City of God

City of God (2002)

Cidade de Deus
"If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you."
ThumbScore
👍 84%
Critics Score
🎬 85% (RT: 91%, MC: 79)
DramaCrime
Director
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Runtime
2h 9m
Country
Brazil, France, Germany
Language
Portuguese
TMDB Votes
8,057
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Metacritic
79
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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