City of God vs Hot Summer Nights
City of God has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 6.6/10 for Hot Summer Nights). Hot Summer Nights is the shorter watch at 1h 47m compared with 2h 9m. City of God is the older of the two (2002 against 2018). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
City of God
Hot Summer Nights| City of God | Hot Summer Nights | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.4/10 | ★ 6.6/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 2018 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 1h 47m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Fernando Meirelles | Elijah Bynum |
| Main cast | Alice Braga, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Alexandre Rodrigues, Phellipe Haagensen | Alex Roe, Thomas Jane, William Fichtner, Jack Kesy, Timothée Chalamet |
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.
Hot Summer Nights
In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventually realizing that he's in way over his head.
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