Films and TV shows that feel like Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen

A quiet, haunted walk through a city by a man fading from illness, isolated and mourning his own disappearance while seeking human connection.

1. Philadelphia (1993): The film the song was written for, following a lawyer with AIDS fighting wrongful dismissal.
2. Dallas Buyers Club (2013): A man facing AIDS in the 1980s fights stigma and the system to survive.
3. Angels in America (2003): Epic, aching miniseries on the AIDS crisis, mortality and abandonment in 1980s America.
4. The Normal Heart (2014): Grief and anger over the early AIDS epidemic in New York.
5. POSE (2018): Dignity and chosen family amid the AIDS crisis in New York's ballroom scene.
6. BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017): French activists confronting AIDS, loss and tenderness at the edge of mortality.
7. It's a Sin (2021): Young friends in 1980s London face the epidemic with fear, silence and heartbreak.
8. Silver Linings Playbook (2012): A grounded, human Philadelphia story of isolation and fragile connection.