Movies Like Trans Parent

If you liked Trans Parent (2018), a romance movie directed by Jim Powers, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Hot Spot (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also romance
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.
2
True Romance (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also romance
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.
3
In the Room (2015)
★ 4.6/10Also romance
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.
4
Them (2023)
Also romance
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.
5
Nobody's Perfect (1981)
★ 5.5/10Also romance
Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.
6
Different for Girls (1997)
★ 7.1/10Also romance
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…
7
Love, Lust and Ecstasy (1981)
★ 5/10Also romance
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…
8
It Gets Better (2012)
★ 3.7/10Also romance
Three intersecting stories of transgender romance explore the boundaries of love, culture and identity across three generations.
9
Boy Meets Girl (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also romance
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.
10
That Dark Day (2022)
Fabio is a young trans man mourning the end of a love affair. Louise is ill and away from her family. Amid a polarized and bigoted society, he is her caregiver while she becomes his rock. Now they have each other to…
11
My Life as a Dog (1985)
★ 7.3/10
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.
12
Venus (2017)
★ 6.1/10
When Sid comes out as a woman, a 14-year-old boy named Ralph literally shows up at her door announcing that Sid is his dad. Ralph is surprised to discover that his father is now a woman, but thinks having a transgender…
13
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972)
★ 7/10
An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.
14
Paris Is Burning (1991)
★ 8/10
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…
15
This Side of Heaven (2016)
★ 1/10
V, an older trans woman, is desperately trying to hold on to her rent stabilized apartment in New York City.
16
Miss Mona (1987)
★ 6.5/10
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…
17
Saint Jack (1979)
★ 6.6/10
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he…
18
Renée (2011)
★ 4.5/10
"Renee" tells the story of Renee Richards' battle to enter the 1977 U.S. Open as the first transgender tennis player. Simultaneously, it follows her today as she struggles to cope with a life of contradictions and…
19
Loxoro (2012)
★ 1/10
This short tells the story about the existing boundary between what is masculine and feminine in the Peruvian LGBT community.
20
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982)
★ 5.9/10
On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fan club gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.