Movies like Standard Deviation
If Standard Deviation's mix of transsexual, short film and homosexuality stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Standard Deviation's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Danish Girl
2015 · Directed by Tom Hooper · 119 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: transsexual
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe.
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Reservoir Dogs
1991 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 12 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: short film
Short film made with the help of the Sundance Film Institute and serving as a proof-of-concept for the subsequent feature film.
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Bad Education
2004 · Directed by Pedro Almodóvar · 105 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school.
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Endless Poetry
2016 · Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky · 128 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic…
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Pain and Glory
2019 · Directed by Pedro Almodóvar · 114 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he…
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XXY
2007 · Directed by Lucía Puenzo · 86 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue to a head.
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Deseo
2013 · Directed by Antonio Zavala Kugler · 97 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.