This is a list of films with fictional and factual transgender characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-linear network). This list does not include documentaries, which are included in the categories of , or animated transgender characters, which are noted in List of fictional trans characters.

Various live-action films feature either transgender issues as a plot element or have trans men, trans women or non-binary trans characters. Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.

1900–1999

1900–1959

Year Title Character(s) Identity Actor Notes Country 1953 Glen or Glenda Glenda Trans woman Ed Wood Filmed when it was illegal for a man to crossdress as a woman in public. United States Anne Tommy Haynes 1954 Adam est... Ève Charles Beaumont Trans woman Micheline Carvel Likely the first French trans film, in which a boxer is "knocked out", then wakes up realizing she is a woman. France Todd W. Reeser, "Transsexuality and the Production of French Universalism: René Gaveau's Adam est...Eve (1954)," French Review 91.2 (December 2017): 126-38.

1960–1969

Year Title Character(s) Identity Actor Notes Country 1967 Caprice Dr Stuart Clancy Transgender Ray Walston Clancy is May Fortune's head chemist. United States 1969 Funeral Parade of Roses Eddie Transgender Peter Follows a group of transgender drag queens, Eddie and a few others, in the Japanese underground. The film has been described as "a documentary being made about Tokyo's gay culture". Even though it is a black-and-white drama film, it is said to have influenced the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. Japan review by Lucid Screening.薔薇の葬列 (Bara no Sōretsu) at the Japanese Movie Database

1970–1979

+ List Year Title Character(s) Identity Actor Notes Country 1970 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell Transgender John LaZar Barzell is a flamboyant, well-connected rock producer. United States 1970 The Christine Jorgensen Story Christine Jorgensen Trans woman John Hansen A former Army private from the Bronx undergoes surgery and hormone treatments in Denmark in 1952 to transition from male to female. Based on Jorgenson's autobiography. (Jorgensen later unsuccessfully tried to get a restraining order to stop the producer's estate from exploiting the film.) United States 1970 Myra Breckinridge Myra Breckinridge Trans woman Raquel Welch Myra has undergone a sex change operation. United States 1972 I Want What I Want Roy / Wendy Transgender Anne Heywood An unhappy boy who tries to fulfill his "dreams of becoming a beautiful woman." United Kingdom 1972 My Dearest Senorita Adela Castro Molina / Juan Trans man José Luis López Vázquez Adela moves to Madrid and takes on a new masculine identity, "Juan". Spain 1972 Pink Flamingos Trans flasher Trans woman Elizabeth Coffey The nameless character shows up in a pivotal scene and is played by an actual pre-op trans actor. United States 1972 A Reflection of Fear Marguerite Trans woman Sondra Locke Marguerite suffers from what appears to be paranoia. United States 1972 The Triple Echo Barton Trans woman Brian Deacon A British soldier deserts his unit during WWII. At the suggestion of a woman named Alice, he meets while exploring the countryside nearby, he disguises himself as her sister to escape detection. Enjoying the experience a little too much, he agrees to accept the invitation of a soldier to attend a dance at the base, risking exposure. United States 1974 Freebie and the Bean (Unnamed) Transgender Christopher Morley Morley's unnamed character "Tranvestite" is a thief who gets riddled with bullets in the end. Vito Russo noted this film when explaining that while some progress had been made in Hollywood by this point, most lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender film characters were portrayed as viciously stereotypical, criminals or murder victims. United States 1975 The Day of the Locust Nightclub Entertainer Drag Performer Paul Jabara Jabara is LGBT in real life. United States 1975 Dog Day Afternoon Leon Shermer Trans woman Chris Sarandon Leon is Sonny's partner. Sonny is a first-time crook who tries rob a bank to pay for Leon's sex reassignment surgery, but his plan goes awry. It is also mentioned that Sonny has children with his estranged wife, Angie (this led critic Tim Robey to call Sonny a "bisexual desperado"). United States 1975Inside OutPauliTransgender Bernard BauerErnst and Sly purchase a camera to photograph Maar with a transsexual named Pauli.United Kingdom 1975The Rocky Horror Picture ShowDr. Frank N FurterTransvestiteTim CurryBrad cheats on his fiancée, Janet Weiss, with an alien, Dr. Frank N Furter. United Kingdom United States1977Cambio de Sexo (Sex Change)Maria JoseTrans womanVictoria AbrilThe main argument of the film is the process of change of genderSpain 1977 Desperate Living Mole McHenry Trans man Susan Lowe A character who gets phalloplasty. United States 1977 Fun with Dick and Jane (Unnamed) Trans woman Christian Erickson Dick Harper is in an unemployment line behind a pre-op character telling the clerk that she needs the money for her "operation". When Harper first speaks to the clerk, he jokes insultingly about the extremely homosexual person in front of him, and gets harshly corrected by the clerk. United States 1978 In a Year of 13 Moons Elvira Weishaupt Trans woman Volker Spengler Weishaupt faces brutal cruelty on an everyday basis. West Germany 1979 ...And Justice for All Ralph Agee Transgender Robert Christian Ralph is a young black cross-dresser arrested for a robbery, who is terrified of being sent to prison. United States 1979 Alien Joan Lambert Trans woman Veronica Cartwright In the sequel Aliens (1986) a biography very briefly flashes up on a computer screen in the background. The biography establishes Lambert as having had her gender altered from male to female. On the extras of a DVD presentation, one could see Lambert's full bio, which reads: "Despin Convert at birth (male to female). So far no indication of suppressed traumas related to gender alteration". United States 1979 Life of Brian Loretta Trans woman Eric Idle Loretta tells her comrades Reg, Judith, and Francis that she wants to be a woman, wants to have babies, and that it is "every man's right to have babies if he wants them." Although Reg is skeptical, Judith accedes to Loretta's request that she "can have the right to have babies" which Francis agrees to as symbolic of the struggle against the Romans, while Reg says it is part of Loretta's "struggle against reality". United Kingdom

