Silverlake Life: The View from Here

1993

English

8.1

♡ 4

85%

Peter Friedman Director

Tom Joslin as

Liane Bonin as

Mark Massi as

An extraordinary video diary about living with AIDS documenting, with guts and humor, the love and dedication of longtime companions Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, from the emotional challenge of living with a fatal illness to the frustration of maintaining daily routines,.

Zero Patience

1993

English

6.2

♡ 2

50%

John Greyson Director

Jeremy Podeswa as AIDS Demonstrator

Bernard Behrens as Dr. Placebo

Michael Callen as Miss HIV

Von Flores as Ray

The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an exhibition about the disease for the museum's "Hall of Contagion".

How to Survive a Plague

2012

English

7.6

♡ 6

98%

David France Director

Bill Clinton as Himself Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Himself

Charlie Rose as Himself

Ross Perot as Himself

A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.

5B

2018

English

7.8

♡ 1

100%

Paul Haggis Director

Steve Williams as Self

Mary Asbury as Self

Leah Cleveland as Self

Hank Plante as Self

At the heart of the HIV/AIDS crisis and widespread hysteria, a single number and letter designated a ward on the fifth floor of San Francisco General Hospital, the first in the country designed specifically to deal with AIDS patients. The unit's nurses' emphasis on humanity and consideration of holistic well-being was a small miracle amidst a devastating crisis and the ensuing panic about risk and infection.

In America

2002

English

7.6

♡ 14

90%

semi autobiographical

struggling actor

tenement

Jim Sheridan Director

Nick Dunning as Gynaecologist

Djimon Hounsou as Mateo

Frank Wood as Paediatrician

Adrian Martinez as Shopkeeper

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

Chocolate Babies

6.7

Stephen Winter Director

Bryan Webster as Councilman Melvin Freeman

Michael Hyatt as Lauretta

Sean Barr as Red Haired Politician

Jon Kit Lee as Sam

Welcome to the front lines of AIDS activism, where the latest enemy raids are being run by a band of unlikely warriors: two drag queens, an HIV-positive man with tiny gemstones dotting his bald head, and his HIV-positive sister.

Killing Patient Zero

2019

English

7.5

♡ 2

100%

Laurie Lynd Director

Ronald Reagan as Self

Fran Lebowitz as Self

Doris Day as Self

Rock Hudson as Self

After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an impending epidemic. A disease that seemed determined to wipe out an entire generation of gay men, was largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media. Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian flight attendant, who offered to help early scientific research into the origins of AIDS. An unfortunate series of events followed and he would be vilified as Patient Zero, the man who gave us AIDS.

Gia

1998

English

6.9

♡ 66

88%

Michael Cristofer Director

Mila Kunis as Gia - Age 11

Angelina Jolie as Gia Carangi

Lombardo Boyar as Hood #2

Mercedes Ruehl as Kathleen Carangi

Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.

Yesterday

2004

Zulu

7.5

♡ 9

93%

johannesburg south africa

johannesburg, south africa

mine

south africa

Darrell Roodt Director

Kenneth Khambula as John Khumalo

Nandi Nyembe as Sangoma in village

Matthew Monika as Security guard

Leleti Khumalo as Yesterday Khumalo

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

An Englishman in New York

2009

English

7.1

♡ 4

67%

Richard Laxton Director

Leslie Shenkel as Audience Member # 4

Anna Kuchma as Beautiful Girl

Cynthia Nixon as Penny Arcade

John Hurt as Quentin Crisp

Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and private lives, from his seemingly cavalier response to the outbreak of AIDS to his tender relationship with his friend Patrick Angus and his own response to growing old.

One Night Stand

1997

English

5.9

♡ 8

34%

Mike Figgis Director

Chris Bauer as Bartender

Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie

Amanda Donohoe as Margaux

Thomas Kopache as Merv

In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat run-ins with a beautiful woman, Karen, and eventually sleeps with her. Though he goes home the next day and doesn't return until a year later, Carlyle's infidelity still lingers.

The Real Anthony Fauci

2022

English

6.6

♡ 13

documentary filmmaking

pharmaceutical industry

vaccination

Kala Mandrake Director

Bill Gates as Self - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Russell Brand as Self - Political Commentator

Mark Crispin Miller as Self - Professor of Media Studies at the New York University

Joe Rogan as Self - The Joe Rogan Experience

Different experts make a stand against today's putatively criminal and harmful health system, focusing on Anthony Fauci and his role in the shaping of the AIDS and COVID-19 epidemics.

Parting Glances

1986

English

7.1

♡ 3

90%

Bill Sherwood Director

Patrick Tull as Cecil

Steve Buscemi as Nick

John Bolger as Robert

Bob Koherr as Sam

Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.

Blue

1993

English

7.3

♡ 5

Derek Jarman Director

Nigel Terry as Narrator

Tilda Swinton as Narrator

John Quentin as Narrator

Derek Jarman as Self / Narrator

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

120 BPM

2017

French

7.4

♡ 27

99%

Robin Campillo Director

Samuel Churin as Gilberti

Catherine Vinatier as Hélène

Félix Maritaud as Max

Adèle Haenel as Sophie

Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.

The Living End

1992

English

6.6

♡ 16

73%

Gregg Araki Director

Magie Song as 7-11 Couple

Mary Woronov as Daisy

Chris Mabli as Melrose NeoNazi

Jack Kofman as Three Stooges

Two HIV-positive young men — a semi-employed film critic and a hot hustler — tear off on a cross-country crime spree.

It's My Party

1996

English

7.1

♡ 10

53%

Randal Kleiser Director

Lee Grant as Amalia Stark

Margaret Cho as Charlene Lee

Sally Kellerman as Sara Hart

Joel Polis as Tim Bergen

Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function normally. He arranges a party to reconnect and say goodbye to his closest friends and his confused parents. But when his ex-partner, Brandon, a television director who left Nick when he was diagnosed with HIV, shows up, what was supposed to be a celebratory event becomes much more difficult for everyone.

Holding the Man

2015

English

7.4

♡ 67

81%

Neil Armfield Director

Jacob Collins-Levy as Andrew

Geoffrey Rush as Barry

Guy Pearce as Dick Conigrave

Marcus Graham as Doctor Sam

Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.

The Constant Gardener

2005

English

7.3

♡ 61

83%

pharmaceutical industry

Fernando Meirelles Director

Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle

Claire Simpson as Maude Donohue

Bill Nighy as Sir Bernard Pellegrin

Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle

Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.