

Pixote
1980 · 127 min · Crime, DramaR
They can't outrun the law of the weakest.
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
- Director
- Héctor Babenco
- Writers
- Héctor Babenco, Jorge Durán, José Louzeiro
- Released
- September 26, 1980
- Language
- Portuguese
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