At a time when transgender people are banned from serving in the U.S. military, four of the thousands of transgender troops risking discharge fight to attain the freedom they so fiercely protect.

Venus

2017

English

6.1

♡ 12

Eisha Marjara Director

Amber Goldfarb as Kirsten

Ryan Lebel as Skater

Kyle MacDonald as Skater

Josh Clark as Skater

When Sid comes out as a woman, a 14-year-old boy named Ralph literally shows up at her door announcing that Sid is his dad. Ralph is surprised to discover that his father is now a woman, but thinks having a transgender dad is pretty cool. But Ralph hasn't told his mother and stepdad that he’s tracked down his biological father. And then there is Sid’s boyfriend Daniel, who has yet to tell his family of his relationship with Sid. Daniel is nowhere near ready to accept Ralph as a stepson and complicate his life further. Sid’s coming out has a snowball effect that forces everyone out of the closet. What happens when gender, generations and cultures collide to create a truly modern family?

Call Her Ganda

2018

English

6.5

♡ 12

100%

PJ Raval Director

Naomi Fontanos as Herself

Julita Laude as Herself

Virginia Lacsa Suarez as Herself

Meredith Talusan as Herself

When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case--an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer's mother)--galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.

Close-Knit

2017

Japanese

7.2

♡ 7

100%

uncle niece relationship

unmarried couple

Naoko Ogigami Director

Misako Tanaka as Fumiko

Noriko Eguchi as Kanai

Eiko Koike as Naomi

Shûji Kashiwabara as Yoshio

After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.

The Berlin Bride

2019

German

5.9

♡ 4

100%

Michael Bartlett Director Salambo

Salambo as Cat / Katze

Gundrun Dörpholz-Friedrich as Girl on the boat / Mädchen im Boot

Diana Schindler as Girl on the boat / Mädchen im Boot

Calvin MacKerron as Priest / Priester

Two oddball Berliners discover the abandoned appendages of a mannequin. Separately, and with grotesque consequence, they come to terms with their disjointed mate.

Lingua Franca

2019

English

6.6

♡ 4

86%

80%

Action

brooklyn, new york city

Isabel Sandoval Director

Eamon Farren as Alex

Christine Spang as Latina Woman

Lynn Cohen as Olga

Ivory Aquino as Trixie

Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in New York. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman.

Transhood

2020

English

5.6

♡ 3

86%

Sharon Liese Director

Marci Bowers as Self

Avery Jackson as Self

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 – as they redefine “coming of age.” These kids and their families show us the intimate realities of how gender is re-shaping the family next door in a unique and unprecedented chronicle of growing up transgender in the heartland.

Paris Is Burning

1990

English

8.2

♡ 23

98%

Jennie Livingston Director

Freddie Pendavis as

Fran Lebowitz as Self

Geoffrey Holder as Self

Gwen Verdon as Self

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.

Haymaker

2021

English

4.1

♡ 2

42%

Nick Sasso Director

Udo Kier as David

John Ventimiglia as Javier

D.B. Sweeney as Mack

Deborah Unger as Nurse June

Haymaker follows a retired Muay Thai fighter working as a bouncer, who rescues an alluring transgender performer from a nefarious thug, eventually becoming her bodyguard, protector, and confidant. The relationship leads Sasso's character to make an unexpected return to fighting, risking not only his relationship, but his life. Its a story about human dignity and love.

Markie in Milwaukee

2019

English

7.5

100%

de-transition

Documentary

familial reconciliation

family estrangement

gender fluidity

religious fundamentalism

transgender

Matt Kliegman Director

Assembled from over 10 years of footage, Markie in Milwaukee tells the story of a midwestern transgender woman as she struggles with the prospect of de-transitioning under the pressures of her fundamentalist church, family and community.

Untold Caitlyn Jenner

2021

English

6.5

♡ 2

Crystal Moselle Director

Wendy Williams as Self - Host, The Wendy Williams Show

Harvey Levin as Self - Host, TMZ

Kim Kardashian West as Self - Jenner's Step-Daughter

Tom Brokaw as Self - NBC News Anchor

Caitlyn Jenner's unlikely path to Olympic glory was inspirational. But her more challenging road to embracing her true self proved even more meaningful.

Miss

2020

French

6.4

♡ 6

Ruben Alves Director

Big John as Le boxeur vestiaires

Thibault de Montalembert as Lola

Amanda Lear as Marraine

Stéfi Celma as Miss PACA

A young man seeking his sexual identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.

Voltrans

2014

Turkish

6.7

♡ 4

P. Ulas Dutlu Director

The documentary features the journey of the Voltrans initiative, a solidarity platform for trans men in Turkey.

Don't Look Deeper

2020

Korean

5.4

♡ 6

Action

Drama

edited from tv series

Sci-Fi

transgender

transgender character

Catherine Hardwicke Director

Bevin Bru as Belinda

Don Cheadle as Martin

Kaiwi Lyman as Noah

Emily Mortimer as Sharon

A high school student in central California sets off an unexpected series of events when she begins to doubt if she's human.

Boy Meets Girl

2014

English

7.1

♡ 6

89%

Eric Schaeffer Director

Benj Mirman as Dude 1

Alexandra Turshen as Francesca Duval

Eric Schaeffer as Police Officer

Michael Welch as Robby Riley

In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.

Paloma

2022

Portuguese

6.8

♡ 3

Marcelo Gomes Director

Zé Maria as

Ridson Reis as

Ana Marinho as

On a hot summer day, Paloma decides to fulfill her most cherished dream: a traditional wedding in a church with her boyfriend Zé. She is a devoted mother, a hard-working farmhand in a papaya plantation and has been saving to afford the celebration. The priest’s refusal to marry her and Zé will force Paloma to confront the rural society. She suffers violence, betrayal, prejudice and injustice but nothing shakes the faith and determination of this transgender woman.

Mr. Angel

2013

English

6.7

♡ 4

69%

Dan Hunt Director

Tyra Banks as Self

Damien Crosse as Self

Lux Alptraum as Self

Elayne Angel as Self

Buck Angel: trans man, porn star, pioneer. Here we see his life through a documentary lens that evidences the power and personality of an amazing human being.

Something You Said Last Night

2022

English

5.3

♡ 4

93%

Luis De Filippis Director

Atticus DaSilva Déiseach as Brother 1

Lorcan DaSilva Déiseach as Brother 2

Drew Catherine as Guy's Girlfriend

Michelle Gidari as Leone's Mother

An aspiring twentysomething writer hesitantly accompanies her equally reluctant younger sister on vacation with their deliriously happy parents, in Luis De Filippis’ resonant, cliché-free debut feature.

Framing Agnes

2022

English

6.7

♡ 1

81%

Action

Documentary

transgender

Chase Joynt Director

Jen Richards as Barbara

Angelica Ross as Georgia

Joan Rivers as Self

Laverne Cox as Self

After discovering case files from the UCLA gender clinic from the 1950s, a group of trans actors confronts the legacy of young trans women being forced to choose between honesty and access.

In a Year with 13 Moons

1978

German

7.3

♡ 10

76%

frankfurt am main, germany

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Volker Spengler as Erwin / Elvira Weishaupt

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Himself

Günther Kaufmann as J. Smolik, Chauffeur

Walter Bockmayer as Seelenfrieda

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

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