Dirty Pretty Things

A Nigerian doctor and a Turkish maid are caught up in a scam selling human body parts in London. Should they try to make some money – or expose the crooks and risk deportation?, Director Stephen Frears returns to the grittier themes of his earlier films for the urban thriller Dirty Pretty Things. Residing in London, the medically trained Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a Nigerian immigrant working as a taxi driver and a hotel concierge, but he still lives on the edge of poverty. He shares a room with Senay (Amélie’s Audrey Tautou making her English-language debut), a Turkish refugee who works as a maid at the hotel. As illegal immigrants, Okwe and Senay live in fear of being deported. One night, working at the front desk, Okwe receives a call from prostitute Juliette (Sophie Okonedo) to check a broken toilet, where he makes a horrifying discovery. He reports it to the manager Sneaky (Sergi Lopez), who blackmails Okwe into staying quiet about it. Okwe soon discovers the presence of a shady business operation that sends him into the seedy London underworld. Senay becomes lured in with hopes of being able to fund her escape to America. Dirty Pretty Things marks the screenwriting debut of Steve Knight, co-creator of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire., A Nigerian doctor and a Turkish maid are caught up in a scam selling human organs in London. Should they try to make some money, or expose the crooks and risk deportation?, Acclaimed drama about a Nigerian doctor and a Turkish maid who find themselves embroiled in the violent trade of human body parts while working in a London hotel. With drug dealing and prostitution common practice in the hotel, the pair are forced to make difficult decisions between financial gain and risking deportation by exposing the heinous trade., Gritty, socially conscious thriller about an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London who becomes embroiled with a black-market ring selling human organs., An undocumented Nigerian immigrant in London becomes embroiled with a black-market ring selling human organs. When Okwe receives a call to check a broken toilet, he makes a horrifying discovery and soon uncovers a shady business operation that sends him into the seedy London underworld., Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian physician, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel, a locus of drug dealing and prostitution run by Senor Sneaky. When Okwe discovers a human heart blocking a toilet in a just-vacated room, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime.