# List of feature films with transgender characters

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 LGBTQ-related films by decade, 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.

## 20th century
### 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 |
| 1953 | Glen or Glenda | Anne | Trans woman | Tommy Haynes | Filmed when it was illegal for a man to crossdress as a woman in public. | United States |
| 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 |

### 1960–1969

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
| 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 | |

### 1970–1979

| 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 | 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 | Transgender | 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 |
| 1975 | Inside Out | Pauli | Transgender | Bernard Bauer | Ernst and Sly purchase a camera to photograph Maar with a transsexual named Pauli. | United Kingdom |
| 1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Dr. Frank N Furter | Transvestite | Tim Curry | Brad cheats on his fiancée, Janet Weiss, with an alien, Dr. Frank N Furter. | United Kingdom |
| 1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Dr. Frank N Furter | Transvestite | Tim Curry | Brad cheats on his fiancée, Janet Weiss, with an alien, Dr. Frank N Furter. | United States |
| 1977 | Cambio de Sexo (Sex Change) | Maria Jose | Trans woman | Victoria Abril | The main argument of the film is the process of change of gender | Spain |
| 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

| 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 |
| 1980 | Health | 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 |
| 1980 | Health | Isabella Garnell | Trans woman | Glenda Jackson | Brill was afflicted with narcolepsy who calls herself "the first lady of health while Garnell is serious against commercialism and materialism. | United States |
| 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 |
| 1983 | Sleepaway Camp | Angela | Trans woman | Felissa Rose | Angela is the killer and main character. (Springsteen took over the role in the two sequels that followed.) | United States |
| 1983 | Sleepaway Camp | Angela | Trans woman | Pamela Springsteen | Angela is the killer and main character. (Springsteen took over the role in the two sequels that followed.) | 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 Story 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

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Jame Gumb / Buffalo Bill | Bisexual trans woman | Ted Levine | Director Jonathan Demme said about the character: "He didn't wish to be another gender...He didn't really have a sexual preference. He loathed himself — he wanted to transform himself so that there was no sense of him in the 'new' him [and] becoming a woman...that was his method of doing it...He wished he was a woman not because he always wanted to be a woman. This was another way to escape." | United States |
| 1991 | Soapdish | Montana Moorehead | Trans woman | Cathy Moriarty | Moorehead is formerly called "Milton Moorehead, of Syosset, Long Island" before transition. | United States |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | Dil | Trans woman | Jaye Davidson | The plot revolves Dil, a girlfriend of one of the protagonists. | Ireland |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | Dil | Trans woman | Jaye Davidson | The plot revolves Dil, a girlfriend of one of the protagonists. | Japan |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | Dil | Trans woman | Jaye Davidson | The plot revolves Dil, a girlfriend of one of the protagonists. | United Kingdom |
| 1992 | Just like a Woman | Gerald Tilson/Geraldine | Transgender | Adrian Pasdar | Tilson finds himself thrown out by his wife when she discovers women's underwear in their flat. | United Kingdom |
| 1992 | Orlando | Orlando | Trans woman | Tilda Swinton | Orlando is a character whose sex changes after two-thirds of the film. | United Kingdom |
| 1992 | Orlando | Orlando | Trans woman | Tilda Swinton | Orlando is a character whose sex changes after two-thirds of the film. | France |
| 1992 | Orlando | Orlando | Trans woman | Tilda Swinton | Orlando is a character whose sex changes after two-thirds of the film. | Italy |
| 1992 | Orlando | Orlando | Trans woman | Tilda Swinton | Orlando is a character whose sex changes after two-thirds of the film. | Netherlands |
| 1992 | Orlando | Orlando | Trans woman | Tilda Swinton | Orlando is a character whose sex changes after two-thirds of the film. | Russia |
| 1993 | The East Is Red | Dongfang Bubai / Invincible Asia | Trans woman | Brigitte Lin | Bubai is the primary antagonist. ("Invincible Asia" is the name given in the subtitles.) | Hong Kong |
| 1994 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective | Lt. Lois Einhorn / Ray Finkle | Transgender | Sean Young | A antagonist. The film has been heavily criticized for its portrayal of trans women, especially its stereotyping of the trans character as villainous and physically repulsive. | United States |
| 1994 | Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult | Tanya Peters | Trans woman | Anna Nicole Smith | Peters is Rocco's girlfriend. | United States |
| 1994 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Bernadette Bassenger | Transgender | Terence Stamp | Bernadette performs a lip sync club act with two drag queens. Near the end of this cult film, Bernadette is shocked to learn that Anthony/Mitzi was not only once married to a woman but also has a son. | Australia |
| 1994 | Skulhedface | Flopsy | Trans man | Bob Gorman | Flopsy is the vulva-faced lab assistant of Skulhedface. He is referred to with male pronouns. | United States |
| 1995 | Bugis Street | Lola | Trans woman | Ernest Seah | Lola is one of the prostitutes inhabiting the Sin Sin Hotel on Bugis Street. Meng, the boyfriend of Lola, seduces Lin (a young female chambermaid and desk clerk at the hotel). | British Hong Kong |
| 1995 | Bugis Street | Lola | Trans woman | Ernest Seah | Lola is one of the prostitutes inhabiting the Sin Sin Hotel on Bugis Street. Meng, the boyfriend of Lola, seduces Lin (a young female chambermaid and desk clerk at the hotel). | Singapore |
| 1995 | To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar | Chi-Chi Rodriguez | Trans woman | John Leguizamo | Chi-Chi wants to be seen and accepted as a woman by the local men. | United States |
| 1996 | Different for Girls | Kim Foyle | Trans woman | Steven Mackintosh | Two childhood friends who are reunited after one of them, Kim, has undergone sex reassignment surgery | United Kingdom |
| 1996 | Close Your Eyes and Hold Me | Hanabusa | Transgender | Kumiko Takeda | Love triangle with a transvestite bar hostess, based on the manga Me wo Tojite Daite by Shungicu Uchida | Japan |
| 1996 | I Shot Andy Warhol | Candy Darling | Trans woman | Stephen Dorff | Darling is best known as a Warhol superstar. | United Kingdom United States |
| 1996 | Escape from L.A. | Hershe Las Palmas/ Jack “Carjack” Malone | Trans woman | Pam Grier | Palamas is a past criminal associate of Snake's. | United States |
| 1997 | Bent | Greta | Transvestite | Mick Jagger | The movie opens with a gay orgy, hosted by the transvestite Greta. | United Kingdom, Japan |
| 1997 | Black Rose II | Chi-Mo's restaurant boss | Transgender | Kin-Yan Lee | Chi-Mo's boss is transitioning to female. | Hong Kong |
| 1997 | Ma vie en rose | Ludovic "Ludo" Fabre | Trans girl | Georges Du Fresne [fr] | Ludo wants to live as a girl. | France |
| 1997 | Ma vie en rose | Ludovic "Ludo" Fabre | Trans girl | Georges Du Fresne [fr] | Ludo wants to live as a girl. | Belgium |
| 1997 | Ma vie en rose | Ludovic "Ludo" Fabre | Trans girl | Georges Du Fresne [fr] | Ludo wants to live as a girl. | United Kingdom |
| 1997 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Chablis Deveau | Trans woman | The Lady Chablis | Lady Chablis became a transgender icon and one of the first transgender performers to be received by a wider audience. | United States |
| 1998 | The Adventures of Sebastian Cole | Henrietta Rossi | Trans Woman | Clark Gregg | Henrietta has gender reassignment surgery, which is protested by her stepson, Sebastian. | United States |
| 1998 | The Velocity of Gary | Kid Joey | Transgender | Chad Lindberg | Joey is a young deaf trans who just arrived in New York. | United States |
| 1998 | Woo | Celestrial | Transgender | Girlina | Celestrial is Woo's psychic friend. | United States |
| 1999 | All About My Mother | Agrado | Trans woman | Antonia San Juan | Agrado is a transgender sex worker and friend of the film's protagonist, Manuela. Lola, the father of Manuela's son Esteban, is also a trans woman. | Spain |
| 1999 | All About My Mother | Lola | Trans woman | Toni Cantó | Agrado is a transgender sex worker and friend of the film's protagonist, Manuela. Lola, the father of Manuela's son Esteban, is also a trans woman. | Spain |
| 1999 | Better Than Chocolate | Judy | Trans woman | Peter Outerbridge | Judy is disinherited because of her gender transition and begins a romantic relationship with Frances, a lesbian separatist who owns a bookstore | Canada |
| 1999 | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena | Trans man | Hilary Swank | Brandon's life is threatened and becomes the victim of a hate crime. The movie received much media attention when its star Hilary Swank, who played Brandon, won the Academy Award for Best Actress. | United States |
| 1999 | Flawless | Rusty Zimmerman | Transgender | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Zimmerman is a drag queen. | United States |
| 1999 | Wild Zero | Tobio | Trans woman | Kwancharu Shitichai | The protagonist, Ace, falls in love with a transgender woman named Tobio he meets at a gas station on his way to a concert. He returns to her in time to rescue her from a horde of zombies and when the main character is conflicted about falling in love with a "woman who is also a man", Guitar Wolf tells him "Love knows no race, nationality or gender!" | United States |
| 1999 | But I'm a Cheerleader | Jan | Trans man | Katrina Phillips | The character is trans coded but not declared as such in the film. | United States |

