gender ideals movies

Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
6.635 / 10

Drama

A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched...

Taken Heart (2017)
3.9 / 10

Action, Crime, Thriller

When her daughter is kidnapped in Belize and held hostage to be used for human organ trafficking, Kate Johnson goes on a crusade to infiltrate the...

The Glassblower (2016)
6.4 / 10

Drama, History, TV Movie

Marie violates tradition in a small German town of Lauscha, to become the first female glassblower in in 1890. Her glass ball decorations find a new...

Luther and I (2017)
4.6 / 10

Drama, History, TV Movie

As a nun, Katharina von Bora lives the life destined for her until she comes into contact with a completely new world of thought in the early 20s...

Engelmacher - Der Usedom-Krimi (2016)
5 / 10

Crime, TV Movie

High season on Usedom. Sophie Thiel has accepted a holiday job and waits tables in the café on the Heringsdorf pier. She becomes friends with her...

Brief an mein Leben (2015)
5.5 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

Diagnosis burnout: The successful career woman Toni Lehmstedt can be referred to a psychiatric clinic after a physical breakdown. Urs Egger's free...

Departure (2016)
5.4 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

Hilla grows up in the 60s, her father is a worker and her mother a charwoman. But she wants a different future for herself, wants to study. After a...

Winnetous Weiber (2014)
3 / 10

Comedy, TV Movie

It should be a relaxed holiday with her daughter Nora - at least that's how the single mother Maren Bogner imagined it: a journey in the footsteps of...

Endstation Glück (2016)
3.25 / 10

TV Movie, Drama

I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America (1998)
0 / 10

Documentary

Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores what it means to be a Black man in America. Traveling to more than fifteen cities and towns across the...

The Codes of Gender (2010)
6.5 / 10

Documentary

Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial...

Blush: An Extraordinary Voyage (2022)
7.7 / 10

Documentary, Animation

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his...

Die Vierte Gewalt (2012)
7 / 10

Drama

Freundinnen - Alle für eine (2016)
4 / 10

Comedy

They once played together in a band called Chix and were inseparable. Today, each of them has their own problems.

American Reflexxx (2015)
6.8 / 10

Documentary

American Reflexxx is a short film documenting a social experiment that took place in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Alli Coates filmed performance...

Zimmer mit Tante (2010)
5.2 / 10

Comedy, TV Movie

Since her childhood, the eccentric artist Johanna Seelig has been living in her parents' home, an old inn on a picturesque lake. She has not rented a...

Unboxing (2014)
4 / 10

Drama, Mystery

How do we represent the ideas of gender? This short reflects about this topic, as we see an unidentified character, suited up, and with a paper bag...

Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation (2015)
0 / 10

Documentary, Music

In 1995, Adina Howard made waves in the world of music with her hit song “Freak Like Me.” Never before had a solo R&B female artist made such...