Movies and TvShows featuring "male-impersonation" theme.

Victor/Victoria is a comedic tale of a struggling singer who finds success by pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman, all set against the backdrop of 1920s Paris. With the help of a flamboyant entertainer and a gangster mobster, she navigates the world of nightclub performances, gender disguise, and romantic entanglements.

He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994) is a Hong Kong sex comedy that follows the story of a woman who dresses up as a man in order to join a singing competition and get closer to her idol, a famous singer. Along the way, she becomes caught up in a love triangle and has to navigate the challenges of her own sexual identity crisis. The film explores themes of love, fanaticism, and the complexities of the music industry.

In 1930s Shanghai, a crime detective goes undercover to investigate a smuggling ring. Along the way, he falls in love with a society woman who becomes tangled in the dangerous world of deceit and murder.

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged underworld connections who famously greeted her customers with the phrase, "Hello, suckers!"

After inhabiting dozens of comical alter-egos over the course of her award-winning career, Tracey Ullman finally "takes on" the one role that spawned all of her characters — herself.

In order to avoid the gender discrimination prevelent in Sri Lanka, a woman decides to pass as a man and gets a job as a mechanic and even takes a wife.

Exit Smiling is a 1926 silent film that tells the story of a stage manager who falls in love with an actress. The film follows their comedic journey as they navigate the ups and downs of their relationship. Along the way, they encounter various obstacles including false accusations and a detective on their trail. Will their love prevail or will they be separated forever? Find out in this charming and humorous silent film.

Two young women 'forced' to masquerade as soldiers in military troop.

Young medical professional couple set out to prove that gender is not a factor in the ability to do a job well. Hilarity ensues as they swap jobs, clothes, and gender, in order to see what life is like from a different perspective.

Hoping to reconcile her divorced parents, Norris Gradley remains with her father, Giles, after he marries another woman. The new Mrs. Gradley snubs and mistreats Norris, who earns money by disguising herself as a boy and playing the violin at dances. Claude Wolcott, employed by Giles to drill oil wells, falls in love with Norris.

In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. The stagecoach is ambushed by a band of men whose leader, a mysterious bandido known as Cisco (Gilbert Roland), claims the silver is money that was extorted over a period of years from the poor people of California. The bandits take the money and escape, but Cisco stays behind with the Frenchman -- who, it turns out, is actually a lovely mademoiselle, Jeanne DuBois (Ramsay Ames). She follows him to the bandit's lair, where Cisco tells her he intends to return the stolen money to the poor people. The two rivals are irresistibly drawn to each other, however, and as a token of love Cisco offers to return the money to Jeanne instead. Now she must decide whether to complete her business deal, or to comply with Cisco's wishes and redistribute the wealth.

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.

Deep inside, Manuel has always been Manuela. Amidst her worst love crisis, Manuela reinvents herself as Manuel in order to pass as the fiancé of her best friend Coca - who is pregnant from a one-night stand and must face her conservative family. Hidden identities, misunderstandings, and the tension between two friends pretending to be what they are not, stage a colorful and up-beat story.

Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.

To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in love.

The original short film that inspired the 1999 version of Boys Don't Cry.

Henri Labordie (Tavernier) is the father of twins. Jeanne (Taliaferro) is sweet and winsome while her brother Jaques (Taliaferro), pampered by her father, is ill-tempered. When Jaques dies through his own caddishness, Jeanne, to spare her father from the shock, clips off her hair and dons boys clothing so that her father will think that it was her and not Jaques who drowned in a stream. When Labordie dies, Jeanne's deception ends when she goes to Montreal to fulfill an ancient pact, and there she finds happiness

A court fool believes the Duke is after his beautiful daughter, and arranges to have the Duke murdered. The daughter overhears the plot and, disguised in the Duke's cloak, sacrifices her life to save him.