City of God vs Fireworks
City of God has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 7.7/10 for Fireworks). Fireworks is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 2h 9m. Fireworks is the older of the two (1997 against 2002). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
City of God
Fireworks| City of God | Fireworks | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.4/10 | ★ 7.7/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 1997 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 1h 43m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Fernando Meirelles | Takeshi Kitano |
| Main cast | Alice Braga, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Alexandre Rodrigues, Phellipe Haagensen | Ren Osugi, Takeshi Kitano, Susumu Terajima, Yuko Daike, Makoto Ashikawa |
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.
Fireworks
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
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