Intersex Characters in Films
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- DirectorLucía PuenzoStarsRicardo DarínValeria BertuccelliGermán PalaciosThe story of an intersex fifteen-year-old. She lives with her parents, who have to cope with the challenges of her medical condition.
- DirectorJulia SolomonoffStarsGuadalupe AlonsoNicolás TreiseMirella PascualA teenage girl, feeling babyish and awkward compared to her older sister, finds solace in a childhood friend while spending a countryside summer in her father's old van.
- DirectorCarlo LavagnaStarsOndina QuadriMassimo PopolizioValentina CarneluttiAs Arianna, 19, deals with the problems of development, memories creep to the surface when she explores her body during a visit to the family lake house.
- DirectorJ.B. Ghuman Jr.StarsSavannah StehlinRodney EastmanRobert BradvicaA colorful and foul-mouthed feature musical comedy. A film about a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork who is trying to navigate her way through the annals of junior high. When a school dance show provides a chance for Spork to show up a mean girls gang, her trailer-park neighbor steps up to coach her with some "booty-poppin" moves. Featuring a vintage '90s soundtrack (that includes 2-Live Crew, JJ Fad's "SuperSonic," Dimples T's "Get It Girl"), a score by Casey James and the Staypuft Kid; and extended school hall dance sequences, Spork is a film about standing out and fitting in.
- DirectorJ.E. TiglaoStarsGold AceronIana BernardezDylan Ray TalonAdam was raised like a normal boy until he bled his first menstrual period. Adam was born with two genitals, an intersex person who finds himself in a painful transformation that takes him into the ambiguities of fate and desires.
- CreatorChiyo RokuhanaStarsSaki FukudaAyame GôrikiMasahiro InoueIS follows the high school life of Hoshino Haru. Haru was born intersex meaning that he was born with physical characteristics of both sexes and cannot clearly be assigned as a binary gender based on these physical characteristics. Registered as female at birth but later raised as a boy (gender) since he always played with boys his age during the earlier years of school. Haru is forced to attend high school as a girl because of this.
- DirectorKatie McNeiceStarsPat ShorttFiach KunzJohanna O'BrienA young dad in rural Ireland must face his own anxiety around gender and bullying when his baby is born intersex.
- DirectorRiver GalloSadé Clacken JosephStarsRiver GalloKeith AllanAaron SchwartzAn intersex runaway searches for love and a way out of his working class neighborhood in New Jersey.
- CreatorCarter CovingtonDana GoodmanJulia Lea WolovStarsRita VolkKatie StevensGregg SulkinAfter numerous attempts of trying to be popular two best friends decide to come out as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma and Amy decide to keep up their romantic ruse.Lauren Cooper
- CreatorPaul FeigStarsLinda CardelliniJohn Francis DaleyJames FrancoA high school mathlete starts hanging out with a group of burnouts while her younger brother navigates his freshman year.Amy Andrews
- DirectorLisset BarcellosStarsFabrizio AguilarXimena AmeriPablo BarcellosHaunted by memories of her long-lost hermaphrodite brother, a stunt double discovers that her sexual identity is a tissue of lies created by her parents and doctors.
- DirectorCarolina CastilhoStarsLarissa Diniz
- DirectorMauricio López FernándezMaría (13) is an intersex girl (hermaphrodite) who is forced by her father to impersonate the Holly Virgin Mary at the procession of their town, because he thinks this is the only way she can "get fixed"
- DirectorXiao CheStarsAlejandro CuadraAndrew FerraraPreston C. HowellTwo intersex people learn to embrace their natural identities and get together.
- DirectorAjae ClearwayStarsSteve BilichLaurie CokerJeet LeeA classic coming-of-age story takes a powerful turn when Sean's struggle to understand who he really is explodes the lie that goes to the core of his being, his relationship with his father, and his future as a man.
- DirectorMichael SpierigPeter SpierigStarsEthan HawkeSarah SnookNoah TaylorAs his last assignment, a temporal agent is tasked to travel back in time and prevent a bomb attack in New York in 1975. The hunt, however, turns out to be beyond the bounds of possibility.
- DirectorDel La Grace VolcanoStarsDel La Grace VolcanoDel embarks on a journey with his intersex cousin to unravel the mysteries of her medical history.
- DirectorReinhold BilgeriStarsMarkus FreistätterMartin MakMarianne SägebrechtErik/Erika Schinegger - the ski sensation that became media sensation. As Erika she was celebrated. As newly discovered Erik repudiated and accused of fraud. A true story about the injustice of nature, the taboo topics in Austria in the 1970s.
- DirectorSophie Allet-CocheStarsFred StillkrauthLiane ForestieriJens AtzornJulia has gone to the mountains with her bike,but now she has a flat tire and returns for help to the house of Lena.There Quirin, Lena and Julia are drinking coffee and speaking the wedding of Lena and Quirin and also about the farm.Lena is preoccupied, because she doesn't want that the farm will be sold.In the butcher's shop of Thomas and Nina,Nina, who is pregnant begins to feel pains: Thomas calls Lena who will help her.Lena arrives and helps Nina to give birth.The ambulance will carry Nina,Thomas and the child to the hospital.Anke, the sister of Thomas has noticed that Lena is preoccupied about the child.Arriving at the hospital Lena takes the baby for an examination with Dr.Keller.Then Lena and the Dr. Keller come back to the room of Nina to tell Nina and Thomas that the child is healthy,but it's an intersexual baby.On the farm a lady of the office of cultural patrimony has arrived (the grandfather Leo went to her office for help), the lady explains that she must take picture of the house to prepare a report,but Eva becomes very angry and asks the lady to leave the place.
