Movies and TvShows featuring "gender-reassignment" theme.
Girl is a drama film about a teenage girl named Lara who dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer. She faces various challenges, including gender identity issues and the pressures of the ballet world. Lara's journey explores themes of self-discovery, determination, and the pursuit of one's passion.
In a Year with 13 Moons follows the story of Elvira, a transsexual woman who is struggling with her identity and facing despair. The film explores themes of gender transition, emotional depression, and the search for love and acceptance. As Elvira navigates her life in Frankfurt-am-Main, she encounters various challenges and experiences that further deepen her sense of loneliness and sadness. The film is a powerful exploration of human emotions and the complexities of gender identity.
Lukas, a transgender man, moves to Cologne for an internship and becomes friends with Fabio, a gay man. As Lukas explores his gender identity, he falls in love with Fabio, leading to a complex and emotional journey of self-discovery.
Every Body is a documentary that follows the inspiring journey of three people who defy societal norms and choose to be true to themselves. Despite facing shame, secrecy, and unauthorized surgery as children, they grow up to become successful adults. Instead of concealing their bodies, they bravely come out and embrace their true identities, challenging medical advice and societal expectations. Every Body highlights the importance of self-acceptance and the power of embracing one's true self.
Beautiful Boxer is based on the true story of Nong Toom, a transgender woman who becomes a champion kickboxer in Thailand. The film follows Nong Toom's journey as she navigates gender identity, cultural expectations, and her love for the sport of muay thai.
Sex Change Hospital is an American six-part documentary series following trans men and women having genital reassignment surgeries. Dr. Marci Bowers performs the surgeries and calls upon her own experiences as a transgender woman to guide her patients as they go through the ultimate life changing procedure.
TransGeneration is an eight episode documentary series depicting the lives of four transgender college students during the 2004/2005 school year as they attempt to balance college, their social lives, and their struggle "to merge their internal and external selves" while gender transitioning.
Louis Theroux delves into the lives of transgender children, exploring the struggles they encounter and the support they receive from their families. The documentary highlights the challenges these children face in a world that often doesn't understand or accept them.
Nic, Leo, Andrea and Raff determine their own gender identities. Each of their gender biographies is different, but the societal barriers to their social, physical and legal changes are the same. Together they are strong.
Sarah, a free spirited young girl, embarks on a journey to undergo gender reassignment surgery, while Antony, a once vibrant young man, struggles with feelings of hopelessness. As their paths intertwine, they find solace and strength in each other, ultimately discovering the power of self-acceptance and hope.
An intimate and unflinching look at life in Iran, seen through the lens of those living at its fringes, 'Be Like Others' is a provocative look at a generation of young Iranians choosing to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
A Boy Named Sue chronicles the transformation of a transsexual named Theo from a woman to a man over the course of six years. Following Theo's physiological and psychological changes during the process, as well as their effects on his lesbian lover and community of close friends, A Boy Named Sue tells a story about gender identity, relationships, and how even things that seem permanent can change.
Fascinating documentary examination of a small Colorado town’s transformation from Wild West outpost to “sex-change capital of the world” which follows three transgender women who may steer the rural ranching town toward becoming the “transsexual mecca.”
P(l)ain Truth tells the story of the emotional and physical transition of a transsexual woman through poetic visuals.
We accompany a world-renowned transgender surgeon and his patients, each in a different stage of gender reassignment. A film full of feeling that unfolds the full spectrum and radicalness of this transition.
The unbelievable story of 22 year old Or, who secretly finances his sex change operation in Thailand by lying to his conservative parents and then returns home as a woman to face her new life, her family and the cost of living her dream
Rene, 31, a female-to-male gender reassignment candidate took hormones for years and "passed" as a man for all of his adult life. Married to his high-school sweetheart, Wona, a heterosexual woman, for 12 years, no one would guess Rene was biologically a woman. Living under a veil of secrecy and lies, Rene and Wona's lives seemed fine until someone "outted" the couple at their beloved church and everything they knew was destroyed. The public revelation of Rene's secret starts to unravel his marriage to Wona. Through all of it, Rene continues to hold on to his lifelong obsession to become a biological male and goes on a cross-country search to find the best transgender surgeon, only to discover that the current surgery options are flawed. At the last minute, Rene finds a surgeon who has created an experimental procedure, which will be seen in THE OPPOSITE SEX for the first time.
This film follows male-to-female transsexual Sara Herwig in her path to ordination in the Presbyterian Church. Efforts have been made to block her ordination by the evangelical conservative groups who don't recognize her as female and question her fitness to be a Pastor..... but who also challenge her candidacy because she is in a same-sex relationship, with a woman.
Interview with "Jake" a young transgendered Brit who is undergoing the process of changing from female to male.
A management professor, about to turn 60, takes the plunge - a year in which Chris becomes Christa.