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Drama, Crime 129 min R
Rotten Tomatoes91%Metacritic79IMDb
If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you.
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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Overwhelming, relentless, bleak and meticulous.
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This electrifying picture is part tender coming-of-age film and part gang-warfare epic, movie with all the dials cranked up to 11
A scorching anecdotal history of gang warfare in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, "City of God" is narrated by Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues), a young photographer who chronicles the deterioration of the housing project in which he grew up from a shantytown into a war zone. The movie, which begins in the 1960's an…
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