## 21st century
### 2000–2004

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 2000 | Before Night Falls | Bon Bon | Trans woman | Johnny Depp | Bon Bon is a flamboyant trans woman who walks through the Cuban prisons, helping to smuggle a manuscript out of the prison. | United States |
| 2000 | Gouttes d'eau sur pierre brûlante | Vera | Trans woman | Anna Thompson | Friend of the main character, she is introduced by a mention of having had a genital operation. | France |
| 2000 | Woman on Top | Monica Jones | Trans woman | Harold Perrineau Jr. | Jones is Isabella's Afro-Brazilian friend. | United States |
| 2001 | By Hook or by Crook | Shy | Trans man | Silas Howard | A queer buddy film written, directed by, and starring trans men, like Shy. | United States |
| 2001 | Gaudi Afternoon | Frankie Stevens | Transvestite | Marcia Gay Harden | Frankie is actually a man in drag — or a "pre-op transsexual". | United States, Spain |
| 2001 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Hedwig Robinson/Hansel | Trans woman | John Cameron Mitchell | A transgender German glam rocker recounting the story of her betrayal by her former boyfriend | United States |
| 2003 | Beautiful Boxer | Nong Toom / Parinya Charoenphol | Trans woman | Asanee Suwan | Toom is a kathoey who becomes a champion kickboxer in order to pay for the sex change surgery and transition as Parinya Charoenphol. Charoenphol makes a cameo appearance as a beauty consultant. | Thailand |
| 2003 | Chouchou | Chouchou | Trans woman | Gad Elmaleh | French comedy film about a maghrebin immigrant who settles in Paris. Chouchou finds a job at a psychiatrist office who allows Chouchou to come dressed in women's clothes. Chouchou also finds friends in a community of transvestites and trans women in Paris. Creator Gad Elmaleh has said his film might not have been received the same nowadays, he wanted to portray a character "who was authentic, with a true heart, for whom it is a tragedy not to be able to live as her/his authentic self. I'm afraid now [I'm not to using the right words]." | France |
| 2003 | A Mighty Wind | Mark Shubb | Trans woman | Harry Shearer | Shubb has transitioned into a woman during the film. | United States |
| 2003 | Normal | Ruth Applewood | Trans woman | Tom Wilkinson | A midwestern factory worker and closeted trans woman, who stuns her wife of 25 years, revealing that she wishes to have sex reassignment surgery, and changing her name to Ruth. | United States |
| 2003 | Party Monster | Christina | Trans woman | Marilyn Manson | The film involves transsexuality in the character Christina. | United States |
| 2003 | Soldier's Girl | Calpernia | Trans woman | Lee Pace | Based on the real-life story of the relationship between Private Barry Winchell and singer Calpernia Addams. | United States |
| 2004 | Agnes and His Brothers | Agnes | Trans woman | Martin Weiß | Martin, who is now Agnes after having a gender-reassignment operation, works as a dancer and is suffering from unrequited love. | Germany |
| 2004 | Bad Education | Zahara | Transgender | Gael García Bernal | Zahara is a drag queen whose birth name is Ignacio. | Spain |
| 2004 | Wild Side | Stéphanie | Trans woman | Stéphanie Michelini | Main trans character played by a trans actress. The film won the Teddy Award in 2004. | France |

