Movies: Hiv

Sex Positive explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M hustler turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Mr. Berkowitz emerged from the epicent...

A sexually defiant teen sets out to seduce an HIV prevention advocate into giving him the virus....

On the night of the opening of his new exhibit, a queer artist who has just gotten out of an abusive relationship makes a connection with another troubled soul....

A cautionary tale about sex and consequences. What's the likelihood of five guys living in different cities but linked to each other by one individual with the HIV virus?...

The Emmy Award-nominated 30 Years from Here examines the AIDS pandemic over the past 30 years. Activists and medical experts that share stories include Terrence McNally, Larry Kramer, Marjorie Hill, Frank Spinelli, Jerry Mitchell, and Larry Flick....

AIDS victims and activists cope with hardship and society’s ignorance....

At the heart of the HIV/AIDS crisis and widespread hysteria, a single number and letter designated a ward on the fifth floor of San Francisco General Hospital, the first in the country designed specifically to deal with AIDS patients. The unit's nurs...

Ricardo was once Sara, a homeless HIV positive transvestite, living in the underbelly of Manhattan. Today he is a churchgoing, married man, "saved" by a Dallas ministry. He has renounced his homosexuality, but is his conversion complete? Susana Aiken...

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding their infection and homosexuality....

Edu is dancing in a bar when Alex comes looking for him. He has some news that will have a profound effect on Edu....

A year in the life of children in the Province of Anhui in China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease....

Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts....

Mabel lives on a slum. Does work as a clown at children's parties and as a prostitute. At 20 crosses paths with Martin, a lawyer just shy of 40. He has divorced his wife and left the law firm he was working on. Buys a trailer and goes to live in it. ...

Stefan, a young gay East German medical student, arrives in San Francisco for a medical congress and is following the trail of his dead father, a once high ranking AIDS researcher in the East. Stefan is investigating whether the HIV virus was an incr...

Loris is twenty years old, naive and in deep need for affection. He's waiting for someone he doesn't know. A HIV-positive man he met online is willing to transmit his disease to him. The virus becomes a powerful ally for Loris to gain a much desired ...

An enchanted cemetery in Berlin. Next to the Grimm Brothers' grave, stillborn babies and gay people rest in peace. This is the Garden of Stars....

Portrait of the last year of the life of famous New York drag queen Consuela Cosmetic....

The compelling story of Todd Coleman, a 22-year-old gay man with AIDS, and those who cared for him during the last weeks of his life. Todd, his lover, doctor, nurse, social worker and two volunteers reveal the human realities and the importance of pr...

Uyuni, called by many “The End of The World”, world largest salt flat. Allie and Doug have just got there. He has a proposal. She, a secret....

Emma has been happily married to Charles, a hardworking journalist, for over ten years. They have a son, and are considering having another child when she learns that she is both pregnant and HIV-positive at a time when Charles is away. As Emma has n...