1980–1989

+ List Year Title Character(s) Identity Actor Notes Country 1980 Dressed to Kill Bobbi Transgender Michael Caine Bobbi is a murderer. During the film's initial release, the activist group Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media distributed a leaflet denouncing the film's misogynistic and transphobic attitudes, arguing that "the distorted image of a psychotic male transvestite [sic] makes all sexual minorities appear sick and dangerous." United States 1980Health Esther Brill Trans woman Lauren Bacall Brill was afflicted with narcolepsy who calls herself "the first lady of health while Garnell is serious against commercialism and materialism. United States Isabella Garnell Glenda Jackson 1981 Pixote Lilica Transgender Jorge Julião Lilica is framed for a murder. Brazil 1982 Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Joanne Transgender Karen Black Joanne is a window shopper. United States 1982 Forbidden Zone René Henderson Trans woman Matthew Bright Henderson is Squeezit's sister. United States 1982 The World According to Garp Roberta Muldoon Trans woman John Lithgow A former player for the Philadelphia Eagles who has gender re-assignment surgery. Roberta becomes the bodyguard of Jenny and one of the best friends of Garp. Based on the book of the same name. United States 1983Sleepaway Camp AngelaTrans woman Felissa RoseAngela is the killer and main character. (Springsteen took over the role in the two sequels that followed.)United States Pamela Springsteen 1984 Fatal Games / The Killing Touch Diane Paine Transgender Sally Kirkland Diane is a murderer. After gender reassignment surgery Diane was disqualified from the Olympics due to testing positive for a significant amount of male sex hormones and kills other hopeful athletes out of jealousy. United States 1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman Luis Molina Trans woman William Hurt The character in the movie is not referred as a trans woman but a homosexual, still the character wears dresses and make-up. Brazil / United States 1986 Vera Bauer Trans man Ana Beatriz Nogueira Bauer (birth name "Vera") is a transsexual man who lives in a correctional facility for young people. After writing a book of verses about his life as a young troubled youth, he comes into his gender identity and begins to dress as a man, eventually falling in love with a woman and passing as cisgender to her family. Brazil 1986 Second Serve Renée Richards Trans woman Vanessa Redgrave The film is based on her 1983 autobiography Second Serve: The Renée Richards StoryRichards, Renée with John Ames. "Second Serve: the Renée Richards Story". New York City, New York, USA: Stein and Day, March 1983, that was written with John Ames. USA 1987 Law of Desire Tina Quintero Transgender Carmen Maura Tina is Pablo's sister. Spain 1989 Sonny Boy Pearl Trans woman David Carradine Pearl is the adoptive mother of the main character, Sonny Boy. The other characters don't discuss her gender status. United States

1990–1999