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 escape where they make their living by the life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.

Movie rating: 8.0 / 10 (6687)

Directed by: Hector Babenco

Writer credits: José Louzeiro - Hector Babenco - Jorge Durán

Cast: Fernando Ramos da Silva - Jorge Julião - Gilberto Moura - Edilson Lino - Zenildo Oliveira Santos

AKA: Pixote, the Law of the Weakest, Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco, Asphalt Haie Pixote Pixote, the Law of the Weakest, The Survival of the Weakest, Pixote Pixote, the Law of the Weakest

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