Maria Full of Grace (2004)

Maria Full of Grace
Director: Joshua Marston
Starring: Catalina Sandino Moreno  Virgina Ariza  Yenny Paola Vega  Rodrigo Sánchez Borhorquez  Charles Albert Patiño
Year of release: 2004
Running time: 101 Min.
Age restriction: 16
Category: Crime  Drama  New Releases  Recommended  Thriller  

In a small village in Colombia, the pregnant seventeen years old Maria supports her family with her salary working in a floriculture. She is fired and with a total lack of perspective of finding a new job, she decides to accept the offer to work as a drug mule, flying to USA with sixty-two pellets of cocaine in her stomach. Once in New York, things do not happen as planned.

Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 30 wins & 22 nominations