Reviews & Ratings for
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

What a delight seeing Chiwetel Ojiofor and Audrey Tautou acting together in this drama thriller about organ harvesting and the underground lives of illegal immigrants in London.

Chiwetel plays a Nigerian doctor working the night shift at a hotel and also as a cab driver. He rents the couch of Tautou hotel chanbermaid during the day while she works. Late one night he unpllugs a blocked toilet in the hotel finding a human heart.

I loved his friendship with ma Chinese morgue worker.

The film works well exposing the desperate lives of these immigrants on the fringe. Chiwetel can't call the police to report the heart, because then he might be deported.

It works less as a really taut thriller. I should have seen the final twist coming, but didn't. Still well worth watching for the performances and unusual story.