City of God

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

• Rated 8.4 out of 10
• Movie
• 2002
• 2h 9m
• Drama
• Crime

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.

Director

Fernando Meirelles

Starring

Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva