Aids movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant aids movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out touching, realistic, queer cinema, serious, sincere and emotional films and TV shows about / with aids, hiv, lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gender, homosexual, gays and lesbians and terminal illness plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as aids: House of Boys (2009), Holding the Man (2015), Gia (1998), It's My Party (1996), And the Band Played On (1993), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Longtime Companion (1989), Angels in America (2003), The Normal Heart (2014), The Hours (2002).

List of aids movies

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House of Boys (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A glamorous, colourful coming-of-age story that follows the dramatic journey of Frank, a high school kid in 1984 through an exciting world of sex and music, when his deep new passion is suddenly turned into a struggle for courage, facing a new ...
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, sincere, avant garde ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, male prostitute, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, aids, gay love, youth, gay lead character, gender, life is a bitch, friendship, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: europe, amsterdam, holland, morocco
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Holding the Man (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a young Australian boy, Timothy, finds himself confused. He falls for the captain of the football team. What follows shows all aspects of a relationship, regardless of gender or sexual preference. Conflict, temptation, and a huge ...
Style: touching, psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay interest, lgbt, gay student, gay couple, aids, gay romance, gay relationship, gay teenager, gay love, gay son, homosexual history ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: austria, australia, indiana, italy, melbourne ...
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 6.9
 50K
Gia (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, erotic, sexy, rough ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, fashion, addiction, aids, drug abuse, drug addiction, heroin, mental illness, model, supermodel, lesbian romance, fashion industry ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york
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It's My Party (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A gathering of friends. A gift of love. A celebration of life.
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, suicide, hiv, terminal illness, glbt, death, friendship, deaf, gay interest, male nudity ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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And the Band Played On (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Style: touching, disturbing, uplifting, political, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: aids, epidemic, gay, hiv, medical, deadly virus, doctor, politics, investigation, scientist, fighting the system, human spirit ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1982, year 1980 ...
Place: san francisco, africa, usa, new york, france
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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, compassionate, depressing, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: aids, transsexual, fighting the system, hiv, transgender, human spirit, life is a bitch, drug, casual sex, treatment, gay slur, hiv positive ...
Time: year 2013, 80s, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: texas, usa, america, midwest, nebraska ...
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Longtime Companion (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Longtime Companion follows the lives of a small circle of friends from the first mention of the disease in the New York Times in 1981. First referred to as "Gay-Related-Immune-Disorder," we watch the effect of the disease as it devastates ...
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, politics, friendship, lgbtq, gay couple, courage, gay interest, love, glbt, gay slur ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1988, year 1986 ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Angels in America (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 352 min.
TV show
Story: Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.
Style: touching, captivating, emotional, thought provoking, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: aids, gay, terminal illness, gender, life is a bitch, breakup, loneliness, gays and lesbians, lgbt, hiv, gay african american, homosexuality ...
Time: 80s, year 2003, year 1985, 20th century, 90s
Place: san francisco, new york, bay area, usa
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The Normal Heart (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the ...
Style: sad, touching, emotional, sincere, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: aids, gay, gays and lesbians, gay slur, homosexuality, terminal illness, male homosexuality, lgbt, homosexual, life is a bitch, friendship, gay love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2014, year 1982, year 1981 ...
Place: new york, usa, ethiopia, manhattan new york city, yale university ...
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 7.5
 138K
The Hours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style: depressing, psychological, intellectual, touching, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, introspection, poet, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 90s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
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 7.2
 2K
1985 (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, hiv, christmas, family relations, mother son relationship, stand up comedian, gay interest, gay slur, homosexual ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: texas, dallas texas
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Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: 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 a Jehova'’s ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, retro, depressing ...
Plot: aids, lgbt, gay, hiv, gay slur, fall in love, terminal illness, acceptance, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, family disapproval ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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 7.0
 84K
Kids (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychedelic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, virginity, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, street kid, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa
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 6.7
 1K
Life Support (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, hiv, drug abuse, lifestyle, going straight, friendship, drug addict, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, society ...
Place: new york, usa
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 6.8
 752
Our Sons (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
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 7.7
 11K
The Cure (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their ...
