Amor en Concreto Taking Place on the Avenida Libertador

Tittle:Amor De Concerto AKA- Love in Concrete

Genre: Drama

Year:2003

Plot: A four-part film from Venezuela with four stories that become intertwined amidst highway traffic. In the middle of an argument, Tony's father kicks him out of the car and onto the street where he is saved by a drag hooker. Cab driver Carlos celebrates his 20-year obsession with nighclub singer Carmer by approaching her for the first time. A newly employed Hector finds himself reosrting to desperate measures for money. Running from a stale marriage, Claudia is mugged and robbed of her life savings. source  tlavideo

Being John Malkovich Profound Meditation on Consciousness, Identity, Gender & Reality

Tittle: Being John Malkovich

Genre:  Comedy, Drama

Year: 1999

Plot: This wild, dark and at times quite funny little gem (with a wonderful lesbian/transgendered twist) is reminiscent of Eraserhead (though decidedly more accessible) and te films off Jan Svankmajer and the Brother Quay. John Cusack stars s the haplless Craig Schwartz, an immesely ttalented puppeteer who toils in obscurity and lives in a shabby New York City apartment with his dotting but dumpy wife Lotte (an almost unrecognizable Diaz). While working in a bizarre office on the 71/ flooor of a building, he stumbles upon a hidden doorway which, when entered, transports people into the psyche (body? Id?) of John Malkovich and then, after about 15 minutes, spits tem out onn the Jersey turnpike. He quickly joins forces with his coldly beautiful co-worker Maxine (Catherine Keener) to market this “portal” in the off-hours. Lesbians will enjoy the second half of the film when wife Lotte takes the tour and gets great pleasure in “being” a man sexually, a feeling that leads her to consider transsexualism. Adding to the sexual confusion is when Maxine begins dating Malkovich and Lotte enters him when the two make loe. Soon MMaxine will only have sex with Malkovich when she knows Lotte is inside him! In fat, she coonfesses to both Craig and Lotti that she loves Lotte, but only when Lotte is inside John. There’s more to this lesbian spin, but its best just to watch the film!  source tlavideo

En Soap AKA "Soap" Loving One For Who One Is

Tittle: Soap

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Year: 2006

Plot:32-year-old Charlotte could have it all, but she doesn`t want any of it. When she moves away from her boyfriend, she happens to become the upstairs neighbor of the transsexual Veronica. Veronica prefers to keep to herself with her little dog and a romantic soap show on TV, while Charlotte gets through the nights with one-night stands. An assault, a new bed, and some white curtains bring the two of them together and they end up as the main characters of their own turbulent “soap opera.” 
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M Butterfly A Sizzling Romance, Deception & Betrayal.

Tittle: M Butterfly

Genre: Drama

Year: 1993

Plot:Jeremy Irons and John Lone star as lovers in this far-fetched story of a man in a relationship with another man who doesn't know that his partner has a penis. We think new eyeglasses might have been warranted. Also features some delicious full-frontal nudity from real lady Annabel Leventon as she sits naked on a bed waiting for Irons to have sex with her.

David Henry Hwang's screen version of his hit play, while fascinating, is something of a letdown. Inspired by a true story, the tragic (and far-fetched) tale is about a man's self-delusional love for and betrayal by an alluring Chinese man who pretends to be a woman. A deer-in-the-headlights-like Jeremy Irons stars as Rene Gallimard, a nebbish accountant at the French Embassy who falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling (John Lone). As the two begin an affair, Gallimard rises in rank at the embassy, unknowingly disseminating government secrets. The action unfolds slowly and the film's emotional level never seems to rise above the simmering point of grand tragedy; though the relationship between Irons and Lone is romantic, tender and touching. Lone, in heavy makeup and beautifully dressed, plays a convincingly demure pre-op transgender woman.     source/buy it at tlavideo

TransGeneration 4 College Students Transitioning

Tittle: Trans Generation

Genre: Documentary, Drama

Year:2005

Plot:What is it like to be a man trapped in a woman's body? How does a woman become a man and vice versa? "Transgeneration," a dramatic and mesmerizing eight-part original series, is a year in the life look at four college students — Gabbie, Lucas, Raci and T.J. — who are juggling the challenges of academia with their commitment to transition from their birth sex.
Faced with life-altering choices — about how to deal with parents and society, whether or not to take hormone therapy or undergo sex reassignment surgery — these four remarkable individuals deal with their deeply misunderstood identities in starkly unique ways. In every moment of this radical, paradigm-busting series, these collegiate transgender students blow up stereotypes while coming to terms with how to change their bodies to fit their minds.source tlavideo

