Movies Like Closing Numbers

If you liked Closing Numbers (1993), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Stephen Whittaker, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Rent (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also tv movie and drama
The story of several friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent.
2
Buddies (1985)
★ 8.2/10Also drama
David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his…
3
And the Band Played On (1993)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and tv movie
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
4
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
A group of gay friends spend summer weekends together at a lakeside house in upstate New York. As the season progresses and secrets begin to surface, the complex relationships within the group are sometimes strained…
5
The 24th Day (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
Tom and Dan's one-night stand turns into an intense power-play between captor and captive.
6
The Normal Heart (2014)
★ 7.7/10Also 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 allies in the medical community fight to expose…
7
An Englishman in New York (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there until his death. The film observes Crisp in both his public and…
8
The Cure (1995)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.
9
It's My Party (1996)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function normally. He arranges a party to reconnect and say goodbye to his…
10
Addicted (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
11
The Ledge (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist who shares an apartment with a gay friend escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
12
The Adjuster (1991)
★ 6/10Also drama
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
13
1985 (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also drama
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
14
From Straight A's to XXX (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and tv movie
When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her…
15
Philadelphia (1993)
★ 7.7/10Also drama
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
16
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and tv movie
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
17
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
★ 7/10Also drama
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills…
18
The Christmas Shoes (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie
Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second…
19
The Dresser (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and tv movie
One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is up in an hour but…
20
Normal (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.