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1. Sense8 (2015–2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world's order.
Stars: Bae Doona, Jamie Clayton, Tina Desai, Tuppence Middleton
Votes: 163,220
2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
Director: Jim Sharman | Stars: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien
Votes: 167,147 | Gross: $139.88M
3. Sleepaway Camp (1983)
R | 84 min | Horror
Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.
Director: Robert Hiltzik | Stars: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet
Votes: 38,152 | Gross: $11.00M
4. Boys Don't Cry (1999)
R | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.
Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III
Votes: 103,390 | Gross: $11.53M
5. The Danish Girl (2015)
R | 119 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw
Votes: 199,403 | Gross: $11.11M
6. It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Sworn enemies find themselves in each other's bodies, and use this to ruin each other's lives.
Director: Nick Hurran | Stars: Samaire Armstrong, Kevin Zegers, Sherry Miller, Robert Joy
Votes: 42,852
7. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson
Votes: 24,573 | Gross: $0.83M
8. Tangerine (2015)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A hooker tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart.
Director: Sean Baker | Stars: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O'Hagan
Votes: 35,562 | Gross: $0.70M
9. Myra Breckinridge (1970)
R | 94 min | Comedy
After undergoing gender reassignment surgery, an aspiring actress travels to Hollywood, where she also wants to make a claim on her wealthy uncle's estate.
Director: Michael Sarne | Stars: Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch, Rex Reed
Votes: 3,458 | Gross: $8.72M
10. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell | Stars: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski
Votes: 37,381 | Gross: $3.03M
11. Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror
A sex-changed slasher returns as a camp counselor.
Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez, Tony Higgins, Valerie Hartman
Votes: 13,376
12. Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
PG-13 | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
Directors: Shôgo Furuya, Satoshi Kon | Stars: Tôru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto, Shôzô Îzuka
Votes: 46,853 | Gross: $0.13M
13. Undress Me (2012)
Unrated | 15 min | Short, Drama
Mikaela had a sex reassignment surgery . One night out she meets a guy who follows her home. The movie Undress me examines our perceptions of gender and how our identity can be formed by the perceptions of others.
Director: Victor Lindgren | Stars: Jana Bringlöv Ekspong, Björn Elgerd
Votes: 741
14. Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Horror
After murdering a young girl, Angela Baker assumes her identity and travels to Camp New Horizons, built on the grounds of the camp she terrorized the year before, and starts killing again.
Director: Michael A. Simpson | Stars: Pamela Springsteen, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard, Mark Oliver
Votes: 9,449
15. Sort Of (2021–2024)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows a gender-fluid millennial who straddles various identities, exposing the identities and labels that are no longer applicable.
Stars: Bilal Baig, Amanda Cordner, Gray Powell, Grace Lynn Kung
Votes: 2,407
16. Girl (II) (2018)
R | 105 min | Drama
A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.
Director: Lukas Dhont | Stars: Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart, Tijmen Govaerts
Votes: 17,027
17. Joyland (2022)
126 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The youngest son in a traditional Pakistani family takes a job as a backup dancer in a Bollywood-style burlesque and quickly becomes infatuated with the strong-willed trans woman who runs the show.
Director: Saim Sadiq | Stars: Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani
Votes: 6,295
18. Veneno (2020)
TV-MA | 421 min | Biography, Drama
A biographical story of TV personality and transgender icon La Veneno and those who surrounded her.
Stars: Lola Rodríguez, Isabel Torres, Paca la Piraña, Daniela Santiago
Votes: 4,715
19. Monica (2022)
R | 106 min | Drama
The intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. A delicate and nuanced story of a fractured family, the story explores universal themes of abandonment, aging, acceptance, and redemption.
