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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").

Psycho ( Blu-ray ) (1960)

8.5/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John McIntire, Martin Balsam, Vera Miles, John Gav...

Hitchcock's most famous movie, the shocker that still keeps people away from showers. Janet Leigh is a woman on the run who befriends mother's boy mot... Read more

M Butterfly (1993)

6.8/10
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Barbara Sukowa, Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Ian Richardson

Inspired by the true story and based on the Tony Award-winning play by David Henry Hwang, about the bizarrely extended relationship between a French d... Read more

Torch Song Trilogy (1988)

7.7/10
Director: Paul Bogart
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein adapted his Broadway hit play about the trials and tribulations of being a sexually active, gay urban male in the 1970's for the big... Read more

Dressed to Kill (1980)

7.1/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen

A visit to the art museum leads to a fateful and fatal sexual encounter for bored housewife Angie Dickinson in this stylish, erotic suspenser from Bri... Read more

Dog Day Afternoon ( Blu-ray ) (1975)

8/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, John Cazale

A man (Al Pacino) stages a bank robbery so that his homosexual lover can pay for a sex-change operation. He bungles the robbery and is caught up in a... Read more

Zazie Dans Le Metro (1960)

7.1/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret

Funny in a bold, delicate, freakish, outrageous and occasionally night-marish way and crammed with sight gags and preposterous photographic stunts. 'A... Read more

Connie and Carla (2004)

6.3/10
Director: Michael Lembeck
Starring: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny

After accidentally witnessing a mob hit, Chicago-based singers Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette decide to flee to Los Angeles. Posing as drag queen perf... Read more

Some Like It Hot ( Blu-ray ) (1959)

8.3/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: George Raft, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Pat O'Brien, Tony Curtis, 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

The Rocky Horror Picture Show ( Blu-ray ) (1975)

7.4/10
Director: Jim Sharman
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Charles Gray, Richard O'Brien, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry, Meat L...

This camp musical sci-fi horror movie spoof has become - thanks to elaborate audience participation on the midnight movie circuit - the definitive cul... Read more

Glen or Glenda (1953)

4.2/10
Director: Edward D Wood Jr
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Daniel Davis, Dolores Fuller

A.k.a. 'I Changed My Sex'. 'Beevare the beeg green dragin!' Thus we are warned by narrator Bela Lugosi who introduces us to the hopelessly confused Gl... Read more