Movies Similar to In France Michelle Is a Man's Name

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert(1994)

Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.

A Fantastic Woman(2017)

Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.

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Unconditional(2025)

Anna, a progressive social media manager, retreats to Siargao to escape the moral conflict of helping her ex’s corrupt father win a Senate seat. There, she meets Greg, a kindhearted local caring for his ailing mother. As a new romance blossoms, Anna must confront her deepest beliefs when she discovers Greg is a trans man—challenging her notions of love, identity, and what it truly means to love without conditions.

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Them(2023)

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.

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Closer(2004)

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

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Close-Knit(2017)

After being neglected by her mother, a little girl is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend, who create a loving home for her.

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New World(2015)

Three stories of immigrants trying to start new lives in Poland: an Afghan traumatised by the war, a Ukrainian lost in her own body, and a Belarusian running away from painful love.

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Hormones and Other Demons(2003)

Eduarda (Eddi) wants to become a woman, but what makes a woman? Maybe breasts help? She goes on holiday with her family and meets Lukas. Unfortunately, she is not the only family member who wants to feel attractive. Are we really defined by what others see?

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I Love You, I Don't(1976)

The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay.

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Love, Lust and Ecstasy(1981)

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 Ari, becomes Sara’s house guest and sex partner in Ari’s absence. Teresa, Ari’s secretary and ex-lover, is jealous of Sara’s relationship with Alex and schemes to break them up.

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Transamerica(2005)

A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

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Tamara(2016)

The story of a lawyer's journey to overcome her fears and social boundaries in order to transition.

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Boys Don't Cry(1999)

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

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Little Treasure(1985)

Margo is an ex-stripper who meets her long, lost father in Mexico. She looks after him in the waning days of his life, with the help of a traveling projectionist. The father passes away, telling of the loot from a botched bank robbery that he buried years earlier. The two get jobs in town as their relationship grows and they search for the treasure on the weekends. But while the treasure seems to bring them together, it also seems to be tearing them apart.

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Breakfast on Pluto(2005)

In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.

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Shortbus(2006)

In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.

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Pierrot Lunaire(2014)

Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing the original atonal score is a narrative about a trans man who is outed by his girlfriend’s father and forbidden from seeing the young woman again. Crestfallen, the protagonist decides to prove the fact of his manhood by castrating a taxi driver and then revealing his newly transplanted member to the two of them. This story, which for LaBruce “serves as a kind of allegory for all gender radicals and outcasts driven to extremes by the disapproval and hostility of the dominant order,” is rendered in a visual style that nods to the era of Schoenberg’s melodrama. LaBruce cheekily appropriates the formal vocabulary of silent cinema with black-and-white photography, irises, and intertitles like “A cock, a cock, my kingdom for a cock!”

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Unbridled Passions(1981)

Wealthy Olga Arbant, with the help of her submissive husband Paul, enjoys kinky scenarios to help with the writing of her novels, as well as controlling everything and everyone. Impoverished Patrizia, who is a virgin, has agreed to do whatever Olga demands for one month. After being subjected to various humiliations, Patrizia frustrates Olga by developing a mind of her own.

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The Keeper(2004)

When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.

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Seduction of Innocence(1995)

A girl travels with a friend to Dallas to visit her sister. Once there, she is shocked to discover that her sister is a stripper, living with a lesbian and is involved with dangerous drug dealers.

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