HBO Max: The Best Movies and TV Shows for Diversity
Whether you like cinema classics, sketch comedy, or science fiction, HBO Max has something for you! Check out our top picks for diversity and representation.

Nine funny, touching and realistic short films, capturing snapshots from a day in the lives of nine women living in the same apartment block. Moving from floor to floor and life to life, they depict the encounters, exchanges and sorrows that occur in the course of a single, ordinary day of these women who are driven by, in conflict with, or recovering from desire. The series depicts a spectrum of female characters who are passionate, crude, sometimes disturbing, always endearing and often paradoxical.
Whether you like cinema classics, sketch comedy, or science fiction, HBO Max has something for you! Check out our top picks for diversity and representation.
This romance movie has strong representation of Taiwanese people.
As one of the women said in the film, friendship in your teens is “as important as any lover” and it’s clear they lived that philosophy throughout their early adult lives as well.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.