Similar movies?
Can anyone tell me other movies about drug mules? Ive already seen Midnight Exress and Return to Paradise.
Thanks!
Maria Full of Grace is excellent.
shareI wanted to see that but the dvd shop doesnt have it. Thanks.
shareAmazon.com is selling it for about $7 - might be worth it if you really want to see it.
BTW, do you recommend Return to Paradise?
I saw Return to Paradise by accident when I was flicking through channels. Its not too bad, if you like movies about drugs in South East Asia.
shareWe just watched Return to Paradise last night. It made me think of Brokedown Palace. Good movie, but sad. Joaquin (sp?) Pheonix did a GREAT job in that movie.
Another good trafficking movie (except it's sex trafficking, not drugs) is Trade. It is absolutely heartbreaking to watch and know this actually goes on, but IMO it's one of the best trafficking movies ever. It really opens your eyes to the horror of sex trafficking. Part of it is in subtitles, but the majority is english.
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Maria Full of Grace is excellent.
Yes! One of my favorite movies of all times ... This is one that I broke down and bought and have watched several times. There are so many good foreign movies that I never hear of here in America. Thank God for netflix lol.
Another excellent movie - except it's not about drug trafficking - but sex trafficking is Lilya 4-Ever ... I absolutely fell in love with that movie, but so far it's not been released in my region (America), only in region 2 ... I'm waiting for my friggin dvd player to break so I can buy a multi-region lol.
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Lilya 4-Ever
I'm confused by your comment because I have this movie in my Netflix Q, where it is available on DVD, but not streaming.
With respect to the above poster, I have now put Return to Paradise in my Netflix Q, so thanks for the tip. I have seen Trade, but I don't think I liked it much and didn't finish the movie. share
Sorry, Stirchley - I didn't word that correctly regarding Lilya forever. At the time I recieved it from netflix our dvd player was multi-regional. But when we bought our bigscreen tv, my husband bought a new surround systems/dvd player (which is NOT multi-regional - it only plays the region 1 dvd's - america & canada). He put the old (multiregional) dvd player on the smaller tv in the bedroom. Lilya 4ever has never been released in region 1 for america & canada, so it irks me that I cannot watch it on my bigscreen tv lol.
(Another thing about netflix - this has happened twice so far - they have sent me region 2 dvd's for 2 movies - the newest Chronicles of Narnia and that movie about the rockclimber who had to cut his own arm off when he got stuck between 2 rocks (good movie, but cannot remember the name of it btw), so we're stuck watching it in the bedroom, on the smaller tv, with 3 dogs & 2 cats on the bed - not very comfortable lol! So, the moral of the story is when buying a dvd player, make sure and get a multi-regional player.)
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Lilya 4ever has never been released in region 1 for america & canada
Still not following you. I live in the United States and I have the DVD in my Netflix Q. I don't have a multi-region player. share
Sorry - I'm not very good at explaining stuff lol ... Here's a little info on DVD region coding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code
Basically, many movies are released only in the region they are filmed or distributed in (Lilya 4 Ever is only distributed in the European region - region 2, I think.) Netflix has just about every foreign movie ever made, whether it's region 1, 2, 3, etc. It's possible they were able to get around the region code somehow with many of their movies (I don't know if that's a possibility or not).
It's possible you might not be able to play the movie in your dvd player because it has only been released in region 2 (europe). DVD players sold in america are usually region 0 (plays movies released/coded in 1 thru 6) or region 1 (plays movies that are only released/coded as region 1).
Depending on your dvd player (if it's not a 0), you might be able to find info on how to make your dvd a region-free player. I've always been somewhat scared to do this cause I can see me screwing up my dvd player lol. It's also possible your dvd player is region-free or multi-region without you knowing it. I was never aware of this until I started getting into watching foreign movies. Also, most blu-ray players will play several regions. I hope this helps ... (Definitely get the movie sent to you ... because it's possible netflix was able to get around the region code.)
I'm an automatic steeple for depressed and lonely people ~ Blue October