Audrey Tautou, Benedict Wong, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor "Sneaky" and is the sort of place where "dirty business" like drug...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 23, 2004
Stats: 1,178 reviews
A fantastic film by frears with a fantastic cast. A controversial theme handled very well through a very good story although it gets a little silly towards the end.
Not terrible. About people who work in a hotel and will do a shotty job of cutting out your kidney to sell on the black market in exchange for a fake passport.
"we are the people you do not see. we are the ones who drive your cabs. we clean your rooms and suck your cocks." about a nigerian doctor who's an illegal immigrant discovering certain strange goings-on at a hotel he's working at and ending up in a bastard of a situation rife wit...( read more)
How does one explain this movie without giving it away? An incredibly real movie which makes this gritty thriller that much more tangible. Immigrants attempting to survive in a world where the bureaucracy tries to keep them down. Endless jobs. Endless compromises. Where horror st...( read more)
the premise of this movie might be interesting and that's the reason why i rent this movie, but after watched it, it's never really lived up to my expectation, this is a forgettable and charmless movie, there is no great or important line and moment that worth to remember, and th...( read more)
Stephen Frears' dark, thought-provoking thriller is something akin to a neo-Hitchcockian melodrama with social issues at its core. Chiwetel Ejiofor is Okwe, an undocumented worker from Nigeria living in London who drives a cab by day and works as a porter at an upscale hotel by n...( read more)
watched it by an accident.. and gawd its so good..the first 30 minutes made me more curious about it.. because of a human heart pulled, unexpectedly, from a toilet...Great movie itself. we will see an illegal exchange of human organs.It requires a strong stomach, though.. so if y...( read more)
Excellent flick. Tautou character was a little annoying but you get over it. The plot was great. I was thriledl to the last.
good & real about immigrants tough experiences in surviving in a big city...
Frears has made a string of fine films on both sides of the Atlantic ... and here he's touched down on a London few know. full review
Frears and his writer, Steve Knight, use the power of the thriller and avoid the weaknesses in giving us, really, two movies for the price of one. full review
Dirty Pretty Things doesn't quite cut to the bone, but it gets as far as a couple of vital organs. full review
Fueled by gripping suspense, dark humor and outraged humanity, the film is a modern horror story that means to shake you, and does. full review
It took me a second viewing somewhere down the road to really appreciate this. I now boost it to 3.5 stars over an original 2.5.
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