Gender issues movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant gender issues movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing, queer cinema, thrilling and realistic films and TV shows about / with gender issues, gender, lgbt, gender roles, gay, lgbtq, transsexual, female protagonist, family relations and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Japan, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as gender issues: Not My Fault: Mexico (2021), Antonio's Secret (2008), A Kid Like Jake (2018), Go Princess Go (2015), Girl (2018), XXY (2007), Kashimashi - Girl Meets Girl (2006), My Wife, My Rival (2018), Las Pelotaris (2023), Otomen (2009).

List of gender issues movies

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Not My Fault: Mexico (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Two years after her sister Liliana disappeared without a trace, Mariana receives painful closure when her body is finally discovered. Mariana’s pain empowers her to embark on a tireless mission to learn the truth about what happened to Liliana – ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: violence, life is a bitch, social problems, social issues, social injustice, sorority, women, female protagonist, gender issues, gender equality, society
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Antonio's Secret (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story about a teenage boy, Antonio, whose emerging gay sexuality alienates him from his friends and family, until his libertine uncle, Jonbert, comes to live with him and his mother...
Style: art house, disturbing, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: gay teenager, homosexual, masturbation, gender issues, sexual orientation, gay friend, friend, gay asian, sexual awakening, gender, family relations, relationships ...
Place: the philippines
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A Kid Like Jake (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake’s preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake’s gender expansive behavior to help him stand ...
Style: captivating, deep, fairy tale, independent film, queer cinema
Audience: preschool
Plot: gay, crossdresser, gender issues, desire for fame, family relations, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, transgender, lgbtq, gender, social issues, lgbt ...
Place: brooklyn new york city, montana, scotland, switzerland
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 6.7
 148
Go Princess Go (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Zhang Peng is a playboy who hits his head as he falls into a pool when he's trying to run away from an ex-girlfriend. He wakes up to find that he's traveled a thousand years into the past but that's not even the biggest problem, he ...
Style: humorous, captivating, visually appealing, feel good, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, love, time travel, conspiracy, combat, rivalry, youth, royal family, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, asian, body swap ...
Place: ancient china
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 7.2
 17K
Girl (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl, born in a boy's body, dreams of becoming a ballerina and will push her body to its limits in order for her dream to succeed.
Style: social, thought provoking, sentimental, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ballerina, transsexual, transgender, trans woman, dancing, transsexuality, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, ballet school, teenager, first sexual experience ...
Time: 2010s, 90s
Place: antwerp, belgium
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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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Kashimashi - Girl Meets Girl (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: After being rejected by the girl he loves, Hazumu goes to the mountains to console himself. A crashing alien spaceship lands on him. The aliens regenerate his body. However, they could only make him into a girl.
Style: anime, yuri, captivating, semi serious, adult anime ...
Plot: body swapping, sexual confusion, gender issues, gender roles, love, alien, declaration of love, japanese girl, gender disguise, girl, alien encounter, body transformation ...
Place: japan
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My Wife, My Rival (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
TV show
Story: Rachel meets Nathan, a gay man who later marries her due to family's pressure. Unhappy and trapped, Nathan plots his fake death and later undergoes to a sexual reassignment and face surgery in another country. Years later, Rachel meets Gavin ...
Style: thrilling, satirical, romantic, captivating, psychological
Plot: gender bending, gender issues, satire, husband wife relationship, transvestism, marriage, love triangle, male female relationship, romantic relationship, relationships, love story, ex couple relations ...
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 7.9
 308
Las Pelotaris (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
TV show
Story: Las Pelotaris 1926 tells the story of Chelo, Idoia and Itzi, three female pelota players who struggle to achieve their dreams in the 1920s, but these successful sportswomen will have to face the consequences of breaking the mold in a world where ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: gender equality, female protagonist, coping, gender issues, women, athlete's life, female athlete, ambitious woman, gender roles, professional sports, society, female nudity ...
Time: 1920s
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 6.9
 64
Otomen (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Otomen is a Japanese romantic comedy manga by manga artist Aya Kanno, which began in Bessatsu Hana to Yume in late 2006 and concluded on November 26, 2012. The series has been adapted into a live action TV drama. The series has been one of the ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, dorama
Plot: high school, friendship, love, gender issues, gender, classmate, opposites attract, lifestyle, friends in love, secret, teenage protagonist, male female relationship ...
Place: japan
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 6.7
 52
(S)He (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: (S)HE is the story of a transgender child named Juju, a girl born into a boy’s body. With the onset of puberty, JuJu’s discomfort explodes. Our film follows a child’s struggle to get her parents and friends to accept her true gender, as she ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: lgbt, gender issues, gender, parents and children, social issues, social problems, gender roles, life is a bitch, transgender woman, transvestite, society, gender bending ...
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 5.7
 233
Created Equal (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman who wishes to become a priest hires a lawyer to file suit against the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: catholic priest, lawsuit, attorney, women's rights, gender issues, faith, religious conflict, sexism, defense attorney, lawyer, discrimination, church ...
Place: new orleans
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 6.5
 2K
Butterfly (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: From a young age, 11-year-old, Max, has identified as a girl and as puberty looms, she begins to present increasing signs of gender variance. When Max was eight, her father, Stephen, left the family home. But as Max’s conviction that she’s in ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: lgbt, transgender, family relations, father son relationship, parents and children, gender issues, transsexual, lgbtq, gender, gender roles, eccentric family, family problems ...
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 6.1
 7K
Glamorous (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Aspiring influencer Marco lands a dream job with a makeup mogul and begins a dazzling journey of self-discovery amid work chaos and romantic challenges.
