Return of the King (Eowyn)
and what about the Bond movie (Goldfinger ) where one of the bond girls was a real post-op?
Any film version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night or As You Like It.
Hey, now, that’s a whole different can of worms. Technically she wasn’t a transvestite, because she was wearing women’s clothing.
Trick (“It buuuuuuuuuuurns”)
Are you talking about For Your Eyes Only?Her name is Tula and she is a transexual
yeah, my bad. my lingo is off.
No shit?
Oh, Mulan
And Justice For All (a small role but very powerful character)
Kids In The Hall (the office girls, played for laughs. As much as I love Monty Python, the Kids did women better than anyone, ever, IMO)
Women as men:
The Ballad of Little Jo (woman dressing as man to survive in the Wild West)
Boys Don’t Cry
I disagree that The Crying Game and Boys Don’t Cry are about transvestites. Dil in TCG was female-identified, likewise Brandon in BDC was male-identified.
Do they (or Monty Python, or the Shakespeare plays) count? In all of those cases, you have actors dressed as women, but the characters aren’t transvestite. The characters are women. You just have men playing the female roles.
Did anyone mention Shrek 2 yet?
In the ‘cross-dressing’ camp : Just One of the Guys
Haven’t seen Ma Vie en Rose, though I think that’s arguably transexual (about a child).
There used to be a very complete list of transexual & transvestite movies on someone’s website, but I think it’s disappeared now.
Mondo Trasho, Female Trouble, etc.
I doubt that the Pythons were really trying to portray realistic women; they were just following old music hall tradition. When they needed a real sexy woman, they used one (Rita Davies, Connie Booth, Carol Cleveland, and Mrs. Idle, among others). I suppose they did it more because they knew the tone of the scene as they wanted it played, so they did it themselves. Not many of their one-off guest-star actresses ever really got the Python tone right until Carol. (I keep thinking of that awful overacting blonde in the ‘Blancmanges from Andromeda’ sketch opposite Graham Chapman in the laboratory.)
Except in one scene (dinner with Death, Monty Python’s Meaning of Life) they never really ever tried, or had the budget to try.
Shakespeare plays are full of women pretending to be men. It definitely counts.
Yeah, in fact I forgot a couple. Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, and Midsummer Night’s Dream. Although in the last, it’s a man dressing up as a woman (in the “Pyramus and Thisbe” scene).
Here’s a pretty complete list:
Some anime titles with cross-dressers:
Fruits Baskets (Ritsu Sohma)
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (Aki)
Tokyo Godfathers (Hana)
One more: Momiji Sohma in Fruits Basket, who (at the age of 15) must be one of the youngest cross-dressers around. He wears the girls’ uniform to high school, and also has the unusual characteristic that his mother does not know that he is her son. (He knows she is his mother, however).