City of God

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

📅 2002-08-30⏱ 129 min⭐ 8.4 (8566 votes)🎬 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.