Gringo on the Slum (2015)
• July 21st, 2015 • 0h 27min
Documentary
Overview
Documentary about the foreign tourism in Rocinha, the biggest Latin America's favela, which receives about 3.000 foreign tourists per month. They come to Rocinha looking for the most varied aspects, from the poorness to the violence, from the geography to the architecture, from the viewing to the atmosphere, from the curiosity to the welfarism.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Heaven Earth
Released on: 2008-09-21
Documentary
This documentary examines ayahuasca shamanism near Iquitos (a metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon), an...
Gringo Trails
Released on: 2014-01-01
Drama, Documentary, Adventure
Are tourists destroying the planet-or saving it? How do travelers change the remote places they visi...
Land Without Bread
Released on: 1933-12-01
Documentary
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Megacities
Released on: 1998-08-12
Documentary
Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.
Hell
Released on: 2019-10-16
Documentary
Chennu committed his first crime when he was 15 years old: being a street kid. And he entered hell: ...
Lesvia
Released on: 2025-04-01
Documentary
Since the 1970s, lesbians from around the world have been drawn to the island of Lesvos, the birthpl...
Around the World in Eight Days
Released on: 1949-10-02
Documentary
A documentary covering Charles de Jaeger and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas's eight-day journey around the w...
Cuba and the Cameraman
Released on: 2017-09-08
Documentary
This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected ...
The Salt Mines
Released on: 1990-10-01
Documentary
Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived o...
Fish Story
Released on: 2013-11-16
Documentary
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will ...
Die Mechanik des Wunders
Released on: 1992-05-07
Documentary
Altötting in Bavaria, around 120 km from Regensburg, is a much-visited pilgrimage site. Numerous Cat...
Children in Crisis: The Story of CHIP
Released on: 2024-01-08
Documentary
In the midst of a catastrophic steel industry collapse, a remarkable grassroots community effort lea...
The Point
Released on: 1978-06-10
Documentary
This documentary is a portrait of Point St. Charles, one of Montreal’s notoriously bleak neighbourho...
Harrods: The Rise & Fall of a British Institution
Released on: 2025-02-02
Documentary, History
The history of arguably the most famous shop in the world, which has been based on Brompton Road in ...
Methadonia
Released on: 2005-10-06
Documentary
Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...
How the Berlin Worker Lives
Released on: 1930-12-31
Documentary
This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows throu...
Naples Is a Battlefield
Released on: 1944-09-01
Documentary
The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the ...
Carnival Pilgrims
Released on: 2020-01-28
Documentary
Director-cinematographer Mika Mattila tours the tourist attractions of the world and films inconspic...