Let's talk about gender, baby
by inakieat | created - 07 Oct 2018 | updated - 11 Sep 2019 | PublicMovies that talk about gender with different perspectives, for ex. with a view on queer theory, or a more artistic/philosophical way, as a consequence of the Symposium by Plato.
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1. The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic drama centered around a young shepherd and shepherdess and the ramifications of their forbidden affair.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Andy Gillet, Stéphanie Crayencour, Cécile Cassel, Véronique Reymond
Votes: 1,717
2. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary on artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and his wife and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the transformations the pair underwent for their Pandrogyne project.
Director: Marie Losier | Stars: Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye Breyer P'Orridge, Big Boy Breyer P'Orridge, Edley Odowd
Votes: 687
3. Muxes: Auténticas, intrépidas y buscadoras de peligro (2005)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary
Documentary on muxes, as homosexuals are called in Juchitán, Mexico, famous for its concentration of gay people.
Director: Alejandra Islas | Stars: Clara Chagorua, Victor Chirinos, Alicia de Sales, Judith López Zaire
Votes: 36
4. Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell | Stars: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski
Votes: 37,354 | Gross: $3.03M
5. Orlando (1992)
PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy
After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.
Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville
Votes: 18,725 | Gross: $5.29M
6. The Wild Boys (2017)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The tale of five adolescent boys enamored by the arts but drawn to crime and transgression. After committing a brutal crime aided by Trevor, a deity of chaos, they're punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming them.
Director: Bertrand Mandico | Stars: Pauline Lorillard, Vimala Pons, Diane Rouxel, Anaël Snoek
Votes: 3,207
7. Ranma ½ (1989–1990)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
A girl is involuntarily engaged to a boy who turns female when hit with cold water and male when hit with hot.
Stars: Kappei Yamaguchi, Megumi Hayashibara, Noriko Hidaka, Sarah Strange
Votes: 5,595
8. XXY (2007)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
The story of an intersex fifteen-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.
Director: Lucía Puenzo | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Germán Palacios, Carolina Pelleritti
Votes: 14,930 | Gross: $0.05M
9. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
Director: Jim Sharman | Stars: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien
Votes: 166,978 | Gross: $139.88M
10. All of Me (1990)
76 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Bettina Wilhelm | Stars: Georgette Dee, Miroslaw Baka, Mechthild Großmann, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Votes: 25
11. They Were Eleven (1986)
91 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Cosmo Academy has set a test for ten of its applicants to survive on a spaceship for 2 months. But there is an eleventh member aboard.
Directors: Satoshi Dezaki, Tsuneo Tominaga | Stars: Akira Kamiya, Michiko Kawai, Hideyuki Tanaka, Toshio Furukawa
Votes: 648
12. Liquid Sky (1982)
R | 112 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small, heroin seeking UFO lands on a Manhattan roof, observes a bizarre, drug addicted fashion model and sucks endorphin from her sexual encounters' brains.
Director: Slava Tsukerman | Stars: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas, Otto von Wernherr
Votes: 6,860
13. Gendernauts: A Journey Through Shifting Identities (1999)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several transgender individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco ... See full summary »
Director: Monika Treut | Stars: Susan Stryker, Texas Tomboy, Annie Sprinkle, Jordi Jones
Votes: 189 | Gross: $0.01M
14. The Nomi Song (2004)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Having failed to break into professional opera in his native Germany (where, as an usher in West Berlin's Deutsche Oper, he would serenade the staff after the real performances were over) ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Horn | Stars: Klaus Nomi, Ann Magnuson, David Bowie, Gabriele Lafari
Votes: 1,122 | Gross: $0.07M
15. 13 Genders (2004)
79 min | Documentary
13 GENDERS is an intimate and personal documentary. The interviewees attempt to articulate their interactions with and attitudes toward their own gender expression, intersex and transgender... See full summary »
Director: Cyra K. Polizzi | Stars: Richard Paro, Marcus Peterson, Katie Knutson, Michael Fitzsimons
Votes: 12
16. Three to Infinity: Beyond two genders (2015)
84 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The first feature documentary about people who are neither male nor female. Agender, gender queer and more, they're redefining gender, challenging masculinity and femininity, taking us into a provocatively new gender frontier.
