Favorite Movies with Transgender Characters (Celebrating Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈 )

Happy Pride Month to all LGBTQ+ community!

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Here is a new movie list to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) pride month:

"Top 10 Favorite Movies (and documentaries) with Transgender Characters"

The selection of favorite films with trans characters includes;

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert;
1994 film, directed by Stephan Elliott. The story of two drag queens, played by Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce, and a transgender woman, played by Terence Stamp, as they journey in a tour bus, named "Priscilla".

Passing, 2015 short documentary, examines experiences of racism and sexism today, through the eyes of 3 trans men of colour, directed by J. Mitchel Reed & Lucah Rosenberg Lee.

Funeral Parade of Roses (薔薇の葬列, Bara no Sōretsu), 1969 Japanese drama art film directed by Toshio Matsumoto, set in the underground gay culture of 1960s Tokyo, starring Peter as the protagonist, a young transgender person.

Tangerine, 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Sean Baker, starring Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, and James Ransone.

Little Girl (Petite Fille), 2020 French documentary film directed by Sébastien Lifshitz.

A Fantastic Woman (Una mujer fantástica), 2017 drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio, starring Daniela Vega and Francisco Reyes.

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, 2017 American documentary film directed by David France, telling the story of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, prominent figures in gay liberation and transgender rights movement.

Paris Is Burning, 1990 American documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities.

All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre), 1999 comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Penélope Cruz and Rosa Maria Sardà.

Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen, 2020 American documentary film directed and produced by Sam Feder.

Please share your comments and your favorite movies with trans characters!

[SkullZie]

Thank you for showing us these beautiful movies :]!!!

[SpookedTarsier]

Thanks for this list, I am trying to find some non-depressing, non-insulting or inacurate depictions of people that are transgender.

A recommendation and example of that is Romeos (2011), it's a great movie and love story and has a main character that is a transgender man that is gay.

[Andi]

Thank you, wish these movies were more available for general viewing!🤩💘💋