Gender roles movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant gender roles movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense, historical drama and period drama films and TV shows about / with gender roles, female empowerment, female protagonist, patriarchy, feminism, male female relationship, coming of age, urban, husband wife relationship and resilience plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in India, Mexico, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as gender roles: If I Were You (2018), I Stay with You (2014), Lovey-Dovey (2007), The General (2020), Butterfly (2018), Otomen (2009), Impromptu (1991), Macu, la mujer del policía (1987), Las Pelotaris (2023), The Amusements of Private Life (1990).
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Claudia and Antonio have been married for 15 years. After so many years of marriage they have lost track of each other. One night, after a strong argument, the unusual alignment of the planets Venus, Earth and Mars causes a magical transformation: ...
Style:
funny, romantic, light, entertaining, humorous ...
Plot:
body swapping, husband wife relationship, family life, stereotypes, love and romance, couples, gender bending, switching roles, gender roles, soul transference, escapades, family problems ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Giggling young women who secretly feed a macho cowboy Viagra might sound pretty funny. But is it really?... I Stay with You starts out as an innocent comedy with rich girls having carefree fun. Gradually, however, the film undergoes a ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense, weird
Plot:
forced sex, female domination, female on male rape, female rapist, seductress, submission, sexual abuse, gender roles, social problems, gender, seduction, attempted seduction ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Andrei and Marina are married for 7 years and they feel there is no more love. They ask a famous doctor to help them, and he helps... by putting their minds into the bodies of each other. Now Andrei is in his wife's head, so he lives the life ...
Style:
funny, romantic, humorous, light, slapstick comedy
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
husband wife relationship, supernatural, love, love and romance, gender, couples, family problems, family life, family relations, abduction, escapades, social relations ...
Place:
russia
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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, psychological, captivating, emotional, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gender disguise, female protagonist, gender roles, patriarchy, female empowerment, feminist, oppression, women's rights, social problems, pretense, pretending to be someone else, gender issues ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
portugal
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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:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
lgbt, transgender, family relations, father son relationship, lgbtq, gender, gender issues, parents and children, psychology, gender roles, family problems, social problems ...
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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:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, dorama
Plot:
high school, friendship, love, gender issues, friends in love, couples, classmate, gender roles, in love, adolescence, schoolboy, gender ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, cult classic, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
classical music, writers, female artist, piano, music, women, older woman younger man relationship, renaissance, novelist, duchess, musician, art ...
Time:
19th century, regency period, year 1991, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
france, europe, london, seattle, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The true story of a jealous policeman and his young wife living in a shanty-town in South America.
Style:
crime drama, tragic ending, tense, art house
Plot:
murder, gender roles, jealousy, abusive relationship, domestic violence, statutory rape, child marriage, trauma, female protagonist, police corruption, obsession, manipulation ...
Place:
venezuela
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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, historical drama, period piece
Plot:
gender roles, gender equality, feminism, female empowerment, women, coping, gender issues, female protagonist, society, athlete's life, professional sports, female athlete ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
spain, basque country
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Italian-French costume dramedy that takes place in France in the end of 18th Century during the French Revolution. It is "The Marriage of Figaro" meets "The Dangerous Liaisons" and it tells the story of two women, Mathilde ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, satirical
Plot:
gender roles, body swapping, deception, class conflict, french revolution, aristocracy, mistaken identity, social satire, moral ambiguity, motherhood, bittersweet, transvestism ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of 1950s Manhattan, newlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary into the couple's sexual identity.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
sexual awakening, sexual identity, gender roles, problem, couples, murder, machismo, danger, identity crisis, violence, newlyweds, sexual exploration ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Funny Girls is a new sketch comedy show that is funny - and has girls! Featuring fast paced sketches that cover issues such as work, life, relationships and what to do when you’re being haunted by a photobombing ghost. Set on a fictional ...
Style:
sketch comedy, semi serious, skit, feel good, funny ...
Plot:
satire, gender roles, sketch, female comedian, comedian, social satire, joke, female friendship, behind the scenes, absurd humor, women's issues, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
TV show
Story:
Céline, Selma, Nathalie and Agathe live in a suburban town and all try to survive while the crisis spares no one. The closure of the women's lingerie factory is jeopardizing the city's economy. The joy of living gives way to unemployment ...
Style:
captivating, funny, entertaining, light, tense ...
Plot:
unemployment, women's wrestling, gender roles, social realism, working class, female friendship, working woman, economic crisis, wrestler, humour, changing lives, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2010s
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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:
disturbing, entertaining, captivating, telenovela
Plot:
gender disguise, employer employee relationship, con trick, double life, pretending to be someone else, hotshot lawyer, gender roles, workplace, ruse, lawyer, lifestyle change, sexism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The conflict felt by a modern Iranian woman as she is forced to choose between her career and the traditional obligations of a housewife are examined in this drama. Until she married Hamed, Zinat worked in a public health clinic in a small Iranian ...
