Hiv movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant hiv movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, queer cinema, touching, emotional, serious and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with hiv, aids, lgbt, gay, gay interest, lgbtq, gender, death, life is a bitch and gays and lesbians plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hiv: Pedro (2008), Kids (1995), Girl, Positive (2007), Nine Lives (2004), It's a Sin (2021), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Touch Me (1997), Life Support (2007), Philadelphia (1993), Rent (2005).
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List of hiv movies
558
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
gay, aids, hiv, gay relationship, rising to stardom, fighting the system, human spirit, terminal illness, idealism, hopes, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
cuba, san francisco, miami, latin america, usa ...
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91K
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, independent film, controversial, bleak, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, aids, innocence lost, youth, drug abuse, virginity, underage sex, teenage boy, street kid, puberty, sex, teenager ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, seattle, los angeles, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A popular high school girl finds out that a boy she slept with is HIV positive.
Style:
semi serious, disturbing, realistic, exciting, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
hiv, clinic, high school, sexually transmitted disease, danger, infected, terminal illness, family in crisis, teenage love, couples, teenage life, disability ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, male nudity, closeted homosexual, hiv, gay relationship, infidelity, youth, breakup, gay sex, gay couple, support group, lifestyle ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.
Style:
saga, captivating, tense, social, sad ...
Plot:
lgbt, aids, lgbtq, gay, hiv, gay interest, gay couple, friendship, gay sex, gay relationship, homosexuality, male nudity ...
Time:
2020s, 80s, year 1981
Place:
london, england
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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:
cerebral, inspirational, psychological, heartbreaking, clever ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
aids, transsexual, fighting the system, hiv, transgender, human spirit, casual sex, treatment, hiv positive, life is a bitch, gay slur, drug ...
Time:
80s, year 2013, 2000s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
texas, usa, idaho, midwest, nebraska ...
Is relevant?
496
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Bridgette is an actress teaching aerobics, and she falls in love with idle playboy Adam, who runs his father's gym. One day she finds out that one of her ex-lovers died of AIDS and, thinking that Adam is having an affair with another woman, ...
Style:
rom com, independent film, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
hiv, love affair, female protagonist, aerobics, love, aids, sexually transmitted disease, mortality, playboy, aspiring actress, bittersweet, actor's life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
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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:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
aids, hiv, drug abuse, drug addict, going straight, lifestyle, friendship, addiction, life is a bitch, society, hopes, rehabilitation ...
Place:
usa, new york
Is relevant?
272K
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, thought provoking, emotional, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, courtroom drama, hiv, lawyer, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, discrimination, gay interest, homosexual, lawsuit, medical ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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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:
touching, serious, realistic, depressing, retro ...
Plot:
aids, lgbt, gay, hiv, fall in love, terminal illness, society, lgbtq, gay slur, life is a bitch, love and romance, social differences ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Is relevant?
58K
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, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, bohemian life, aids, lgbtq, gay, drug abuse, hiv, glbt, drug addiction, christmas, friendship, drag queen ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, year 2005, future, 90s ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, usa, new mexico ...
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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, lgbtq, medical, hiv, deadly virus, doctor, politics, investigation, glbt, human spirit ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, year 1980 ...
Place:
san francisco, africa, usa, new york, copenhagen ...
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359
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An obsessive doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly creates an aggressive new bacteria that deteriorates the body and enrages the mind.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, experimental
Plot:
doctors and patients, experiment gone awry, hospital, chaos, laboratory, virus, epidemic, hiv, survival, danger, death, boy ...
Time:
21st century
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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, unrequited love, death of brother, sexually transmitted disease, complex characters, true love, actor, terminal illness, sex, death, lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
moscow russia
Is relevant?
19
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Soon after moving to New York City to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, 22-year-old Andy is diagnosed with HIV. Now, Andy and his three best friends must come to terms with his life-changing news while struggling to survive life in the city.
