Gender movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant gender movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, queer cinema, touching, serious, sincere and sexy films and TV shows about / with gender, lgbt, lgbtq, love and romance, gay, transgender, gays and lesbians, transsexual, lesbian and kiss plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as gender: Don't Call Me Son (2016), XXY (2007), Fucking Different (2005), Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013), Something Must Break (2014), Open (2010), Woman in Love (2011), Boy Meets Girl (2014), Purple Sea (2009), Romeos (2011).

List of gender movies

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Don't Call Me Son (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Pierre is seventeen and in the middle of puberty. He plays in a band, has sex at parties and secretly tries on women’s clothing and lipstick in front of a mirror. Ever since his father’s death, his mother Aracy has looked after him and his ...
Style: melancholic, depressing, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
Plot: gender, 17 year old, transvestism, gay, teenage boy, lgbtq, family relations, lgbt, parents and children, teenager, music band, bisexual ...
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 7.0
 15K
XXY (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head. As Alex faces a final decision regarding her ...
Style: psychological, sincere, lgbt cinema, hispanic, multicultural ...
Audience: teens
Plot: transsexual, teenage life, sexual exploration, gender, intersex, gender bending, gay sex, sexual abuse, gay, lgbt, transsexuality, homosexuality ...
Place: uruguay, argentina, latin america, south america
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Fucking Different (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Fifteen queer crossovers: lesbian filmmakers from Berlin were asked to make a short film about their idea of male gay love and sexuality and, vice versa, gay men were given the task of making a short film about lesbian sexuality and eroticism.
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic ...
Plot: gender, couple relations, social misfits, gays and lesbians, misfit, sexual relations, looking for sex, love and romance, looking for love, gender bending, society, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Style: erotic, sexual, emotional, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, sexuality, lesbian love, coming of age, youth, lovers, lesbian relationship, lesbian teen, lesbianism, adolescence, gays and lesbians ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Something Must Break (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Sebastian meets Andreas for the first time, he knows they belong together. While Sebastian defies gender norms — flouting convention in his androgynous fluidity — straight-identifying Andreas becomes unable to accept his attraction to ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, avant garde ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gender, transsexual, transgender, gay, male nudity, skinny dipping, lgbt, male pubic hair, gay cruising, gays and lesbians, gay interest, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Is relevant ?
 4.9
 140
Open (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: OPEN is a hallucinogenic journey through gender, identity, the body, love and how those can be shared by two people. The film consists of interlocking stories lines- the first about two transwomen in a pandrogynous relationship in which they ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: gender, transsexual, lgbt, intersex, self discovery, love affair, introspection, couples, society, gender bending, gay, transgender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota, minneapolis minnesota
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Woman in Love (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic
Audience: date night
Plot: gender, gender bending, actor's life, hidden identity, fall in love, filmmaking, disorder, dishonesty, love and romance, artists and showbiz, transsexual, transvestite ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: germany
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Boy Meets Girl (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: BOY MEETS GIRL is a funny, tender, sex positive romantic comedy that explores what it means to be a real man or woman, and how important it is to live a courageous life not letting fear stand in the way of going after your dreams.
Style: romantic, touching, melancholic, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: transsexual, transsexuality, lesbian, transgender, gender, relationships, small town, love affair, lgbt, loneliness, lgbtq, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kentucky, idaho, indiana, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 2K
Purple Sea (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in ...
Style: serious, touching, disturbing, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, island, gays and lesbians, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbianism, village life, forbidden love, lesbian sex ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1800s
Place: sicily, italy, mediterranean sea
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 3K
Romeos (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gender, transsexual, transgender, lgbt, gay couple, secret, friendship, sexual attraction, self discovery, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 26K
Albert Nobbs (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape ...
Style: sad, touching, sincere, period piece, stylized ...
Plot: gender, cross dressing, lesbian, loneliness, master and servant, woman dressed as man, maid, hotel, servant, gender disguise, death, relationships ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 1800s, year 2011
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, england, britain, europe
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 103K
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
Style: bleak, disturbing, touching, independent film, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, gender, rape, transgender, transsexual, violence, prejudice, lgbt, tragic love, small town, gay slur, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: nebraska, texas, usa
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The World Unseen (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, erotic, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian love, gender, forbidden love, lesbian teen, love and romance, injustice, life is a bitch, self discovery, society ...