Life is Hot in Cracktown Gritty, Hard Realities

Tittle:Life Is Hot In Cracktown

Genre: Drama

Year:2009

Plot: Based on writer/director Buddy Giovinazzo’s best-selling novel, Life is Hot in Cracktown shows the gritty, hard realities of a neighborhood, as well as the struggling, proud people who try to survive them. Life Is Hot in Cracktown explores how crack cocaine infiltrated the streets of urban America by following the journeys of four people whose lives are on a tragic collision course
Marybeth (Kerry Washington) is a pre-op transsexual working as a prostitute and living with her lover, Benny, a small time burglar. In spite of their lines of work, they live a somewhat normal life as a married couple. Marybeth works the streets in the hopes of saving enough money for her final sex change operation, so then she and Benny can be married. Meanwhile, Manny (Victor Rasuk) is busy pulling double shifts while his wife, Concetta (Shannyn Sossamon), cares for their sickly infant son in their run-down apartment. By night Manny works at a 24-hour bodega frequented by junkies, drug dealers, and prostitutes, and by day keeps the peace as a security guard at a welfare hotel. One of the residents at that hotel is Willy, a ten-year-old boy who lives with his mother (Illeana Douglas) and her abusive boyfriend. Willy begs for money on the street so he and Susie can get some fast food. But it's dangerous out there, because volatile gangster Romeo (Evan Ross) is still searching the streets for his brother's killer, and he won't hesitate to terrorize anyone unfortunate enough to cross his warpath. Lara Flynn Boyle, Brandon Routh, Desmond Harrington, and RZA co-star. [D-Man2010]
Note: As a Transgender I really appreciate & admire Mr. Giovinazzo, Kerry and the wonderful cast of the movie. For being sensitive & showing some of the real struggles living as a transgender. I think Kerry's acting was good but as Marybeth a TS. She was too fishy. She looked like a fag hag. I must say the make up artist did a great job trying to make her look like a TS.

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Agnes und seine Brüder -AKA 'Agnes And His Brother' A Transsexual

Tittle: Agnes And His Brother

Genre:Drama,Comedy

Year: 2004

Plot: Agnes and his brothers have little in common except an eccentric father, relationship problems that are totally screwing up their lives, and a distinct possibility those two things are connected.

Sex addict /meek librarian Hans-Jörg can't stop peeping on comely women. Werner, a successful politician, watches powerlessly as his bored wife and smartass son destroy their family. And Agnes, a transsexual, can't quite fit into the mold of happy homemaker expected by her bossy boyfriend.

An outrageous story of how everyday desires for sex, love and understanding can end up pushing people closer and closer to the edge. source tlavideo

Stryker-Movie by Noam Gonick War Between Two Street Gangs

Tittle: Stryker

Genre: Drama,Action

Year:2004

Plot: Stryker is the story of a brutal turf war between two street gangs in Winnipeg's North End. Omar (Ryan Black), the mixed-blood leader of the ABS (Asian Bomb Squad), dominates the ’hood with his crew of Filipino enforcers. His nemesis, Mama Ceece (Deena Fontaine), is the lesbian girl-thug leader of the Indian Posse. She has just been released from jail and is determined to regain control of her neighbourhood. "Stryker" is Canadian slang for a prospective gang member. This film follows one Stryker (Kyle Henry), a 14-year-old Native arsonist from a northern reserve whose arrival in the city serves as a catalyst in this fierce battle.

