City of God vs Rape and Death of a Housewife
City of God has the higher audience score (8.4/10 against 6.5/10 for Rape and Death of a Housewife). Rape and Death of a Housewife is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 2h 9m. Rape and Death of a Housewife is the older of the two (1978 against 2002). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
City of God
Rape and Death of a Housewife| City of God | Rape and Death of a Housewife | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.4/10 | ★ 6.5/10 |
| Year | 2002 | 1978 |
| Length | 2h 9m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Fernando Meirelles | Noboru Tanaka |
| Main cast | Alice Braga, Leandro Firmino, Matheus Nachtergaele, Alexandre Rodrigues, Phellipe Haagensen | Hideo Murota, Hōsei Komatsu, Moeko Ezawa, Haruko Toda, Noriko Kurosawa |
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.
Rape and Death of a Housewife
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
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