Movie: Pixote (1981)

“Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old transvesite hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death. Written by Anonymous”

  • Director: Hector Babenco
  • Release Date:
    5 May 1982 (France)
  • Run Time:
    128 min
  • Country: Brazil
  • Genre: Crime , Drama See »

Trivia: The film’s star, ‘Fernando Ramos Da Silva’, who plays a young street criminal, actually was a street criminal before he made this film. After completing it he took up the criminal life again, and was killed in Brazil in 1987 in a shootout with police.See  »

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