This story begins on the day that the New York Times first reported the outbreak of Aids, and centres on a small group of friends whose lives will never be the same again. A film about life, love, suffering and survival, and winner of the 1990 Audience Award at the US Film Festival. find out more...

LA businessman Max (Snipes) is Mr Happily-Married-Nice-Guy, until he goes to New York to visit his HIV-positive best friend, Charlie, a towering performance from Robert Downey Jr. There he meets Nastassja Kinski, cops off with her for a night of passion, and returns to LA racked with guilt, whence his once blissful marriage begins to crumble. Returning to New York a year later to comfort the now dying Charlie, Max's monumental indiscretion comes back to haunt him when Kinski reappears. Soul-sear find out more...

Hanks deservedly won an Oscar for his portrayal of a brilliant young lawyer with AIDS, is sacked for "incompetence", and sues his bosses. Denzel Washington is superb as the homophobic brief who helps him fight the system. Excellent and thought-provoking. find out more...

A small, close knit group provide the basis for Relax…it's just Sex; heterosexual Tara, who is something of a mother hen to her friends and desperate for biological children of her own, her friend Vincey, who constantly bemoans his lack of a boyfriend, and lesbian couple Sarina and Megan, who are facing problems when one of them admits she's had sex with a man while away on a business trip. A sympathetic, and witty portrayal of gay men and lesbians.....…with more than just a little graphic lovi find out more...

Using Jarman's wooden shack on the pebble beaches of Dungeness as its visual focal point. The Garden is an allegorical tale that explores Jarman's views on Christianity in relation to homosexuality, and AIDS. A beautiful, ethereal film and a fine epitaph to a man with peerless vision. find out more...

Director Matt Wolf's portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned an extraordinary diversity of styles and won the love of very disparate artistic communities. His collaborators and most ardent supporters ranged from Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg to rock bands like The Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers; the pre-Studio 54 disco scene of Ni find out more...