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Plot Summary:
How many working class Balmain boys grow up to be showgirls? Not just any showgirl but a household name, a legend of Kings Cross, a daytime TV star, and a symbol of generational change.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, melancholic, disturbing, lgbt cinema
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The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (2008)
Plot Summary:
Raquela, a transsexual from the Philippines, dreams of escaping the streets of Cebu City for a fairy tale life in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Iceland, Philippines, France, Thailand
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, semi serious, semi documentary, offbeat, witty, queer cinema
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I Want to Be a Woman (1977)
Plot Summary:
José Maria is a seventeen year old boy; his father is a successful restaurant owner in a town some distance from Barcelona, in Spain. The boy is intelligent and sensitive, but his mannerisms and habits, and lack of masculine drive, lead him to get bullied at school. The school principal decides that José is the disruptive influence, and asks for him to be removed from the school. The father berates the boy, and his mother, for his failure to be a red-blooded young man, and sends him away for a while to live with a friend in the country. Father visits the boy, and takes him to a strip club in Barcelona, run by a lady friend of his, intending that this will "cure" him of his sexual reserve. However one of the acts is a pre-operative transsexual, and there is a full frontal exposure at the end. Father has arranged that after the show.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: erotic, social, entertaining, crying, queer cinema
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Girl (2018)
Plot Summary:
A 15-year-old girl, born in a boy's body, dreams of becoming a ballerina and will push her body to its limits in order for her dream to succeed.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: social, sentimental, thought provoking, rough, uplifting, disturbing, intellectual, sad, art house, lgbt cinema
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Beautiful Boxer (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true life story of a Thai who wishes to have a sex change operation to become a woman. to pay for this he enters the brutal world of Thai boxing, un-nerving his opponents by performing a makeup application ritual before each fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Thailand
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, compassionate, psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, inspirational, sexy, enigmatic
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A Fantastic Woman (2017)
Plot Summary:
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: lyrical, art house, indie film, sentimental, captivating, melancholic, suspenseful, suspense, social, surreal
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Endgame (2015)
Plot Summary:
Since he was 5 yrs old, Jose's abuelita taught him to play chess like his grandfather who was a champion in Mexico. Now as part of the Brownsville school team, Jose has the chance to use his skills and for once in his life, finds himself in the spotlight, as he tries to help his team make it to the Texas state finals. As their coach, Mr. Alvarado, teaches his students the meaning of perseverance and team effort in the face of adversity, Jose discovers his own strengths and uses them to bring his broken family together.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi autobiographical
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Little Secret (2016)
Plot Summary:
Little Secret is a film with three interlocked stories all connected by a single secret that converge to reveal the tragic yet beautiful lives of three families and how hope, dreams and destiny can unite people from very different parts of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil, New Zealand
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Veneno (2020)
Plot Summary:
Adored for her charisma and her free, explicit and fun way of expressing herself, La Veneno gained popularity thanks to her television appearances in the 90s. However, her life and especially her death remain an enigma. 'Venom' is a series that tells, through a relentless heroine, the history of LGBTI reality in Spain, from the 1960s to the present day. It is the story of a woman fighter and a very local story, whose incredible life and universal values, with which people from all over the world can be identified, make her a series of global interests.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 421 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, touching, captivating, queer cinema, complex
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The Wolf at the Door (1986)
Plot Summary:
This biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin, follows the painter as he returns to Paris after a long stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children, and his former lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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A Woman's Way (2009)
Plot Summary:
George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They spend the night together and soon they fall in love. But the past is catching up with George. With Strella on his side he will have to find a new way out.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, captivating, erotic, sexy, surreal, disturbing, bleak, gloomy
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52 Tuesdays (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and transformation was filmed over the course of a year—once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, rough, lgbt cinema, social, emotional, realistic, queer cinema
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Cowboys (2020)
Plot Summary:
Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, social, queer cinema
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Tabu: The Soul Is a Stranger on Earth (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Austrian expressionist poet Georg Trakl was in love with her sister. And she loved him back. Their relationship became sexual and caused quite a stir in the local society. But when his sister asked him to flee with her to Australia where no one knew them and they could live as husband and wife, he refuse for he could not live without the beauty of the German language. Torn between his love for words and his love for Grete, Georg turned to drugs and entered a downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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The Last Family (2016)
Plot Summary:
Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the couple's aging mothers. His daily painting to classical music eventually pays off and he makes a name for himself in contemporary art. Good Catholic woman Zofia tries to hold the family together, but troubled son Tomasz proves to be a handful with his violent outbursts and suicidal threats. Their relief is brief when he starts dating women and becomes a radio presenter and movie translator, and the concerned parents must be on constant watch to prevent their son from hurting himself. But Beksiński never believed that family life would always be sunshine and rainbows. As he tapes everything with his beloved camcorder, the 28-year Beksiński saga unfolds through paintings, near-death experiences, dance music trends and funerals.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, art house, independent film
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Mapplethorpe (2018)
Plot Summary:
A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: costume drama, queer cinema
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A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen who was murdered in California in 2002.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, motivational, sad, hispanic, queer cinema
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Yves Saint Laurent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, enigmatic, melancholic, factual, captivating, sweet, art house, serious, realistic, stylized
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Pasolini (2014)
Plot Summary:
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progress Petrolio, and his projected film Porno-Teo-Kolossal) are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, realistic, intellectual, independent film, contemplative
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An Englishman in New York (2009)
Plot Summary:
Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and private lives, from his seemingly cavalier response to the outbreak of AIDS to his tender relationship with his friend Patrick Angus and his own response to growing old.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, queer cinema, flamboyance, iconic
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The Einstein of Sex (1999)
Plot Summary:
The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th century. The script reveals main characters in Hirschfeld's life including impossible love interest Baron von Teschenberg, and Hirschfeld's aids- young Karl Giese and guardian angel, the transvestite Dorchen, as they establish the First Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin in 1920, and follows their struggles to keep it open, up to the rise of the Third Reich in the mid 1930s.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: offbeat, serious, realistic, witty, biting, sexual, sexy, sex comedy, suspense, hot
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Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015)
Plot Summary:
In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012)
Plot Summary:
Julian Assange is one of the most significant figures of the twenty first century. But before he was famous, before WikiLeaks, before the internet even existed, he was a teenage computer hacker in Melbourne. This is his story. In 1989, known as ‘Mendax’, Assange and two friends formed a group called the ‘International Subversives’. Using early home computers and defining themselves as ‘white hat hackers’ - those who look but don’t steal – they broke into some of the world’s most powerful and secretive organisations. They were young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the US Government, a major threat to national security.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, deep, inspirational, political, complex
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This Boy's Life (1993)
Plot Summary:
In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans to escape the small town by any means possible. Based on a true story by Tobias Wolff.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: depressing, touching, emotional, realistic, epic, retro, uplifting, sad, period piece, thinking
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I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot him. This is Valerie's story.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, disturbing, philosophical, surreal, art film, grim, edutainment, tense, offbeat
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Normal (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, sexy, sincere, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, contemplative
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Boy Erased (2018)
Plot Summary:
The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church supported gay conversion program.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, psychological, sentimental, captivating, intellectual, depressing, serious, lgbt cinema, sad, cult classic
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Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Plot Summary:
Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, touching, independent film, sad, emotional, depressing, thought provoking, controversial, sexual
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The Danish Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 197000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, emotional, captivating, serious, inspirational, social, period piece, costume drama, sad
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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 511000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, heartbreaking, compassionate, depressing, motivational, inspirational, clever, emotional, dramatic, cerebral