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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.

Writers
Héctor Babenco, Jorge Durán, José Louzeiro
Released
September 26, 1980
Language
Portuguese
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