Directed by:
Stephen FrearsScreenplay:
Steven KnightCinematography:
Chris MengesComposer:
Nathan LarsonCast:
Audrey Tautou, Sergi López, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo, Zlatko Burić, Benedict Wong, Sotigui Kouyaté, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Damon Younger, Josef Altin (more)VOD (3)
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After a stint in Hollywood, Stephen Frear returns to his trademark genre in this gritty thriller about the lives of immigrant workers in London. Highly educated Nigerian, Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) can only find work in London as a taxi driver or a hotel concierge and shares a room with another illegal immigrant Senay (Audrey Tautou), who works as a maid in the hotel. They both live in fear of being caught and deported and when one night, whilst working on the front desk, Okay is asked to check on a broken lavatory, he discovers a grisly secret. But when he tells his boss about what he saw, Okay is blackmailed to keep quiet and finds himself and Senay being lured into the shady underworld of illegal immigration. (Optimum Home Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Audrey Tautou
France
Best movies:
Amelie (2001)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
Sergi López
Spain
Best movies:
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
To Die (or Not) (2000)
An Affair of Love (1999)
Chiwetel Ejiofor
UK
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
Love Actually (2003)
The Martian (2015)
Sophie Okonedo
UK
Best movies:
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
The Escape Artist (2013) (series)
Zlatko Burić
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III (2005)
With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II (2004)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Benedict Wong
UK
Best movies:
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
The Martian (2015)
Sotigui Kouyaté
Mali
Best movies:
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Tombés du ciel (1993)
The Mahabharata (1989) (series)
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Switzerland
Best movies:
Mina Tannenbaum (1994)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
My Life in Pink (1997)
Damon Younger
Best movies:
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
The Girl in the Café (2005) (TV movie)
Black's Game (2012)
Josef Altin
UK
Best movies:
Chernobyl (2019) (series)
Boy A (2007)
Eastern Promises (2007)
Adrian Scarborough
UK
Best movies:
The King's Speech (2010)
Cranford (2007) (series)
1917 (2019)
Deobia Oparei
UK
Best movies:
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Wrath of Man (2021)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Noma Dumezweni
Swaziland
Best movies:
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
After Thomas (2006) (TV movie)
The Last Enemy (2008) (series)
Michael Mellinger
German Empire
Best movies:
Gladiator (2000)
The Password is Courage (1962)
Jonathan Creek (1997) (series)
Darrell D'Silva
UK
Best movies:
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Wrath of Man (2021)
Poppy Shakespeare (2008) (TV movie)