Highest-Rated Movies about 'Gender Roles', Sort by Popularity

Times and Winds (2006), Dangal Yuddham (2016), Female (1933), Sex, Shame and Tears (1999), Venus Boyz (2002), Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019), Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003), Ladies in Black (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Gender Roles movies.

#16. Dream Wife (1953)

Storyline: Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding. Effie!—Debbie Dunlap <dwdunlap@erols.com>

Plot Keywords: salesman, government official, princess, chauvinist, wealthy man, confident, lighthearted ...

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#18. The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)

Storyline: In this hilarious romp starring Tom Ewell, Sheree North and Rita Moreno, a middle-aged ex-serviceman who plans to re-enlist (Ewell) is shocked to learn that not only did he fail his medical exam, his wife (North) has enlisted - and is really making the grade in the Air Force. Unhappy to be a "house husband," he flies to Hawaii to be near her - and also to hatch a scheme to get her discharged.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: writer, wife, beautiful woman, agent, commanding officer, playful, madcap ...

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#19. Daddy Day Care (2003)

Storyline: In the comedy Daddy Day Care, two fathers lose their jobs in product development at a large food company and are forced to take their sons out of the exclusive Chapman Academy and become stay-at-home fathers. With no job possibilities on the horizon, the two dads open their own day care facility, "Daddy Day Care", and employ some fairly unconventional and sidesplitting methods of caring for children. As "Daddy Day Care" starts to catch on, it launches them into a highly comedic rivalry with Chapman Academy's tough-as-nails director... who has driven all previous competitors out of business.

Plot Keywords: father, mother, young boy, teacher, young girl, friend, amusing ...

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#20. The Hot Chick (2002)

Storyline: Jessica Spencer is the hottest, most popular girl in high school. Jessica, her best friend April, and a couple of other hot girls Lulu and Keecia visit the mall to hang out and do some shopping. They enter a new age store, where they check out a pair of ancient earrings. Unbeknownst to Jessica, these are magical ones set in ancient Abyssinia. A princess known as Princess Nawa is disgusted by the groom of her arranged marriage and switches bodies with a slave girl by means of an enchanted set of earrings. Since the earrings are not for sale, Jessica steals them. But the next morning she gets a big dose of reality when she wakes up in the body of a 30-something lowlife male, Clive, a career criminal. Clive finds himself in Jessica's body. Now it's up to Jessica (in Clive's body) to find a way to get her body back, while Clive (in Jessica's body) takes advantage of his new body to set in motion a crime spree to put the blame on Jessica!

Plot Keywords: quasimodo, cartoon character, villain, magician, magician's assistant, love interest, witty ...

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#21. Ski Party (1965)

Storyline: On a college ski weekend, Todd and Craig pretend to be Jane and Nora, a pair of English girls. Their reasons? To meet girls, and to learn to ski. Along the way, Lesley Gore shows up on the bus to sing "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows", and James Brown and the Famous Flames appear at the lodge to sing "I Feel Good".—GlennR

Plot Keywords: college student, impostor, young woman, cross-dresser, love interest, skier, campy ...

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#22. Men Are Such Fools (1938)

Storyline: Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. She falls in love with ex-football star Jimmy Hall and marries him. Radio man Harry Galleon will push her career further if she will just be "nice" to him and, when Jimmy gets jealous, she quits in favor of life as a suburban housewife. But her career still calls to her.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: secretary, advertising executive, radio station manager, roommate, fiancée, copywriter, amusing ...

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#23. The Stepford Wives (2004)

Storyline: Joanna Eberhart, a wildly successful president of a TV Network, after a series of shocking events, suffers a nervous breakdown and is moved by her milquetoast of a husband, Walter, from Manhattan to the chic, upper-class, and very modern planned community of Stepford, Connecticut. Once there, she makes good friends with the acerbic Bobbie Markowitz, a Jewish writer who's also a recovering alcoholic. Together they find out, much to their growing stupor and-then horror, that all the housewives in town are strangely blissful and, somehow... doomed. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Why is everything perfect here? Will it be too late for Joanna and Bobbie when they finally find out?

Plot Keywords: husband, wife, friend, neighbor, housewife, uneasy, quirky ...

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#24. Bad Girl (1931)

Storyline: Working-class model Dorothy Haley (Sally Eilers) deflects unwanted passes by claiming she's married to a boxer, but when hard-boiled radio salesman Eddy Collins (James Dunn) shows no interest in her charms, it piques her curiosity. Their ensuing rocky marriage founders due to the couple's Depression-era poverty and Eddy's proud belief that he should be his family's only breadwinner. But, when Dorothy gets pregnant and Eddy loses his job, he goes into prizefighting to support his wife and child.

Plot Keywords: wife, husband, best friend, boxer, doctor, suitor, melodramatic ...

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#25. Mr. Nanny (1993)

Storyline: A friend persuades the former wrestling star Sean to do a job as bodyguard for the two kids of top manager Frank Mason - someone is threatening him to get the plans for a secret micro chip. But when Sean arrives at his house it turns out that he'll not only have to bodyguard the spoiled brats, but also be their nanny, since they again scared away their former one. From then on he's occupied more protecting himself from the kids than them from the villain.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Plot Keywords: nanny, son, daughter, father, criminal, friend, amusing ...

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