Post #691140

2026-03-16 19:42 UTC

They can feature a trans character/be about a trans person, a trans actor, or are written/produced/directed by a trans person. They can also be popularly-theorized to be transgender, such as Gwen Stacy in Into the Spider-Verse. (Note: "popular," here, means "made it into a news article") They can be in any language, and they can be short films. I'll take any genre, including historical, musicals/stage plays, and documentary/docudrama (regardless of their quality). I don't want any PragerU bullshit (using our genuine, real-life stories as Conservative propaganda). Other than that, I'll take any quality of movie/writing/depiction. (So, something like She's The Man or Emelia Perez would be okay under this ruleset, despite them both being, y'know, bad movies) Off the cuff, we already have: I Saw the TV GlowThe Matrix quadriologyThe Peoples Joker (i think we have some of Vera Drew's other projects)V for VendettaEternalsThe PrinceNimonaHellraiser (2022)(We also have the Spider-Verse movies) (i also have Tron, and have A Clockwork Orange on my to-do list, so Wendy Carlos gets in here too) My purpose for this is to make use of an external HDD, in order to have a dedicated backup. #transgender #trans #FilmRecs

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@Owlor@meow.social 2026-03-16 19:55

@silverface@cyberpunk.lol Are TV shows on the table? I was wondering cus you bring up Twin Peaks and I dont know if you mean the show or Fire Walk With Me

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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io 2026-03-16 19:59

@silverface@cyberpunk.lol just to make sure it's covered, there's Paris is Burning And then the one that sticks with me despite most people not knowing it exists and also being Not Great ™️ is Soldier's Girl

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@Owlor@meow.social 2026-03-16 20:03

@silverface@cyberpunk.lol I recommend Tokyo Godfathers, I'm definitely going back and forth on whether I think the portrayal of a trans woman is good, but it is ultimately a story with a lot of warmth and compassion.

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@megmac@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-16 20:04

@silverface@cyberpunk.lol there's a movie doing the festival circuit right now called She's The He that's supposed to get a wider release this year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27s_the_He). And there's Bit, about a trans girl who falls in with a bunch of vampire women. For docs there's Will & Harper, by and about a friend and collaborator of Will Farrell's coming out process. And Chasing Chasing Amy about a trans guy's self discovery through the controversy around chasing amy.

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@AmeliasBrain@mstdn.ca 2026-03-16 22:15

@silverface@cyberpunk.lol @megmac@social.treehouse.systems It's very "movie of the week", but the Canadian film "Dawn, Her Dad, & the Tractor" hits both the featuring & about criteria. (It's about a trans woman going home to a father & brother that don't know she transitioned. It's a pleasant, low-stakes depiction of a trans coming out & family readjusting their relationships, although it doesn't go as deep as I"d like into the emotions & motivation for her isolating herself from them.) For your fan theory inclusion factor, I have been meaning to re-watch Titanic to see if it holds up under the interpretation that DiCaprio's character is a transman.

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@Mustbetuesday@sunny.garden 2026-03-16 23:52

@silverface@cyberpunk.lol -Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) has a trans woman character, Loretta, though she's not the focus character. (There's a scene where she comes out to her friends, and then she's gendered correctly for the rest of the movie.) -The Crying Game (1992) -M. Butterfly (1993) -To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) -Mulan (1998) - She's not canonically transgender, but I believe it's a popular idea that Mulan could be a trans man. -Ace Ventura, Pet Detective (1994) -Silence of the Lambs (1991) (Some of these I don't like, and/or contain intense transphobia, but I have listed everything that comes to mind.)

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