Pixote(Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
Brazil · 1980
Rated R · 2h 8m
Director Héctor Babenco
Starring Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Julião, Gilberto Moura, Edilson Lino
Genre Crime, Drama
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
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.
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
Aparajito
(অপরাজিত)
The second part of the Apu Trilogy, in which Apu excels as a young student and receives a scholarship to attend college in Calcutta.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- India • 1956
- Director Satyajit Ray
- Cast Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Banerjee, Smaran Ghosal, Pinaki Sengupta, Santi Gupta, Ramani Sengupta
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Fandor, Fandor Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, Hoichoi, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Howards End
A saga of class relations and changing times.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, Japan, United States • 1992
- Director James Ivory
- Cast Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Samuel West, Vanessa Redgrave, Adrian Ross Magenty
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on MUBI, Fandor Amazon Channel, MUBI Amazon Channel, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Cineverse, Kanopy
Limite
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 1931
- Director Mário Peixoto
- Cast Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira, Carmen Santos, Mário Peixoto
- Genre Drama, Adventure
- Available on Criterion Channel
Who Killed Pixote?
(Quem matou Pixote?)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 1996
- Director José Joffily
- Cast Cassiano Carneiro, Luciana Rigueira, Joana Fomm, Tuca Andrada, Roberto Bomtempo, Carol Machado
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Never before in the history of human civilization has there been a movie called "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl"
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 1982
- Director Ian MacNaughton, Terry Hughes
- Cast Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
- Genre Comedy
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Amazon Video
Dead Man's Shoes
A former soldier returns to his hometown to take brutal revenge on the gang of drug dealers who had been tormenting his mentally disabled brother.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom • 2004
- Director Shane Meadows
- Cast Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Jo Hartley, Seamus O'Neill, Stuart Wolfenden
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Bye Bye Brazil
(Bye Bye Brasil)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France, Brazil, Argentina • 1980
- Director Carlos Diegues
- Cast José Wilker, Betty Faria, Fábio Júnior, Zaira Zambelli, Príncipe Nabor, Emmanuel Cavalcanti
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, Tubi TV
Nameless Gangster
(범죄와의 전쟁)
War against Crime: Golden Age of the Bad Guys
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Korea • 2012
- Director Yoon Jong-bin
- Cast Choi Min-sik, Ha Jung-woo, Kwak Do-won, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Sung-kyun, Kim Hye-eun
- Genre Crime, Thriller
- Available on Midnight Pulp, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, AsianCrush, Kanopy
They Don't Wear Black Tie
(Eles Não Usam Black-Tie)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 1981
- Director Leon Hirszman
- Cast Carlos Alberto Riccelli, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Bete Mendes, Fernanda Montenegro, Milton Gonçalves, Francisco Milani
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Tim Maia
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 2014
- Director Mauro Lima
- Cast Babu Santana, Robson Nunes, Alinne Moraes, Cauã Reymond, Valdineia Soriano, George Sauma
- Genre Drama, Music, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Our Little Sister
(海街diary)
A father's secret.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 2015
- Director Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Cast Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose, Ryo Kase, Ryohei Suzuki
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on Starz, Starz Roku Premium Channel, Starz Amazon Channel, Starz Apple TV Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
The Club
(El Club)
Some sins can't be purged.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Chile • 2015
- Director Pablo Larraín
- Cast Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hoopla, fuboTV, OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube, Crackle, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Meu Passado Me Condena 2: O Filme
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 2015
- Director Julia Rezende
- Cast Fábio Porchat, Miá Mello, Marcelo Valle, Inez Viana, Ricardo Pereira, Mafalda Rodiles
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Runnin' After Love
(A Morte Transparente)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Brazil • 1978
- Director Carlos Hugo Christensen
- Cast Bibi Vogel, Wagner Montes, Jaime Barcellos, Osmar de Mattos, Fernando de Almeida, Roberto Faissal
- Genre Thriller, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Silent Revolution
(Das schweigende Klassenzimmer)
East Germany, 1956. One minute of silence changed their lives forever.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 2018
- Director Lars Kraume
- Cast Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michaelski, Jonas Dassler, Nora Labisch
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel
Redbad
The legend
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Netherlands • 2018
- Director Roel Reiné
- Cast Gijs Naber, Jonathan Banks, Lisa Smit, Søren Malling, Derek de Lint, Egbert Jan Weeber
- Genre Adventure, History, War, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, VUDU Free, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Plex, Plex Channel