Actress playing male role movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant actress playing male role movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, semi serious, offbeat, cult classic, stylized and realistic films and TV shows about / with actress playing male role, cigarette smoking, nudity, surrealism, androgyny, lgbtq, female nudity, fight, women and bare chested male plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres shot in USA, Italy, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as actress playing male role: The Witches (1967), Predestination (2014), Suspiria (2018), Transamerica (2005), The Skin I Live In (2011), The Snail's Strategy (1993), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Made in Heaven (1987), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), Constantine (2005).

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 6.0
 2K
The Witches (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and ...
Style: anthology, spiritual, gothic, gothic horror, erotic ...
Plot: witchcraft, spirituality, occult, virus, witch, pagan, couples, wizards and magicians, superhuman powers, imaginary, supernatural, burned alive ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, sicily, austria
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 7.4
 303K
Predestination (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, confusing, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, twists and turns, time paradox, parallel universe, changing the past or future, existentialism, transgender, intersex, mission ...
Time: year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place: usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
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 6.7
 91K
Suspiria (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style: suspense, dark, suspenseful, twisted, scary ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: good versus evil, ritual sacrifice, dead woman, witchcraft, mysterious event, paranormal phenomena, telepathy, curse, occult, spiritualism, abuse of power, corporal punishment ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, year 1943, year 1948, post world war two
Place: berlin germany, italy, west berlin west germany, east berlin, ohio
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 7.4
 42K
Transamerica (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bree is about to get a sex change operation that will finally allow her to actually be what she’s already been in her mind for a long time: a transitioned woman. Yet before this happens she suddenly runs into her son who ends up coming for the ...
Style: touching, road movie, independent film, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: transsexual, transgender, gay, transsexuality, road trip, gender bending, psychiatrist, therapist, gender, lgbtq, self discovery, male nudity ...
Time: year 2005, near future, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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The Skin I Live In (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, kidnapping, twists and turns, rape, skin, revenge, isolation, insanity, sexual perversion, gender bending, abuse, plastic surgery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place: spain, ancient greece, europe
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The Snail's Strategy (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia, Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken. The tenants decide to unite and come up with a strategy, but in the process—while the landlord and his aggressive ...
Style: political, hispanic, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: anarchist, lawyer, anarchism, protest, anarchy, chaos, justice, miraculous event, pastor, house, roommate, settler ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, latin america
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The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. There, on the eve of an attempted coup, he befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people and ...
Style: political, atmospheric, thought provoking, historically accurate, tropical ...
Plot: journalism, journalist, politics, embassy, diplomat, photography, photograph, photographer, secrets, genocide, reporter, newspaper ...
Time: 60s, year 1982, 20th century, year 1965
Place: australia, the philippines, east asia, indonesia, asia ...
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Made in Heaven (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A romantic, occasionally funny, drama about two souls who consummate their marriage literally in "Heaven". Mike Shea, in his first life dies as a young man performing a heroic rescue. Shortly after arriving in "Heaven" he meets a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, spiritual, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heaven, afterlife, reincarnation, destiny, love, angel, meeting, hate, fall in love, eternal life, religion, aunt nephew relationship ...
Time: year 1987
Place: usa, california
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Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't ...
Style: feel good, humorous, not serious, sex comedy, deep ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: nightclub, youth, misfit, disorder, sexual humor, rave, lifestyle, nothing goes right, looking for sex, teenage love, teenage life, grownups ...
Time: 90s
Place: ibiza, europe, spain
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 7.0
 372K
Constantine (2005)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of ...
Style: dark fantasy, gothic, suspense, satanic, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, demon, occult, devil, angel, exorcism, good versus evil, demonic possession, heaven and hell, hell, superhero, suicide ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, mexico
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The Adventures of Pinocchio (1976)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan, West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Africa
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The Adventures of Piccolino is a 52 episode anime series by Nippon Animation first aired in 1976. The story is based on the novel "Pinocchio" by Italian author Carlo Collodi.
Style: anime, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: pinocchio, mischievous children, friends, young heroes, imaginary, parents and children, on the road, objects come to life, youth, family relations, escapades, puppet ...
Place: italy, europe
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 7.3
 148K
Labyrinth (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah - a teenager with an active imagination - summons the Goblins from her favourite book, "Labyrinth", to take the baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, ...
Style: gothic, fairy tale, offbeat, surreal, cult classic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: puppet, surrealism, good versus evil, danger, rescue, fantasy world, maze, friendship, castle, beast, imaginary kingdom, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
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 7.0
 565
Ernesto (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ernesto (Martin Hahn) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees--then experiments ...
Style: crying, gay cinema, queer cinema
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, lgbt, older man younger man relationship, bad father, glbt, perversion, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, male homosexuality, nudity, sex with prostitute ...
Time: 1910s
Place: italy
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The Golden Child (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A detective specializing in missing children is on a madcap mission to save a youth with mystical powers who's been abducted by an evil cult. He battles a band of super-nasties, scrambles through a booby-trapped chamber of horrors and traverses ...
Style: light, humorous, entertaining, not serious, cult classic ...
