City of God vs Darkroom
City of God has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 5.4/10 for Darkroom). Darkroom is the shorter watch at 1h 29m compared with 2h 9m. City of God is the older of the two (2002 against 2019). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
City of God
Darkroom| City of God | Darkroom | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.4/10 | ★ 5.4/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 2019 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 1h 29m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Fernando Meirelles | Rosa von Praunheim |
| Main cast | Alice Braga, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Alexandre Rodrigues, Phellipe Haagensen | Božidar Kocevski, Heiner Bomhard, Katy Karrenbauer, Bardo Böhlefeld, Julia Blankenburg |
Synopsis
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.
Darkroom
Lars, a male nurse from Saarbrücken, moves to Berlin with his lover, Roland. They begin to renovate an apartment and their happiness seems almost complete. What Roland doesn’t know is that, while secretly checking out Berlin’s night life, Lars is also experimenting with a deadly poison.
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