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City of God

Film · 2002 · Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund

A boy who dreams of being a photographer grows up in a Rio favela as drug gangs take it over.

Type

Film

Released

2002

Director

Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund

Length

128 min · One sitting

Original title

Cidade de Deus

Rated

MPA R

Critics' average

85/100 across 4 published scores

Genres

Crime · Drama · Gangster & mob · Coming of age · Social realism

What it feels like

Class & inequality · Coming of age · Crime & justice · Tense · Bleak

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