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City of God (2002)

R129 minDrama, Crime

8.429 / 10

7,602 votes

Budget: $3MRevenue: $31M

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.

Directed by Fernando Meirelles