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, humorous, psychological, entertaining, funny and disturbing films and TV shows about / with gender roles, gender, gender issues, lgbt, female protagonist, gay, family relations, society, lgbtq and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as gender roles: If I Were You (2018), Sam (2017), Husband & Wife (2017), I Stay with You (2014), The Amusements of Private Life (1990), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), Antonio's Secret (2008), Margosha (2009), Butterfly (2018), A Double Identity (2010).

List of gender roles movies

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 5.1
 104
If I Were You (2018)
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: light, funny, humorous, romantic, entertaining ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, love and romance, stereotypes, body swapping, family life, couples, gender, gender bending, battle of the sexes, gender roles, switching roles, family problems ...
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 5.2
 1K
Sam (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An alpha New York City male is magically transformed into a beautiful girl, falls in love, and learns what it means to be a woman.
Style: humorous, satirical, captivating, entertaining
Plot: body swapping, gender, switching bodies, gender roles, changing lives, new life, transformation, body transformation, lifestyle change, relationships, male female relationship, new identity ...
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Husband & Wife (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Married for ten years, in full crisis, thinking about divorce. But following a failed scientific experiment, they suddenly find one inside the body of the other.
Style: entertaining, cynical, funny, humorous
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: body swapping, switching roles, coworker relationship, friendship between men, battle of the sexes, fish out of water, husband wife relationship, scientific experiment, family relations, uninhibited rivalry, crumbling marriage, gender roles ...
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I Stay with You (2014)
Genre: Comedy, 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, tense, suspense, psychological, weird
Plot: female domination, submission, forced sex, female rapist, femdom, gang rape, sexual abuse, seductress, gender roles, domination, gender, seduction ...
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The Amusements of Private Life (1990)
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 ...
Plot: gender roles, transvestism, seduction, erotica, female nudity, sex
Time: 18th century
Place: france
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But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and ...
Style: feel good, sexual, surreal, funny, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, lesbian love, sapphic, gays and lesbians, conversion therapy, cheerleading, lesbian relationship, cheerleader, lesbianism ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa
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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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 4.5
 161
Margosha (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: The series is about man has become woman (exchange of souls, magic helped).
Style: entertaining, romantic, funny
Plot: body swapping, magazine editor, love and romance, male female friendship, coworker, coworker relationship, couple relations, battle of the sexes, male female relationship, relationships, uninhibited rivalry, fish out of water ...
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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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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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The Royal Hotel (2023)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped ...
Style: sexual, psychological thriller, grotesque
Plot: gender roles, pub, strike, labor, alcoholism, union, tourist, sexual harassment, rural setting, american abroad, isolated community, female friendship ...
Place: south australia, australia
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 6.9
 505K
Barbie (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: barbie, doll, fantasy world, existential crisis, voice over narration, blonde girl, ceo, patriarchy, social satire, blonde, pregnant woman, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2020s
Place: california, los angeles
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 7.5
 14K
Sexmission (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, the World War III breaks out and life have been wiped out of the surface ...
Style: sexy, sexual, apocalyptic, futuristic, offbeat ...
Audience: adult
Plot: post apocalypse, polish, society, friendship, sexist, nudity, tribe, post apocalyptic, sex, blonde, friendship between men, underground city ...
Time: future, year 1984, near future, year 1991, year 1999 ...
Place: poland, eastern europe
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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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 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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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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 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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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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 8.0
 431
Tears on Fire (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: “Tears on Fire” is a rare production featuring firefighting profession in Taiwan, which portrays the life stories of four firefighters. From their daily work, they have not only witnessed various spectrums of Taiwan’s society, but also been ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: firefighter, fire brigade, fire department, firefighting, workplace situations, workplace, coworker, post traumatic stress, save the day, teamwork, help, gender roles ...
Place: taiwan
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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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 7.1
 109
Mr. Mom (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A continuation of the original movie "Mr. Mom" (1983) with baby Megan as an adult going back into the work force, like her mom in the original, while her husband takes over parenting duties.
Style: humorous, funny, captivating, touching, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: fatherhood, parent child relationship, family relations, parenthood, kids and family, parents and children, mother and daughter, father and daughter, mother daughter relationship, equality, father daughter relationship, gender roles ...
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The Summer House (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A haunting portrait of a well-established German family living on the outskirts of Berlin in their ideal world, but are slowly shaken by external influences. It's a subtle portrait of human desire, inner desolation, self-deception and moral ...
Style: psychological, controversial, queer cinema
Plot: man boy relationship, pedophilia, unhappy marriage, gay husband, pedophile, male nudity, gay, lgbt, loveless marriage, male masturbation, male male relationship, teenage sexuality ...
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Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 169 min.
Story: A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dancing, dancer, society, dance, live performance, follow your dream, music, ambitious man, dancer's life, ambition, ambitious, dream ...
Time: 80s
Place: northern england
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 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
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Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, France, Turkey, Denmark, USA, Switzerland, Greece
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged captain. What first appeared Instagrammable ends catastrophically, leaving the survivors stranded on a desert island and fighting for survival.
Style: dark comedy, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cruise ship, shipwreck, rich, class differences, yacht, cruise, model, fashion model, social satire, stranded on an island, jealousy, disability ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 5.0
 193
Himegoto (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 4 min.
TV show
Story: The story follows Hime Arikawa, whose absent parents have left him saddled with a huge debt. After being saved from debt collectors by three girls on the student council, in exchange for paying off his debt, he agrees to spend the rest of his high ...
Style: anime, light, feel good, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: man disguised as a woman, gender disguise, cross dressing, trap, humour, silly humor, satire, gender, girl, debt, male to female cross dressing, high school life ...
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 6.9
 288K
Aladdin (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Singapore, Canada, Czech Republic, Serbia, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A live-action retelling of the 1992 Disney film of the same name.
Style: fairy tale, romantic, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: arabian nights, aladdin, wish fulfillment, genie, princess, magic, disney princess, sultan, giant bird, palace, love, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 18th century
Place: baghdad iraq, arabia, saudi arabia, middle east, iraq
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Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Saigon in the late nineties. Photography student Vu rents a room in a shared flat. With his brand-new camera, a gift from his father, he explores the people, places and things around him. He is particularly fascinated by his flatmate Thang, a ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, submissive woman, photographer, friendship, father son relationship, love triangle, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, poverty, friendship between men, birth control ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: vietnam, asia, saigon
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 6.8
 5K
Impromptu (1991)
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, cult classic, costume drama, humorous, witty ...
Plot: classical music, writers, composer, piano, music, female artist, women, older woman younger man relationship, musician, art, duchess, house ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, year 1991, victorian era, 1830s
Place: france, europe
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Everyone Else (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
Style: captivating, sincere, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, architect, young lovers, love and romance, resort, lifestyle, couple relations, hiking, depression, orgasm, sensuality ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: europe, italy, sardinia
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