Movies Similar to Absolutely Positive

Mercy(2022)

When fifteen year old Mercy faces the unimaginable, her courage and resilience come to the fore. What could have been the end of her story is only the start of a new journey.

Un aviso de demolición(2024)

Pushing Dead(2016)

When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?

Calon Pengantin(2020)

Siti and Bondan, a couple of bride and groom-to be faced with a bitter truth when they were getting ready for their wedding plan.

Dallas Buyers Club(2013)

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.

If Then Else(2018)

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

Love Reinvented(1997)

Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be pregnant, to another man's reminiscence of a brief affair with an HIV-positive man.

A Vida é Assim(2024)

In the bustling city of Porto Alegre, stories intertwine in a scenario full of emotions and dilemmas. Priscila, Júlia, Joca, Guilherme, Leonardo, Maurício, and Bernardo face their anxieties and dilemmas, and the narrative unfolds in a web of interpersonal relationships marked by encounters and mismatches. Against a backdrop of expectations and social pressures, each person searches for their truth, navigating the turbulence of existence in search of a more promising future.

Days(2001)

Bank manager Claudio is 35 and gay, and he's been HIV-positive for a decade. He's managing the illness, but his strict regimen of medicine has turned him almost robotic. His relationship with partner Dario has also grown stale. When Claudio reunites with the mysterious Andrea, an old flame, the dullness of routine is suddenly broken. But soon, Andrea's romantic view of life tempts Claudio to engage in dangerous unprotected sex again.

First Position.(2019)

When a young dancer moves to San Francisco in the early 1980s, signs of a sickness test his relationships, as well as his lifelong dream in this strikingly photographed and stirring portrait.

Sweet as You Are(1988)

A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.

Reencuentros(2017)

Three Months(2022)

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.

The Seagull(1996)

After agonizing for weeks, Valéria finally comes to terms with being in love with another woman and confesses her love for her best friend, Laurence. Short film from the series "L'@mour est à réinventer: dix histoires d'amour au temps du SIDA" ("Love Reinvented: Ten Love Stories in the Age of AIDS").

Bohemian Rhapsody(2018)

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

Nine Lives(2004)

Lust and dysfuntion come full circle in this collection of nine steamy scenes exploring gay life, sex, addition, drugs and HIV/AIDS as revealed by a latino pool boy, a television writer, a meth dealer and others. As one affair leads into another, the connections betwen the characters reveal the secrets each one holds.

Kalel, 15(2019)

Surrounded by tensions and secrets, a teenage boy searches for validation and navigates life with a dysfunctional family following an HIV diagnosis.

Ang Pagyakap Sa Linya

A community-based HIV screener spends his night to accomplish his final volunteer work until his client tries to quit out of fear.

Transit(2005)

Tatjana dreams of escaping St Petersburg, and thinks she's found a man that can take her away. Meanwhile in Mexico City, Champinon struggles to find himself a girlfriend. In Los Angeles, Asha discovers her fiancé has been cheating on her, and in Kenya, Matthew struggles to break into Nairobi's burgeoning hip hop culture. The cast of characters react to the building pressure to create TRANSIT: Tatjana leaves Russia for Mexico City in search of her lover, and Asha for Nairobi to shoot a film for her graduation project. In their new locations our characters meet and our four stories become two when Tatjana finds Champinon and Asha finds Matthew. Love follows but their relationships are not as simple as they first appear, as we discover that all their stories are interlinked. —Niall MacCormick

Kids(1995)

A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.