Highest-Rated Movies about 'Transgender Woman', Sort by Popularity

Prodigal Sons (2008), Venus Boyz (2002), The World's Fastest Indian (2005), Laurence Anyways (2012), The Joneses (2016), Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), The Danish Girl (2015), Saturday Church (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Transgender Woman movies.

#1. Prodigal Sons (2008)

Storyline: When filmmaker Kimberly Reed left her small Montana hometown, she was a man. Returning years later for her high school reunion, Reed is a transgendered woman. She seeks to reconnect with her estranged adopted brother, Marc McKerrow, who was permanently disabled in a car crash, and might be related to Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. Exploring identities, rivalries and family, Reed embarks on a personal journey that begins with her hometown and leads all the way to Croatia.

Plot Keywords: transgender woman, brother, sister, rival, former classmate, gripping, emotional ...

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#2. Venus Boyz (2002)

Storyline: This intimate look into the real world of drag kings -- women exploring their masculinity -- crosses continents, traveling through drag king nightclubs from New York to London. Through interviews and on-stage performances, every subject reveals a different reason for choosing the gender they have. The film is less a critique than an exploration of a world that is increasingly becoming mainstream, as the featured protagonists question exactly how gender works, and should work, in modern society.

Plot Keywords: performer, transgender woman, friend, inspiring, moving, powerful, nightclub ...

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#3. The World's Fastest Indian (2005)

Storyline: For twenty-five years in Invercargill, New Zealand, Burt Munro (1899-1978) has been working on increasing the speed of his motorcycle, a 1920 Indian. He dreams of taking it to the Bonneville Salt Flats to see how fast it will go. By the early 1960s, heart disease threatens his life, so he mortgages his house and takes a boat to Los Angeles, buys an old car, builds a makeshift trailer, gets the Indian through customs, and heads for Utah. Along the way, people he meets are charmed by his open, direct friendliness. If he makes it to Bonneville, will they let an old guy on the flats with makeshift tires, no brakes, and no chute? And will the Indian actually respond?

Plot Keywords: free spirit, transgender woman, love interest, biker, lighthearted, engaging, new zealand ...

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#4. Laurence Anyways (2012)

Storyline: The movie highlights ten years in the life of a literature teacher named Laurence who transforms himself into a woman after years of concealing his feelings. Her tremulous relationship with her family is further complicated by revealing herself to them while she struggles to find comfort with her significant other Frédérique. Though others may not initially accept or understand Laurence in her true form, those who knew her before her transformation still know her as Laurence, anyways.

Plot Keywords: girlfriend, fred, transgender woman, emotional, quebec, love, sex change ...

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#5. The Joneses (2016)

Storyline: Moby Longinotto's feature documentary debut tells the story of Jheri Jones, a 74 year old transgender divorcee, and her family in Bible Belt Mississippi. Reconciled after years of estrangement, and now living with two of her four sons in her trailer park home, Jheri embarks on a new path to reveal her true self to her grandchildren while her son Trevor begins a surprising journey of his own. THE JONESES is a compelling documentary about an unorthodox family and the deeply complex personal bonds that make or break us.

Plot Keywords: transgender woman, child, family member, friend, boss, neighbor, brooding ...

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#6. Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)

Storyline: The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated lives. Who is the mysterious Joanne and what's the real story behind Mona's son, James Dean Junior ?—David Gibson <djg@ukc.ac.uk>

Plot Keywords: fan, woman, transgender woman, amusing, emotional, uneasy, tender ...

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#7. The Danish Girl (2015)

Storyline: Copenhagen, Denmark, 1926. Einar Wegener (played by Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander) are a happily married couple. Both are artists, Einar preferring landscapes and she portraits. One day Einar poses for a portrait of Gerda's while wearing a dress. This is initially done as a lark, as is the later attendance at a party dressed as a woman. However, Einar soon discovers that she is in fact a woman and over time prefers being Lili. At first she and Gerda try to have her situation "cured" but this leads nowhere (other than to many doctors trying to have Lili locked up as a pervert and/or lunatic). Her voyage of self-discovery will ultimately lead to her undergoing the first ever sex-change operation.

Plot Keywords: artist, painter, artist's model, transgender woman, surgeon, emotional, endearing ...

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#9. Better Than Chocolate (1999)

Storyline: Two attractive young lesbians, Maggie and Kim, meet in Vancouver, develop a passionate romance, and move in together. Meanwhile, Maggie's well-meaning but naive mother Lila gets divorced and decides to move to Vancouver and join the household. Soon after, Lila is befriended by Judy, a transsexual about to undergo a sex-change operation. Complications ensue as the conservative Lila learns the truth about Maggie, Judy, and their diverse group of friends.—Eric Sorensen

Plot Keywords: lesbian, dream girl, mother, brother, transgender woman, owner, passionate ...

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#10. Heaven (1998)

Storyline: Robert (Martin Donovan) is in the midst of a vicious divorce and custody battle with his wife, Jennifer (Joanna Going), who, unbeknown to him, is sleeping with his psychiatrist, Melrose (Patrick Malahide). One night, Robert befriends a transgender dancer named Heaven (Danny Edwards), who, coincidentally, is seeing the same therapist. Heaven, a clairvoyant, recognizes Robert from her grisly visions of the future, which either foretell his doom or hold the key to his salvation.

Plot Keywords: architect, estranged wife, transgender woman, clairvoyant, psychiatrist, club owner, dark ...

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#11. Gaudi Afternoon (2001)

Storyline: Cassandra, a solitary writer in Barcelona (a US ex-pat) gets a call for help from a stranger - a stylish woman named Frankie - who wants Cassandra to find her husband, so he can sign some important papers. Nothing Frankie says is true: the husband turns out to be a woman, the issue isn't legal papers but a child's custody, and even Frankie's most obvious identity, in red cape and red pumps, is a false front. But Cassandra keeps at it, at first to earn her promised fee, and then to help Frankie, then Frankie's ex, then the child. Along the way, this solitary and somewhat disconnected and bewildered writer frees herself to finish a novel and re-establish a broken relationship.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: expatriate, translator, lesbian, transgender woman, daughter, amateur sleuth, wild ...

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