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City of God

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

84.26% |
  • Drama,
  • Crime
Cidade de Deus

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.

DETAILS
  • Runtime: 2h 9m
  • Language: Português
  • Release date: 30 Aug, 2002
  • Budget: $3,300,000
  • Revenue: $30,641,770
  • Status: Released
REVIEWS

It’s a great film and well worthy of its the respect it has. It’s gruelling too, the 18 rating is du...

_Crazypiglady 06 May, 2023

Told by way of an occasionally narrated retrospective, "Rocket" (Alexandre Rodrigues) tells us a sto...

_CinemaSerf 20 May, 2024