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Cross-Dressing & Gender-Swapping 👔

A personal selection of films featuring cross-dressing or gender swapping.

☝️ What this list is about: characters who 1) present and/or live as a gender that they don't identify with, 2) for a significant time (preferably more than one scene), 3) for practical reasons such as:
- accessing things otherwise inaccessible to their gender;
- escaping a fate reserved to their gender;
- concealing their identity, spying, escaping captors or authorities, etc.

☝️ What it's not about:
- drag performers, and cross-dressing within the scope of the performing arts, theater, etc.;
- trans people who dress according to their gender identity, even though they might not be "passing";
- people with a genderfluid/genderqueer fashion style that fluctuates between more "femme" and more "masc" expressions

  • I Don't Want to Be a Man
  • Impetuous Youth
  • Beverly of Graustark
  • Beggars of Life
  • Sylvia Scarlett
  • La monja alférez
  • Vidalita
  • The Son of Robin Hood
  • The Magician
  • Some Like It Hot
  • The Great Deception
  • Homicidal
  • Come Drink with Me
  • The Goat Horn
  • Lady Oscar
  • Dragonslayer
  • Silvestre
  • Victor/Victoria
  • Tootsie
  • Yentl
  • Just One of the Guys
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Mylène Farmer: Libertine
  • Peking Opera Blues
  • The Cave of the Golden Rose
  • Orlando
  • Mrs. Doubtfire
  • He's a Woman, She's a Man
  • The Lovers
  • Twelfth Night
  • Mulan
  • She's the Man
  • The Sound of a Flower
  • Mulan
  • Titane
  • Rickshaw Girl
  • Girl for a Day
  • All for One
  • Man's Skin
  • The Town That Dreaded Sundown
  • I Was a Male War Bride
  • First a Girl
  • The Ballad of Little Jo
  • Rose