The Danish Girl (2015)

Most people think so. 80% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 66%.

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. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. Wikipedia ↗

The Danish Girl is a 2015 British biographical drama directed by Tom Hooper, inspired by the true story of Lili Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery. Eddie Redmayne stars as Einar Wegener, a Danish landscape painter in 1920s Copenhagen who discovers her gender identity as Lili after posing in women's clothing as a favor to her wife Gerda, a portrait artist played by Alicia Vikander. As Lili's emergence becomes more than playful experimentation and Einar begins living openly as a woman, their marriage is transformed and Lili's pursuit of surgical transition in 1930s Germany becomes a matter of life and death.

Alicia Vikander won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Gerda, whose love for her spouse transcended the boundaries of gender identity in an era with no framework for understanding transgender experience. Eddie Redmayne's delicate, physically precise performance was praised for its sensitivity though also debated in the context of cisgender actors playing transgender characters. The Danish Girl earned $64 million worldwide on a $15 million budget.