We Are Together (2006), Gia (1998), Uncle Howard (2016), Silverlake Life: The View From Here (1993), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), We Were Here (2011), All About My Mother (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Aids movies.
Storyline: As Michael and Robert, a gay couple in New York, prepare for Robert's departure for a two-year work assignment in Africa, Michael must face Robert's true motives for leaving while dealing with their circle of eccentric friends, including Nick, who is living with AIDS.—Travis Spence <00tdspence@bsuvc.bsu.edu>
Plot Keywords: gay, new york, 1980s, independent film, romance, love, breakup ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in Los Angeles. Paul produces Hannah's television cooking show, and they must move beyond gentle barbs when she wants to know about an affair of his years ago. Mark is dying of A.I.D.S., and his mother comes to his bedside: they must speak truthfully. Men have scalded Meredith, so she rebuffs Trent's charm, but he persists. The trendy, prolix Joan tries to pull the solitary Keenan into her orbit: why is he reluctant? An adulterous couple meets at hotels for evening sex, but she is unwilling for the relationship to grow. Hugh tells tall tales, usually tragic, to women in bars. By the week's end, their parallel stories converge.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, family, multi-narrative, relationships, marriage, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in one truly powerful story.
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, drama, song and dance, new york, artists, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century. Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political and feminist icons of her generation. The documentary explores Sontag's life through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson. From her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar; from her early marriage to her last lover, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism still resonate today.—Question Why Films
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, writer, intellectual, feminism, america, 20th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Christina Clausen gets glimpses into the life of New York iconic figure Keith Haring, from his early years in a small Pennsylvania town through the height of his popularity as a world-renowned artist.
Plot Keywords: art, documentary, new york, 1980s, cultural impact, activism, modern art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a night of drinking and flirting at a bar, Bryan (Todd Stites) and Bill (Terry Curry) decide to head back to Bryan's place. They have sex and, shunning the awkwardness, soon find themselves engaging in a long conversation. Bill is actually named Brian, and is a man questioning his sexuality. Bryan and Brian discover a lot about themselves and each other while discussing several issues revolving around the homosexual community, including AIDS, prejudice and, of course, sex.
Plot Keywords: gay, romance, tragedy, independent film, 1990s, new york, relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in the lives of two best friends who couldn't be more different. From suburban Cleveland in the 60s, to New York City in the 80s, where they meet an older woman, the film charts a journey of trials, triumphs, loves and losses. Now the question is: can they navigate the unusual triangle they've created and hold their friendship together?
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, coming of age, friendship, family, gay, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jane is a night club singer, out of work. Robin is a quirky real estate agent looking for a ride-share to accompany her to California. Her advertisement is answered by Jane, who at first was uncertain about her. A stop in Pittsburgh picks up a third, Holly, escaping a violent and drug-dealing partner. Girls on the road, reaching understanding, respect, and care for each other. But this trio is different - Jane a lesbian, Robin suffering with AIDS, Holly running from her past, seeking one-night stands and a good man.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, friendship, road movie, lgbtq+, romance, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hilde the Missionary Nun (Olympia Dukakis) narrates three separates stories, each directly concerning the A.I.D.S. crisis. From a Montréal based order, Hilde the Missionary Nun, Mary the Nun (Sandra Oh), and Clara the Novice (Chloë Sevigny) have just arrived in South Africa to work as nurses in a plantation's medical center. They learn that legend there has it that having sex with a virgin will transfer infection out from oneself. Because of this legend, an infant girl is raped. Clara, who also learns the main cause of the virus' spread within the plantation, does whatever she can to ensure that Hallyday, the Plantation Owner (Ian Roberts), flexes his economic power to right the wrongs on the plantation. Back in Montréal, Denys, the Porn Actor (Shawn Ashmore), has been cheating on his mandatory monthly H.I.V. tests, using his father's blood to pass as his own. As he believes he has been exposed to the virus, the negative results will allow him to continue working. When he is caught, Olive Cowie, the Porn Actor's Mother (Stockard Channing), learns the hard way of her son's true H.I.V. status and his occupation, and devises a strategy for his well-being. Denys also learns the consequences of his actions. And in China, pregnant Jin Ping, the Blood Smuggler (Lucy Liu) works on the black market trade of blood. She buys the blood of the majority of adults in one village, but only of those who qualify. After her visit, those who sold their blood begin to get sick. Tong Sam, the Rice Farmer (Tanabadee Chokpikultong), who was ill the day of the blood sale, and thus could not give, has to figure out why all of those around him are getting sick and dying, including members of his own family.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: canadian film, drama, globalization, healthcare, social issues, human nature, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
Plot Keywords: biography, art, photography, lgbtq+, controversy, artist, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam, a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today. As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battlewounded and struggling with survivor's guilt, Sam now resents the complacency of his former comrades and derides what he sees as the younger generation's indifference to the politics of sex, and of death. An unexpected intimacy with a much younger man challenges Sam's understanding of contemporary gay life. Through this unconventional romance, he is forced to deal with the trauma that so informs his past, their present, and an unknown future.—After Louie
Plot Keywords: gay, new york, artist, memory, loss, grief, survivor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After learning that he has AIDS, an architect decides to throw himself a farewell party, then end his own life.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, lgbt, farewell, party, family, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fear, rivals and ignorance block a doctor's (Matthew Modine) crusade in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
Plot Keywords: epidemic, public health, medicine, politics, social justice, discrimination, homosexuality ...
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