trials to become the ruler of Silla.
Stars: Jeong Woong-in, Kim Jung-hyun, Ryu Dam, Lee Yo-won
Votes: 1,424
78. Offside (2006)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The struggle of women in a country that excludes them from entering stadiums.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Mohammad Asarian
Votes: 8,648 | Gross: $0.18M
79. Breaking the Ice (2022)
102 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
An Austrian woman escapes from the pressure of running her family's vineyard by playing ice hockey. Then a new player arrives to challenge her rigid worldview, leading to a life-changing night on the streets of Vienna.
Director: Clara Stern | Stars: Alina Schaller, Judith Altenberger, Wolfgang Böck, Pia Hierzegger
Votes: 275
80. Lady Oscar (1979)
124 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.
Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Patrick Allen, Nicholas Amer
Votes: 659
81. Pot o' Gold (1941)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Jimmy goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band who constantly practices.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: James Stewart, Paulette Goddard, Horace Heidt, Charles Winninger
Votes: 2,101
82. Novoland: Pearl Eclipse (2021– )
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Attempting to obtain luminous pearls to pay the tax, young Haishi loses her father. Taken in and tutored by Fang Jianming, she serves in the imperial court as a man, but loyalties and unrest interfere with their chance to be together.
Stars: William Chan, Mi Yang, Kaicheng Xu, Weihua Zhong
Votes: 282
83. The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)
Passed | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
In Ispahan, Persia, a barber mistakes an emerald ring as the prize to be delivered to a prince known far and wide, only to realize that a runaway Princess is the real treasure awaited, promising to escort her to her final destination.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: John Derek, Elaine Stewart, Thomas Gomez, Amanda Blake
Votes: 668
84. Sylvia Scarlett (1935)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 4,551
85. Autobahnraser (2004)
87 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The young policeman Karl-Heinz Krause works undercover to insinuate himself into a group of Autobahn racers. While he gets to like the illegal races, besides he has to chase some people dealing stolen cars.
Director: Michael Keusch | Stars: Luke Wilkins, Alexandra Neldel, Henriette Richter-Röhl, Niels-Bruno Schmidt
Votes: 2,029
86. Revenge of the Musketeers (1994)
R | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
France, 1654: D'Artagnan's girl grows up in a convent. When the mother superior is murdered, Eloïse suspects a plan to murder the king and hopes to prevent this and revenge the murder by finding her father and the 3 musketeers.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich, Sami Frey
Votes: 3,604 | Gross: $0.31M
87. Legendary Weapons of China (1982)
R | 109 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A band of killers from an ailing kung fu and magic society are sent on a manhunt for a former member of the society, whose bad mouthing threatens its existence.
Director: Chia-Liang Liu | Stars: Chia-Liang Liu, Chia-Yung Liu, Kara Wai, Hou Hsiao
Votes: 1,866
88. Common Ground (2000 TV Movie)
R | 105 min | Drama
This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy," a woman joins the Navy during the 1950s and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts,... See full summary »
Director: Donna Deitch | Stars: Erik Knudsen, Brittany Murphy, Jason Priestley, Margot Kidder
Votes: 1,099
89. The Rise of Phoenixes (2018)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of power, desire, lust and love among people of different kingdoms in ancient China. No matter who you are, you have to rise from the mud to become The Great Phoenix.
Stars: Kun Chen, Hong Yuan, Ni Ni, Ou Wang
Votes: 1,773
90. Judex (1963)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Favraux, an unscrupulous banker receives a threatening note signed only "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and seemingly faces his fate.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Théo Sarapo
Votes: 2,860
91. Arsenal Military Academy (2019)
TV-Y7 | Action, History, Romance
The journey of a girl who disguises herself as her brother to attend a military school, set in the backdrop of 1910s China and the geopolitical turmoil the country experiences. The protagonist finds friendship, love and courage.
Stars: Lu Bai, Kai Xu, Tu-Te-Ha-Meng, Toby Lee
Votes: 890
92. The Brontë Sisters (1979)
Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
Votes: 1,220
93. Erna at War (2020)
100 min | Drama, War
A woman disguises herself as a man to join the army in order to protect her educationally subnormal son who has been called up to fight in WW1.
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Sylvester Byder
Votes: 855
94. It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 2,881
95. Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost (2013)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Umber Singh is a Sikh who loses everything during the separation of India in 1947 and is forced to leave his homeland. He obsessively wishes for a male heir. When his fourth daughter is born, he decides to wage a fight against destiny.
Director: Anup Singh | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Tisca Chopra, Tillotama Shome, Rasika Dugal
Votes: 1,020
96. Agent Aika (1997–1999)
Unrated | 210 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Aika Sumeragi, a salvager for hire who gets caught up in a plot for world domination. It is well known for its copious amounts of fan service, specifically the camera angles on panties of the many female characters that populate the show.
Stars: Rei Sakuma, Hiroko Konishi, Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Ôtsuka
Votes: 718
97. Shine or Go Crazy (2015)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Wang So is the Prince of Goryeo who has a cursed fate. He had to get married with the Last Princess of Balhae, Shin Yool. She was born with the fate of becoming the light for another ... See full summary »
Stars: Jang Hyuk, Oh Yeon-Seo, Lee Hanee, Lim Ju-hwan
Votes: 282
98. Gu Family Book (2013)
TV-Y | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Human/were-fox half-breed Choi Kang Chi discovers the truth about his origins and searches for the mystical Gu Family Book, which holds the secret to becoming fully human.
Stars: Jo Sung-ha, Lee Sung-jae, Kim Hee-won, Jung Hye-young
Votes: 2,003
99. He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994)
107 min | Comedy, Romance
A singer is so desperate to meet a famous record producer and his singer girlfriend that she disguises herself as a man, resulting in a wild love triangle.
Directors: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Chi Lee | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Carina Lau, Anita Yuen, Eric Tsang
Votes: 1,290
100. Silvestre (1981)
120 min | Drama
The daughters of a nobleman give shelter to a stranger. After that visit ends with a severed hand, the pilgrim takes on different identities to seek revenge. The nobleman goes missing and his youngest has to pose as a knight to save him.
Director: João César Monteiro | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Teresa Madruga, Luís Miguel Cintra, Jorge Silva Melo
Votes: 355