Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.

Closing Numbers

1993

English

6.9

♡ 7

Stephen Whittaker Director

Jane Asher as Anna

Kris Marshall as Fredericks

Tim Woodward as Keith

Jamie Glover as Peter

Keith, Anna and their son Peter are a close, loving family living in a smart suburban street of a provincial city. Anna is a typical middle-class housewife, filling her day with good works, until one day, when she finds a note that leads to a shattering discovery - her husband has been having an affair. Anna's intense shock at finding out Keith's secret is compounded when she arranges to meet his lover. When Steve arrives at the meeting place, Anna is forced to accept the fact that Keith has been leading a double life for the length of their marriage. Steve stresses the risk of AIDS and urges Anna to have an AIDS test. To show her what it can be like to live with the disease, he introduces her to Jim, who needs 24-hour care and has developed a realistic attitude towards his own death. When Keith leaves home suddenly, Anna is forced to tell her son about the threat of HIV, but Peter turns violently against her and runs away.

And the Band Played On

1993

English

7.8

♡ 15

100%

Roger Spottiswoode Director

Thomas Kopache as Blood Bank Executive

Christian Clemenson as Dr. Dale Lawrence

Magic Johnson as Self

Richard Gere as The Choreographer

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.

Red Ribbon Blues

4.3

Charles Winkler Director

Lisa Waltz as Bones

Debi Mazar as Darcy RuPaul

RuPaul as Duke

Paul Mercurio as Troy

After attending his 23rd funeral for a friend with AIDS, Troy and his friends hatch a plan to steal the HIV drugs that they need. One sucessful heist leads to another and another until they have so much inventory they decide to begin their own community distribution program.

No Regret

1993

English

7.1

♡ 2

hiv

poetry

Marlon Riggs Director

Michael Lee as Self

Joseph Long as Self

Assoto Saint as Self

Reggie Williams as Self

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality.

Mapplethorpe

2018

English

6.2

♡ 8

34%

Ondi Timoner Director

Brandon Sklenar as Edward Mapplethorpe

Brian Stokes Mitchell as Father Stack

McKinley Belcher III as Milton Moore

John Benjamin Hickey as Sam Wagstaff

A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

Positively Naked

2005

English

6.4

♡ 3

David Nelson Director

Spence Sutton as Self

Ron Singleton as Self

Sean O. Strub as Self

Barbara Kemper Powell as Self

No clothes. No apologies. This film marks artist Spencer Tunick's third 'Naked' documentary which feature photo shoots that create art from the naked bodies of men and women. In this shoot, 85 HIV-positive men and women gather in a downtown Manhattan bar where they bare it all for Tunick's camera, creating an unsentimental look at life with AIDS in America today.

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

1989

English

8.1

♡ 4

100%

Rob Epstein Director

Julie Harris as Frankie Addams

Dustin Hoffman as Narrator

Eddie Murphy as Self

Tom Brokaw as Self - News Reporter

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.

Three Months

2022

English

6.8

♡ 13

79%

Jared Frieder Director

Judy Greer as

Ellen Burstyn as

Amy Landecker as

Brianne Tju as Dara

Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, Caleb finds love in the most unlikely of places.

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.

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.

Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street

2019

English

7.2

♡ 2

100%

Roman Chimienti Director

Clu Gulager as Self

Amanda Wyss as Self

Tuesday Knight as Self

Marshall Bell as Self

Mark Patton sets the records straight about the controversial 1985 sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, which ended his acting career, just as it was about to begin.

We All Lie My Darling

2021

English

5.4

♡ 2

Pierre-Nicolas Panasci Director

Coleen McMahon as Blake

Matthew Mitcham as Boy at ACON

Aaron Little as Mark

Coco Jumbo as Self

Five Sydney-based youngsters navigate life, experience friendship, seek love, delve into their sexuality, and face the challenges of being a part of the LGBTQ+ community.

Pushing Dead

6.4

Tom E. Brown Director

Danny Glover as Bob

Tom Riley as Mike

Richard LaGravenese as Mugger

Robin Weigert as Paula

When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?

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.

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 Cure

1995

English

7.7

♡ 16

50%

Peter Horton Director

Diana Scarwid as Gail

Annabella Sciorra as Linda

Nicky Katt as Pony

John Carroll Lynch as Skipper #1

Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.

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