A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints vs City of God
City of God has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 6.5/10 for A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints). A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the shorter watch at 1h 44m compared with 2h 9m. City of God is the older of the two (2002 against 2006). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
City of God| A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints | City of God | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 6.5/10 | ★ 8.4/10 |
| Year | 2006 | 2002 |
| Length | 1h 44m | 2h 9m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Dito Montiel | Fernando Meirelles |
| Main cast | Rosario Dawson, Robert Downey Jr., Chance Kelly, Shia LaBeouf, Channing Tatum | Alice Braga, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Alexandre Rodrigues, Phellipe Haagensen |
Synopsis
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.
City of God
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.
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