Details: 2002, Rest of the world, Cert 18, 129 mins Direction: Fernando Meirelles Summary: Rocket is a poor black kid who lives in the notorious Cidade de Deus housing project in Rio de Janeiro.

THANKS to a film (“City of God”) made in 2002, Cidade de Deus, a rundown housing project in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, became an internationally known symbol of the lawless urban squalor that has ...

Cidade De Deus: A housing project by the Brazilian government to provide shelter for the homeless. No running water, no electricity. Gangs make the streets unsafe. Two boys, Buscapé and Dadinho, grow ...

Details: 2002, Rest of the world, Cert 18, 135 mins Direction: Fernando Meirelles Summary: Rocket looks back on the kids he grew up with and their journeys into drug dealing and racketeering in the ...