There are a lot of similarities between The Lieutenant Nun and Yentl.
Yentl, is the story of a young Jewish girl who goes against tradition by discussing Jewish law/theology with her rabbi father. When he dies, she decides she wants to continue to study the Talmud. She cuts her hair, dresses as a man, and begins to live a secret life as a man named Anshel.
When entering the Yeshiva, Yentl befriends Avigdor and meets his fiancee, Hadass. Hadass's family cancels the wedding to Avigdor because they fear his family is tainted with insanity and want her to marry Anshel instead (Yentl). The story becomes even more complicated as Hadass falls in love with Anshel (Yentl), while Yentl falls in love with Avigdor.
Later on in the story Anshel's (Yentl) study partner, Avigdor, discovers the truth about Yentl's gender identity. Similarly to the Lieutenant Nun, Yentl asserts that she is "neither one sex nor the other" and has "the soul of a man in the body of a woman." Both these assertions suggest a gender identity crisis, especially when at the end of the story she decides to continue living as Anshel instead of Yentl. She moves from Europe to America in hopes of living her life as a freer man.
Yentl Movie Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL5_ErSq9EM
Clip from Yentl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwCPAo5e_F8
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