The character of Buscapé was based on a composite of Paulo Lins, the author of the book "Cidade de Deus", and a childhood friend of his who dreamed of becoming a photographer.
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
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City of Men 2007
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha about to turn 18 discover things about their missing fathers pasts which will shatter their solid friendship in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rios favelas.
City of Men features bleak, tense, disturbing, captivating and serious style.
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Gomorrah 2008
An inside look at Italys modern-day crime families the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power money and blood these are the quotvaluesquot that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Gomorrah features bleak, tense, disturbing, serious and realistic style.
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La Haine 1995
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia Vinz Hubert and Said -- a Jew African and an Arab -- give human faces to Frances immigrant populations their bristling resentment at their social ...
La Haine features bleak, disturbing, rough, captivating and suspense style.
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Pixote 1981
Pixote a 10-year-old runaway boy is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Pixote features bleak, rough, disturbing, realistic and serious style.
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Menace II Society 1993
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine Tyrin Turner graduates from high school. This is Caines story which details real life in todays tough inner city.
Menace II Society features tense, bleak, realistic, stylized and serious style.
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Blood In, Blood Out 1993
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972 as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the quotVatos Locosquot ...
Blood In, Blood Out features disturbing, rough, realistic, serious and epic style.
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Gangsters Paradise: Jerusalema 2008
This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking before moving onto bigger game an ambitious man hits a setback when most of his gang are shot.
Gangsters Paradise: Jerusalema features epic, serious, rough, suspenseful and captivating style.
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Boyz n the Hood 1991
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Boyz n the Hood features realistic, tense, gloomy, thought provoking and rough style.
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Once Upon a Time in America 1984
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Once Upon a Time in America features melancholic, atmospheric, rough, epic and breathtaking style.
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Alpha Dog 2006
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. Hes the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things dont go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny things get worse for the ...
Alpha Dog features rough, serious, disturbing, bleak and harsh style.
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New Jersey Drive 1995
New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark New Jersey the unofficial quotcar theft capital of the worldquot. Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
New Jersey Drive features serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough and realistic style.
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This Is England 2006
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
This Is England features bleak, rough, emotional, stylized and realistic style.
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Gangs of New York 2002
Its 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin Bill the Butcher who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Gangs of New York features stylized, tense, rough, suspense and atmospheric style.
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The Outsiders 1983
When two poor greasers Johnny and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang the socs and Johnny kills one of the attackers tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs setting off a turbulent chain of events.
The Outsiders features sentimental, stylized, realistic, serious and atmospheric style.
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Sweet Sixteen 2002
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Sweet Sixteen features disturbing, bleak, realistic, emotional and sentimental style.
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South Central 1992
A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
South Central features captivating, tense, rough, serious and realistic
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Scarface 1983
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Scarface features exciting, serious, rough, captivating and suspenseful style.
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Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes 1998
A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers but they feel like theyre getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies but they are amateurs and things dont go too well. One of the youths Cordoba whose ...
Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes features realistic, serious, disturbing, rough and suspenseful style.
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The Godfather 1972
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955 a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life his youngest son Michael steps in to take care of the ...
The Godfather features serious, captivating, rough, atmospheric and epic style.
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
Movies like City of God (movies similar to City of God)
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