Michael Callen
Oyuncu · 1955 – 1993 · Indiana, USA
Filmler5
Film7.7DramEşcinsel ve işinde başarılı bir avukatın (Tom Hanks) birgün AIDS virüsü taşıdığını fark edilip, çok geçmeden çalıştığı hukuk bürosundaki işine de sudan bir sebepten dolayı son verilir. Şirketin patronu ile arasının çok iyi olmasından dolayı buna çok şaşıran avukat, şirketi ve patronu aleyhine mahkemeye dava açmaya karar verir. Böylece AIDS kurbanın bir insanın toplum içindeki yerini sorgulayan bir dava da başlamış olur. Ve ona bu hukuk mücadelesinde arkadaşı (Denzel Washington) yardımcı olur.
Philadelphia
1993 · 4.8K votes
Film6.4KomediMüzikMario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.
Pepe
1960 · 52 votes
Film4.2BelgeselThis film powerfully documents New York City's gay community's response to the AIDS crisis as they are forced to organize themselves after the government's failure to stem the epidemic. Activists who are interviewed include playwrite Larry Kramer, People With AIDS Coalition co-founder Michael Callen (who died of AIDS in 1994), New York filmmaker and journalist Phil Zwickler, as well as representatives from ACT-UP, Queer Nation and the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
Film5.8FantastikDramThe ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an exhibition about the disease for the museum's "Hall of Contagion".
Zero Patience
1993 · 21 votes
Film4.9BelgeselSex Positive explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M hustler turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Mr. Berkowitz emerged from the epicenter of the epidemic demanding a solution to the problem before the outside world would take heed. Now destitute and alone, Mr. Berkowitz tells his story to a world who never wanted to listen.
Sex Positive
2009 · 11 votes