# List of feature films with intersex characters

This is a list of films with fictional and factual intersex 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 intersex characters, which are noted in List of fictional intersex characters.
Various live-action films feature either intersex issues as a plot element or have intersex 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) | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 1919 | Different from the Others | Slideshow including intersex persons | One of them was 'Raspania' (uncredited), an intersex person who worked for the German circus Sarrasani. | In a lecture on the natural diversity of the sexual and gender spectrum, the Doctor, a character portrayed by Magnus Hirschfeld, displays images of women with masculine traits and men with feminine traits, including intersex individuals. | Germany |
| 1927 | Gesetze der Liebe (Laws of Love) | Slideshow including intersex persons | 'Raspania' (credited) | A doctor (Magnus Hirschfeld) gives a lecture on sexuality in nature, discussing human sexuality and its natural variations, which are anomalous yet nonpathological. | Germany |
| 1932 | The Blood of a Poet | Intersex body | Possibly as a mirrored reflection of the main character's soul (played by Enrique Riveros). | In front of the fourth door, side by side, stand two shoes—a man's and a woman's. “In room nineteen, the desperate rendezvous of hermaphrodites take place,” remarks the narrator. The main character peeks through the keyhole: Drawn in chalk, an intersex body gradually emerges to the sound of a drumroll. Real male arms extend out of the drawing, followed by human legs and the face of a Gorgon. A sign concealing the sexual organs bears the warning: "Danger of death." | France |
| 1932 | Freaks | Half Woman-Half Man | Josephine Joseph | Josephine Joseph's only acting performance is the first (mis)representation of an intersex person in cinema. | United States |
| 1953 | Glen or Glenda | Alan/Anne | 'Tommy' Haynes | Ed Wood's docudrama advocates for tolerance and explores gender roles and social issues in the postwar era, offering a provocative discussion on gender politics. Alan is a war veteran and "pseudo-hermaphrodite", who decides to undergo gender-affirming surgery to become a woman, Anne. | United States |

### 1960–1969

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 1965 | The Mandrake | L'Uomo-Donna (The Man-Woman) | Donato Castellaneta | In a street market, a person is shown with a masculine appearance on one side and a feminine one on the other, including unilateral gynecomastia. | Italy, France |
| 1969 | Fellini Satyricon | Hermaphroditus | Pasquale Baldassarre | Fellini's Satyricon is a representation of the "otherness" of the unconscious. The albino Hermaphroditus, demigod and oracle (that must be kept constantly wet or he will die) is "the mouthpiece of the gods". On set Eileen Hughes asked Eugene Walter (the American dialogue coach) why Fellini wanted a "hermaphrodite" in the film: "Nowadays, if a family had a hermaphrodite, they would keep it a deep dark secret or have an operation, but in these times, it is a magical thing, a gift of the gods, and the child becomes an oracle." | Italy |
| 1969 | The Labyrinth of Sex | Roberta/Robert X | uncredited | After informing the audience about the causes of homosexuality and various fetishes with a lot of Freudian mambo-jambo, Alfonso Brescia's "informative" docudrama turns its focus to intersex people. It tells the story of Roberta/Robert X, showing actual footage of their final surgery. The film then presents a few cases of "malformations" in children, arguing that operations on them are necessary to prevent "psychic trauma". | Italy |