Style:
melancholic, psychological, sentimental, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
hiv, struggling actor, friendship, lgbt, gay, gay interest, youth, gay lead character, love, couples, society, love and romance ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
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:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
aids, closeted homosexual, hiv, lgbt, gay lead character, lawyer, lgbtq, gay interest, gay, last will and testament, gay son, grandmother grandson relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
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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, touching, sincere, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot:
aids, gay, male pubic hair, female nudity, friendship, opera singer, moral dilemma, erection, euthanasia, sexual promiscuity, siblings relations, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1984, year 2007, year 1985, 80s
Place:
paris france, munich germany, lyon, marseille, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, emotional, romantic drama, multicultural, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, hiv, aids, nude beach, naked in public, homosexuality, illness, community, lgbtq, gay interest, desperation, loss ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
east berlin
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Coming-of-age film about Caleb, a South Florida teen. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, he finds love in the most unlikely of places.
Style:
homoerotic, ambiguous ending, lgbt cinema, queer cinema, gay cinema
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay interest, childhood trauma, gay romance, lgbt, gay teenager, homoerotic friendship, bare chested male, best friend, homoeroticism, hiv ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s
Place:
florida, miami
Is relevant?
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:
sexy, sexual, touching, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay, aids, gay interest, glbt, gay lead character, gay relationship, lgbtq, hiv, lgbt, gay friend, gay couple, celibacy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Luke is a gay hustler. Jon is a movie critic. Both are HIV positive. They go on a hedonistic, dangerous journey. Their motto: "Fuck the world".
Style:
independent film, erotic, road movie, neo noir, controversial ...
Plot:
gay, homosexual, hiv, aids, lgbt, male pubic hair, lgbtq, road trip, gender, gay love, love, gay interest ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
california
Is relevant?
3K
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, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
aids, gay, gay interest, closeted homosexual, christmas, homosexuality, hiv, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, stand up comedian, gay slur, homosexual ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.
Style:
sincere, touching, uplifting, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
aids, hopes, parents and children, family problems, injustice, life is a bitch, down on your luck, witch doctor, hiv, secret, girl, strong female lead ...
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Théo and Hugo meet in a club and form an immediate bond. Once the desire and elation of this first moment has passed, the two young men, now sober, wander through the empty streets of nocturnal Paris, having to confront the love they sense ...
Style:
sexy, erotic drama, disturbing, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay lead character, lgbt, gay club, gay couple, gay love, gay relationship, male male relationship, lgbtq, gay, hospital, gay sex ...
Place:
paris france, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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, lgbt cinema, eros, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay relationship, gay couple, hiv, politics, glbt, friendship, loss of lover, courage ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1983, year 1985 ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
Style:
costume drama, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, gay interest, aids, artist, photograph, obscenity, hiv, bdsm, photographer, art, fame, controversy ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tom and Dan's one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, hostage, infidelity, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, lgbtq, kidnapping, death of wife, captive, gay bar, kidnapper kidnapped relationship ...
Place:
philadelphia
Is relevant?
424
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Japanese porno actor, HIV positive, commits suicide. Natsumi, a popular porno actress who has often worked with him, learns that she is also HIV positive and becomes desperate. She receives mysterious post cards at times from Taiwan, and decides ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suicide, hiv, porn actor, hiv positive, porn actress, illness, porn star, investigation, private investigation, life is a bitch, uncover truth, desperation ...
Place:
taiwan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who loves to explore the home's garden using ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, sentimental, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
gay, male nudity, gay interest, aids, nudity, male pubic hair, gay couple, hiv, glbt, friendship between men, swimming, lgbtq ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new york state, usa, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Everybody's looking for something... Moving forward doesn't always mean leaving something behind.
Style:
realistic, serious, lgbt cinema, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay romance, gay interest, gay sex, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, friendship, addiction, hiv, destructive relationship, introspection, lifestyle ...
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