
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.



Matt Smith
Robert Mapplethorpe

Marianne Rendón
Patti Smith

John Benjamin Hickey
Sam Wagstaff

Brandon Sklenar
Edward Mapplethorpe

McKinley Belcher III
Milton Moore

Mark Moses
Harry Mapplethorpe

Hari Nef
Tinkerbelle

Carolyn McCormick
Joan Mapplethorpe

Brian Stokes Mitchell
Father Stack

Karan Oberoi
Emilio Acquavella
Mapplethorpe is a drama, history film released in 2019 exploring themes of photographer, biography, hiv, bdsm, lgbt, gay artist. Directed by Ondi Timoner, it stars Matt Smith, Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey. A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.
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