Pixote

See Pixote in Filmin

They can't outrun the law of the weakest.

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1980 / 127min.

Rating7.935

Available in

Filmin

MUBI

MUBI Amazon Channel

Genres

Crime

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Héctor Babenco

Actors

Elke Maravilha

Rubens Rollo

Israel Feres David

Marília Pêra

Jardel Filho

Fernando Ramos da Silva

Isadora de Farias

Luiz Serra

Rubens de Falco

Beatriz Segall

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