Wandering the unfamiliar boarded-up streets of Winnipeg's North End alone, Stryker hooks up with Daisy, a Métis (mixed blood) transgender hooker -- and he comes face to face with Omar -- the Napoleon-complex pimp of the district. Omar bitch slaps Daisy, rolling her for “holding out” on him. Stryker helps Daisy walk to her house – a trannie haven for the North End. Stryker has a home.   source tlavideo

Sweet November Love Story with a Ubiquitous Ad Exec/Drag Queen Neighbor

Tittle: Sweet November

Genre: Drama,Comedy,Romance

Year: 2001

Plot: Mistaking quirkiness for character, glibness for intellect, this pointless remake of the Sandy Dennis-Anthony Newley 1968 romantic drama desperately tries to be relevant but winds up only being desperate. In one of his worst performances, Reeves plays Nelson, a high-powered ad exec who meets in horribly cutesy fashion the kooky Sarah (Theron), a woman who inexplicably lives with a man for one month to boost his "confidence," and then moves on to the next one 30 days later. Nelson is Mr. November. You don't need a crystal ball to predict that the materialistic Nelson falls for this bohemian girl, ready to renounce his capitalist ways all for true love. A premise such as this may have worked in the '60s, but for early 21st century it absolutely creaks. The two stars appeared together in Devil's Advocate, and they continue to have a nice rapport. Their chemistry is sabotaged, however, by poor writing, featherlight characterizations and a sleep-inducing story. Lost in all this is a sly turn by Isaacs (the bad guy in The Patriot) as Sarah's neighbor, an even more high-powered ad exec/drag queen. source tlavideo 


 

    

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Normal He's a Woman in a Man's Body

Tittle:Normal

Genre:  Drama

Year:2003

Plot: A stunning film about a transgendered man in a small Illinois town starring Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson.  

      Lesbian writer/director Jane Anderson, who directed and wrote the stunning 1961 segment of If These Walls Could Talk 2 has given us quite a gift with Normal. Irma (Jessica Lange) and Roy (Tom Wilkinson) are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary in the Baptist church hall where they are quite active. When the minister salutes their union, Roy mysteriously faints. After tests prove that he's healthy physically, their minister calls them in to see if he can help. Roy confesses that it's not work stress but something far more serious - he's a woman in a man's body and he's decided to have gender re-assignment surgery. The look on Irma and the minister's face is something beyond shock. That evening Irma throws Roy out in disgust. Not only does Roy have to face his family with this news, but also his blue-collar co-workers and his conservative church. Roy finds spots of support in his life. Irma comes around because she loves Roy. Their daughter Patty Ann, with gender questions of her own, shows complete open acceptance. And Roy's boss agrees not only to keep him, but to promote Roy as a way for him to fend off any harm. Unfortunately the church offers no welcome to their transgendered follower.

This solid made-for-cable film is based on a stage play, Looking for Normal, and has been successfully adapted to film. The acting is first-rate all around, particularly Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson. While seeing Tom Wilkenson in clothing we normally ascribe to women might seem shocking at first, we get used to it, just as Irma must. Normal is a memorable film about a subject that is changing the way we view the world. source tlavideo

Ruby Blue

Tittle:Ruby Blue

Genre: Romance, Drama

Year:2000

Plot: One man rekindles his passion for life with the help of an alluring French neighbor and inquisitive young girl. Jack (Academy Award nominee and BAFTA winner Bob Hoskins of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Mona Lisa) faces a time of loss and personal challenge until a ray of sunshine arrives in the unlikely form of eight-year-old Florrie. When she moves in next door, she delights Jack's neglected racing pigeons and unwittingly renews his own love for the birds. Meanwhile, his glamorous French neighbor, Stephanie (screen legend Josiane Balasko of French Twist) takes pity on him and Jack cannot help but fall for her charms. Just when things seem to get brighter, Jack's innocent friendship with Florrie comes under question when the girl goes missing and Stephanie reveals that she's a transgender person. Once again he finds his life in turmoil. When his estranged son and Stephanie come to his defense amidst the local mob mentality, Jack redeems himself with a heartfelt plea that exposes his own prejudices. He fights to win back Stephanie's love. Two original songs by music star KT Tunstall underscore the film's passions and charm  source tlavideo 

              

            

Markova Comfort Gay - A True to Life Story

Tittle: Markova  aka: Markova Comfort Gay

Genre:Drama,Biography,War

Year:2001

Plot:A very unusual drama, based on true events, of a Filipino gay man imprisoned by the Japanese in WWII and forced to be a sex slave. This film is for lovers of gay history and international film -- don't expect sex scenes or gorgeous hunks -- just a great story about a flaming queer from a generation past.

aking his cue from television interviews with "comfort women" (Filipino women forced into prostitution for occupying Japanese soldiers), director Gil Porte's unique drama focuses on the gays, drag queens, and transgender people who also suffered at the hands of the occupying forces.

