Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Homeless adolescent Pixote finds himself thrown into a nightmarish prison where sadistic guards torture the young inmates. Fleeing with fellow inmate Lilica and her boyfriend, Dito, he journeys to the streets of Rio de Janeiro and becomes enmeshed in an underworld of drugs and violence.
Homeless adolescent Pixote finds himself thrown into a nightmarish prison where sadistic guards torture the young inmates. Fleeing with fellow inmate Lilica and her boyfriend, Dito, he journeys to the streets of Rio de Janeiro and becomes enmeshed in an underworld of drugs and violence.