Time: ancient times, 20th century, year 1952
Place: south africa, africa
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 198K
The Danish Girl (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: transsexual, lgbt, art, transgender, lgbtq, couple relations, gender, painting, gay, artist, gays and lesbians, painter ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
Place: denmark, paris france, idaho, copenhagen, europe ...
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Don't Tell Anyone (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the alleged autobiography of gay peruvian talk show host Jaime Bailey. Joaquin, a young man from the high class of Lima, deals with problems concerning his sexual identity as a child, then as a teenager pressured by his macho snobbish ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, touching ...
Plot: gender, cocaine, college, coming of age, lgbt, skinny dipping, drug abuse, society, youth, racism, latinx lgbt, gay ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, peru, usa, florida
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It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the ...
Style: romantic, teen, romantic comedy, funny, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: body swapping, high school, teenager, switching roles, love and romance, fall in love, battle of the sexes, switching bodies, body swap, enemies to lovers, school, teenage love ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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A Woman's Way (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story: George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They ...
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: transsexual, incest, gender, prostitute, starting over, love and romance, hopes, greek, jail, gay, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 2K
A Soap (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 32-year-old Charlotte could have it all, but she doesn´t want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs neighbour of the transsexual Veronica. Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a ...
Style: semi serious, sexy, captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot: transsexual, gender bending, gender, lgbt, lesbian, couples, friendship, fall in love, love and romance, sexual abuse, lifestyle, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
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Drifting Flowers (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot: gender, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian, feminism, fall in love, love affair, couples, gays and lesbians, love and romance, teenage life, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, taiwan
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 22K
Tomboy (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gender, childhood, transsexual, youth, child protagonist, children, summer, friendship, lgbt, tomboy, sexual identity, society ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, indiana, paris france, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 305
My Friend Joe (1996)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they become inseparable. Things turn horribly wrong however, when Chris discovers his new best friend ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, emotional, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: gender, coming of age, gender disguise, corporal punishment, youth, friendship, first love, impostor, circus, family relations, orphan, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 2K
52 Tuesdays (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, captivating, rough ...
Plot: teenage girl, gender, coming of age, transsexual, lgbt, family relations, disorder, youth, parents and children, transgender, lgbtq, realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, san francisco, antarctica
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 4K
Dream Boy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, child abuse, gay relationship, lgbt teen, gay couple, dysfunctional family, gay rape, gender, homosexual rape, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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I Want Your Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: After a decade of living in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city, friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten ...
Style: mumblecore, controversial, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gender, gay, gay sex, homosexual, male nudity, sex scene, gay love, gay erotica, ejaculation, lgbt, introspection, gay friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california, ohio
Is relevant ?
 8.7
 5K
Veneno (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 421 min.
TV show
Story: Adored for her charisma and her free, explicit and fun way of expressing herself, La Veneno gained popularity thanks to her television appearances in the 90s. However, her life and especially her death remain an enigma. 'Venom' is a series ...
Style: heartbreaking, touching, captivating, queer cinema, complex
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, gender, cross dressing, transgender, artists and showbiz, lgbtq, lgbtqi, celebrity, gay, loneliness, secret, life philosophy ...
Is relevant ?
 5.8
 10K
Switch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall ...
Style: humorous, sexy, satirical, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body swapping, afterlife, fish out of water, murder, reincarnation, gender, gender bending, switching bodies, blonde, womanizer, transsexual, redemption ...
Time: 80s, year 1991
Place: new york
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 35K
Shortbus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of New Yorkers caught up in their milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn social/artistic/sexual salon "Shortbus", loosely ...
Style: sexual, erotic, art house, sex comedy, sensual ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: sex, gay, nudity, explicit sex, group sex, gays and lesbians, masturbation, male nudity, sexuality, homosexual, real sex, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Famous in Love (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Ordinary college student Paige gets her big break after auditioning for the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. She must now navigate her new star-studded life and the highs and lows that come with being the new It Girl in town as well as ...
Style: romantic, light, sexy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: hollywood, fame, youth, couples, popularity, sexual relations, boyfriend, dating, friendship, betrayal, gender, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
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Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style: surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transvestism, transgender, gay slur, gay, transsexual, gender, adoption, coming of age, gender bending, lgbt, priest, ira ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place: ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 5K
Hit & Miss (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An assassin with a secret, Mia's life is changed forever by a letter from her ex.
Style: tense, realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: transsexual, hitman, gender, life turned upside down, criminal, murder, disorder, outlaw, loner, loss of loved one, siblings relations, hidden identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, indiana
Is relevant ?
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