Topic: AIDS
Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on AIDS. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.
Translatina
2010 · Documentary · 93 min. · Peru
Direction Felipe Degregori
Cast Belissa Andía · Francis New · Gaby Mariño · Constantino Carvallo
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Die Aids-Trilogie: Feuer unterm Arsch - Vom Leben und Sterben schwuler Männer in Berlin
1990 · Documentary · 50 min. · Germany
Direction Rosa von Praunheim
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The AIDS Show
2010 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States
Direction Peter Adair · Rob Epstein
Plot A recording of a play about the intangible impacts AIDS has on a community. This is a moving, beautifully photographed combination of theater and documentary that captures the incredible excitement...
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No One Sleeps
2000 · Movie · 108 min. · Germany
Direction Jochen Hick
Cast Tom Wlaschiha · Irit Levi · Jim Thalman · Richard Conti
Plot San Francisco is preparing for the premiere of a new staging of the Puccini opera, Turandot. The passionate story of the Chinese princess Turandot, and the mysterious three riddles which...
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The Warrior (S)
1997 · Movie · 3 min. · Burkina Faso
Direction Idrissa Ouedraogo
Cast Madi Derme · Jeanne d'Arc Yaméogo
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El secreto mejor guardado (S)
2004 · Documentary · 19 min. · Spain
Direction Patricia Ferreira
Cast T.R. Aishwarya · Gnana Bharathi · Gnana Bhrathi · D. Krishnakumar
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Who's Gonna Love Me Now?
2016 · Documentary · 84 min. · Israel
Direction Barak Heymann · Tomer Heymann
Plot Saar has never fulfilled his parents’ expectations. Ever since he defied the rules of his kibbutz and was barred from the settlement community seventeen years ago, as far as his...
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The Escort
1996 · Movie · 92 min. · Canada
Direction Denis Langlois
Cast Paul-Antoine Taillefer · Eric Cabana · Robin Aubert · Marie-Claude Lefebvre
Plot L'ESCORTE is a comedy of manners where cynicism and false naiveté mingle in a bittersweet study of love, lies and friendship in the age of AIDS. Amid the laughter and...
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The Charro of Toluquilla
2016 · Documentary · 90 min. · Mexico
Direction José Villalobos Romero
Cast Jaime Agustín García Domínguez
Plot The Charro of Toluquilla is a mariachi singer that became a braggart and a womanizer, fascinated by the chauvinistic vintage Mexican movie characters with one difference: he got AIDS. He...
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Positive
1990 · Documentary · 90 min. · Germany
Direction Rosa von Praunheim
Cast Larry Kramer · Peter Staley · Diamanda Galás · Jay Corcoran
Plot This film documents New York City’s gay community’s response to the AIDS crisis during the 1980s as they were forced to organize themselves after the government’s slow response to stem...
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Dzi Croquettes
2009 · Documentary · 110 min. · Brazil
Direction Tatiana Issa · Raphael Alvarez
Cast Lennie Dale · Norma Bengell · Maria Zilda Bethlem · César Camargo Mariano
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Vacuum
2017 · Movie · 85 min. · Switzerland
Direction Christine Repond
Cast Barbara Auer · Robert Hunger-Bühler · Anna-Katharina Müller · Oriana Schrage
Plot Amidst the preparations for her 35th wedding anniversary, Meredith is surprised by the discovery that she is HIV-positive. Only her husband André could have been the carrier of the virus.
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Desert Migration
2015 · Documentary · 80 min. · United States
Direction Daniel F. Cardone
Plot Saved by the introduction of protease inhibitors in the mid-1990s, many HIV positive men needed to rebuild the lives they thought they'd never be able to live. In an effort...
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