### 2005–2009

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 2005 | 20 centímetros | Marieta | Trans woman | Mónica Cervera | A narcoleptic trans woman during her transition from male to female. | Spain |
| 2005 | Breakfast on Pluto | Patrick "Kitten" Braden | Trans woman | Cillian Murphy | Assigned male at birth, young Patrick, living during the Irish Times of Trouble, is later shown donning a dress and lipstick, which angers her foster family. | Ireland |
| 2005 | Breakfast on Pluto | Patrick "Kitten" Braden | Trans woman | Cillian Murphy | Assigned male at birth, young Patrick, living during the Irish Times of Trouble, is later shown donning a dress and lipstick, which angers her foster family. | United Kingdom |
| 2005 | Strange Circus | Yuji | Trans man | Issei Ishida | The novelist's assistant. | Japan |
| 2005 | Tom-Yum-Goong | Madame Rose | Trans woman | Jin Xing | Madame Rose, the main villain, is a transgender woman in the international versions. The actress who plays Rose, Jin Xing, is also transgender herself. | Thailand |
| 2005 | Transamerica | Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne | Trans woman | Felicity Huffman | Bree is a trans woman who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son Toby. | United States |
| 2005 | The World's Fastest Indian | Tina | Trans Woman | Chris Williams | Tina is a motel clerk that assist the main character in retrieving his motorcycle from customs and buying a car. | New Zealand |
| 2006 | En Soap | Veronica | Trans woman | David Dencik | A film about the love between a (pre-operative) trans woman, Veronica, and a lesbian. | Denmark |
| 2006 | Grilled | Loridonna | Trans woman | Sofía Vergara | A sultry trans woman who seduces unsuspecting Maurice when he and Dave, two desperate meat salesmen, knock on her door. | United States |
| 2007 | Itty Bitty Titty Committee | Aggie | Trans man | Lauren Mollica | A comedy about young feminists who spread their message through public art and vandalism. Aggie is a trans man and he bonds with the main character, Anna, who recently broke up with her girlfriend and falls in love with Sadie, later developing an apparent crush on her. | United States |
| 2009 | Powder Blue | Lexus | Transgender | Alejandro Romero | Lexus is a pre-op trans woman prostitute who shares an unexpected emotional bond with the priest Charlie. | United States |
| 2009 | Paulista | Suzana | Trans woman | Maria Clara Spinelli | A lawyer who is the roommate of the main character. | Brazil |
| 2009 | Strella | Strella | Trans woman | Mina Orfanou | A young transgender prostitute named Strella meets Yorgos when he is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. | United States |