Style: sad, touching, tear jerker, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: aids, childhood, coming of age, boy, friendship, terminal illness, children, hiv, young boy, cancer, boyhood, youth ...
Time: 90s
Place: mississippi, minnesota, usa
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A Home at the End of the World (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the ...
Style: touching, intense, sincere, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, aids, gay relationship, loneliness, self discovery, glbt, eccentricity, multiple storylines, lgbtq, love, friendship between men ...
Time: 80s, year 2004, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: ohio, new york, usa, philadelphia, woodstock ...
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An Early Frost (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He's forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he's a successful lawyer) and ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: aids, gay, hiv, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, lgbtq, gay interest, bondage, quarantine, hiv positive, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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 7.3
 116K
Precious (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style: bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: rape, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, teacher, poverty, child abuse, aids, illiteracy, domestic violence, african american, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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All About My Mother (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
Style: sad, hispanic, art house, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: aids, transvestism, lgbt, lesbian, transgender, prostitute, grief, friendship, transsexual, single mother, women, gay ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, argentina ...
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120 Beats Per Minute (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of ...
Style: art house, thought provoking, sentimental, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay love, lgbt, gay interest, gay relationship, ejaculation, hospital, gay sex, lgbtq, gay pride, protest ...
Time: 90s, year 2017, 2000s, year 1992
Place: paris france, france, europe, indiana
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 6.8
 615
Call DiCaprio! (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The main character is the star of a popular TV series about doctors, actor Yegor Rumyantsev. Having achieved great success, he becomes an egoist and does not notice the feelings and experiences of those around him: he does not come to the shooting, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: aids, illness, death of brother, unrequited love, sexually transmitted disease, complex characters, love triangle, actor, terminal illness, true love, sex, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: moscow russia
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 6.8
 56K
Rent (2005)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: 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, USA. The story centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a former tragedy has made Roger numb to life, Mark ...
Style: sentimental, stylized, lyrical, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: aids, lesbian, bohemian life, gay, drug abuse, friendship, broadway, addiction, music, christmas, drug addiction, hiv ...
Time: 80s, future, year 2005, 90s, year 1989 ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, usa, santa fe new mexico ...
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 6.8
 7K
Jeffrey (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He immediately meets the man of his dreams and must decide whether or not love is worth the danger of a boyfriend dying.
Style: humorous, witty, sexual, touching, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, aids, glbt, lgbt, lgbtq, hiv, celibacy, homosexuality, love, happy ending, lgbtqi, gay interest ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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The Man I Love (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the ...
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: gay, lifeguard, gays and lesbians, gay wedding, aids, swimming pool, first gay sexual experience, love triangle, gay sex, lgbt, gay love, homosexual ...
Time: 90s
Place: marseille, spain, france
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 6.8
 4K
Sorry Angel (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A university student and an older, HIV-positive writer strike up a romance in 1993.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay relationship, lgbt, older man younger man relationship, gay cruising, gay father, gay sex, lgbtq, love, male nudity, introspection ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: paris france
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 7.7
 257K
Philadelphia (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style: touching, sad, tear jerker, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: aids, courtroom drama, lawyer, hiv, gay, lgbt, discrimination, lawsuit, medical, courtroom, trial, judiciary ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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The Witnesses (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot: gay, aids, gay sex, friendship, opera singer, moral dilemma, sexual promiscuity, love and romance, siblings relations, hiv, gender, erection ...
Time: year 2007, year 1984, year 1985, 80s
Place: paris france, munich germany, lyon, marseille, france ...
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Boys on the Side (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh ...
Style: road movie, sentimental, touching, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: lesbian, aids, friendship, women, road trip, pregnancy, gay, hiv, lgbtq, female friendship, on the road, female bonding ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, san diego california, tucson arizona, pakistan, los angeles ...
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Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Style: stylized, realistic, factual, cult classic, entertaining ...
Plot: gay, aids, pianist, biopic, gays and lesbians, showbiz, celebrity, couples, piano, music, lgbt, art ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2013, 2000s, year 1979 ...
Place: las vegas, indiana, southern california, usa
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