Films like 1985

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   Dallas Buyers Club

   Film · 2013 · also drama

   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.

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   The Normal Heart

   Film · 2014 · also drama

   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 a...

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   My Brother the Devil

   Film · 2012 · also drama

   Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome o...

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   The Iron Claw

   Film · 2023 · also drama

   The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy an...

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   Midnight Cowboy

   Film · 1969 · also drama

   Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a b...

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   The Miseducation of Cameron Post

   Film · 2018 · also drama

   Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother...

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   Palmer

   Film · 2021 · also drama

   After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy fro...

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   The Power of the Dog

   Film · 2021 · also drama

   A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

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   Moonlight

   Film · 2016 · also drama

   The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty...

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    Imperial Dreams

    Film · 2014 · also drama

    A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watt...

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