### 2010–2014

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 2010 | Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives | Bubbles Cliquot | Trans woman | Krystal Summers | A rape/revenge "transploitation" film about a trio of trans women who avenge themselves on three men who brutally attack them and kill two of their friends. GLAAD stated that the film "misrepresent[s] the lives of transgender women and use[s] grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women in ways that make light of the horrific brutality they all too often face", adding that the film conflated transgenderism with drag, which would create the impression in viewers unfamiliar with trans issues that "transgender women are ridiculous caricatures of 'real women'".while lead actress Krystal Summers said that the film "does not promote hate or violence against transgender women...[and is] a work of fiction and a revenge fantasy." | United States |
| 2011 | Albert Nobbs | Albert Nobbs | Trans man | Glenn Close | Although born female, Albert has spent the last 30 years living as a man and meets Hubert, a painter who is also living as a man after escaping an abusive husband. Albert is living in 19th century Dublin and working as a butler. | United Kingdom |
| 2011 | Albert Nobbs | Hubert Page | Trans man | Janet McTeer | Although born female, Albert has spent the last 30 years living as a man and meets Hubert, a painter who is also living as a man after escaping an abusive husband. Albert is living in 19th century Dublin and working as a butler. | Ireland |
| 2011 | Austin Unbound: A Deaf Journey of Transgender Heroism | Austin Richey | Trans man | Austin Richey | The film mainly focuses on Rochey’s deafness. | United States |
| 2011 | Elvis & Madonna | Madonna | Trans woman | Igor Cotrim | The movie is about the romance between a trans woman and a cis lesbian | Brazil |
| 2011 | Facing Mirrors | Adineh (Eddie) | Trans man | Shayesteh Irani | Rana and Adineh (Eddie), two people of different backgrounds and social class are brought together to share a cab ride. In the middle of their journey in the cab, Rana realizes that her passenger Adineh is transgender, and is planning on having an operation. | Iran |
| 2011 | Gun Hill Road | Vanessa | Trans woman | Harmony Santana | A film about a recently released ex-convict coping with her estranged wife and daughter, Vanessa, who is going through transition from male to female. | United States |
| 2011 | Romeos | Lukas | Trans man | Rick Okon | A drama and tragicomedy which revolves around the romantic relationship between Lukas, a 20-year-old gay trans man who is transitioning from female to male, and a cisgender gay man named Fabio. | United States |
| 2011 | Tomboy | Mikäel | Trans man | Zoé Héran | A 10-year-old AFAB child who, after moving with their family to a new neighborhood, introduces themself to their new friends as Mikäel. The film has been described as being about a girl who pretends to be a boy or, alternatively, about a transgender boy. | France |
| 2012 | 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom | Phyllis | Trans woman | Ron Perlman | Phyllis is a hacker. | United States |
| 2012 | Laurence Anyways | Laurence Alia | Trans woman | Melvil Poupaud | Alia is an award-winning novelist and literature teacher in Montreal, Quebec. | Canada |
| 2013 | 52 Tuesdays | James | Trans man | Del Herbert-Jane | The film centres on a teenage girl dealing with the gender transition of a parent. | Australia |
| 2013 | Adult World | Rubia | Transgender | Armando Riesco | Amy moves in with her coworker Rubia and they become close friends. | United States |
| 2013 | Dallas Buyers Club | Rayon | Trans woman | Jared Leto | Rayon is an HIV-positive drug addict. | United States |
| 2014 | Boy Meets Girl | Ricky | Trans woman | Michelle Hendley | A trans woman from rural Kentucky, awaiting acceptance into a New York fashion design school, learns about acceptance, friendship, sexuality and love. | United States |
| 2014 | Carmín Tropical | Mabel | Trans woman | José Pecina | An indigenous trans woman or muxe investigates the murder of her best friend. | Mexico |
| 2014 | Pierrot Lunaire | Pierrot | Trans man | Susanne Sachsse | An adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire that features a trans man in the title role. | Canada |
| 2014 | Pierrot Lunaire | Pierrot | Trans man | Susanne Sachsse | An adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire that features a trans man in the title role. | Germany |
| 2014 | Predestination | Jane/John | Transgender | Sarah Snook | John is born female in a Cleveland orphanage. | Australia |

