Last Stop 174 (
2008) | IMDb:
7.1
Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of 12th June 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
Starring:
Michel Gomes
,
Marcelo Mello Jr.
,
Douglas Silva
,
Cris Vianna
,
Anna Cotrim
,
André Ramiro
Directed by:
Bruno Barreto
Carandiru (
2003) | IMDb:
7.5
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
Starring:
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
,
Milton Gonçalves
,
Ivan de Almeida
,
Aílton Graça
,
Maria Luísa Mendonça
,
Aida Leiner
City of God (
2002) | IMDb:
8.6
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.