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1. Boys Don't Cry (1999)
R | 118 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.
Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III
Votes: 103,244 | Gross: $11.53M
2. Tipping the Velvet (2002)
59 min | Drama, Romance
The story of Nan Astley who falls in love with three different women on her journey to stardom and happiness in 1887 Victorian England.
Stars: Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, Jodhi May, Alexei Sayle
Votes: 8,591
3. National Velvet (1944)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Family, Sport
A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere
Votes: 7,996
4. The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure
Sumuru, a megalomaniacal femme fatale, makes a bid for world domination by eliminating male leaders and replacing them with her sexy female agents.
Director: Lindsay Shonteff | Stars: Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Shirley Eaton, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 1,314
5. Victor/Victoria (1995 TV Movie)
146 min | Comedy, Musical
A woman pretending to be a man impersonating a woman.
Directors: Matthew Diamond, Blake Edwards, Goro Kobayashi | Stars: Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri, Rachel York
Votes: 2,199
6. Carry on Dick (1974)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy
Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques
Votes: 2,971
7. He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994)
107 min | Comedy, Romance
A singer is so desperate to meet a famous record producer and his singer girlfriend that she disguises herself as a man, resulting in a wild love triangle.
Directors: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Chi Lee | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Carina Lau, Anita Yuen, Eric Tsang
Votes: 1,281
8. Incendiary Blonde (1945)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way, she also finds romance and heartbreak.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Betty Hutton, Arturo de Córdova, Charles Ruggles, Albert Dekker
Votes: 418
9. Beauty and the Bandit (1946)
Approved | 77 min | Western
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 ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Martin Garralaga, Frank Yaconelli, Ramsay Ames
Votes: 160
10. Las coronelas (1959)
TV-14 | 92 min | Comedy, Adventure, War
A general obsessed with his mark in history goes from town to town demanding payment for his services. One man cannot afford to pay the general but puts his two sons up for trade. The ... See full summary »
Director: Rafael Baledón | Stars: Antonio Badú, Martha Roth, Lorena Goubaud, Rodolfo Landa
Votes: 17
11. Boys Don't Cry (1995)
Short, Drama
The original short film that inspired the 1999 version of Boys Don't Cry.
Director: Kimberly Peirce | Stars: Anna Grace, Angela Marie Baker, Sean Sweeney, Adria Tennor
Votes: 104
12. Thani Thatuwen Piyambanna (2002)
81 min | Drama
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.
Director: Asoka Handagama | Stars: Anoma Janadari, Gayani Gisanthika, Mahendra Perera, W. Jayasiri
Votes: 122
13. Next Time I Marry (1938)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
In order to become the richest girl in America, a heiress must marry in haste.
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Lucille Ball, James Ellison, Lee Bowman, Granville Bates
Votes: 429
14. Reversals (2003 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
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.
Director: David Evans | Stars: Sarah Parish, Marc Warren, Nicholas Farrell, Claudia Harrison
Votes: 66
15. Man of the Moment (1935)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy
Mary, who is infatuated with her boss, discovers that he is having an affair with one of her coworkers. Despondent, she leaves work and overhearing news of a suicide, impulsively decides to... See full summary »
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Laura La Plante, Claude Hulbert, Margaret Lockwood
Votes: 391
16. Manuela and Manuel (2007)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Raúl Marchand Sánchez | Stars: Humberto Busto, Elena Iguina, Luz María Rondón, Sunshine Logroño
Votes: 96 | Gross: $0.00M
17. Newly Rich (1931)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Mitzi Green, Edna May Oliver, Louise Fazenda, Jackie Searl
Votes: 76
18. Exit Smiling (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company's productions, but is determined to do anything she... See full summary »
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Beatrice Lillie, Jack Pickford, Doris Lloyd, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 518
19. Checkers (1919)
70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order to save someone he loves from disaster.
Director: Richard Stanton | Stars: Thomas Carrigan, Jean Acker, Julien Beaubien, Ellen Burford
Votes: 17
20. Darling, Are You Bored with Men? (1968)
70 min | Comedy
Director: Nick Millard | Stars: Aldo Frank, Rosemary Klein
21. Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed (2005 TV Special)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary, Comedy, Musical
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. This ... See full summary »
Director: Linda Mendoza | Stars: Tracey Ullman, Scott Fowler, Vince Pesce, Anna Rustowitz
Votes: 174
22. The Jury of Fate (1917)
Approved | 50 min | Drama
Henri Labordie's wife dies after giving birth to twin children, Jacques and Jeanne. Before he takes the children to the Canadian woods to live he makes an agreement with his friend Duval ... See full summary »
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: William Sherwood, Mabel Taliaferro, Frank Bennett, Charles Fang
23. A Famous Male Impersonator (1928)
Short, Music
Stars: Kitty Doner, Billy Griffith, Irene Ficklin
24. The Little Chevalier (1917)
Drama, History
A duel in France in which the Chevalier de la Roche kills the Vicomte de Valdeterre, results in an ongoing feud between the two families. Years later, in New Orleans, Valdeterre's son Henri... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Shirley Mason, Raymond McKee, Richard Tucker, Joseph Burke
25. Metro Movietone Revue (II) (1930)
19 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Metro Movietone Revue featuring various vaudeville acts.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: George Dewey Washington, The Ponce Sisters, Joseph Regan, Ella Shields
Votes: 36
26. Die Nachtmeerfahrt (1986)
70 min | Comedy
Director: Kitty Kino | Stars: Anita Kolbert, Wilfried Scheutz, Christine Jirku, Beatrix Wipperich
Votes: 13
27. Zhuang yuan ji di (1964)
111 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Han Hsiang Li | Stars: Ching Chiang, Fang-Yu Niu, Mu Chu, Pin Ho
28.
Blackadder II (1986)
Episode:
Bells
(1986)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Blackadder develops feelings for a woman posing as his male servant.
Director: Mandie Fletcher | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 1,236
29.
The Bob Cummings Show (1955–1959)
Episode:
Bob Plays Margaret's Game
(1958)
Not Rated | 26 min | Comedy
Margaret is furious that Bob is teaching Chuck to be an undisciplined playboy like he is, so she retaliates by going out with a paid escort, and leaving Bob stranded with his latest ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Cummings | Stars: Robert Cummings, Rosemary DeCamp, Ann B. Davis, Dwayne Hickman
Votes: 17