### 2015–2019

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 2015 | 3 Generations | Ray | Trans man | Elle Fanning | Teenager Ray is transitioning from female to male. Ray struggles with his mother and grandmother to get approved for hormone replacement therapy. | United States |
| 2015 | Bill | Gabriel Montoya | Trans woman | Jim Howick | Trans woman who is one of King Philip's minions. | United Kingdom |
| 2015 | The Danish Girl | Lili Elbe | Transgender | Eddie Redmayne | Elbe is one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery. | United Kingdom |
| 2015 | The Danish Girl | Lili Elbe | Transgender | Eddie Redmayne | Elbe is one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery. | United States |
| 2015 | Grandma | Deathy | Transgender | Laverne Cox | Deathy is Elle's tattoo artist friend. | United States |
| 2015 | Tangerine | Alexandra | Trans woman | Mya Taylor | Alexandra and Rella are transgender sex workers | United States |
| 2015 | Tangerine | Sin-Dee Rella | Trans woman | Kitana Kiki Rodriguez | Alexandra and Rella are transgender sex workers | United States |
| 2015 | Two 4 One | Adam | Trans man | Gavin Crawford | Transgender man helps ex-girlfriend with her insemination, inseminates himself in the process | Canada |
| 2016 | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie | Patsy Stone | Trans woman | Joanna Lumley | Stone is redesigned as a trans woman in the movie. | United Kingdom, United States |
| 2016 | Spidarlings | The Diva | Trans woman | Jeff Kristian | The film focuses on a lesbian couple, Eden and Mathilda. | United Kingdom |
| 2016 | Apricot Groves | Aram | Trans man | Narbe Vartan | Aram is an Iranian-Armenian who has lived in America and returns to Armenia to meet his girlfriend’s family and ask permission to marry her, and to receive gender-affirming surgery in Iran. | Armenia |
| 2016 | Tamara (2016 Venezuelan film) | Tamara | Trans woman | Luis Fernández (actor) | The film is about a successful lawyer who takes the decision to start a gender transition. | Venezuela |
| 2017 | A Fantastic Woman | Marina Vidal | Trans woman | Daniela Vega | Marina works as a singer and a waitress in Santiago, Chile who is grieving the sudden death of her boyfriend. | Chile |
| 2017 | Close-knit | Rinko | Trans woman | Toma Ikuta | Tomo, 11 year old girl, goes to live with her uncle and his girlfriend, Rinko, who is a trans woman. | Japan |
| 2018 | A Kid Like Jake | Jake Wheeler | Transgender | Leo James Davis | Jake is Alex and Greg's preschool age son. | United States |
| 2018 | Assassination Nation | Bex | Trans woman | Hari Nef | Bex discusses whether or not LGBTQ people should be sympathetic to those "who enact policies to erase them." | United States |
| 2018 | Every Day | Vic | Trans woman | Ian Alexander | Vic is one of the teenagers the spirit "A" experiences in. | United States |
| 2018 | For Nonna Anna | Chris | Trans woman | Maya Henry | A young trans woman taking care of her ailing grandmother. | Canada |
| 2018 | Just Charlie | Charlie | Trans woman | Harry Gilby | A young trans girl who loves to play football | United States |
| 2018 | Girl | Lara Verhaegen | Trans woman | Victor Polster | A trans girl in training to become a ballerina. Over the course of the story she seeks hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery. | United States |
| 2018 | Tracey | "Travis Tung" / "Tracey" | Trans woman | Philip Keung | Story about a married man and father whose craving for feminization increases, leading him to transition from male to female both mentally and physically. | Hong Kong |
| 2018 | Voyez comme on danse | Serena | Trans woman | Sara Martins | Serena is a trans woman who has a relationship with a married man. The romance is secondary. | France |
| 2019 | Adam | Ethan | Trans man | Leo Sheng | The main character is a straight cisgender man who is perceived as a trans man accidentally and who does not dispute that error until some time into the story. He is friends with a trans man, Ethan, played by Leo Sheng. | United States |
| 2019 | Alice Júnior | Alice Júnior | Trans woman | Anna Celestino Mota | A trans girl who moves to the countryside. | Brazil |
| 2019 | Bit | Laurel | Trans woman | Nicole Maines | Laurel moves to Los Angeles after graduating high school, looking to make a fresh start after transitioning. | United States |
| 2019 | La Dea Fortuna | Mina | Trans woman | Cristina Bugatty | A white trans woman who's a friend of the main characters. | Italy |
| 2019 | Lola (Lola vers la mer) | Lola | Trans woman | Mya Bollaers | A white trans woman suffers the loss of her mother and having to deal with her father whom she hasn't seen in a long time and who is not accepting of her trans identity. The actress is a trans woman. | France |
| 2019 | Port Authority | Waye | Trans woman | Leyna Bloom | A black trans woman who participates in New York City's ball culture. | United States |
| 2019 | The True Adventures of Wolfboy | Aristiana | Trans girl | Sophie Giannamore | Giannamore is a "mermaid" girl whom Harker befriends. | United States |