Style:
medical drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, gender roles, small town, public health, compassion, patriarchy, female empowerment, ethical dilemma, domestic drama, women, family honor, social realism ...
Place:
iran
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.
Style:
historical drama
Plot:
female warrior, honor, cross dressing, disguise, chinese mythology, gender roles, sacrifice, family honor, identity, bravery, loyalty, female soldier ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Vera Chytilova wrote and directed this two-part story that took the Grand Prix at the Mannheim Film Festival. Part one deals with the rigorous training of Olympic champion gymnast Eva Bosakova. She contemplates retirement as she goes through a ...
Style:
experimental, avant garde, period piece
Plot:
feminism, housewife, gender roles, patriarchy, motherhood, female athlete, women's liberation, resentment, retirement, melancholy, gymnastics, introspection ...
Time:
60s
Place:
czechoslovakia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A theater director and script-writer falls for a female worker from the Havana docks, but his machismo, social and working conflicts, and the Cuban woman's condition interfere with their relationship.
Style:
satirical, witty, romantic comedy
Plot:
machismo, gender roles, love triangle, satire, infidelity, jealousy, feminism, sexual tension, sexually liberated, social realism, political satire, urban ...
Place:
cuba
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Revolving around six characters resembling six faces of a dice chosen by Life in the game of snakes and ladders, this intriguingly designed drive reflects the current urban lifestyle, telling how women should be in our current society.
Style:
realistic, reflective, tense
Plot:
gender roles, city life, social commentary, female empowerment, character study, neighborhood, slice of life, social satire, young adult, moral ambiguity
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Four women set up an undercover detective agency to expose philandering husbands.
Style:
detective, tense, bleak, black comedy, noir
Plot:
infidelity, feminism, female friendship, sexism, women's rights, social commentary, female empowerment, gender roles, patriarchy, marriage, undercover, investigation ...
Place:
pakistan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
TV show
Story:
In 1949, the only daughter of the largest tea factory in Taiwan was supposed to marry a man to take over her life and her father’s huge business. After she divorced, who was her own master became a question. To prove her worth, she intervenes in ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational ...
Plot:
family business, female protagonist, businessman, female empowerment, family drama, gender roles, life is a bitch, money problems, tragic love, wealthy family, relationships, social problems ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
taiwan, east asia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
A young woman from Blackpool finds her voice in the male dominated world of the 1960s comedy, and in doing so takes London by storm.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
female protagonist, satire, female comedian, sexism, ambition, gender roles, female empowerment, comedian, lifestyle, humour, joke, stand up comedy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by ...
Plot:
gender roles, family conflict, female protagonist, claustrophobia, female empowerment, isolation, identity crisis, patriarchy, female nudity, coming of age, moral ambiguity, family relations ...
Place:
southern california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
After leaving his rural hometown, which was built on Joseon principles, a man meets a woman with a big personality who tests his rigid social boundaries.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
slice of life, opposites attract, culture clash, gender roles, relationships, love story, male female relationship, family relations, satire, lifestyle, love, love affair ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Three men try to overcome the problems in their lives not realising the impact their efforts are having on the women in their lives.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
feminist, culture, feminism, gender roles, patriarchy, social problems, gender issues, problem, alcoholism, social commentary, freedom, character study ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Shaurya, a male chauvinist who believes that every girl's future belongs in the kitchen, is in for a surprise when he crosses paths with Anokhi, a hardworking girl.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opposites attract, male chauvinism, gender roles, patriarchy, female empowerment, romantic relationship, love story, male female relationship, relationships, love interest, couple relations, love affair ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The story revolves around a teenager from a conservative family who struggles to strike a balance between societal expectations and personal desires. According to the popular adage, Achcham (Fear), Madam (Innocence), Naanam (Coyness), Payirppu ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, female protagonist, gender roles, social commentary, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, satire, women's issues, patriarchy, moral dilemma, slice of life, conformity ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Zhao Pan'er is a smart and savvy teahouse owner in Qiantang, living alongside her two best friends Sun Sanniang and Song Yinzhang. When she finds out her fiancé left her for another woman of a high ranking officer after becoming an official in ...
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, businesswoman, resilience, political intrigue, gender roles, civil rights, society, problem, feminist, lifestyle, feminism ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Towards the end of the Edo era, in the town of Kyoto, there lived a wealthy merchant by the name of Imai Tadamasa. He was blessed with 3 children, Hatsu, Asa and Kyutaro. His eldest, Hatsu, was a traditional girl who loved to play the koto and sew. ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, thrilling, exciting, psychological ...
Plot:
life, gender roles, strong female character, empire, businesswoman, strongman, strong man, lifestyle, fight, university, japanese woman, female protagonist ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
The lives of Erik and Anna, students at a nursing school in 1950s Denmark, a time and place where it was not normal for a man to become a nurse.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, serious, tension ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hospital, male nurse, male female relationship, nurse, love, workplace, doctor, doctors and patients, gender equality, workplace situations, rivalry, gender roles ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
denmark
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