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10 Best Movies Like The Normal Heart

If you loved The Normal Heart, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Longtime Companion

Longtime Companion

1989★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Normal Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious "gay cancer" soon turns int...

#2
Jeffrey

Jeffrey

1995★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Normal Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it...

#3
Parting Glances

Parting Glances

1986★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Normal Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick...

#4
Rent

Rent

2005★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Normal Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic....

#5
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

2008★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Normal Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives ...

#6
A Home at the End of the World

A Home at the End of the World

2004★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Normal Heart for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and t...

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