Style: psychological, satirical, captivating, thrilling, queer cinema ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, lgbtq, makeover, job, lgbt, gender issues, gender, homosexuality, homosexual, ambition, satire, jealous boyfriend ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.1
 118
The General (2020)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The plot addresses Maria Luísa's struggle for freedom, the struggle for rights and privileges that, at the time, were reserved almost exclusively to men. Maria Luísa decides to assume a false identity - that of a man.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: gender disguise, army general, gender roles, pretense, gender issues, pretending to be someone else, duplicity, female protagonist, social problems, feminism, hidden identity, lgbtq ...
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 6.9
 663
Midnight Swan (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Nagisa is transgender. She grew up in Hiroshima as a man, but now lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo as a woman. Due to an incident, she begins to live with middle school student Ichika, who is a distant relative. Ichika has been neglected by her mother ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, dramatic
Plot: transgender woman, sibling relationship, instinct, transsexuality, relationships, transsexual, relatives, gender, gender issues, trans woman, transgender, shemale ...
Place: japan
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Aoharu x Machinegun (2015)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: When Hotaru moves into a new apartment alone, there's a mysterious man standing nearby the apartment. Hotaru decides to confront the man, who turns out to live in the neighboring apartment. The next day at school, Hotaru's best friend ...
Style: anime, psychological, semi serious, captivating, shounen ...
Plot: tournament, cross dressing, schoolgirl, ambition, pretense, gender, problem, teenager, teenage girl, teenage life, high school life, pretending to be someone else ...
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Unrequited Love (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: At a university football team reunion, former team manager Mitsuki Hiura confesses that she killed a person to quarterback Tetsuro Nishiwaki. She also reveals that as a result of a gender identity disorder, she is now living as a man. Tetsuro and ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating
Plot: friendship, problem, life is a bitch, gender, transsexual, gender roles, lifestyle change, secret, changing lives, friends, gender issues
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The People's Joker (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader in writer-director Vera Drew's uproariously subversive queer coming-of-age origin story.
Style: funny, semi serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: lgbt, clown, fascism, gender issues, gender, transsexual, satire, humour, irony, transgender woman, transgender
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The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps (2022)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two years after the death of Jean, Matthias, the coach, decides to take Selime, a young man from the suburbs he believes is gay, to accompany the Shiny Shrimps to the Gay Games in Tokyo, on a trip to pay tribute to their friend who left too early. ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: gay interest, gay, gay slur, lgbt, homosexuality, gender issues, travel, homophobe, gay rights, humour, homophobic slur, male homosexuality ...
Place: russia
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A Double Identity (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Niña de mi Corazón is a teen Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Telefe adapted from Pedro Damian's 1997 Mi Pequeña Traviesa, that premiered on March 8, 2010 and ended on July 9, 2010. Damian was also the producer of this telenovela.
Style: entertaining, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
Plot: gender disguise, employer employee relationship, con trick, double life, hotshot lawyer, pretending to be someone else, law firm, sexism, male female relationship, female lawyer, gender issues, cross dressing ...
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 6.5
 469
Diggstown (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follow Marcie Diggs, a star corporate lawyer who reconsiders her priorities after her beloved aunt commits suicide following a malicious prosecution.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: fight for justice, racism, teamwork, female lawyer, ambition, rich and poor, attorney, lawyer, gender issues, justice, workplace
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 4.4
 2K
Mayday (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ana is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins an army of girls engaged in a never-ending war. Even though she finds strength in this exhilarating world, she realizes that she's not the killer they want her to be, and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, anamorphic ...
Plot: resistance, battles, gender roles, gender issues, competitor, fight, fighting the system, fantasy world, good versus evil, parallel world, fight for supremacy, women ...
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 4.5
 165
Little Gay Boy (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A young gay boy, from his birth to his teenage years, in which he experiments his sexuality and his own boundaries, to the day he finally meets his father.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, experimental, avant garde ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, father son relationship, desire for fame, lgbtq, gay love, family problems, family relations, teenage life, relationship problems, teenager ...
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 6.6
 41
Hermafrodita (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based in the 1960's, in a small village of the Dominican Republic, Maria, a hermaphrodite, is born. She is brought up by her grandmother in a racial environment. She experiences her first love with La Melaza an assassin who seeks refuge in her ...
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: intersex, secret, hermaphrodite, village, desire for fame, countryside, gender issues, gender, teenage life, social problems, society, life is a bitch ...
Place: dominican republic, caribbean
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Alex Strangelove (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex ...
Style: teen, humorous, psychological, lgbt cinema, crying ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lgbt, gay, homosexuality, gay interest, first gay sexual experience, sexual confusion, male homosexuality, gay lead character, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, high school, lgbtq, gay love ...
Time: 2000s
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 6.6
 420
Like a Virgin (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Chubby high school student and Madonna-devotee Oh Dong-ku is a trans woman living with her abusive, alcoholic father. Dong-ku works part-time to save money for the sex reassignment surgery she craves. Despite being told that she has the perfect ...
Style: light, captivating, entertaining
Plot: gay, sport competition, coach, lgbt, transsexual, contests and competitions, gender bending, obesity, obese, gender issues, fight, trance ...
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min.
Story: A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
Style: slow cinema, experimental, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Plot: loneliness, housewife, minimalism, widow, feminism, prostitute, prostitution, female protagonist, feminist, sex worker, chores, mother son relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: europe, belgium, france, brussels belgium
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 7.3
 13K
Norma Rae (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the ...
Style: inspirational, political, touching, sad, aesthetic ...
Plot: labor union, working class, union, women, labor, small town, feminist, business, courage, american politics, single mother, whistleblower ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: alabama, usa
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 6.9
 39K
Nine to Five (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, witty, clever ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: workplace, female protagonist, revenge, feminist, business, strong female lead, farce, satire, sexual harassment, kidnapping, fighting the system, worker ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, new york
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