### 1970–1979

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 1970 | I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen | all women in the first timeline | Jana Brejchová, etc. | In this science fiction comedy (filmed at the end of the summer of 1968, after the Prague Spring), set in a "distant," dystopian future following an atomic holocaust, women have become infertile and bearded. To save humanity's future, they decide the best course of action is to travel back in time and kill Einstein. However, the mission fails when Doctor Given (Jana Brejchová) falls in love with the young Einstein. As an alternative, she marries him and persuades him to abandon physics in favor of becoming a violinist. The team succeeds in changing the timeline... only to discover that World War III ends in a chemical holocaust, and now, men grow breasts and have high-pitched voices. | Czechoslovakia |
| 1970 | I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen | all men in the second timeline | | In this science fiction comedy (filmed at the end of the summer of 1968, after the Prague Spring), set in a "distant," dystopian future following an atomic holocaust, women have become infertile and bearded. To save humanity's future, they decide the best course of action is to travel back in time and kill Einstein. However, the mission fails when Doctor Given (Jana Brejchová) falls in love with the young Einstein. As an alternative, she marries him and persuades him to abandon physics in favor of becoming a violinist. The team succeeds in changing the timeline... only to discover that World War III ends in a chemical holocaust, and now, men grow breasts and have high-pitched voices. | Czechoslovakia |
| 1970 | Tintomara | Tintomara | Pia Grønning | Based on the novel Drottningens juvelsmycke by Jonas Love Almqvist featuring one of Swedish literature's most enduringly popular characters, the eponymous androgyne Tintomara. | Sweden, Denmark |
| 1972 | My Dearest Senorita | Adela/Juan | José Luis López Vázquez | The condition of Adela/Juan is deliberately kept vague throughout the film to manage Franco's censorship. The character is an amalgamation of the notions of intersexuality, homosexuality, and transsexuality. Nevertheless, his intersex condition is hinted at, with the masculinizing surgery described by the doctor as a "small intervention". | Spain |
| 1973 | The Final Programme | Miss Brunner merged with Jerry Cornelius | Jon Finch | Dystopian sci-fi based on the novel The Final Programme by Michael Moorcock. | UK |
| 1973 | The Holy Mountain | Old "hermaphrodite" | uncredited | Near the end of the movie, at the summit of the mountain, a pilgrim lifts a sheet to reveal an elderly "hermaphrodite". The pilgrim drinks milk from one of their breasts, which then transforms into jaguar heads. The "hermaphrodite" proceeds to shower the pilgrim with milk. | Mexico |
| 1976 | God Told Me To | Bernard Phillips | Richard Lynch | Bernard Phillips, a messiah and cult leader who was virgin-born (via alien immaculate conception), has a vagina on their chest and seeks to spawn a new species. Director Larry Cohen: "...the whole idea of the mating between the Detective and the alien came from the fact that Richard Lynch literally had this big crevice in his chest that looked like a vagina. I saw that and said, “Well, here’s something new we can do.”" (more than 70% of his skin was burned in an accident) | United States |
| 1976 | Private Vices, Public Pleasures | Mary Vetsera | Teresa Ann Savoy | Losely based on the Mayerling incident, the director Miklós Jancsó, decided to portray Mary Vetsera as intersex. | Italy, Yugoslavia |

### 1980–1989

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 1980 | Eva Man (Due sessi in uno) | Eva Man | Eva Robin's | In this (inter)sexploitation comedy the protagonist is an (inter)sex machine. Given the genre of the film, it likely stems purely from a voyeuristic perspective, but it is worth mentioning that the surgeon refused to perform gender-affirming surgery on Eva, stating: "She asked me to transform her into a woman, like so many 'hermaphrodites' who are forced to choose between one or the other gender. But seeing what a 'marvelous example of hermaphroditism' she is, I couldn't do it." | Italy, Spain |
| 1981 | Deadly Blessing | Faith Stohler | Lisa Hartman | A strange string of murders begins, seemingly carried out by Hartman, an intersex neighbor with an intense need to shut out anyone from Jensen's life. | United States |
| 1983 | Appearances Are Deceptive | Adriana/Adrián | Isela Vega | In a provincial bourgeoisie with rigidly defined roles regarding gender, social status, and more, appearances are of utmost importance. Bit by bit, Jaime Humberto Hermosillo's film peels back the mask of Mexico's hypocritical society in the late 1970s. The theme of what it means to be intersex is only briefly touched upon: when Adrian begins to develop breasts during puberty, they disappear. A few years later, a mysterious niece, Adriana, appears. The life of an intersex person is portrayed as one of secrecy, particularly surrounding their genitals, reflecting the societal stigma and shame often imposed on those who do not fit binary norms. Adriana's insistence on preserving their virginity until marriage is a way to keep their genitals a secret, avoiding questions or scrutiny about their body. Nevertheless, while they fear society's condemnation, they like their body. After all, they exclaim: "I am perfect!" in response to Rogelio's joke: "Why are you so afraid of losing your virginity? I think you are defective." Intersexuality is used here to introduce an element that, at the time, was considered "monstrous" and morally ambiguous. | Mexico |
| 1985 | The Mystery of Alexina | Herculine Barbin | Philippe Vuillemin | Based on the story of Herculine Barbin. | France |
| 1985 | Enemy Mine | Jeriba Shigan | Louis Gossett Jr. | Based on Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear. Will: "Oh, my God! Are you telling me you're pregnant? [...] But how'd..." Jeriba: "With you humans,... birth is a matter of choice. With us Dracs,... it happens. When the time comes,... it just happens." | United States |
| 1986 | Never Too Young to Die | Velvet von Ragner | Gene Simmons (bassist of Kiss) | In this film, sexual otherness is portrayed as evil: Velvet von Ragner is a sinister hermaphrodite, bisexual drag queen, and cult leader aiming to seize control of Los Angeles. | United States |

