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7.5

♡ 9

95%

Laura Poitras Director Ed Koch

Ed Koch as Self

David Wojnarowicz as Self

Leonard Bernstein as Self - Conductor

John Waters as Self - Filmmaker

The life of internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin is told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

Philadelphia

1993

philadelphia, pennsylvania

7.7

♡ 128

83%

Romance

Jonathan Demme Director

Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett

Denzel Washington as Joe Miller

Roberta Maxwell as Judge Tate

Antonio Banderas as Miguel Alvarez

Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

Boys on the Side

1995

6.5

♡ 19

73%

Herbert Ross Director

Matthew McConaughey as Abe

James Remar as Alex

Drew Barrymore as Holly

Julian Neil as Nightclub Owner

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.

Precious

2009

7.3

♡ 27

92%

Lee Daniels Director

Xosha Roquemore as Joann

Paula Patton as Ms. Rain

Gabourey Sidibe as Precious

Patty Duke as Self

In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.

Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop

2004

Portuguese

6.9

♡ 5

Walter Carvalho Director

Guti Fraga as Delegado Prende Barões

Débora Falabella as Denise Dumont

Arlindo Lopes as Dé Palmeira

Maria Flor as Garota de Bauru

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

The Ignorant Fairies

2001

Italian

7.3

♡ 9

Ferzan Ozpetek Director

Margherita Buy as Antonia

Gabriel Garko as Ernesto

Giorgio Gobbi as Paziente Laboratorio

Filippo Nigro as Riccardo

When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.

Jeffrey

1995

6.8

♡ 1

71%

67%

Christopher Ashley Director

Gregory Jbara as Angelique

Sigourney Weaver as Debra Moorhouse

Bill Clinton as Self

Kevin Nealon as TV Reporter

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.

Freddie Mercury - The Final Act

2021

7.8

♡ 14

James Rogan Director

Liza Minnelli as Self

Joe Elliott as Self

Anita Dobson as Self

Erik Schäffler as Self - Sprecher

The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s life and how, after his death from AIDS, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/AIDS. For the first time, Freddie's story is told alongside the experiences of those who tested positive for HIV and lost loved ones during the same period. Medical practitioners, survivors, and human rights campaigners recount the intensity of living through the AIDS pandemic and the moral panic it brought about.

The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996

7.3

♡ 22

88%

Milos Forman Director

Edward Norton as Alan Isaacman

Woody Harrelson as Larry Flynt

Norm MacDonald as Network Reporter

Mike Pniewski as Trucker

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.

House of Boys

2009

6.4

♡ 3

56%

49%

amsterdam, netherlands

Jean-Claude Schlim Director

Stephen Fry as Dr. Marsh

Luc Feit as Dr. Van Linden

Vicky Krieps as Flower Shop Girl

Chris McHallem as Frank's Father

It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys", a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates, Jake. The first intimations of what is described as 'the gay cancer', casts a long shadow over Frank's tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank, his perseverance, along with support from a willing doctor, will carry him through.

Rent: Live

2019

6.3

♡ 24

27%

56%

Alex Rudzinski Director

Jesse L. Martin as

Daphne Rubin-Vega as

Robert Roldan as Ensemble

Jordan Fisher as Mark Cohen

The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent.

Rent

2005

6.8

♡ 18

47%

83%

older man younger man relationship

Chris Columbus Director

Chris Columbus as Angry Man in Car

Wayne Wilcox as Gordon

Jennifer Siebel Newsom as Receptionist

Jesse L. Martin as Tom Collins

This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in late 1980s East Village, New York, USA. The film centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a tragedy has made Roger numb to new experiences, Mark begins capturing their world through his attempts to make a personal movie. In the year that follows, they and their friends deal with love, loss, and working together.

Sorry Angel

2018

French

6.8

♡ 11

82%

paris, france

romance

Romance

Christophe Honoré Director

Vincent Lacoste as Arthur Prigent

Rio Vega as Fabrice

Denis Podalydès as Mathieu

Tibo Drouet as Mathieu's Date

At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the two men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond.

We Were Here

2011

san francisco, california

7.9

♡ 5

100%

solidarity

David Weissman Director

Eileen Glutzer as Self

Guy Clark as Self

Daniel Goldstein as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self - NBC News Anchor

A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.

In the Gloaming

1997

7.0

♡ 6

74%

Christopher Reeve Director

Bridget Fonda as Anne

Robert Sean Leonard as Danny

Glenn Close as Janet

Whoopi Goldberg as Nurse Myrna

Danny, dying of AIDS, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.

The Apprentice

2024

7.1

♡ 60

83%

Ali Abbasi Director

Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump

Joe Pingue as Fat Tony Salerno Ron Lea

Ron Lea as Victor Palmieri

James Downing as Walter

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.

1985

2018

7.2

♡ 15

96%

Yen Tan Director

Jamie Chung as Carly

Michael Chiklis as Dale Lester

Virginia Madsen as Eileen

Bill Heck as Slow Dancer

Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.

The Normal Heart

2014

7.9

♡ 56

94%

88%

Ryan Murphy Director

Taylor Kitsch as Bruce Niles BD Wong

BD Wong as Buzzy

Mark Ruffalo as Ned Weeks

Louis Armstrong as Orchestra Leader

The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.

Buddies

1985