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Pixote
Pixote
Crime, Drama 09/26/1980

Pixote (1980)

"They can't outrun the law of the weakest."

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Overview

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.

Héctor Babenco

Director

Héctor Babenco

Screenplay

Jorge Durán

Screenplay