Film

Pixote

Name: Pixote
Director: Héctor Babenco
Released: 1980
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino, Zenildo Oliveira Santos

1980 · 128 min · ★ 7.7 · Dir. Héctor Babenco

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.