Pixote, the Law of the Weakest (Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco) (1981)

7.5	Listal rating
8	IMDB rating

Brazilian (3), Drama (3), 1980s (3), Crime (2), Latin America (1), 1981 (1), Portugese (1), 80s 90s 00s (1), Action (1), Cult (1), Coming Of Age (1), Poverty (1), Brazil (1), Prostitution (1), Argentina (1), 80's (1)

Description

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 es ... (more)

Directed by

Hector Babenco

Starring (View all) :

Fernando Ramos da Silva

Pixote

Jorge Julião

Lilica

Gilberto Moura

Dito

Edilson Lino

Chico

Zenildo Oliveira Santos

Fumaça

Claudio Bernardo

Garatao

Israel Feres David

Roberto Pie de Plata

Jose Nilson Martin Dos Santos

Diego

Marília Pêra

Sueli

Jardel Filho

Sapatos Brancos

Written by (View all) :

José Louzeiro

Hector Babenco

writer

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skykid

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Posted : 2 years, 4 months ago at Jul 8 2:03

I liked the movie. At the beginning it started as documentary as some guy was talking about the tough conditions in Brazil. What actually impressed me was that as the guy mentioned all the kid actors including the main character Pixote played by Fernando Ramos Da Silva were coming from the real world – from the poorest neighborhoods, with one mission in life – to survive. Drugs, rape, prostitution, murder – Pixote has seen them all, and after reading the biography of the actor I am inclined to think that he has seen this things much before the idea of crating of that movie came up. You could actually sense that in his acting. Not only the horrors of the street life are shown, the cruelty of the police and people who are in theory responsible for people for problems which h...Read more

Rating : 9/10

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