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, queer cinema, realistic, serious, emotional and sincere films and TV shows about / with aids, hiv, lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, hospital, gender, death and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as aids: Kids (1995), Gia (1998), It's My Party (1996), Holding the Man (2015), The Cure (1995), The Normal Heart (2014), 1985 (2018), And the Band Played On (1993), Unspeakable (2019), House of Boys (2009).
Best films
New films
| Swan Song (2021) | 7.0 | |
| 1985 (2018) | 7.2 | |
| Fellow Travelers (2023) | 8.2 | |
| Fairyland (2023) | 6.6 | |
| Made on the Rooftop (2020) | 5.8 |
List of aids movies
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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54K
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:
erotic, melancholic, psychological, sexy, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
lesbian, fashion, addiction, aids, drug abuse, drug addiction, lgbtq, supermodel, model, lgbt, heroin, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A gathering of friends. A gift of love. A celebration of life.
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
gay, aids, lgbt, glbt, friendship, hiv, terminal illness, suicide, gay interest, death, deaf, male nudity ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
california
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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:
sexy, lgbt cinema, touching, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, gay couple, gay student, aids, gay romance, lgbt, gay relationship, gay son, gay teenager, gay love, homosexual history ...
Time:
2000s, 70s, 80s, 90s, year 1978 ...
Place:
austria, australia, indiana, italy, sydney australia ...
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12K
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, inspirational, touching, tear jerker, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, aids, coming of age, boy, boyhood, friendship, terminal illness, sick child, children, hiv, cancer, friendship between boys ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, minnesota, usa, california, new orleans ...
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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
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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:
touching, sad, emotional, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
aids, gay, homosexuality, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gay interest, gay slur, male homosexuality, homosexual, terminal illness, lgbt, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 2014, year 1983, year 1982 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, ethiopia, washington d.c., yale university ...
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
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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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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
In the early 1980s, AIDS emerged and quickly became an epidemic. Those responsible for public safety failed. People were kept in the dark, afraid to speak out. Ignorance, arrogance, politics and economics all lead to betrayal, to cover-up, to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
aids, scandal, public health, red cross, hiv, hiv positive, life is a bitch, illness, father son relationship, parents and children, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada, vancouver
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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:
lgbt cinema, touching, serious, sentimental, homoerotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, male prostitute, gays and lesbians, gay teenager, youth, lgbt teen, gay lead character, aids, lgbt, gay love, bully, gay sex ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place:
europe, holland, amsterdam, morocco, netherlands
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 60 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, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
aids, gay, gender, terminal illness, closeted homosexual, homosexual, breakup, gays and lesbians, lgbt, loneliness, gay relationship, gay african american ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, year 2003, 20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco, new york, bay area, usa
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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?
146K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 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, intellectual, psychological, touching, poignant ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
suicide, depression, mental illness, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, lgbtq, writer's life, lgbt, lesbian love, introspection ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 2001, 90s, 1920s ...
Place:
new york, england, california, london, los angeles ...
Is relevant?
841
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, sentimental ...
Plot:
aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, homosexual ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
Is relevant?
24K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Carandiru, a story based on real facts and on the book written by the doctor Drauzio Varella, starts when he decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Carandiru, ...
Style:
bleak, compassionate, captivating, rough, touching ...
Plot:
prison, aids, prison life, doctor, life is a bitch, fighting illness, regret, protest, lgbt, unconventional method, solitary, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, year 2003, 90s
Place:
south america, brazil, latin america, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil ...
Is relevant?
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:
lgbt cinema, art house, thought provoking, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay, aids, gay love, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, gay relationship, hospital, gay pride, gay couple, sex scene, protest ...
Time:
90s, year 2017, year 1992, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, indiana
Is relevant?
120K
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:
depressing, emotional, inspirational, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, coming of age, poverty, teacher, sexual abuse, illiteracy, african american, domestic violence, aids, child abuse, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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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:
atmospheric, captivating, sincere, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
gay, gay relationship, aids, lgbtq, older man younger man relationship, gay cruising, lgbt, gay father, gay sex, forbidden love, desire, love ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
paris france, brittany, france
Is relevant?
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?
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?
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:
erotic, sad, art house, controversial, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
aids, lgbtq, transvestism, gender, lgbt, transgender, prostitute, friendship, grief, lesbian, single mother, transsexual ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, argentina ...
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: 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
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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: 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
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, 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:
sexual, touching, sincere, erotic, homoerotic ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay relationship, aids, making love, glbt, loneliness, self discovery, male male relationship, friendship between men ...
Time:
80s, year 2004, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
ohio, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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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, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
lifeguard, gay, gays and lesbians, homosexual, gay interest, swimming pool, gay wedding, aids, first gay sexual experience, gay husband, lgbt, gay lead character ...
Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, spain, france
Is relevant?
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