Dirty Pretty Things
- IMDb link: 0301199
- IMDb rating: 7.2 (45,564 votes)
- Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama
- Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Frears
- Cast: Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Kriss Dosanjh, Israel Oyelumade, Yemi Goodman Ajibade and others
- Release date: 5 Sep 2003
- Release year: 2002
- Runtime: 97 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom
- Keywords: rape, african man, video arcade, asian man, immigrant as protagonist, virginal sex, woman wears a bra and panties, playing chess, chinese man, crying woman
Plot:
Okwe is an irregular Nigerian immigrant leading a hard life and struggling to survive in London's underground. He works as a hotel receptionist by night and, as he has a medical degree, he practices some medicine during the day, in a very odd way. Besides that he must constantly escape from Immigration officers. One day Okwe discovers that an illegal scheme of surgeries is being lead by Juan, his boss at the hotel. Juan comes up with a tempting proposal: if Okwe agrees to perform the illegal surgeries he makes a lot of money and gets legal citizenship in the U.K. Can Okwe keep his moral values intact?