Midnight Express

About Midnight Express

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison.

Alan Parker's Midnight Express is a 1978 crime film. At 121 minutes long, it arrived in August 1978.

Its themes are anxious, cautionary, brutality, and ominous. It is adapted from real events.

Brad Davis stars as Billy Hayes, Irene Miracle as Susan, Bo Hopkins as Tex, and Paolo Bonacelli as Rifki. The screenplay is by Oliver Stone. In the United States it streams on fuboTV and Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel.

Blow, The Great Escape, and Dark Waters make useful companions to Midnight Express, all filed under 1970s and drug smuggling. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 1,956 votes and it carries a R rating.