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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Pulp Fiction 1994
A burger-loving hit man his philosophical partner a drug-addled gangsters moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Pulp Fiction features neo noir, exciting, witty, interesting and clever style.
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Rumble Fish 1983
Rusty James an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brothers reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
Rumble Fish features atmospheric, realistic, serious, touching and captivating style.
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Hate 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 ...
Hate features bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing and hood style.
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Elite Squad 2007
In 1997 before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro Captain Nascimento from BOPE Special Police Operations Battalion is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Elite Squad features disturbing, bleak, serious, intense and realistic 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 disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic and serious style.
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Casino 1995
The life of the gambling paradise Las Vegas and its dark mafia underbelly.
Casino features realistic, clever, rough, suspense and neo noir style.
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Kidulthood 2006
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Kidulthood features hood, serious, tense, rough and teen style.
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Pixote 1980
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 disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic and rough style.
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Fresh 1994
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bumbut still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Freshs sister is a ...
Fresh features hood, realistic, bleak, suspenseful and disturbing style.
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Tsotsi 2005
The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi meaning Gangster. Tsotsi who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just ...
Tsotsi features sincere, bleak, emotional, harsh and captivating style.
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Pulp Fiction 1994
A burger-loving hit man his philosophical partner a drug-addled gangsters moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Pulp Fiction features neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty and clever style.
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Bully 2001
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby Marty has become fed up with his friends twisted ways. His girlfriend a victim of Bobbys often cruel ways couldnt agree more and they strategize murdering ...
Bully features disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial and sexy style.
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Paid in Full 2002
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Paid in Full features hood, tense, rough, realistic and serious style.
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Last Stop 174 2008
Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap to kiss to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets the story culminates at the infamous episode of June 12th 2000 when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
Last Stop 174 features serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful and spectacular style.
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Slumdog Millionaire 2008
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire but after he wins he is suspected of cheating.
Slumdog Millionaire features touching, uplifting, realistic, motivational and feel good style.
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Piranhas 2019
Six boys race on their scooters through the narrow streets of their Sanit neighbourhood in Naples. They are fearless daredevils desperate to make money like their role models and wear designer clothes and the latest sneakers. These 15-year-olds ...
Piranhas features rough, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak and suspense style.
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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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