Synopsis
Every dream has its price.
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
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Dirty Pretty Things
Cast
Audrey Tautou Chiwetel Ejiofor Sergi López Benedict Wong Sophie Okonedo Zlatko Burić Damon Younger Kenan Hudaverdi Paul Bhattacharjee Darrell D'Silva Sotigui Kouyaté Abi Gouhad Adrian Scarborough Israel Aduramo Deobia Oparei Jeffery Kissoon Kriss Dosanjh Nizwar Karanj Yemi Goodman Ajibade Jeillo Edwards Rita Hamill Ron Stenner Jemanesh Solomon Naomi Simpson Barber Ali Jean-Philippe Écoffey Josef Altin Fisun Burgess Sabina Michael Show All…
Director
Producers
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Cinematography
Assistant Directors
Martin O'Malley William Booker Simon Downes Mark Layton Sasha Mann Finn McGrath Stuart Renfrew Richard Styles Larry Zience
Additional Directing
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Production Design
Art Direction
Set Decoration
Special Effects
Stunts
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Mike Prestwood Smith Adrian Rhodes Mark Auguste Peter Joly Jan Cholawo Colette D. Dahanne Matthew Gough Alex Hudd Christian Joyce Peter Lindsay Mark Rose Ian Wilson
Costume Design
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Spoken Languages
Alternative Titles
Negocios Entrañables, 天使夜驚情, Loin de chez eux, Kleine schmutzige Tricks, Piccoli affari sporchi, Estranhos de Passagem, Dirty Pretty Things : Loin de chez eux, Negocios ocultos, Грязные прелести, Kirli Tatlı Şeyler, 美丽坏东西, Špína Londýna, Gyönyörű mocsokságok, דברים יפים מלוכלכים, Coisas Belas E Sujas, Βρόμικα όμορφα πράγματα, Мръсни хубави неща, Niewidoczni, 美麗．壞東西, 더티 프리티 씽, 堕天使のパスポート, Viața la Londra, Бруднi принади, ბინძური მშვენიერი ამბები
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Releases by Date
Premiere
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Canada
Toronto International Film Festival
Theatrical
05 Sep 2002
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Italy
06 Nov 2002
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UK15
20 Dec 2002
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USAR
02 Jul 2003
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Germany12
03 Sep 2003
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FranceTP
05 Sep 2003
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Greece
12 Sep 2003
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Brazil14
17 Oct 2003
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PortugalM/16
20 Nov 2003
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Czechia12+
10 Jun 2004
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AustraliaMA 15+
Digital
13 Dec 2002
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Ireland15
03 Sep 2003
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Switzerland12
28 Nov 2003
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Poland16
07 Aug 2004
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JapanR18+
Physical
29 Jul 2004
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Brazil14
TV
11 Aug 2006
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Brazil16
Releases by Country
Australia
10 Jun 2004
- TheatricalMA 15+
Brazil
12 Sep 2003
- Theatrical14 EBA mj.gov.br
29 Jul 2004
- Physical14 Imagem mj.gov.br
11 Aug 2006
- TV16 EBA mj.gov.br
Canada
12 Sep 2002
- Premiere Toronto International Film Festival
Czechia
20 Nov 2003
- Theatrical12+
France
03 Sep 2003
- TheatricalTP
Germany
02 Jul 2003
- Theatrical12
Greece
05 Sep 2003
- Theatrical
Ireland
13 Dec 2002
- Digital15
Italy
05 Sep 2002
- Theatrical
Japan
07 Aug 2004
- DigitalR18+
Poland
28 Nov 2003
- Digital16
Portugal
17 Oct 2003
- TheatricalM/16
Switzerland
03 Sep 2003
- Digital12
UK
06 Nov 2002
- Theatrical15
USA
20 Dec 2002
- TheatricalR
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Middlebrow movie about immigration and the dehumanizing conditions foreigners are forced to live and work in.
Scratch all that. It sounds far too depressing. This movie is shot like a Soderbergh heist film. It has cool lighting, bold colors, and hip characters. If it was as really depressing as all that, it wouldn't feel so fun.
That is where this film exists. In a space between serious social commentary and flashy genre cool. The Soderbergh is apt if for no other reason that he has made a few films that exist in this nether region of cinema history.
If you are looking for a reason why everyone loves Chiwetel Ejiofor (besides SERENITY and CHILDREN OF MEN) and why everyone loves…
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2002 Ranked
Physically Owned FilmsTight little thriller that is lit beautifully, shot well, and full of great chemistry between Tautou and Ejiofor. It certainly wears its thematics on its sleeve, but does so successfully thanks to a tight script and suspenseful pace. Mostly forgotten and certainly underrated.
