Topic: AIDS

Direction Russell T. Davies · Peter Hoar

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

Plot A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

Direction Michael John Warren

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

Plot 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...

Direction Ryan Murphy · Nelson Cragg · Silas Howard

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

Plot 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...

Direction Simon Kaijser

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

Plot 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...

Direction Steve Hoover

Cast Rocky Braat

Plot 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...

Direction Jean-Marc Vallée

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

Plot Based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug taking, women loving, homophobic man who, in 1986 was diagnosed with full blown HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live....

Direction Jonathan Demme

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

Plot Tom Hanks plays Andrew Beckett, a hotshot Philadelphia lawyer who has been keeping his homosexuality, and his AIDS, hidden from his conservative bosses. When he's suddenly and inexplicably fired, Andrew...

Direction Yen Tan

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

Plot 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...

Direction Nelson George

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

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

Plot 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...

Direction Bryan Singer

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

Plot This is the story of how Freddie Mercury and his fellow band members Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon formed Queen - one of the most iconic rock groups...

Direction David Weissman

Plot 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,...

Direction Joaquim Pinto

Cast Joaquim Pinto · Nuno Leonel

Plot 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...

Direction Stephen Daldry

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

Plot In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Darrell James Roodt

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

Plot 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...

Direction Jean Carlomusto

Plot 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...

Direction Derek Jarman

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

Plot 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...