Este o celebrare a legendarei trupe Queen, a muzicii lor și a liderului extraordinar al formației, Freddie Mercury, care a sfidat stereotipurile și a distrus convențiile, devenind unul dintre cei mai iubiți artiști de pe planetă. Filmul urmărește ascensiunea meteorică a trupei prin melodiile lor iconice și sunetul revoluționar, apropierea de colaps a formației pe măsură ce stilul de viață al lui Mercury scapă de sub control, dar și reuniunea lor triumfătoare în ajunul concertului „Live Aid”, unde Mercury, care se confruntă cu o boală amenințătoare, conduce trupa într-una dintre cele mai puternice performanțe din istoria muzicii rock.
Un avocat de culoare homofob e forțat să-și înfrunte prejudecățile, atunci când acceptă să apere un client bolnav de SIDA împotriva firmei care l-a concediat. Andrew, cea mai importantă piesă a unei prestigioase firme de avocatură, a fost concediat pentru incompetența, dar el presupune că motivul adevărat e că suferă de SIDA. Joe, care își șterge palmă după ce a dat mâna cu potențialul client, ezită la început să accepte cazul. Dar bunele sale instincte triumfă în cele din urmă.
Filmul prezintă povestea unui electrician texan, lupta lui cu instituțiile medicale și cu companiile farmaceutice după ce a fost depistat HIV-pozitiv în 1986. El caută medicamente alternative care ar putea să-l ajute și la care și alte persoane cu acest virus vor putea avea acces.
A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.
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.
This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in late 1980s East Village, New York, USA. The film centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a tragedy has made Roger numb to new experiences, Mark begins capturing their world through his attempts to make a personal movie. In the year that follows, they and their friends deal with love, loss, and working together.
Filmul HBO spune povestea dramatică, emoționantă și uneori exasperantă a primelor zile ale crizei HIV/SIDA din orașul New York al anilor 1980, aruncând o privire la politica sexuală a națiunii în timp ce activiștii homosexuali și aliații lor din comunitatea medicală luptă să expună adevărul despre epidemia nou apărută unui oraș și unei țări care refuză să accepte situația.
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
A girl. A boy. A love story. But also about dreams, fears, life, true love, friendship and how we deal with it. And a secret between them...
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.
Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
Tom and Dan's one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.
Catarina descoperă că este HIV pozitivă.
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers — compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.
The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent.
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.
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.
Caleb, a South Florida teen, loves his camera, his weed and his grandmother. On the eve of his high school graduation, everything changes when he's exposed to HIV. While he waits three months for his results, Caleb finds love in the most unlikely of places.
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.