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Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco (Portuguese pronunciation: [piˈʃɔtʃi a ˈlej du ˈmajs ˈfɾaku], lit. "Pixote (small child): The Law of the Weakest") is a 1980 Brazilian crime drama film directed by Héctor Babenco.
Dec 31, 2014 · Pixote is a 1980 drama by Hector Babenco that depicts the life of a 10-year-old runaway boy in Sao Paulo. He faces torture, violence, corruption and death at a youth detention center and on the streets.
- 126 min
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- Joseph Jonathan Joestar
Sep 18, 1981 · Pixote is a film about a 10-year-old runaway boy who survives by crime and violence on the streets of Sao Paulo. It features a cast of non-professional actors, many of whom were killed or arrested after the filming.
- (9.3K)
- Crime, Drama
- Hector Babenco
- 1981-09-18
With a blend of harsh realism and aching humanity, Héctor Babenco’s international breakout Pixote offers an electrifying look at youth fighting to survive on the bottom rung of Brazilian society, and a stinging indictment of the country’s military dictatorship and police.
- Pixote
Sep 12, 2004 · Fathered by strangers, abandoned by their mothers, thrown away by society, the children of "Pixote" live by their wits on the cruel streets of Sao Paolo in Brazil. They improvise their own families, forming shifting alliances based on need, fear and even love.
Homeless adolescent Pixote (Fernando Ramos Da Silva) finds himself thrown into a juvenile prison in a roundup of São Paulo's street children.
- (18)
- Drama
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Pixote. Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project. With its bracing blend of unflinching realism and aching humanity, Héctor Babenco’s electrifying look at lost youth fighting to survive on the bottom rung of Brazilian society helped put the country’s cinema on the international map.
