Movies like And the Band Played On

20 movies like And the Band Played On, ordered by similarity : We Were Here(2011), After Louie(2017), 1985(2018), The Hanging Garden(1997), Carol(2015), Saturday Church(2017), The Imitation Game(2014), A Single Man(2009), Scarred Hearts(2016), The Celluloid Closet(1996), The History Boys(2006), Shepherds and Butchers(2016) ...

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And the Band Played On

Fear, rivals and ignorance block a doctor's (Matthew Modine) crusade in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

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star 7.9/10
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We Were Here

A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.

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star 5.6/10
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After Louie

After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam, a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today.

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1985

A closeted young man goes home for the holidays and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.

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star 6.8/10
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The Hanging Garden

William, a once obese and depressed adolescent, is able to move past his teenage years when he moves to the city and comes out as being gay. When he returns home though, he can't cope with his memories.

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Carol

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

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star 6.4/10
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Saturday Church

A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

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star 8.0/10
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The Imitation Game

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

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A Single Man

An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.

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Scarred Hearts

Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

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The Celluloid Closet

A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

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star 6.8/10
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The History Boys

An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

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star 6.8/10
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Shepherds and Butchers

A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.

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star 7.2/10
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Pariah

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

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star 8.0/10
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Dallas Buyers Club

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.

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The Laramie Project

Two young men face murder charges for the beating of Matthew Shepard, a homosexual student at the University of Wyoming.

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Gia

A 1970s supermodel (Angelina Jolie) embodies glamour but uses drugs to dull the pain of loneliness and despair.

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Pride

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

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Contagion

Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.

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star 7.6/10
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Just Mercy

World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

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Get on the Bus

A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.

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