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Pixote
· 1980

Pixote

Héctor Babenco
street children institutional corruption juvenile detention criminal underworld transgender identity
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Synopsis

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.

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