[TSgt]

Highly recommended.

It depicts the growth of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro, between the end of the '60s and the beginning of the '80s, with the closure of the film depicting the war between the drug dealer Li'l Zé and criminal Knockout Ned. The tagline is "Fight and you'll never survive... Run and you'll never escape."

[JerseyHighlander]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861739/
Tropa De Elite
English title: Elite Squad

It’s better to watch the Brasilian version with English subtitles.

Much better movie about the violence in Rio than City of God.

Looking this up I just saw there is a sequel out now... will have to track it down myself:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1555149/
Tropa de Elite 2

[dljordan]

I’ve seen that a couple of times, it’s pretty rough.