City of God vs Dheepan
City of God has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 6.9/10 for Dheepan). Dheepan is the shorter watch at 1h 55m compared with 2h 9m. City of God is the older of the two (2002 against 2015). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
City of God
Dheepan| City of God | Dheepan | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.4/10 | ★ 6.9/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 2015 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | France |
| Director | Fernando Meirelles | Jacques Audiard |
| Main cast | Alice Braga, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Alexandre Rodrigues, Phellipe Haagensen | Joséphine de Meaux, Vincent Rottiers, Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby |
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.
Dheepan
Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka’s civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment.
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