7.9 / 10
(196 votes)
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.
Brazil
Crime,
Drama
128 minutes
1980
Héctor Babenco
HB Filmes,
Embrafilme
2002
7.3
2002
8.4
1994
7.4
2010
4.2
2012
6.4
2021
6.0
1983
4.0
2023
6.0
2016
6.9
2005
7.0
2016
6.2
2013
2.0
2011
5.3
2019
5.0
1992
5.0
0.0
1971
0.0
2010
8.5
2004
6.9
2004
5.6