Plot: good versus evil, kidnapping, culture clash, children, supernatural, chosen one, rescue, social worker, self sacrifice, unlikely hero, treasure hunt, justice ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, nepal, tibet
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Aria the OVA: Arietta (2007)
Genre: Animation, Short, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 31 min.
Story: Akari finds herself nervous coaching a new undine as a Prima, until she awakens to find that it is just a dream. To soothe her worries, Alicia recalls stories of her beginnings as a Prima, as well as the memories she made.
Style: anime, shounen
Plot: slice of life, friendship, mars, outer space, actress playing male role
Time: 24th century
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Un Ballo In Maschera (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine. Starring Luciano Pavarotti.
Plot: opera, murder, assassination, regicide, masquerade, opera live performance, stabbed in the chest, actress playing male role
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 4.2
 238
Spidarlings (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.
Style: lgbt cinema, underground film, psychedelic, psychotronic, horror musical ...
Plot: spider, drag queen, body horror, lesbian, punk, lgbt, camp, tarantula, strong female lead, punk rock, lgbtq, feminist ...
Place: england
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Summer Vacation 1999 (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenage friends spending the summer at boarding school become entangled in love triangles after one commits suicide.
Style: sad, crying
Plot: lgbt, loneliness, sexual repression, lgbt teen, superhero, food, painter, school, telephone call, friendship, student, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1999, 80s, 90s, future
Place: japan
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 6.6
 16K
Yentl (1983)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.
Style: period piece, emotional, touching, thinking, costume drama ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick
Plot: judaism, gender, skinny dipping, dancing, women, gender bender, woman dressed as man, arm wrestling, transsexual, feminist, transgender, destiny ...
Time: year 1983, 20th century, 1900s
Place: israel
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 7.1
 5K
Swordsman II (1992)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jet Li plays Ling, a student from the Blue Mountain school of martial arts, who, along with fellow students and Kiddo, find themselves embroiled in a country-wide political/clan war with the Highlander clan in the forefront of the battle.
Style: cult classic, surreal, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, kung fu, medieval, tough heroes, transgender, wire fu, kung fu fighting, martial artist, ancient, hardcore, fight ...
Place: china, asia
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The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, South Korea, Germany, North Korea
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After Homer accidentally pollutes the town's water supply, Springfield is encased in a gigantic dome by the EPA and the Simpsons are declared fugitives.
Style: funny, adult animation, humorous, satirical, computer animated ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family outing, adult
Plot: bomb, goofy hero, parents and children, save the day, irreverent, snow, adult humor, pig, life philosophy, redemption, girl, danger ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, seattle, oregon, usa
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 8.7
 433K
The Simpsons (1989)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop ...
Style: sitcom, adult animation, humorous, adult cartoon, parody ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, toddlers ...
Plot: dark humor, social satire, goofy hero, suburbs, siblings relations, satire, bully, family relations, working class, beer, eccentric family, family life ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: usa, nova scotia
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Genji: A Thousand-Year Love (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Based on the ancient Japanese Tale of Genji. This film is set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story begins from the death of her husband, a Japanese noble, then moves on to her recruitment to ...
Plot: marriage, sex, writers, asian history, cheating girlfriend, womanizer, cheating wife, sex with stepson, affair, incest, polygamy, sex with stepmother ...
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National Lampoon's Repli-Kate (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A scientist and his sidekick accidentally clone a journalist and decide to turn the mistake into Repli-Kate, their idea of the perfect woman, who loves, beer, football, and frat parties.
Style: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, sex comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: twins, laboratory, fall in love, experiment gone awry, disorder, experiment, high school, bodies, science and technology, clone, journalist, silly humor ...
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 7K
Liquid Sky (1982)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: alien, sex, punk, heroin, androgyny, space and aliens, punk rock, drug, surrealism, orgasm, lgbt, alien invasion ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: new york, usa
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 7.0
 3K
Interview (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Federico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
Style: art house, neorealism, mockumentary, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, female nudity, surrealism, magic realism, actor, journalism, film set, performer's life, biopic, love and romance, lifestyle, actor's life ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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 6.8
 61K
I'm Not There (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, Canada, USA, France, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.
Style: non-linear, meditative, stylized, talky, lyrical ...
Plot: music, musician, biopic, actor, poet, rock, musician's life, art, brutality, african american, artist, drug addiction ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 2000s, year 2007, 90s ...
Place: usa, minnesota, new york, manhattan new york city, california ...
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 6.8
 272K
Hook (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, stylized, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, pirate, kidnapping, magic, children, fairy, good versus evil, father son relationship, rescue, peter pan, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, madagascar, california, new york, san francisco ...
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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jonathan Ecks, an FBI agent, realizes that he must join with his lifelong enemy, Agent Sever, a rogue DIA agent with whom he is in mortal combat, in order to defeat a common enemy. That enemy has developed a "micro-device" that can be ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, action packed, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: one woman army, spy, assassination, vengeance, femme fatale, martial arts, female martial artist, secret agent, tough girl, tough heroes, gunfight, sniper ...
Time: year 2002
Place: vancouver
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The Associate (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While ...
Style: light, entertaining, feel good, witty, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gender disguise, wall street, workplace, sexism, comedy of errors, hidden identity, business, women, farce, racism, strong female lead, fake identity ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york
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