Movies like Trans Parent (2018)
The best movies like Trans Parent (2018) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Different for Girls (1997). If Trans Parent hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedParis Is Burning (1991)8.0/10 from 578 votes
- NewestThem (2023)Released 2023
The Hot Spot (1990)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrue Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDifferent for Girls (1997)
Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns out that the two were childhood friends in Catholic boys' school, but back then, before the operation, Kim was named Karl.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn the Room (2015)
This sensitive and sensual film draws together several narratives spanning several decades, all of them transpiring in the same room of the same Singaporean hotel — and all of them involving sex.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Nobody's Perfect (1981)
Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Them (2023)
A grieving husband struggles to come to terms with his wife's passing. Following a night-time visit to her grave, he picks up a transgender sex worker.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
It Gets Better (2012)
Three intersecting stories of transgender romance explore the boundaries of love, culture and identity across three generations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Love, Lust and Ecstasy (1981)
Ari can’t satisfy his wife Sara. He crashes his speedboat into a cliff and winds up in Switzerland for rehabilitation in what may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alex, commissioned to paint Sara’s portrait by Ari, becomes Sara’s house guest and sex partner in Ari’s absence. Teresa, Ari’s secretary and ex-lover, is jealous of Sara’s relationship with Alex and schemes to break them up.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Boy Meets Girl (2014)
In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Life as a Dog (1985)
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like this17 Minutes with Nora (2021)
Nora is worried because she’s performing in a play at her school, but being bullied by her classmates make her face something much more important: being accepted by her dad. The following 17 minutes will change their relationship forever.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Things We Dare Not Do (2020)
In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman, a fraught decision in a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTam Tam (1976)
A diverse group of artists and bohemians gathers at a party to celebrate and wait for a guest of honor named Pedro. As they drink, talk, and wander through the rooms, the much-anticipated Pedro never arrives, turning the event into a surreal, endless vigil. The guests are left to navigate their own desires and existential boredom while hearing the rhythmic "tam-tam" of drums that suggests a coming catastrophe.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Nati 2 volte (2019)
A trans-sexual man return to his hometown to finish the bureaucratic process to become officially a male. But the public servant who should implement this simple bureaucratic operation is Giorgio, his first and only boyfriend.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Paris Is Burning (1991)
Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene. Made over seven years, PARIS IS BURNING offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion "houses," from fierce contests for trophies to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia, transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women — including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Art of Fallism (2020)
Wandile is studying at an expensive university in South Africa, dominated by white people. As a black trans person Wandile feels alienated and joins a massive student protest at the university. The students demand decolonization of the university, and soon the protests evolve into a national movement for free education and the end to all forms of repression in the former apartheid state. Suddenly they find themselves the target of attacks by the university leadership, police and army, while internal conflicts threaten to tear the movement apart.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
In France Michelle Is a Man's Name (2020)
Michael, a young trans man, returns home after years of estrangement from his parents. Set against the backdrop of the American West, this short film explores fatherhood, rituals of male bonding, and what it means to identify as a trans man in contemporary America.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Vegas in Space (1991)
Three male soldiers are ordered to change their sex (via a pill) and are sent on an undercover mission as showgirls to the female-dominated planet of Clitoris, where they must maneuver complex politics and decadent parties to uncover a plot to disrupt the most important pleasure planet in the Universe.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Sadomania (1981)
Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're arrested by topless guards and ushered behind bars where the warden quickly dismisses Michel but demands that Olga do a little time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisMiss Mona (1987)
An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies. Unfortunately, an old lover stole all the money he was saving so he could become a she instead. Miss Mona finally gets his chance to earn more cash when he meets a destitute young Arab, an illegal immigrant. The queen takes the Arab in and convinces the destitute and desperate youth that he will make enough money to buy immigration papers if he becomes a prostitute...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom (2012)
Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated by his brother Bruce — usually on film — his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Trans Parent?
The closest matches to Trans Parent are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Different for Girls (1997). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Trans Parent?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Trans Parent.
What is the highest-rated movie like Trans Parent?
Paris Is Burning (1991), rated 8.0/10 by 578 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Trans Parent?
Them (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Trans Parent?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Different for Girls (1997).
How are movies similar to Trans Parent chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Trans Parent, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.