The medium of film is one of the youngest forms of visual arts. From the birth of the motion picture at the end of the ninetieth century, film has become the medium of different artistic and theoretical concepts. The visual representations of the world in which a film is created, can be interpreted and analysed in many different theoretical contexts. One of the theoretical aspects is concerned with the gender roles in films; how the different gender-based roles created by society are represented through different cinematic tools. I chose two different films to examine different aspects of gender and film: George Cukor’s My Fair Lady and Stephen Shainberg’s Secretary. Although these to films were made nearly fifty years apart, there are certain themes and roles in connection with gender that are very similar between the two. My aim is to reveal these certain similarities by representing the visual motifs and codes through which the gender roles and relations are created.