City of God 2002

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.

O Cabeça de Copacabana 2000

Path of Dreams 1998

A Jewish teenager goes to a Catholic school and falls in love with a black Catholic girl.