Pixote
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco
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Abandoned on the streets of São Paulo, an innocent ten-year-old street urchin named Pixote is sent to a brutal juvenile detention facility rife with sadistic torture and corruption, escaping with three older boys to survive through purse snatchings, drug mule trafficking, and armed robberies in Rio de Janeiro, forming a heartbreaking maternal bond with a dying prostitute. Héctor Babenco and José Louzeiro's devastating, raw docu-dramatic summit starring non-professional street youth Fernando Ramos da Silva.
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