🏷 Discover The Best Hiv Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Exploring the Realities of HIV through Film and Television

Discovering the best movies and TV shows related to HIV can be a powerful way to raise awareness, promote understanding, and foster empathy for those affected by the virus. From dramatic portrayals of real-life struggles to thought-provoking documentaries, these stories offer a glimpse into the complexities of living with HIV. In this article, we'll delve into some of the most impactful and thought-provoking films and TV shows that tackle the subject of HIV.

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Geoff Edholm

David Schachter

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Libby Saines

David Rose

Buddies (1985)

8.2 54 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 81 min.

Audience: NR

Story: David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his diagnosis, the two men, each with notably different world views, soon discover common bonds, as David's inner activist awakens and Robert's need for emotional release is fulfilled.

Plot: new york city, friendship, aids, male friendship, hiv, hospital, masturbation, lgbt, ...

Cast

Rami Malek

Gwilym Lee

Ben Hardy

Joseph Mazzello

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

8.0 17.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

Plot: london, england, aids, musician, biography, based on true story, singer, hiv, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Jennifer Garner

Jared Leto

Denis O'Hare

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

7.9 9.1K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

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: intense

Plot: aids, homophobia, rodeo, biography, dallas, texas, based on true story, hiv, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: texas

Cast

Joseph Mazzello

Brad Renfro

Annabella Sciorra

Diana Scarwid

The Cure (1995)

7.9 356 votes

Genre: Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.

Plot: aids, mississippi river, minnesota, male friendship, hiv, sick child

Cast

Tom Hanks

Denzel Washington

Jason Robards

Mary Steenburgen

Philadelphia (1993)

7.7 4.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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 corruption of their powerful adversaries.

Plot: philadelphia, pennsylvania, court, jurors, aids, pennsylvania, usa, homophobia, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Mark Ruffalo

Matt Bomer

Taylor Kitsch

Jim Parsons

The Normal Heart (2014)

7.7 919 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: 15

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 burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.

Plot: new york city, aids, gay club, based on play or musical, hiv, male homosexuality, epidemic, lgbt, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Al Pacino

Justin Kirk

Ben Shenkman

Mary-Louise Parker

Angels in America (2003) TV Show

7.6 257 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: God has abandoned Heaven. It's 1985: the Reagans are in the White House and Death swings the scythe of AIDS. In Manhattan, Prior Walter tells Louis, his lover of four years, he's ill; Louis leaves but as disease and loneliness ravage Prior, guilt invades Louis. Joe Pitt, a Mormon Republican attorney, is pushed by right-wing fixer Roy Cohn toward a job at the Justice Department. Pitt and Cohn are closeted: Pitt, out of shame and religious turmoil; Cohn, to preserve his power and access. Pitt's wife Harper is strung out on Valium, aching to escape a sexless marriage. An angel invites Prior to be a prophet in death.

Plot: new york city, angel, aids, drag queen, drug addiction, heaven, terminal illness, ronald reagan, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Leo Fitzpatrick

Justin Pierce

Chlou00eb Sevigny

Rosario Dawson

Kids (1995)

6.9 1.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

Plot: puberty, first time, new york city, drug abuse, coming of age, hiv, juvenile delinquent, shoplifting, ...

Cast

Candela Peu00f1a

Micaela Nevu00e1rez

Mariana Cordero

Llum Barrera

Princesses (2005)

6.8 94 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after she finds her in the bathroom, badly beaten up. They strike up a close friendship unbeknownst to Caye's xenophobic co-workers.

Plot: depression, friendship, prostitute, rape, strong woman, aids, madrid, spain, ...

Time: future

Cast

Michel Blanc

Emmanuelle Bu00e9art

Sami Bouajila

Julie Depardieu

The Witnesses (2007)

6.4 64 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France

Duration: 112 min.

Story: Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Plot: prostitute, sibling relationship, paris, france, aids, marseille, france, cruising, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Matt Smith

Marianne Rendu00f3n

John Benjamin Hickey

Brandon Sklenar

Mapplethorpe (2019)

6.3 36 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

Plot: photographer, biography, hiv, bdsm, lgbt, gay artist

Cast

Mitchell Anderson

Terrence 'T.C.' Carson

Seymour Cassel

Lori Petty

Relax... It's Just Sex (1998)

5.8 24 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tight-knit group of thirty-somethings -- gay, lesbian and straight -- struggle to live, love and stay friends in modern-day Los Angeles as circumstances conspire to tear them apart.

Plot: infidelity, friendship, rape of a male, revenge, hiv, los angeles, california, thug, ...

Cast

Kaja Paschalska

Tomasz Bednarek

Barbara Bursztynowicz

Andrzej Grabarczyk

Klan (1997) TV Show

5.5 11 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Poland

Seasons: 27

Episodes: 3564

Story: Family is the most important thing, and the children of Władysław and Maria Lubicz from Warsaw can always count on each other, no matter what surprises life offers.

Plot: nurse, nun, husband wife relationship, wheelchair, married couple, big family, alzheimer's disease, hiv, ...

Time: 2000s, 2010s