### 1990–1999

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 1994 | Angel Dust | Tomoo Suma | Etsushi Toyokawa | After forensic psychiatrist Dr. Setsuko Suma is murdered, their autopsy revealed their intersexuality. | Japan |
| 1994 | Clerks | thematic | - | In one scene, Dante notices that Randal has rented a film titled Best of Both Worlds and asks about it. Randal explains that it is "hermaphroditic porn" featuring "starlets with both organs" and comments on their anatomy. He states that he likes to "expand his horizons." Later, Dante's ex-girlfriend, arrives at the store while Randal is watching the rented movie. There is a facetious flirt between the two. When Randal jokes about joining in with her and Dante, she responds that he "might be let down" because she is "not a hermaphrodite." Randal replies, "Few are." | United States |
| 1995 | Ring | Sadako Yamamura | Ayane Miura | TV movie based on Koji Suzuki's novel Ring. Sadako presents as an attractive woman, but their gender is ambiguous due to having Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Lacking a uterus, they cannot bear children, and as a result, their life is depicted as disappointing. To make matters worse, in the end, they are raped by a man carrying the smallpox virus and then cast into a well, left to die to cover his crime. The virus inside them fuses with their own psychic abilities, giving rise to a new entity—the "Ring Virus." In a final act of desperation and defiance, they channel it from the depths of the well, sending it into the world above as both a curse and a cry for survival. | Japan |
| 1999 | The Ring Virus | Park Eun-suh | Bae Doona | The South Korean theatrical version of Koji Suzuki's novel Ring retains Sadako's original gender identity, unlike the 1998 Japanese version, Ring, and the 2002 Hollywood version, The Ring, in which the girl in the well is female. | South Korea |
| 1999 | Terror Firmer | Casey | Will Keenan | Casey was born with both male and female genitalia; his childhood was marked by trauma when his father, played by Ron Jeremy, amputated his penis and subjected him to sexual abuse (don't worry, he is going to pay dearly for that later in the movie). This horrific backstory, presented with grotesque, over-the-top humor, mocks other films that exploit intersex people to evoke pity for the killer, such as God Told Me To, Deadly Blessing, and Ring. In a post-credit scene, director Lloyd Kaufman makes a plea for more tolerance and against enforcing medical interventions on intersex people. Meanwhile, in the background, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, wearing fake breasts, attempt to find a bathroom for intersex but end up defecating into a dirty bucket, while making sad faces. | United States |
| 1999 | Terror Firmer | "The Hermaphrodites" (post-credit scene) | Trey Parker and Matt Stone | Casey was born with both male and female genitalia; his childhood was marked by trauma when his father, played by Ron Jeremy, amputated his penis and subjected him to sexual abuse (don't worry, he is going to pay dearly for that later in the movie). This horrific backstory, presented with grotesque, over-the-top humor, mocks other films that exploit intersex people to evoke pity for the killer, such as God Told Me To, Deadly Blessing, and Ring. In a post-credit scene, director Lloyd Kaufman makes a plea for more tolerance and against enforcing medical interventions on intersex people. Meanwhile, in the background, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, wearing fake breasts, attempt to find a bathroom for intersex but end up defecating into a dirty bucket, while making sad faces. | United States |

