Synopsis

House of Boys (2009)

It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the “House of Boys”, a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates, Jake. The first intimations of what is described as ‘the gay cancer’, casts a long shadow over Frank’s tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank, his perseverance, along with support from a willing doctor, will carry him through.
Jean-Claude Schlim
Layke Anderson, Benn Northover, Udo Kier, Stephen Fry, Steven Webb, Chris McHallem, Vicky Krieps, Harry Ferrier, Michael Kühl, Gintare Parulyte, Sascha Ley, Natalie Slevin, Emma Griffiths Malin, Elias McConnell, Paul Rockenbrod, Eleanor David, Luke Wilkins, William Cohn, Tom Leick
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