Star: Roberta Brouhard
17. Two Spirits (2009)
R | 65 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Lydia Nibley explores the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder. Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that ... See full summary »
Director: Lydia Nibley
Votes: 93
18. Venus of Mars (2003 Video)
105 min | Documentary, Biography
"VENUS OF MARS" The eye-catching transgender singer of a Minneapolis glam rock band and hi/r wife negotiate the frontiers of love and gender. On stage, wearing a vinyl corset and stiletto ... See full summary »
Director: Emily Goldberg | Stars: Venus Demars, Lynette Reini-Grandell, Jendeen Forberg, LeeAnn MacDougall
Votes: 10
19. Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1979)
PG | 90 min | Documentary, Music
The July 3rd, 1973 historic concert of the 'leper Messiah'. This was to be David Bowie's last concert with the Ziggy persona and the Spiders from Mars. A great medley of 'Wild Eyed Boy From... See full summary »
Director: D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder, Mick Woodmansey
Votes: 2,993 | Gross: $0.16M
20. Superstar in a Housedress (2004)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
"Jackie Curtis is not a drag queen. Jackie is an artist. A pioneer without a frontier." -- Andy Warhol. Superstar in a Housedress examines the life and legend of Warhol transvestite ... See full summary »
Director: Craig Highberger | Stars: Peter Allen, Paul Ambrose, Michael André, Penny Arcade
Votes: 171 | Gross: $0.03M
21. Juchitán de las locas (2002)
64 min | Documentary
According to legend, God gave Vincente Ferrer, patron saint of Juchitan, a bagful of queers, and everywhere he travelled, he left behind a homosexual. But when he reached Juchitan, ... See full summary »
Director: Patricio Henríquez
Votes: 34
22. Guevote: Wie ich mich fühle, so bin ich (1996)
59 min | Documentary
Directors: Rolando Sànchez, Gaby Streiff, Tomi Streiff | Stars: Bonny, Chi-Chi
23. Blossoms of Fire (2000)
75 min | Documentary
Blossoms of Fire is a dazzling, whirling dance of a film that celebrates the extraordinary lives of the Isthmus Zapotecs of southern Oaxaca, Mexico, whose strong work ethic and fierce ... See full summary »
Directors: Maureen Gosling, Ellen Osborne | Star: The people of Juchitán Oaxaca
Votes: 39 | Gross: $0.00M
24. Dandy Dust (1998)
94 min | Sci-Fi
Dust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of his/her own memories and a sense of understanding. S/he travels from the Planet of White Dust ... See full summary »
Director: A. Hans Scheirl | Stars: Suzie Krüger, Leonora Rogers-Wright, A. Hans Scheirl, Tre Temperilli
Votes: 135
25. Mystère Alexina (1985)
86 min | Drama
In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the ... See full summary »
Director: René Féret | Stars: Philippe Vuillemin, Valérie Stroh, Véronique Silver, Bernard Freyd
Votes: 111
26. Something Must Break (2014)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A gritty story taking place in Stockholm, about the passionate love between the self-abusive Sebastian who wants to be a woman, and the easy-going Andreas who is certainly not gay.
Director: Ester Martin Bergsmark | Stars: Saga Becker, Iggy Malmborg, Shima Niavarani, Mattias Åhlén
Votes: 1,597
27. Call Me Marianna (2015)
75 min | Documentary, Drama
What does it mean to be oneself? What is a price to be paid for achieving such a state?
Director: Karolina Bielawska | Stars: Mariusz Bonaszewski, Jowita Budnik, Katarzyna Klapczynska, Marianna Klapczynska
Votes: 195
28. The Night Porter (1974)
R | 118 min | Drama
A concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.
Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti
Votes: 14,725 | Gross: $0.63M
29. The Cement Garden (1993)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
Director: Andrew Birkin | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Andrew Robertson, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin
Votes: 5,330 | Gross: $0.32M
30. The Pretty Ones (2016)
Not Rated | 77 min | Documentary, Drama
Melisa, filmmaker and character in The Pretty Ones is young, intelligent and funny, but also critical and ironic. She interviews her friends, reconstructs herself as a person using family ... See full summary »
Director: Melisa Liebenthal | Stars: Melisa Liebenthal, Victoria D'Amuri, Camila Magliano, Sofia Mele
Votes: 198
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