Director: Andrea Pallaoro | Stars: Trace Lysette, Vladimir John Perez, Ali Amine, Lucia Ramos
Votes: 1,348
20. Transamerica (2005)
R | 103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Director: Duncan Tucker | Stars: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers, Fionnula Flanagan, Andrea James
Votes: 42,365 | Gross: $9.02M
21. Tomboy (2011)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani
Votes: 22,299 | Gross: $0.13M
22. Dead End: Paranormal Park (2022)
TV-Y7 | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Two teens and a talking pug team up to battle demons at a haunted theme park and maybe even save the world from a supernatural apocalypse.
Stars: Kody Kavitha, Zach Barack, Emily Osment, Alex Brightman
Votes: 3,106
23. Mutt (2023)
87 min | Drama
Within the space of 24 hours, Feña is swept through the extremes of human emotion when people who seemed to disappear when he transitioned are suddenly back in his life.
Director: Vuk Lungulov-Klotz | Stars: Lio Mehiel, Cole Doman, MiMi Ryder, Alejandro Goic
Votes: 952
24. A Fantastic Woman (2017)
R | 104 min | Drama
Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.
Director: Sebastián Lelio | Stars: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 27,292 | Gross: $2.02M
25. Kokomo City (2023)
R | 73 min | Documentary
A raw depiction of the lives of four black trans sex workers as they confront the dichotomy between the black community and themselves.
Director: D. Smith | Stars: Daniella Carter, Dominique Silver, Koko Da Doll, Liyah Mitchell
Votes: 995
26. Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto | Stars: Pîtâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô, Koichi Nakamura
Votes: 7,289
27. The Life You Wanted (2024)
Drama | Post-production
Gloria is finally happy after transitioning and settling down until a longtime friend reappears with disrupting news and throws her world into chaos.
Stars: Nicola Bello, Bellarch, Vittoria Schisano, Giuseppe Zeno
28. Strella (2009)
111 min | Drama
Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young transsexual sex worker. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with Yorgos.
Director: Panos H. Koutras | Stars: Mina Orfanou, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Argyris Kavidas
Votes: 4,308
29. Sexual Chemistry (1999)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
At Biotec the scientists are trying to develop a sexually stimulating drug for both men and women. Robert tries his on himself and it turns him on and off into a sexy woman and back to himself making things complicated.
Director: Mike Sedan | Stars: Jeff Xander, Stephanee LaFleur, Chanda Marie, Raisa Ivanic
Votes: 316
30. Saturday Church (2017)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Fantasy, Music
A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
Director: Damon Cardasis | Stars: Michaela Jaé (MJ) Rodriguez, Indya Moore, Margot Bingham, Regina Taylor
Votes: 1,194
31. Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui (2021)
117 min | Crime, Drama
Manu, a bodybuilder from Chandigarh, India, falls in love with Maanvi, a male Zumba teacher disguised as a woman. All seems well until this revelation causes turmoil in their love story.
Director: Abhishek Kapoor | Stars: Ayushmann Khurrana, Vaani Kapoor, Yograj Singh, Anjan Srivastav
Votes: 15,320
32. Rurangi (2020– )
96 min | Drama
After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rurangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn't heard from him since before Caz transitioned.
Stars: Elz Carrad, Awhina-Rose Ashby, Aroha Rawson, Renee Sheridan
Votes: 240
33. 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: 3,499 | Gross: $0.00M
34. The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970)
R | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A sex-change operation that changed "George" into "Christine" in 1950s Denmark.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: John Hansen, Joan Tompkins, Quinn K. Redeker, John Himes
Votes: 384 | Gross: $0.24M
35. Wild Side (2004)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A transgender woman who survives prostituting herself in Paris, returns - with her two male lovers in tow - to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz | Stars: Stéphanie Michelini, Yasmine Belmadi, Edouard Nikitine, Josiane Stoléru
Votes: 1,137 | Gross: $0.02M
36. Everything Else (2021– )
30 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of thirtysomethings trapped in lives that aren't what they had dreamed of try to move forward and find their place in Madrid, Spain.