The time is the present. Walter Dempster Jr., alias Markova, a resident in the "Golden Gays" rest home in Manila and he decides he must speak out. He begins to tell an initially skeptical reporter of his wartime life. He reveals that as a child, the flamboyant Walter was constantly bullied by his older brother. He becomes Walterina – a flaming adolescent drag queen. When the Japanese occupy the Philippines he finds himself suffering terrible violence from the soldiers who originally believed him to be female. Eventually, he becomes the regal den mother to a flamboyant – and at times bitchy – group of fellow cross-dressers who spend their time in forced sex work. When the country is liberated, post-war life has its own set of difficulties for Markova.

A great, if unusual, Filipino melodrama peppered with amazing production numbers that must be seen to be believed. A metaphor for the political and sexual situation in the Philippines: from oppressive ultra-conservative to a slow but progressive ongoing march towards some kind of liberation. And for trivia fans: the young, adult and older Markova are Dolphy Quizon and his two real-life sons; keeping it in the family has never had such resonance. (English, Tagalog with English subtitles) source tlavideo

Another Woman

Tittle:Another Woman

Genre: Drama

Year:2002
Plot: Before, Nicolas had a family, children, he was a young doctor. It was 10 years ago. Today Nicolas has become Lea, “another woman”. Transsexual. Unrecognizable.

Lea lives in Geneva where she is a pharmaceutical products representative. Sent on an assignment in Paris, she can’t resist the call of the heart, she wants to see her children again. Not daring to introduce herself directly, Lea pretends to be a musical journalist with her daughter, Emma, a young pianist. The plan works so well that Lea is introduced to the family… recomposed. Nobody recognizes Nicolas behind Lea who plays the game, painfully. Soon, Lea, unable to bear hiding her true identity, reveals herself to the others.

Traumatized, Lucas, her 10 year-old son, shut himself in silence and incomprehension. Despite all these ordeals, Lea wants to continue to see her children whom she loves. Nobody will prevent her from this. In the face of her determination, she’s brought to justice. Lea comes very close to despair but pursues her fight to get her family back, a fight of love that in the end she will win.
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Dinah East

Tittle: Dinah East

Genre: Drama

Year: 1970

Plot: Renown transvestite Jeremy Stockwell portrays glamorous movie star Dinah East whose secret is revealed when she dies and the world discovers that she was actually a he. Andy Warhol favorite, Ultra Violet, co-stars as Dinah's lesbian fashion photographer confidant. This controversial film from 1970 was based on the longstanding whispers that Mae West was a male. The movie was pulled from distribution after the actress filed a successful lawsuit saying the motion picture slandered her name. She then proceeded to buy and destroy as many prints of the film that she could find.  source tlavideo

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Tittle:Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Genre: Musical,Drama,Comedy,

Year:2001

Plot:Hedwig is a wildly original, transcendent, gender-bending rock-n-roll epic; an essential masterpiece of queer cinema.

First developed at the NYC queer rock club Squeezebox, and then a long-running Off-Broadway show, Hedwig hits the big and home video screens in all its bewigged glory compliments of creators John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. In the film, Mitchell directs and stars as Hansel/Hedwig, a little gay boy/aspiring rock star raised in Communist East Berlin who desperately wants to move to the West. He meets Luther, an African-American G.I. who encourages him to have a sex change, marry and escape with him to Kansas. The operation is botched and Hansel is left as a boy with a teeny weeny! Once there, in trailer park hell, Hedwig is abandoned with little more than memories and the remnant of that sex change: an “angry inch.”

Hedwig and the Angry Inch has a rich score filled with melodic ballads and out-and-out rockers that propel the telling of Hedwig's incredible story. Hedwig has allowed himself to be victimized all his life - his dick has been stolen, his act has been appropriated and his life has been controlled by others until the self-affirming end of the film. Special mention must be made of Emily Hubley's whimsical animated sequences and the fantastic costumes and wigs. Hedwig is brilliant filmmaking, don't miss it! The DVD comes with an amazing 83 minute documentary entitled Whether You Like it or Not: The Story of Hedwig that tells of Hedwig's genesis.