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Dirty Pretty Things. 2002. Directed by Stephen Frears.
“Glass, Concrete and Stone.” David Byrne
Byrne’s song sums this film up. Mostly. A friend of mine was a neurosurgeon from a country I will not mention. The United States would not let him take our medical boards. So, he went back to medical school garnered an education and a ton of debt. He graduated, became a neurosurgeon at Vanderbilt. Now, he is in at a different hospital. But, he had a tough time with our system and English as a second language. So, I helped him. We have been friends for twenty years. Dirty Pretty Things was recommended to me by this close colleague and Dr. For that, I am appreciative.
Own. Purchased on AppleTV at least 10 years ago.
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Enjoyed this a lot more than I expected and got invested in it’s world. We have a young Benedict Wong before the MCU and Chiwetal Ejifor before 12 years of slave (2013). Also stars Audrey Tatou after the success of Amélie (2001). I love the grimy tone and color palette featuring blue and orange backgrounds. It’s about two immigrants who discover some shady things going on in the hotel and from there, they slowly get involved and try to get out. The inciting incident kicks things off in an interesting way, when Ejifor’s character is called in to check up on a room and find something clogged in the toilet. In the morning, he runs errands and does many jobs,…
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You know, Okwe, good at chess usually means bad at life.
-Guo YiWhen me and the missus are in the mood for a movie, but don't already have one in mind it usually means trouble. If we're going out to see one it's not so bad, we just pick the best possible one out of a limited choice. Staying home though... between a ridiculous Blu-ray collection, NetFlix, Hulu and other options we can sometimes waste up to an hour before finding something to agree on. Admittedly going out of my way suggesting bad horror films doesn't help the situation, but if you can't annoy the shit out of the person you live with, what's the point of living with…
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Cinematic Time Capsule
2002 Marathon - Film #121”He swapped his insides for a passport…”
When Chiwetel Ejiofor discovers that some hearts just can’t be flushed, he teams up with Benedict Wong and a Turkish Amélie to prove there’s nothing so dangerous as a virtuous man.
Stephen Frears brings us this grim and grimy film of desperate immigrants struggling to survive in an underground that’s grittier than gravel toothpaste.
”My whole business is based on happiness”
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Stephen Frears 'sneo-noir about the "people we don't see" stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, in his first major role, as Okwe, a doctor from Lagos. He works at a hotel in London as well as a cab driver. Basically he doesn't sleep, His "illegal" immigration status prevents him from working in medical field.
The crime element involves the sale of organs on the black market. The operation is led by a sleazy hotel manager played by Sergi Lopez (so good!). Like his character in "Pan's Labyrinth", it's one to despise. Audrey Tautou will break your heart as Okwe's coworker and roommate. Like him she's trapped in a job and life she doesn't want. Being a woman makes her susceptible to sexual assault.…
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Many may have on recently discovered Chiwetel Ejiofor thanks to his Oscar nominated turn in 12 Years a Slave, but the truth is the man has been turning in great performances for years. Dirty Pretty Things was one I hadn't seen until today, but true to form Ejiofor is once again excellent and shows his fantastic range as an actor.
In this Stephen Frears thriller Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a medically trained Nigerian immigrant working as a taxi driver and a concierge to get by. He shares a room with Senay, (Amélie's Audrey Tautou making her english language debut) a Turkish refugee who works at the same hotel as Okwe. As immigrants they live in fear of being deported. One…
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A four to six hour miniseries squashed into an hour and fourty minutes. This has every single problem you'd imagine would stem from that concept.
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Like one of Danny Boyle's smaller films...except directed by Stephen Frears, a restless modern British thriller based on social class themes (in this case illegal immigrants), headlined by well-chosen should-be-marquee name actors (then nascent but already alluring Chiwetel Ejiofor and just-barely-post-"Amelie" Audrey Tautou), with some style and spark sculpted out of a spare budget and digital specs. Not altogether unique or special, maybe because it presents itself so modestly, but while it's got you by the hand, you'll be into it, and moved by where these characters end up in the closing scenes.
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This was the first film I saw in a theater in LA. It was at the Pasadena Playhouse 7 and I deliberately chose a film I wouldn't have been able to see back in North Carolina or Virginia. I didn't know much about this and it blew 20-year-old me away. The writing, Chiwetel Ejiofor's performance, the characters I had never seen before, all of it. I thought this was what serious filmmaking is all about!
I've seen a lot more films since then (including more Stephen Frears films) and I'm not 20 years old anymore so I was pretty sure this was not going to hold up to memory. And it doesn't. But it does remain criminally underrated and for…
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