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The Wedding Guest
Jay is a man with a secret who travels from Britain to Pakistan to attend a wedding—armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Jay and his hostage end up on the run across the border and through the railway stations, back alleys, and black markets of New Delhi.
Ramchand Pakistani
Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years in an Indian prison while the mother left behind wonders what has happened to them.
Altered Skin
While caring for his ailing wife, an American engineer in Pakistan stumbles upon a deadly pharmaceutical conspiracy.
Heer Maan Ja
Heer Maan Ja is love, crazy romantic and comedy Pakistani film which will be released in 2019 on Eid Ul Azha. The cast of the fil is Hareem Farooq and Ali Rehman along veteran actor Abid Ali.
Lakhoon Main Aik
A Hindu girl who is raised in the Pakistani part of Kashmir, is gunned down while crossing the barbed-wire frontiers.
Saving Face
Every year hundreds of people - mostly women - are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Follow several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his homeland to help them restore their faces and their lives.
Southern Comfort
This moving documentary chronicles the last year in the life of Robert Eads, a trans man dying of ovarian cancer. We're introduced to several prominent figures in Robert's life -- most importantly, his life partner and caretaker Lola Cola, who is also trans. The two prepare to lead a panel at the annual Southern Comfort conference, a yearly event created for transgender individuals.
Saturday Church
A 14-year-old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
American Transgender
Most of us can answer that question without a second thought, but for some people, the answer isn’t so simple. American Transgender takes us firsthand into the daily lives of three individuals—Clair, Jim, and Eli—who each identify with a different gender from the one in which they were born and raised. We witness their struggles and triumphs, and experience their hopes and fears. How do they manage at work, build careers, maintain friendships, and nurture lasting, intimate partnerships? Each of the characters in the film tells their story in their own words as we follow them through life’s daily battles and victories, both large and small.
Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
Louis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of pioneering medical professionals help children who say they were born in the wrong body transition from boy to girl or girl to boy at ever younger ages.
Lily: A Transgender Story
Filmed over five years, we follow Lily Jones, 20, as she transitions from male to female, leaves her seaside home for the city, undergoes gender reassignment surgery and finds love.
Huey Tum Ajnabi
“Huey Tum Ajnabi” is a romantic period drama film set in the backdrop of 1971. While the film showcases some of the major events of fall of Dhaka, East Pakistan, it is said to be not a political commentary and focuses more on the story of lead cast.
Project Ghazi
Pakistan’s first superhero film Project Ghazi project has been a hot topic in the entertainment industry of Pakistan ever since the project was announced last year. Humayun Saeed, Shehryar Munawar and Syra Shahroz will be seen in lead roles.
Hong Kong Key Sholay
Inspector Feroz is sent from Pakistan to help the Hong Kong police track down a terrorist group led by the evil Zangora. Meanwhile, a Pakistani scientist is misled by Zangora into working for him, but when he realizes what he's got himself into he plots to sabotage Zangora's world conquering plan.
Debal: Uncrowned Underdogs
Set in the 1960's, DEBAL: a story of Pakistan's most wanted gangsters and the leaders of the drug cartel.
How Gay Is Pakistan?
A documentary which explores the lives of gay people and the challenges they face in Pakistan, a country whose laws explicitly outlaw homosexuality.
My Transgender Kid
Two British families discuss the challenges they face raising children who identify as a gender different from the one they were assigned at birth.
Towers of Silence
A Pakistani boy develops into a young revolutionary and confronts love, religious conflict, and his own death through Zoroastrian rituals of purification.
Landlocked
After his mother's death, a man is reunited with his estranged, transgender parent as they journey to scatter her ashes off the Georgia coast.
Death and Bowling
A transgender actor struggles with what it means to be seen after the beloved captain of his lesbian bowling league dies and a mysterious stranger shows up at the funeral.
Ghazi Shaheed
The film covers a story of mysterious loss of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi. She has participated in second and third Indo-Pakistani wars (1965 and 1971) and has been sunk in December 1971 nearby Indian coast.
Again Again
After reliving the same day over and over again for 10 years, Agatha awakens to realize she's escaped and now faces the horrifying reality of a brand new day.
Pakistan's first transgender movie.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Shanakht Starring Masood Akhtar, Waseem Akram, Faiz Chohan, Nayyar Ejaz, and more. If you liked Shanakht then you may also like: Umrao Jaan Ada, Waar, The Wedding Guest, Ramchand Pakistani, Altered Skin and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
Umrao Jaan Ada
Pakistani version of the popular Urdu novel about a tawaif and poet from 19th-century Lucknow.