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 transvestite 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.


Release Date: September 11, 1981 @ the Cinema Studio, Manhattan

Distrib: Embrafilme

A highly acclaimed film from Hector Babenco. Its a brutal depiction of Brazil.