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Turistas (2006)

Turistas poster
Directed by
John Stockwell
Genre
horror film, slasher film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Rated
R
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 895 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of young travelers vacationing in Brazil get kidnapped by a criminal ring that steals and sells human organs. They must fight for their lives to escape the remote location where they are held.

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What happens

Turistas (; English: Tourists, released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Paradise Lost) is a 2006 American horror film produced and directed by John Stockwell, written by Michael Arlen Ross, and starring Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Max Brown, and Beau Garrett. Its plot focuses on a group of international backpackers in Brazil who find themselves in the clutches of an underground organ trafficking ring. It was the first American film to be exclusively shot in Brazil. It was also the first film distributed by Fox Atomic, a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, which released it theatrically in the United States on December 1, 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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