House of Boys (2009)

Directed by

Jean-Claude Schlim

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A gay teenager leaves his home in the 1980s to start a new life. After he gets a diagnosis of AIDS, he has to cope with the illness and its impact on his relationships.

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What happens

House of Boys is a 2009 Luxembourgish-German drama film directed and written by Jean-Claude Schlim, starring Layke Anderson, Benn Northover and Udo Kier. The film follows the story of Frank, a gay teenager in the 80s who runs away from his home to start a new life and later struggles with a recent AIDS diagnosis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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