## 21st century
### 2000–2009

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 2005 | Both | Rebeca Duarte | Jackie Parker | Rebeca discovers that her gender was not what she had believed it to be. The film is partly based on the life of the director, Lisset Barcellos. | United States |
| 2006 | Clerks II | Emma Bunting | Jennifer Schwalbach Smith (credited as Jennifer Schwalbach) | Dante's girlfriend, Emma, has an "unnaturally large clit" (clitoromegaly). Randal: D’jever think about getting an operation to scale it back or something? Make it a little more normal? Emma: Yeah - I should probably do that, huh? I mean, it’s only responsible for paralyzing orgasms. | United States |
| 2007 | XXY | Alex Kraken | Inés Efron | The 15-year-old Alex interrupted the hormone replacement therapy without telling their parents. Without the medication, the hormones in 'her' body will gradually turn 'her' into 'him'. The mother doesn't like that; the surgeon wants to intervene. Only the father accepts Alex's choice. | Argentina, Spain, France |
| 2007 | XXY | Juan | Guillermo Angelelli | The 15-year-old Alex interrupted the hormone replacement therapy without telling their parents. Without the medication, the hormones in 'her' body will gradually turn 'her' into 'him'. The mother doesn't like that; the surgeon wants to intervene. Only the father accepts Alex's choice. | Argentina, Spain, France |
| 2009 | Hermafrodita | Maria | Marilu Acosta | In this tragic love triangle, La Melaza, fleeing to the countryside after a revenge murder, meets Maria, a woman with a secret: she is intersex, identifying herself as a woman. Maria's childhood best friend, Wanda, who loves her and accepts her identity without question, becomes jealous of Maria's relationship with La Melaza. One night, Wanda seduces a drunk La Melaza to frame him for infidelity, causing Maria to leave him. Consumed by obsession, La Melaza, drunk again, confronts Maria at her home. When she rejects him, he grabs her, causing her to fall and hit her head. As he rapes her unconscious body, he discovers her genitals, becomes enraged, and violently castrates her while shouting, "You wanted to be a woman? I'll make you a woman!" | Dominican Republic |
| 2009 | The Last Summer of La Boyita | Mario | Nicolás Treise | Mario's life is told from Jorgelina's perspective, highlighting the stark contrasts between the two. Economically, Jorgelina lives a life of privilege as the daughter of a wealthy man, spending summers on her family's farm. Mario, on the other hand, is the child of the farm's caretaker, living in modest circumstances. Emotionally, Jorgelina benefits from the stability and affection of a loving father, while Mario endures rejection and mistreatment from their own father. Sexually, Jorgelina's coming-of-age is marked by curiosity and societal acceptance, while Mario's journey is fraught with confusion, stigma, and the weight of being perceived as 'other.' | Argentina, Spain, France |

### 2010–2019

| Year | Title | Character(s) | Actor | Notes | Country |
| 2011 | Spork | Spork | Savannah Stehlin | 14-year-old Spork faces constant mistreatment from her classmates. When her best friend Tootsie Roll injures her ankle and can no longer compete in the school Dance-Off to win $236 for visiting her imprisoned father, Spork steps up and enters the competition. The story unfolds against a backdrop of 1990s nostalgia, with Spork and Tootsie Roll embracing early '90s hip-hop and fashion, while their rivals, led by Betsy Byotch, favor 1980s styles and music. Themes of friendship, self-discovery, and resilience are highlighted as Spork navigates her challenges. | United States |
| 2013 | Bruno & Earlene Go to Vegas | Bruno | Miles Szanto | My mother produced two eggs. XY for a boy and XX for a girl. Now, normally this would create twins. But the eggs merged and a chimera was formed. A boy was born with a uterus, an ovary and a fallopian tube. | UK, United States, France |
| 2014 | Predestination | Agent Doe "The Barkeep" | Ethan Hawke | In this time-travel thriller, after giving birth via C-section with complications, Jane learns from the surgeon that she was born with both male and female reproductive organs. Due to the complications during childbirth, the surgeon was forced to remove her uterus and ovaries. He then proposes masculinizing surgery, which she accepts. The inclusion of intersexuality in the plot is significant primarily because it enables the predestination paradox central to the story. | Australia |
| 2014 | Predestination | Jane/John "The Unmarried Mother" | Sarah Snook | In this time-travel thriller, after giving birth via C-section with complications, Jane learns from the surgeon that she was born with both male and female reproductive organs. Due to the complications during childbirth, the surgeon was forced to remove her uterus and ovaries. He then proposes masculinizing surgery, which she accepts. The inclusion of intersexuality in the plot is significant primarily because it enables the predestination paradox central to the story. | Australia |
| 2015 | Arianna | Arianna | Ondina Quadri | Despite the hormonal treatments nineteen-year-old Arianna has been undergoing for years, she has not yet had her first menstrual period. Through her encounter with her young cousin Celeste, who is so different and feminine compared to her, and with Martino, with whom she has a relationship, Arianna finds herself finally confronting the true nature of her sexuality. Unbeknownst to her parents, she undergoes a medical examination: she discovers her intersex condition, caused by a deficiency of the enzyme 5α-reductase, and that at the age of three, she had been subjected to genital surgery at her parents' request. | Italy |

### 2020–2025

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