Transvestism
"I love the smell of angora in the morning!" (Not uttered in "Glen or Glenda" - pictured).
This compilation of 'big men in tights' movies (among others) shows us the often funny, tragic, but never dull lives as led by transvestites, and transsexuals, in the movies. Some actors are often hilariously shown to be unsuited for the garter and makeup (Ed Wood in "Glen or Glenda"), while others make the uncanny transformation from man to woman to often stunning effect (Jaye Davidson in "The Crying Game"). Also included are those farcical films where men must disguise themselves as women inevitably leading to much frantic confusion and deception ("Some Like It Hot").
Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957)
6.6/10
Director: Frank Launder
Starring: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell
The second film in the hilarious series has a diamond smuggler hiding out at the girls' school by masquerading as the new Headmistress. Alastair Sim,... Read more
The Silence of the Lambs ( Blu-ray ) (1990)
8.6/10
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice... Read more
All About My Mother (1999)
7.9/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Cecilia Roth, Penelope Cruz, Antonia San Juan
When her teenage son is killed, Madrid nurse Cecilia Roth sets out to fulfill the boy's wish to find the father he never knew. Roth's quest to locate... Read more
Trash (1970)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Morrissey
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Holly Woodlawn, Jane Forth
An outrageous tale of two of lifes losers, from the Andy Warhol factory. Joe Dallesandro is a heroin-addicted male hustler whose girlfriend, Holly Woo... Read more
Victor / Victoria (1982)
7.6/10
Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
A very funny sexual comedy of errors. Down-and-out singer Julie Andrews masquerades as a man and becomes the toast of Paris cabarets in the 1930's. Wi... Read more
Ma Vie En Rose (1997)
7.6/10
Director: Alain Berliner
Starring: Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Michele Laroque
AKA "My Life In Pink" Seven year old Ludovic enjoys playing dress-up with lipstick and high heels and plans to marry a male classmate... which would b... Read more
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
4.3/10
Director: Michael Sarne
Starring: Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch, Rex Reed
Most critics consider this one of the worst films ever made. Blessed with a star-studded cast (Rex Reed, Mae West, Raquel Welch and John Huston) and b... Read more
Some Like It Hot (1959)
8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E Brown
Perhaps the funniest American film of the 1950's, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play two second rate musicians on the run from the Chicago mob, who take... Read more
Ed Wood (1994)
7.9/10
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jon...
From Hollywood's acclaimed director Tim Burton comes the offbeat, true-life story of Hollywood's worst director, Ed Wood. Superstar Johnny Depp portr... Read more
Different For Girls (1996)
6.8/10
Director: Richard Spence
Starring: Rupert Graves, Saskia Reeves, Steven Mackintosh
Karl was once a troubled teenage lad much teased in the showers by his classmates for his non-macho airs. Seventeen years later he is now Kim, a demur... Read more