- DirectorFloriane DevigneDeborah, 25, and M, 27, are living in bodies that Western medicine - and often society - deems taboo. Like an estimated 1.7 percent of people, they were born with variations in their sex characteristics that were different from classical understandings of male or female. For M, growing up intersex has also meant grappling with the fact that she underwent medically unnecessary surgeries to "normalize" her body as a very young child. But when M finds Deborah online, she is introduced to new voices, language, and representations that allow her to expand her understanding of who she is beyond medical terms. This beautifully crafted, poetic documentary joins brave young people as they seek to reappropriate their bodies and explore their identities, revealing both the limits of binary visions of sex and gender, and the irreversible physical and psychological impact of non-consensual surgeries on intersex infants.
- DirectorJessica YuStarsEllen PompeoSandra OhKatherine HeiglIzzie becomes attracted to a male patient with a heart condition, and George treats Bex, an intersex patient. Meanwhile, Meredith's mother receives a visitor, and Derek and Addison's relationship is still rocky.
- DirectorJeff WoolnoughStarsErica DuranceDaniel GilliesJulia ChanWhen Alex is forced to put a patient's gender reassignment surgery on hold, she discovers a secret in his medical history that could save his surgery, but tear his life apart. Charlie deals with a patient who is healthy, sane - and convinced she is going to die at midnight. Meanwhile, Joel secretly helps Sonja deal with a patient of hers who's been admitted to Hope Zion Hospital.
- DirectorDeran SarafianStarsHugh LaurieLisa EdelsteinOmar EppsHouse's team resents being made complicit in a web of lies parents have told their son when he's brought in for treatment that may be related to his intersexuality. Meanwhile, no one's content that House is happy.
- DirectorCharles S. CarrollStarsNick GehlfussYaya DaCostaTorrey DeVittoDr. Bekker takes the lead on a surgery, then takes the heat when something goes wrong.
- 2012–201343mTV-148.5 (62)TV EpisodeDirectorJamie BabbitStarsMamie GummerJustin HartleyAja Naomi KingEmily works with a well-known pediatrician on a baby diagnosed with male and female genitals. Tyra learns her father had an affair; she tells him she is a lesbian. Cassandra pretends to be friends with Emily for Will's sake but causes trouble.
- DirectorDavid O'NeillStarsVanessa RedgraveTrevor CooperLinda BassettA young bride-to-be suffers an identity crisis after the diagnosis of a hidden condition, an expectant father is diagnosed with a rare condition himself, and romance is in the air for Lucille.
- DirectorPatricia OrtegaStarsLucía BedoyaBelkis AvilladaresMaría Elena DuqueA young woman discovers she was submitted to several surgeries to correct her intersexual body as a baby. She has to find her own self outside gender binaries.
- DirectorPorter GaleLaleh SoomekhKristi Bruce and Howard Devore, both born intersex, talk eloquently about their experience of a medical model based upon shame, secrecy, and forced "normalization."
- DirectorSharon LuzonSuzan, an Arab- Israeli woman, must reshape her identity when she discovers at 35 that she was born intersexual.
- StarsIlizane BroksXenia BroksSteph TonnerA documentary on intersexual children and adults.
- DirectorAdam ArkinStarsMatt LongBilly ZaneClancy BrownWhen a promising female tennis star loses her scholarship, Susan gives Beth and Dylan the challenging pro-bono case -- which questions the player's personal identity -- while Liam and Malcolm are pitted against each other.
- DirectorChristine HartmannStarsNina GummichNina KunzendorfPhilipp HochmairA seriously injured Curt is brought to the Charité, where he comes to a sinking realization. A suicidal intersex patient is referred to Kraatz.
- DirectorMichael ZinbergStarsKate WalshTim DalyAudra McDonaldAddison's caught up in the relationship between her brother and her best friend, as well as a couple who's baby is born with both male and female organs. Violet gets caught up in helping with a couples therapy group, which does not help her own situation.
- DirectorMatej ChlupacekStarsEliska KrenkováMiloslav KönigMilan OndríkHelena is about to give birth and face a rosy future in a modern city as the wife of a successful young factory manager.
- DirectorTomoya SatoStarsTsuyoshi AbeAgnes ChanJo Eun-ji
- DirectorYuhong PangRobert TokanelTatenda left Zimbabwe with sixty dollars and the hope that she would finally find a place she belonged. But for an asylum-seeking intersex woman, even a diverse, queer-friendly city like New York is a hard place to make home.
- DirectorMel EslynStarsSterling K. BrownMark DuplassIn the not-too-distant future, the last two men on earth must adapt and evolve to save humanity.
- DirectorMolly McGlynnStarsMaddie ZieglerEmily HampshireDjouliet AmaraA teen girl is diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have a sex life, propelling her to explore unusual methods. Her relationships are challenged with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsDennis QuaidLouis Gossett Jr.Brion JamesDuring a long space war, the lives of two wounded enemies become dependent on their ability to forgive and to trust.
- StarsFernanda MontenegroJosé WilkerMaria Luísa MendonçaA wealthy cocoa bean farmer with a mysterious connection with nature holds a grudge against his youngest son, since his mother died during childbirth. Things complicate when they both fall for the same woman.
- StarsOscar ZouzoutSandra BeaudouThomas ArnaudSasha tries to start a new life in a new school after she learns that she is inter sex. However, it turns out to be more difficult than expected to navigate both high school and a body that her peers don't understand.