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All the Queen's Men

Tittle: All the Queen's Men 

Genre: Comedy,Drama,Action

Year: 2001

Plot: Sexy Matt LeBlanc and transvestite Eddie Izzard star in this cross-dressing, queer WWII comedy.

Begin with a World War II action-adventure tale, introduce TV star Matt LeBlanc, add British standup comic and actor Eddie Izzard, cast Udo Kier as a Nazi General and then throw in a motley crew of cross-dressing, gay soldiers and you might get a feel for this rollicking comedy or, as Izzard described it, "Some Like It HotThe Guns of Navarone." meets

The time is 1944 and an Allied Special Forces mission, headed by the American O'Rourke (LeBlanc), is sent to infiltrate a German factory where the "Enigma" encoding devise used in German communications is made. Covertly entering the area is no easy task, especially since all the workers are women. So with the assistance of ex-soldier Tony Parker (Izzard) (thrown out of the military for his bisexuality and transvestism), who is brought back into service, these rough and tumble boys learn how to bring out their feminine side. With the help of bumbling major Archie (James Cosmo), and gay rookie soldier/code expert Johnno (David Birkin), the foursome set out on their mission.
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Candis Cayne.... Breaking Genders

                                        

 Good Morning America feature on actress Candis Cayne, who is currently appearing in the television series, "Dirty Sexy Money."

             

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           Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete First Season – Exposed

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Dirty Sexy Money: The Complete and Final Second Season

Defying Gravity

Tittle:Defying Gravity

Genre:Comedy,Drama

Year:2008

Plot: Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore is a dynamic, handsome, and brilliant young man who also happens to be homeless. After almost hitting Cassandra in his dilapidated VW bus, he becomes fascinated by the gothic cemetery waif and attempts to befriend her. A sequence of events results in Cass getting lost. Jorge and Shore flee the cemetery in a stolen hearse to find Cassandra before her abusive step-father does. All paths lead to Yermo - the site of a roadside diner and a feisty but compassionate transvestite waitress named Lola. source imdb

                                        

Madame Satã Brazilian Popular Culture

Tittle: Madame Satã

Genre: Biography,Drama,Crime,Musical

Year: 2002

Plot:From the seedy slums of 1930s Rio de Janeiro emerged a feral, explosive, and legendary creature known as Madame Satã - criminal, surrogate father, performer, lover, fighter, and driven Afro-Brazilian gay man. João was jet-black, six feet tall, 180 pounds of proud muscle in a silk shirt and tight pants, a cutthroat razor in his back pocket. Director Karim Aïnouz brings Satã’s violent “birth” to life in this visceral, energized feature. This sex-filled, incredible drama focuses on three characters: João (Ramos), the man the film is about, Laurita (Cartaxo), his lover/whore/mother of his adopted child and Tabu (Bauraqui), a drag queen who keeps the house and makes Madame Satã's costumes. This is a music-filled, magical journey to a world of "hoods and queens" in Rio that you won't soon forget. tlavideo

 

                                            

Princesa Fernando/Fernanda, A 19-Year-Old Brazilian Transvestite

Tittle:Princesa

Genre: Drama,Romance

Year:2001

Plot:A remarkable film about a transgendered prostitute in Milan, where the lead actress is a transgendered person. The Brazilian transvestite Fernanda a.k.a. Princesa travels to Milan to meet her friend Charlo and work on the streets as prostitute to raise money for a sex change surgery. Fernanda dreams on changing sex; find her prince charming and have a normal couple life. When Fernanda meets the married lawyer Gianni, her dreams come true: Gianni falls in love for her and leaves his wife Lidia, moves with Fernanda to an apartment of their own and finances her aimed surgery. However, when Lidia visits Fernanda in her apartment and tells her that she is pregnant, the transsexual realizes that she would never be a complete woman and her relationship with Gianni would not last. 
 The grit in this film is real, one can practically taste the sleaze on the streets of Milan. Princesa's co-workers are drag queens in search of money for drugs, rent or just a meal. Princesa's search is for something more, and it's palpable to the viewer. tlavideo