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Midnight Express

Midnight Express

7.4/ 10

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1978

Release Year

121 min

Runtime

Drama
Crime

Overview

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

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Keywords

prison
airport
drug smuggling
escape
court
1970s
attempt to escape
turkey
based on true story
prison guard
tribunal
lawyer
torture
hashish
brutality
prison sentence
masturbation
prison brutality
istanbul, turkey
sadistic warden
turkish
anxious
cautionary
aeroporto
suspenseful
ominous
drogas
prisão
advogado

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Reviews(2)

8.0avg rating
Bazzjazz

Bazzjazz

April 12, 2018

10
10/10

Midnight Express is a harrowing story based on true events. Brad Davis delivers an outstanding performance with great supporting roles from John Hurt, Randy Quaid. It was an adapted Screenplay written by Oliver Stone which won him his first Oscar. Georgia Maroda (spelling)soundtrack is really

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 21, 2025

6
6/10

Hmmm. I’m not sure time has been so kind to this, and as we look on it now it comes across as a rather condescending and stereotypical judgement of a Turkish penal system that dared to deal harshly with a drug smuggler. That character “Billy” (Brad Davis) doesn’t make it through immigration as he tr

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