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When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguised as him, and proceeds to fall for his school's star soccer player, and soon learns she's not the only one with romantic troubles.

To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

To keep her ailing father from serving in the Imperial Army, a fearless young woman disguises herself as a man and battles northern invaders in China.

The story of Nan Astley who falls in love with three different women on her journey to stardom and happiness in 1887 Victorian England.

Documentary series that explores sex in the '90s. Each episode has several segments about current trends in sexuality as well as street interviews with common people.

Poverty stricken lovers Eden and Matilda have enough trouble just getting through the days, but when Eden buys a pet spider the real troubles start.

By Hook or by Crook chronicles the tale of two unlikely friends who commit petty crimes as they search for a path to understanding themselves and the outside world. Silas Howard plays Shy (a transgender man), who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way, he encounters Valentine, a quirky adoptee, in search of his birth mother. An immediate kinship is sparked between these men and they become partners in crime. Suffering money troubles, emotional problems, and physical confrontations, the duo face their issues head on and learn to trust each other and support each other in pursuit of their goals.

A pioneering documentary filmed in NYC from 1997-2004 follows a group of "Aggressives," or "AG's" - masculine presenting and/or identifying - queer POC who were assigned female at birth.

The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.

A middle-aged man looks for true love in the sleazy Rio de Janeiro underworld of male prostitution in the early 80's.

Shinjuku Boys is a 1995 film by Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams. It explores the lives of three transgender men who work at the New Marilyn Club in Tokyo, Japan.

The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility.

A documentary following three young nascent drag artists as they navigate a rising queer scene in Norwich City - a place wherein they express their queerness and identities freely through performance, visual artistry, and community.

The Undergrad is a sexy, gender-twisting parody of the 1967 classic "The Graduate." This playful celebration of both gender and sexual liberation investigates the choice of deviance, desire, and acceptance. The film follows Ben, who is lost at the brink of adulthood and mystified by his own growing desires as he finds himself in a new life of secrecy, submission, confusion, and confidence.

Filming of Oswald de Andrade's historical work, where decadent millionaires, depraved sons, corrupt and implacable capitalists are the characters interpreted by the Grupo Oficina, in a celebrated theatrical performance in 1967, recorded mainly in '71 and released more than ten years later.

The story of Storme DeLarverie MC and male impersonator at the Jewel Box Revue, the first integrated gender impersonation show.

Meet the women behind the drag king personas Johnny Kat and Duncan and investigate some of the aspects of Drag King shows.

From the shadows emerges a stranger, cigarette smoke lingering around him. Face hidden by his fedora, this moody fella isn't who he appears to be. Once the cigarette smoke clears, garments begin to fall as their real identity is revealed.

In this playful and rollicking swashbuckler, drag king pirates take to the high seas on a quest to restore stolen treasures. The gender-skewed adventures begin when Butch, a handsome, but naive baby butch, is compelled by the Queen to seek out and bring back her purlined "Koilos" the source of all pleasures and the key to order and harmony on her island. As an additional inducement, the Queen holds out to Butch, the promised return of the hostaged Claudia, a beautiful and feisty femme, who is not about to sit idly by awaiting rescue!. Under the Queen's wrathful gaze, tops are bottomed, tranny sailors seduce pirate Captains, Kings are Mothers and cross-dressing femmes pack a wallop.

In the everyday life a seduction between a drag-king and a trans-gender takes place. They don't know who is who.

The documentary follows the life of six characters from São Paulo, Brazil. Trans women and men, drag queens and kings, workers and college students discuss their perspectives on gender, sexuality and identity in the contemporary society.

Something is missing in Betty's married life so Mother Nature lends a hand.

A coming of age story for one girl who finds herself on the brink of a subculture and lifestyle.

What's the point of feminism in 2005? Women, mostly young, from Belgium, the Netherlands and France, explain what a modern and still vivid feminism means to them.