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Kanopy
86
8.0
/5270/
82
/149/
76
/135/
4.3
/30238/
96
/72/
88
/96/
86
/19/

The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
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MGM Plus
84
8.1
/389904/
79
/6316/
77
/3060/
3.9
/134504/
91
/188/
94
/12274/
79
/40/
cc age 15+

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
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Kanopy
83
7.8
/64661/
78
/2558/
76
/1383/
4.2
/133341/
93
/155/
89
/688/
79
/36/
cc age 13+

Pride (2014)
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
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MUBI
82
7.6
/4515/
78
/196/
68
/78/
4.0
/7309/
98
/80/
83
/160/
86
/23/
cc age 16+

How to Survive a Plague (2012)
A story of two coalitions – ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) – whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time.
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fuboTV
82
7.4
/17591/
75
/827/
77
/1371/
4.0
/58606/
99
/138/
84
/54/
84
/26/

BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)
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 saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
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HBO Max
82
7.9
/39498/
79
/1544/
77
/903/
3.8
/27034/
94
/49/
88
/380/
cc age 17+

The Normal Heart (2014)
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.
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Amazon Prime Video
82
7.8
/232313/
77
/11510/
78
/4105/
3.8
/345496/
89
/244/
91
/2593/
72
/41/
cc age 17+

Straight Outta Compton (2015)
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.
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Netflix
83
81
7.8
/5546/
79
/360/
81
/130/
4.1
/162886/
95

Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso (2025)
From a repressive childhood to artistic revolution, Ney Matogrosso transforms Brazil's stages — and himself — through music, creativity and inner fire.
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JustWatch TV
81
7.4
/432/
75
/35/
90
/6/
3.7
/804/
97
/36/
71
/12/
80
/10/
cc age 11+

Liyana (2017)
A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.
poster
81
7.6
/45310/
73
/443/
71
/378/
3.8
/11377/
90
/174/
91
/1662/
76
/41/
cc age 15+

In America (2003)
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
poster
81
7.9
/544547/
79
/14981/
79
/8888/
4.0
/600600/
92
/264/
91
/4158/
77
/47/
cc age 17+

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
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.
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Kanopy
80
7.6
/106941/
75
/2642/
73
/1684/
3.7
/58064/
91
/199/
89
/2156/
77
/42/
cc age 15+

Philomena (2013)
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
poster
79
7.7
/44701/
77
/1634/
75
/950/
4.0
/62957/
81
/16/
88
/554/

Confessions (2010)
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
poster
79
7.7
/271962/
77
/6233/
77
/4519/
3.9
/200666/
83
/63/
89
/4674/
66
/21/
cc age 14+

Philadelphia (1993)
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.
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Disney Plus
78
7.5
/1642/
72
/129/
68
/53/
3.7
/8045/
93
/46/
82
/13/
76
/13/
cc age 13+

Howard (2018)
Though legendary lyricist Howard Ashman died far too young, his impact on Broadway, movies, and the culture at large were incalculable. Told entirely through rare archival footage and interviews with Ashman’s family, friends, associates, and longtime partner Bill Lauch, Howard is an intimate tribute to a once-in-a-generation talent and a rousing celebration of musical storytelling itself.
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Kanopy
78
7.5
/146279/
73
/2450/
72
/1834/
3.9
/124652/
79
/194/
84
/4492/
80
/40/
cc age 15+

The Hours (2002)
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 surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
78
7.5
/1635/
74
/88/
69
/43/
3.7
/3068/
97
/36/
88
/9/
75
/10/

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)
Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most controversial photographer of the twentieth century. Openly gay, Mapplethorpe took images of male sex, nudity, and fetish to extremes that resulted in his work still being labelled by some as pornography masquerading as art. But less talked about are the more serene, yet striking portraits of flowers, sculptures, and perfectly framed human forms that are equally pioneering and powerful.
poster
77
7.3
/442/
70
/23/
78
/9/
3.6
/3442/
100
/21/
74
/6/

Scala!!! (2024)
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
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MUBI
77
7.2
/2780/
73
/169/
61
/73/
3.9
/6876/
96
/53/
82
/24/
71
/10/

1985 (2018)
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.
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Netflix
77
7.1
/5191/
71
/335/
68
/100/
3.4
/12476/
98
/58/
79
/39/
74
/9/
cc age 16+

Circus of Books (2019)
For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their director daughter documents their life and times.
poster
77
7.6
/6490/
69
/99/
67
/73/
3.6
/2411/
92
/24/
82
/115/

Longtime Companion (1989)
During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious "gay cancer" soon turns into a major crisis as, one by one, some of the friends begin to fall ill, leaving the others to panic about who will be next. As death takes its toll, the lives of these friends are forever redefined by an unconditional display of love, hope and courage.
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Fandango at Home Free
77
7.5
/14083/
76
/711/
77
/454/
3.8
/19285/
81
/26/
81
/86/

Holding the Man (2015)
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.
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Amazon Prime Video
76
7.5
/2960/
73
/125/
68
/44/
3.6
/3686/
83
/69/
75
/15/
76
/23/

Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger and Swedish researcher Göran Björkdahl investigate the case in search of definitive closure.
poster
76
7.1
/1553/
75
/31/
65
/25/
3.5
/388/
82
/71/
82
/49/
65
/26/

Life, Above All (2010)
A touching mother-daughter relationship that reflects the modern South Africa.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
76
6.9
/54156/
72
/1204/
71
/795/
3.8
/174104/
88
/16/
82
/2367/
cc age 17+

Gia (1998)
Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.
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Kanopy
75
6.8
/335/
72
/27/
60
/6/
3.5
/1159/
90
/80/
88
/8/
77
/18/

Ailey (2021)
Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and through the creation of a dance inspired by his life, this immersive portrait follows a man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, determined to build one that would.
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Disney Plus
75
7.5
/3415/
74
/205/
71
/113/
3.8
/8041/
71
/52/
80
/233/
70
/18/

Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.
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Criterion Channel
75
6.8
/68249/
69
/1540/
70
/1224/
3.9
/168731/
72
/117/
75
/4267/
73
/25/
cc age 17+

Inland Empire (2006)
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
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Plex
75
6.8
/2098/
71
/44/
67
/39/
3.4
/679/
100
/5/
80
/18/

Second Best (1994)
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
poster
74
6.6
/623/
65
/18/
68
/10/
3.8
/7534/
95
/39/
76
/6/

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025)
As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
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Amazon Prime Video
74
7.6
/356286/
76
/11822/
73
/5160/
3.6
/200253/
62
/148/
84
/13988/
62
/31/
cc age 18+

Lord of War (2005)
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
79
74
7.8
/11647/
72
/208/
64
/107/
3.6
/6535/
100
/12/
88
/251/

And the Band Played On (1993)
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.0
/4247/
70
/169/
69
/63/
3.6
/8142/
92
/105/
80
/36/

Swan Song (2021)
An aging hairdresser escapes his nursing home to embark on an odyssey across his small town to style a dead woman's hair for her funeral, rediscovering his sparkle along the way.
poster
73
6.9
/24747/
70
/559/
67
/343/
3.7
/23403/
75
/64/
74
/454/
71
/20/
cc age 17+

Clockers (1995)
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Detective Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
7.0
/47058/
69
/1289/
65
/817/
3.5
/31594/
94
/106/
71
/952/
cc age 16+

Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
poster
72
6.6
/761/
62
/52/
58
/9/
3.5
/2863/
88
73
/13/
cc age 15+

Fairyland (2025)
A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.
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Kanopy
72
7.0
/3268/
71
/150/
66
/34/
3.4
/3527/
92
/37/
82
/14/
67
/8/

Sublet (2020)
A gay New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life.
poster
Kanopy
72
6.8
/4480/
67
/201/
68
/226/
3.6
/10437/
82
/61/
66
/18/
73
/21/

Sorry Angel (2018)
At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the two men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond.
poster
72
6.9
/7183/
71
/152/
64
/135/
3.4
/1591/
93
/82/
56
/137/
74
/25/

Farewell (2009)
An intricate thriller about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Right after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. A French businessman based in Moscow, Pierre Froment, makes an unlikely connection with Grigoriev, a senior KGB officer disenchanted with what the Communist ideal has become under Brezhnev. Grigoriev begins passing Froment highly sensitive information about the Soviet spy network in the US.
poster
72
7.7
/11758/
77
/315/
79
/342/
4.0
/23385/
50
/10/
84
/438/

The Cure (1995)
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.
poster
MGM Plus
72
7.0
/12972/
71
/264/
66
/212/
3.5
/9115/
65
/37/
77
/259/
cc age 15+

Peter's Friends (1992)
After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.
poster
WOW Presents Plus
71
7.2
/2292/
69
/75/
61
/22/
3.5
/1924/
87
/38/
72
/86/
69
/29/

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)
A documentary look, mostly through the eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, at her rise and fall as a popular televangelist with husband Jim Bakker.
poster
Kanopy
81
71
7.3
/3151/
77
/108/
70
/77/
4.2
/16403/
100
/5/
87
/147/

Blue (1993)
Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.
poster
Kanopy
83
71
7.9
/2397/
76
/102/
68
/45/
3.9
/1923/
100
/45/
86
/92/
94
/11/

We Were Here (2011)
A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
7.0
/1386/
65
/74/
54
/14/
3.4
/1805/
87
/82/
76
/28/
70
/26/

Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)
Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump. This thriller-like exposé connects the dots, revealing how a deeply troubled master manipulator shaped our current American nightmare.
poster
Kanopy
70
6.7
/2022/
62
/45/
57
/42/
3.4
/973/
82
/22/
70
/31/
68
/17/

One Night (2012)
In Havana, Raul dreams of escaping to Miami. Accused of assault, he appeals to Elio to help him reach the forbidden world 90 miles across the ocean. One night, full of hope, they face the biggest challenge of their lives.
poster
74
70
7.3
/10736/
71
/230/
73
/583/
3.6
/12404/
74
/35/
89
/132/
69
/16/

His Secret Life (2001)
When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
7.1
/70682/
68
/3846/
68
/878/
3.6
/373023/
82
/250/
84
/115/
64
/54/
cc age 16+

The Apprentice (2024)
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.


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