Cidade de Deus (2002)

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

Run Time: 2h9m | Release: 30 Aug 2002

Genres: Drama | Crime |

Budget: $3,300,000.00

Revenue: $30,641,770.00

Production Countries: Brazil, France, Germany

8.4 / 107369 Vote Count

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.