In Films
- 1953 – Glen or Glenda, one of the most famous cult classics of Ed Wood, starring himself as Glen and Glenda.
- 1954 - White Christmas, classic of Irving Berlin, with Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby singing in "drag".
- 1959 – Some Like It Hot, starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
- 1967 – Thoroughly Modern Millie, an American musical starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, John Gavin, and Beatrice Lillie, notable where Fox's character dresses in drag in order to find out what happened to Tyler-Moore's character.
- 1969 – Funeral Parade of Roses starring Peter
- 1972 - Pink Flamingos staring Divine
- 1979 – The Rose starring Bette Midler, notable for a scene in which Midler's character Mary Rose Foster performs a duet on stage in a drag club with a drag queen (played by Kenny Sacha) who is impersonating Midler as Foster.
- 1982 - Tootsie starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, and Teri Garr
- 1982 - Victor Victoria starring Julie Andrews
- 1985 - Lust in the Dust starring Divine
- 1988 – Hairspray starring Divine
- 1988 – Torch Song Trilogy starring Harvey Fierstein, Anne Bancroft and Matthew Broderick
- 1990 – Paris Is Burning a documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. It chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the gay and transgender community involved in it.
- 1991 – Vegas in Space starring Doris Fish, Miss X, Ginger Quest, and introducing 'Tippi'
- 1993 - Mrs. Doubtfire starring Robin Williams, Sally Field, and Pierce Brosnan.
- 1994 – The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert starring Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, and Guy Pearce
- 1995 – To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo (cameo by RuPaul)
- 1996 – The Birdcage starring Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest
- 1996 - The Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy.
- 1998 – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil starring John Cusack, Kevin Spacey and starring as herself Lady Chablis
- 1999 – Flawless starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert De Niro
- 2000 - Big Momma's House starring Martin Lawrence
- 2001 – Hedwig and the Angry Inch starring John Cameron Mitchell
- 2003 – Girls Will Be Girls directed by Richard Day, starring Miss Coco Peru (Clinton Leupp), Evie Harris (Jack Plotnick), and Varla Jean Merman (Jeffery Roberson).
- 2004 – Connie and Carla starring Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, and David Duchovny
- 2005 – Kinky Boots starring Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sarah-Jane Potts, and Nick Frost
- 2005 – Rent
- 2006 – The Curiosity of Chance starring Tad Hilgenbrink and Brett Chukerman
- 2006 - "I Wanna Be a Republican" starring The Kinsey Sicks, America's Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet
- 2007 – A Shade Before Pink features cross dressing, drag queens and gender questioning. Starring Cary Woodworth and Rhoda Jordan, guest appearance by Jackie Beat.
- 2007 – St. Trinian's starring Rupert Everett as Camilla Fritton, the headmistress of the school.
- 2008 – Slingbacks and Syrup a documentary about the House of LeMay that held its world premiere at the Vermont International Film Festival.
- 2009 - Tamid oto chalom Israeli TV miniseries about drag life in Tel Aviv, based on the songs of Israeli song writer Svika Pick
- 2010 – Yazima Beauty Salon the Movie featuring drag comedy/dance group Yazima Beauty Salon
- 2011 - Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son starring Martin Lawrence and Brandon T Jackson
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“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)