Topic: AIDS

Direction Russell T. Davies · Peter Hoar

Cast Olly Alexander · Omari Douglas · Callum Scott Howells · Lydia West

Synopsis It's a Sin (TV Miniseries) (2021) follows a group of young friends—Ritchie, Roscoe, and Colin—who move to London in the 1980s, eager to embrace freedom and their identities. As they navigate love, friendship, and self-discovery, the AIDS crisis emerges, shattering...

Direction Michael John Warren

Cast Will Chase · Shaun Earl · Eden Espinosa · Renee Goldsberry

Synopsis Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and...

Direction Ryan Murphy · Nelson Cragg · Silas Howard

Cast Mj Rodriguez · Indya Moore · Kate Mara · Jeremy McClain

Synopsis TV Series (2018-2021). 3 Seasons. "Pose" is set in the world of 1986 and "looks at the juxtaposition of several segments of life and society in New York: the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe, the downtown social and literary...

Direction Simon Kaijser

Cast Adam Lundgren · Adam Pålsson · Björn Kjellman · Simon J. Berger

Synopsis When Rasmus gets of the train at the Central Station in Stockholm in September 1982 he leaves the little city of Koppom behind, to never go back. Young and beautiful he throws himself out in the gay Stockholm. Benjamin is...

Direction Steve Hoover

Cast Rocky Braat

Synopsis Rocky Braat went to India as a disillusioned tourist. When he met a group of children with AIDS, he decided to stay. He never could have imagined the obstacles he would face, or the love he would find.

Direction Jean-Marc Vallée

Cast Matthew McConaughey · Jennifer Garner · Jared Leto · Steve Zahn

Synopsis Dallas Buyers Club (2013) follows Ron Woodroof, a hard-living electrician and rodeo cowboy, who is diagnosed with HIV and given 30 days to live. Refusing to accept his fate, Ron seeks alternative treatments and smuggles unapproved medications into the U.S....

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Tom Hanks · Denzel Washington · Antonio Banderas · Ron Vawter

Synopsis Philadelphia (1993) follows the story of Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer who is secretly battling AIDS. When his firm discovers his condition, he is unjustly fired under the guise of incompetence. Determined to fight back, Andrew hires Joe Miller, a...

Direction Yen Tan

Cast Cory Michael Smith · Jamie Chung · Virginia Madsen · Michael Chiklis

Synopsis A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family. In the years since his departure, twenty-something Adrian (Cory Michael Smith) has long since left behind the speed and politics...

Direction Nelson George

Cast Magic Johnson · Larry Bird · Pat Riley · Karl Malone

Synopsis The events and aftermath of former Los Angeles Lakers player Magic Johnson announcing to the world that he tested positive for HIV.

Direction Dylan Mohan Gray

Synopsis In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Western governments and pharmaceutical companies blocked low-cost antiretroviral drugs from reaching AIDS-stricken Africa, causing 10 million or more unnecessary deaths. An improbable group of people decided to fight back.

Direction Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

Cast Geoff Edholm · Damon Hairston · Joyce Korn · Billy Lux

Synopsis The film follows a New York City gay man, in a monogamous relationship, becoming a "buddy" or a volunteer friend to another gay man dying of AIDS and the friendship that develops.

Direction Bryan Singer

Cast Rami Malek · Joseph Mazzello · Ben Hardy · Gwilym Lee

Synopsis Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) follows the rise of the iconic rock band Queen, focusing on the extraordinary life of their lead singer, Freddie Mercury. From the band's humble beginnings to their meteoric success, the film explores their creative journey, groundbreaking music,...

Direction David Weissman

Synopsis In the early 1970s, in the shadow of the Stonewall riots and the free-love movement, gay men and lesbians flocked to San Francisco to find acceptance. They formed a thriving, tight-knit community until the arrival of AIDS in the early...

Direction Joaquim Pinto

Cast Joaquim Pinto · Nuno Leonel

Synopsis Portuguese director Joaquim Pinto has been living with HIV and VHC for almost twenty years. “What now?” is the notebook of a year of clinical studies with toxic, mind altering drugs as yet unapproved. An open and eclectic reflection on...

Direction Stephen Daldry

Cast Meryl Streep · Julianne Moore · Nicole Kidman · Ed Harris

Synopsis The Hours (2002) intertwines the lives of three women from different eras, each grappling with profound existential questions. In 1923, Virginia Woolf begins writing her novel "Mrs. Dalloway" while battling mental illness. In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, feels...

Direction Almut Getto

Cast Tino Mewes · Sophie Rogall · Hans Martin Stier · Annette Uhlen

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Al Pacino · Meryl Streep · Emma Thompson · Patrick Wilson

Synopsis It follows a sprawling group of characters as they navigate their way through the cutthroat New York City of the 1980s, when AIDS began to rear its ugly head. Getting sicker by the minute, Prior Walter (Justin Kirk) is abandoned...

Direction Darrell James Roodt

Cast Leleti Khumalo · Lihle Mvlase · Kenneth Kambule · Harriet Lehabe

Synopsis Young mother Yesterday (Leleti Khumalo) lives in Rooihoek, a remote village with meagre resources, with her daughter Beauty (Lihle Mvelase), while her husband (Kenneth Khambula) is away working in Johannesburg's mines. Falling ill, she struggles to see a doctor, never...

Direction Jean Carlomusto

Synopsis From the onset of the AIDS epidemic, author Larry Kramer emerged as a fiery activist, an Old Testament-style prophet full of righteous fury who denounced both the willful inaction of the government and the refusal of the gay community to...

Direction Derek Jarman

Cast John Quentin · Nigel Terry · Derek Jarman · Tilda Swinton

Synopsis 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...