City of God

2002 · Directed by Fernando Meirelles · 128 min · drama film, crime film, hood film

★ 8.4/10 · 8,459 ratings on TMDB

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.