### 2020–2024

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
| 2020 | Cowboys | Joe | Trans man | Sasha Knight | Trans boy Joe's troubled but well-intentioned father Troy takes off with him into the Montana wilderness, pursued by police, after his wife Sally, from whom he has recently separated, refuses to let Joe live as his authentic self. | United States | |
| 2020 | A Good Man | Benjamin | Trans man | Noémie Merlant | A drama about a French couple's wish to have a child that leads Benjamin, a trans man, to become pregnant because of his partner's inability to conceive. | France | |
| 2020 | Miss | Alex | Genderfluid | Alexandre Wetter | Alex has always wanted to be Miss France, they are now trying to accomplish that dream. The character is not presented as a trans woman but they could be described as a genderfluid person. There is a trans woman, Lola, played by a cisgender actor, who is a sex worker. The film has been criticized for its poor portrayal of the transgender experience, for being racist and treating the subject of sex work poorly. | France | |
| 2020 | Night Ride | Ariel | Trans woman | Ola Hoemsnes Sandum | Allan flirts with Ariel, but becomes upset upon learning Ariel's gender identity. | Norway | |
| 2020 | A Perfectly Normal Family | Agnete | Trans woman | Mikkel Boe Følsgaard | The story follows Emma whose parent is transitioning as a trans woman. | Italy | |
| 2020 | Rūrangi | Caz Davis | Trans man | Elz Carrad | Caz Davis left his home in the small town of Rūrangi, abandoning everyone, and moved to Auckland to start his new life where he transitions. Years later, he returns to the town where he grew up for the first time as an out trans man. Elz Carrad is trans and this is his first role. He had no connexion to the trans community in New Zealand. The project was initially planned to be a five-part web series, but was later edited together into a feature film. They set out to create a film that was 'by us and about us', and that meant making sure the audience got to see trans-positive experiences in the film, and show that they have love for themselves, along with affection from friends, family and the community. | New Zealand | |
| 2020 | Valentina | Valentina | Trans woman | Thiessa Woinbackk | The film portrays the challenges of a young trans girl who faces difficulties in ensuring that her identity is respected after moving to a small town. | Brazil | |
| 2021 | See You Then | Kris Ahadi | Trans woman | Pooya Mohseni | Kris is a trans-woman from Phoenix, Arizona. | United States | |
| 2021 | Space Sweepers | Bubs | Transgender | Kim Hyang Gi | A group of space junk collectors discover a humanoid robot named Bubs. Some called Bubs a "trans allegory" rather than representation. | South Korea | |
| 2021 | Space Sweepers | Bubs | Transgender | Yoo Hae-jin | A group of space junk collectors discover a humanoid robot named Bubs. Some called Bubs a "trans allegory" rather than representation. | South Korea | |
| 2021 | West Side Story | Anybodys | Trans man | iris menas | Anybodys was originally written as a tomboy in the 1961 movie who yearns to be one of the Jets. | United States | |
| 2022 | Anything's Possible | Kelsea | Trans woman | Eva Reign | A young trans woman attending high school. | United States | |
| 2022 | Dodo | Eva | Trans woman, non-binary | Tzef Montana | She is a sex worker and the ex of the protagonist. | Greece | |
| 2022 | Joyland | Biba | Trans woman | Alina Khan | A Pakistani trans woman who the youngest son of the family depicted in the film falls in love with. | United States | |
| 2022 | L'immensità | Adriana / Adri / Andrea | Trans boy | Luana Giuliani | Adriana experiences gender dysphoria and identifies as a male and goes by the name of Andrea (a primarily masculine name in Italian). | Italy, France | |
| 2022 | The People's Joker | Joker the Harlequin/Vera | Trans woman | Vera Drew | Unofficial parody of the Batman franchise starring a transgender Joker | United States | |
| 2022 | The People's Joker | Mr. J | Trans man | Tommy Haynes | Unofficial parody of the Batman franchise starring a transgender Joker | United States | |
| 2022 | The People's Joker | Poison Ivy | Non-binary | Ruin Carroll | Unofficial parody of the Batman franchise starring a transgender Joker | United States | |
| 2022 | A Man Called Otto | Malcolm | Trans boy | Mack Bayda | Malcolm is one of Otto's wife's students. | United States | |
| 2022 | Monica | Monica | Trans woman | Trace Lysette | Monica is estranged from her family. She returns home to care for her dying mother. | United States, Italy | |
| 2022 | Paloma | Paloma | Trans woman | Kika Sena | The film follows the life story of Paloma, a transsexual rural producer who dreams of getting married in church to her boyfriend, Zé, however, the local church does not allow the union to be made official | Brazil | |
| 2022 | Women Talking | Melvin | Trans man | August Winter | Melvin has adopted a male identity after a brutal incestuous rape and now rarely speaks except to the colony's children | United States | |
| 2023 | Mutt | Feña | Trans man | Lio Mehiel | Feña is a Chilea-American trans man who is forced to reunite with three people from his past. His little sister, his father, and his ex-boyfriend. | United States | [209] [210] |
| 2023 | Un homme heureux | Edith | Trans man | Catherine Frot | As Eddy, trans man, announces to his husband that he is trans and is going to transition, his husband, mayor of a smalltown, announces he is running again for the position. The film then follows the couple as Jean processes that news while Eddy continues with his transition. The film is a comedy. | France | |
| 2023 | 20,000 Species of Bees | Lucía | Trans girl | Sofia Otero | Lucía is an 8-year old transgender girl | Spain | |
| 2023 | Marupok AF (Where Is The Lie?) | Janzen Torres | Trans woman | EJ Jallorina | Trans woman who falls victim to an online dating catfishing scheme. The film is based on the online dating experience of a real trans woman. | Philippines | |
| 2023 | Here Comes the Groom | Wilhelmina | Trans woman | KaladKaren | The film features multiple body swaps including one involving the protagonist Rodrigo Jr. (Enchong Dee) and Wilhelmina. | Philippines | |
| 2023 | My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 | Victory | Non-binary | Melina Kotselou | Victory is the mayor of Vrisi, a village which features as the main setting of the film. | United States | |
| 2023 | Next Goal Wins | Jaiyah Saelua | Transgender | Kaimana | Saelua is the first openly non-binary and trans woman to compete in a FIFA World Cup qualifier. | United States | |
| 2023 | Orlando, My Political Biography | Orlando | Transgender/Non-binary | 21 transgender and non-binary persons | The film explores the struggles of trans and binary people through Woolf's novel Orlando | France | |
| 2023 | Summer Solstice | Leo | Trans man | Bobbi Salvör Menuez | The film is about Leo, a trans actor, who reunites with his cisgender friend, Eleanor, who knew him before he started transitioning. | United States | |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez / Juan "Small Hands" Del Monte | Trans woman | Karla Sofía Gascón | Pérez is an escaped Mexican cartel leader in undergoing sex reassignment surgery to both evade the authorities and affirm her gender. | France | |
| 2024 | Monkey Man | Alpha | Trans woman | Vipin Sharma | Alpha is the community leader of Yatana's hijra community, the transgender people who live in communities that follow a kinship system known as guru-chela system in India. | Canada, United States | |
| 2024 | Ponyboi | Charlie | Trans woman | Indya Moore | Charlie is a MC at a local club. | United States | |
| 2024 | Soul of the Desert | Georgina Epiayu | Trans woman | Georgina Epiayu | Trans indigenous | Colombia, Brazil | |
| 2024 | Stress Positions | Karla | Trans woman | Theda Hammel | Karla is Terry's best friend. | United States | |

### 2025

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Identity | Actor | Notes | Country | Ref(s) |
| 2025 | Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare | Timmy / Tinker Bell | Transgender | Kit Green | This version of Tinker Bell is a human woman kidnapped by Peter Pan years ago. | United Kingdom | |