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AIDS Cinema

While taking Art in the Age of AIDS in my first semester of college, I researched and wrote about gay men as sexual beings in AIDS cinema versus reality. Because of this research paper, I watched a lot of AIDS movies (good and bad) and studied their cultural impact and relevance today. Thus, I want to share with everyone the complete AIDS cinema canon, where AIDS is either a factor in the main narrative, a character’s life, or plays some important role in the film. (Arranged in rough chronological order).

  • An Early Frost
  • Buddies
  • Parting Glances
  • A Virus Knows No Morals
  • Go Toward the Light
  • Tongues Untied
  • Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
  • The Ryan White Story
  • Longtime Companion
  • Our Sons
  • Together Alone
  • Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story
  • Citizen Cohn
  • Savage Nights
  • The Living End
  • And the Band Played On
  • Zero Patience
  • Philadelphia
  • Blue
  • Silverlake Life: The View from Here
  • A Place for Annie
  • And Then There Was One
  • Kids
  • Jeffrey
  • Boys on the Side
  • The Cure
  • A Mother's Prayer
  • It's My Party
  • Alive and Kicking
  • River Made to Drown In
  • In the Gloaming
  • Love! Valour! Compassion!
  • Gia
  • All About My Mother
  • Before Night Falls
  • The Trip
  • The Hours
  • Angels in America
  • Yesterday
  • My Brother... Nikhil
  • Rent
  • 3 Needles
  • Life Support
  • The Witnesses
  • Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
  • The Lazarus Effect
  • We Were Here
  • United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
  • How to Survive a Plague
  • Dallas Buyers Club
  • The Battle of Amfar
  • Behind the Candelabra
  • Philomena
  • The Normal Heart
  • Holding the Man
  • The Companion
  • Memories of a Penitent Heart
  • BPM (Beats per Minute)
  • 1985
  • Remembering the Man
  • Sorry Angel
  • Paris 05:59 / Théo & Hugo