American films about AIDS

List of the best American films about AIDS according to the audience: Dallas Buyers Club, Test, Guns for Hire, The Normal Heart, Lemon, The Night Listener, Straight Outta Compton, Tom of Finland, How to Survive a Plague, 4th Man Out.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    San Francisco, 1985. Two opposites attract at a modern dance company. Together, their courage and resilience are tested as they navigate a world full of risks and promise, against the backdrop of a disease no one seems to know anything about.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Assassination," and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the stripper/hooker she employs once a week. Everything changes the night she meets Athena Klendon, a suicidal blonde with a secret. With a demented killer on their tail, courtesy of Athena's crooked former employer, the two quickly strike a bargain. Athena will change her life insurance policy to reflect Beatle as the beneficiary in exchange for her own execution. And while they wait for the paperwork to come through, Beatle will provide room and board and get some extra help on her infomercial. The two have no idea that Detective Holt has been on their case reviewing their every move. Just when he thinks he's got Beatle pinned beyond a shadow of a doubt, this comedic mystery takes a wild and unexpected turn.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    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.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    A man watches his life unravel after he is left by his blind girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan—a young boy—via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, music, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryFinland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, USA
      Duration02:03

      Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredocumentary, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      After a night of drinking, Adam Hutcherson stumbles out of the closet to his three straight buddies. A disruption to their dynamic which they now must try and overcome through alcohol, Tinder dates and forgiveness.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
      Duration01:51

      With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 as they risk their lives to stage an assassination attempt on President Snow who has become increasingly obsessed with destroying her. The mortal traps, enemies, and moral choices that await Katniss will challenge her more than any arena she faced in The Hunger Games.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:17

      In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      A young woman seeking self-improvement enlists the help of a renowned hypnotist but, after a handful of intense sessions, discovers unexpected and deadly consequences.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA

      Three fabulous, eccentric, LA best friends of a certain age have their lives changed forever when their plane unexpectedly lands in Cleveland and they soon rediscover themselves in this new "promised land."

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      When Hardy Buchanan, a senior at an elite private school, needs to make some quick cash, he enlists the help of Bo, a beautiful runaway. Together, they devise an unconventional plan of profiting off of the wayward teens at Hardy's school. When the students learn that Bo has more to offer than what meets the eye, the unlikely duo's new business takes a unique turn, tossing them headfirst into the lifestyles of the rich and dysfunctional.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:20

      Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharknado.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Jim Carrey stars as Tom Popper, a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland — and the rest of his world upside-down.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

        Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredocumentary, biography
        CountryUSA

        Life Itself recounts the surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert. The film details his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
        CountryUSA, Canada, Indonesia
        Duration01:36

        Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

          As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

          Markimdb: 3.8
          Genrethriller, fantasy
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:32

          Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving boss, while Hauer plays a man-of-the-cloth who aids the cop on his mission.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          Alex, a lovable, unassuming dog trainer is in love with a great woman - Katherine - smart, talented, from a good family. Katherine adores Alex's quirky sense of humor, honesty and capacity to listen. Having decided to pop the question, Alex is blindsided when Katherine produces a detailed list of well-thought-out "improvements" she feels will tweak Alex on their way to becoming the ideal couple. Alex instinctively rejects the suggestion that he needs to change anything. But with the threat of a new competitor, Alex decides to "do the list." Guided by a coterie of friends that include: Dave, Alex's loyal childhood buddy, best female friend Lily, her husband Michael, and their 8 year old son, Nicky, Alex's journey has him reconsider and question his beliefs, values and world.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:54

          Tara Markov is a girl who has power over earth and stone; she is also more than she seems. Is the newest Teen Titan an ally or a threat? And what are the mercenary Deathstroke's plans for the Titans?

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA, Thailand

          A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless darkness lies.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA

          A 14 year old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where he makes friends with a mature student.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genremusic, reality TV, game
          CountryUSA

          The strongest vocalists from across the United states compete in a blockbusters vocal competition, the winner becomes “The Voice.” The show's innovative format features four stages of competition: the blind auditions, the battle rounds, the knockouts and, finally, the live performance shows.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA

          After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter. The question is, can Jill safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind.

          Markimdb: 3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:21

          A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA

          Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot is set in the world of the hit television series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Taking place shortly before the beginning of Season 4, this digital series features the character of Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez, an Inhuman with the ability to move with super-speed. As a person with powers, she must sign the recently instituted Sokovia Accords, the worldwide agreement that regulates and tracks those with super powers. However, the restrictions of the Accords are in direct conflict with a personal mission she’s desperate to fulfill, a mission that will test her abilities, her allegiances, and will include some tense encounters with our most popular S.H.I.E.L.D. team members.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genreaction, comedy, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:36

          Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

          Markimdb: 8.3
          Genredocumentary, military, biography, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:16

          The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to war to serve their country and bring the truth to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Based on Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War.”

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:18

          Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA

          Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA

          After workaholic Kevin has a drunken one night stand with the beautiful train-wreck Madeline, he's horrified to discover that she's actually his boss' jilted ex-mistress. When she takes a bottle of sleeping pills, Kevin is forced to keep her awake... and over the course of the night the two begin to fall for each other.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA

          An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime, military, biography
          CountryUSA, Cambodia, Romania
          Duration02:11

            Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA

            Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genrehorror, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:26

            Five young Amish girls accused of being Satan's children must fight for their lives when their devout community elders insist they be "cleansed" before turning 18.

            Markimdb: 5.4
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA

            Former Hollywood star Reagan Pearce is kidnapped by two men connected to his past while on location in Louisiana. When he wakes up bound and chained in a rundown shack, he soon discovers the real motives of his captors and finds himself in the middle of a twisted scheme with little chance to survive. With no rescue in sight, Reagan must use every ounce of strength he has left to break free and get his revenge.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:42

            An emotionally and sexually charged journey through the love, addiction, and friendship of two men. 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.

            Markimdb: 2.5
            Genredrama, musical
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            A young businessman hires an instructor to turn a group of misfit kids into a team on the underground dance competition circuit.

            Markimdb: 2.4
            Genrehorror
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:12

            A group of friends are stalked by a mysterious knife-wielding murderess as they gather at the home of their late friend to hear the reading of his will, and participate in a morbid treasure hunt for the key to his vast fortune.

            Markimdb: 3.5
            Genreaction, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            A woman and her best friend go on a crime spree to rob her husband and escape her marriage.




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