Movies: Cross dressing

Forced by the parents to be married, a young couple in Paris discover things about themselves as they mature through their romance together....

The film is about the love story between Murat and Selma. Murat is a masseur loved by his clients. Her biggest goal in life is to make her daughter Ebru happy. One day, he is assigned to the physical therapy of Abbas, one of the bosses of the underwo...

When the governor hears that a general inspector has come to town, fearing that he'll uncover his corruption, he and his government officials panic. They mistake a gambler for the inspector....

Centring on the legend of the four ancient Chinese heroines, the film was a novelty for audiences at the time, as the singing performance was in Cantonese and used huangmei operatic rhythms—a popular trend in the 1960s, yet it retained traditional fl...

Childhood friends Ichiro Matsuyama and Kumiko Nagasaki attended the same high school and were fond of each other. However, perhaps due to the influence of his two older sisters, Ichiro also exudes a certain femininity and interest in cross-dressing. ...

Martina and Sonja, cross-dress in vampire capes and werewolf claws, re-enacting familiar horror tropes. A corresponding soundtrack of stock screams and "scary" music suggests that the girls' toying with gender roles and power dynamics may have dire c...

Robinet disguises himself as a woman to get away from his girlfriend’s husband, and discovers the unexpected pleasures of public drag amidst mobs of flirtatious men. (MoMA)...

Alma, petrified, does not know how to react when her son, age 8, wants to dress as a fairy and go to school. She asks advice from her neighbor, and eventually the entire building debates his right to behave cross-gender....

Billy and His Pal, released on February 16, 1911, is about a cowboy, Jim (Francis Ford), who is idolised by young Billy (actress Edith Storey in drag). When Jim runs afoul of a gang of Mexican thieves, it’s up to Billy to rescue his hero. Billy and H...

A call from an ex-lover threatens to rekindles memories from a time far gone by for D - a lonely cross-dresser trying to come to terms with her new image....

This film evolves around a mother and a son and their day on May 17, 2013. The story starts in the morning when a woman discovers her son wearing her red dress. The film is dedicated to the theme of homophobia and is closely related to May 17, 2013,...

Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance is supported by his wife, he is strongly opposed by his father-in-law, a champagne manufacturer. But...

The film tells the story of two brothers who exchange places so that one of them can escape from prison....

A Kasha is a universal offbeat love story set in a time of civil war - but the war is in Sudan and it is happening right now. We follow Adnan, an AK47-loving rebel, his long-suffering love interest, Lina, and the armydodging Absi, over a fateful 24 h...

Lillian dresses as a man to gain access to a boy's school. (from Performing Queer Female Identity on Screen: A Critical Analysis of Five Recent Films)...

A company of soldiers is visiting a small village. The mayor (?) locks away his daughter because she is very adventurous......

A general is instructed to impersonate Song Yuan and infiltrate the Shen household to intercept military intelligence. In order to do this, she must ask the daughter of the Shens' hand in marriage....

A girl joins the army instead of her brother, who has been injured in a car accident and cannot join the army in time. She is then disguised as a male conscript to save the brother from troubles....

The comedy film between Caribbean, Atlantic, and the Mediterranean! A funny and bizarre comedy experience on board of the dream ship MS Melody with six chaotic Franconians – delightfully comically between pure nonsense and sparkling wit. Plus, dreaml...

Marta has found a dress that is not hers in her boyfriend Fer's room, all the trust she has placed in him over years of relationship is shaken....