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House of Boys

House of Boys

6.1/ 10

TMDB Rating

42

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2009

Release Year

120 min

Runtime

Drama
Romance

Overview

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.

Keywords

aids
love at first sight
amsterdam, netherlands
brothel
cabaret
bully
male homosexuality
lgbt
brothel madam
1980s
rent boy
rent boys
gay theme
hiv/aids epidemic
homosexual
gay sex

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7.0avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

March 19, 2025

7
7/10

“Frank” (Layke Anderson - anyone else thing he looks a lot like Freddie Fox?) is a young British gay lad living in Amsterdam who has just left school and who is looking for life, love and some sort of adventure. He arrives at the “House of Boys” where “Madame” (Udo Kier) believes his assertions that

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