Stars: Abril Zamora, Juan Blanco, Alberto Casado, Chris Okawa
Votes: 604
37. Lola (2019)
90 min | Drama
Lola, 18 years old, bleach blonde hair, lives in a foster home with Samir, her only friend. Impulsive and lonely, she is trying to get her diploma as a veterinary assistant. When her mother... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Micheli | Stars: Mya Bollaers, Benoît Magimel, Els Deceukelier, Sami Outalbali
Votes: 687
38. First Day (III) (2017)
18 min | Short, Drama
First Day, tells a story about the fears associated with the transition between primary school and high school - but in Hannah's case, the stakes are even higher: this year, she will be attending school for the first time as a girl.
Director: Julie Kalceff | Stars: Evie Macdonald, Joanne Hunt, Anthony Brandon Wong, Indianna Gregg
Votes: 75
39. Little Girl (2020)
88 min | Documentary
The touching portrait of eight-year-old Sasha, who questions her gender and in doing so, evokes the sometimes disturbing reactions of a society that is still invested in a biological boy-girl way of thinking.
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Votes: 1,452
40. The Garden Left Behind (2019)
88 min | Drama
A young Mexican trans woman and her grandmother navigate life as undocumented immigrants in New York City.
Director: Flavio Alves | Stars: Michael Madsen, Edward Asner, Carlie Guevara, Danny Flaherty
Votes: 623
41. No Ordinary Man (2020)
83 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this groundbreaking film shows what is ... See full summary »
Directors: Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt | Stars: Billy Tipton Jr., Holden Bernstein, Kate Bornstein, Ryan Cassata
Votes: 397
42. The Good Son (2012)
52 min | Documentary, Drama
The unbelievable story of 22 year old Or, who secretly finances his sex change operation in Thailand by lying to his conservative parents and then returns home as a woman to face her new life, her family and the cost of living her dream.
Director: Shirly Berkovitz
Votes: 60
43. Transfixed (2001)
105 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Bo is a transgender prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's now in an abusive relationship with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Girod | Stars: Richard Bohringer, Robinson Stévenin, Stéphane Metzger, William Nadylam
Votes: 396 | Gross: $0.01M
44. Dressed in Blue (1983)
Unrated | 96 min | Documentary
Several transvestite prostitutes that work the Madrid streets discuss their personal experiences. The camera follows their daily lives. The lid is also lifted on their personal histories.
Director: Antonio Giménez Rico | Stars: Lorenzo Arana, René Amor, José Antonio Sánchez, Francisco Pérez Cobos
Votes: 221
45. Alice Júnior (2019)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
The first kiss of a transgender teenager.
Director: Gil Baroni | Stars: Anna Celestino Mota, Emmanuel Rosset, Thaís Schier, Surya Amitrano
Votes: 644
46. Shadey (1985)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A young man discovers that not only has he the ability to read minds, but also that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film. He strikes a deal ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Antony Sher, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Macnee, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 186
47. Elas por Elas (2023– )
Comedy
Stars: Filipe Bragança, Deborah Secco, Isabel Teixeira, Thalita Carauta
Votes: 42
48. Mi vacío y yo (2022)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
A young trans woman in Barcelona deals with her transition, dating and daily life.
Director: Adrián Silvestre | Stars: Raphaëlle Pérez, Alberto Díaz, Marc Ribera, Isabel Rocatti
Votes: 219
49. Hourou Musuko (2011)
25 min | Animation, Drama
Yoshino and Shuichi are two friends, both starting at a new school, both starting puberty, and both transgender. This series follows them as they come out and find acceptance.
Stars: Asami Seto, Yui Horie
Votes: 350
50. A Place of Our Own (2022)
88 min | Drama
Laila and Roshni are looking for a house after they are evicted from the place they rented. It soon becomes evident that their search for a home is also their ongoing search for a place in this society.
Director: Ektara Collective | Stars: Manisha Soni, Muskan, Aakash Jamra, Mahima Singh Thakur
Votes: 25