City of God

Name: City of God
Rating: 8.4

If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you.

Not Rated Drama Crime

Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen

Writer: Bráulio Mantovani, Paulo Lins

Release Date:
August 30, 2002

Ratings:
8.4 / 10

Director:
Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund

Companies:
O2 Filmes

Overview

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

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