Pixote (1980)

Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

They can't outrun the law of the weakest.

128 min★ 7.9 · 11,182 votes

• Crime
• Drama

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.

Release date

September 26, 1980

Country of origin

Brazil