Pixote
Movie • 1981 • Crime
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Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of São 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 trans 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.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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child abuse is the main focus of the movie
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Addiction
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Child drug use and addiction, mostly weed, but also inhalant abuse. A sex worker snorts cocaine in the presence of children.
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Are there bugs?
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We see a cockroach stepped on in one scene
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Assault
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A young boy is raped, it shows the start of the abuse, than it cut to the protagonist who is terrified while watching, the screams from the raped boy can be heard, and the aftermath of the abuse is also shown
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A kid is raped by other juvenile delinquents and then murdered. Threats of rape are made constantly in the Juvenile prison.
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Teenager torture another for information, prison guards repeatedly abuse juvenile inmates in various forms, including putting them into solitary confinement while naked.
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Several juvenile characters die throughout the movie, including a few who are shot or beaten to death by prison guards. The guards then try to frame their deaths on other inmates.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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A teenage trans girl is forced to make a sexually suggestive dance in a room full of adult man
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One character is shown to have cut their wrists, but the act itself is not shown onscreen.
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Is there misophonia?
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One scene has the sound of someone urinating (we also see this person urinating).
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Characters are shown in solitary confinement.
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Pregnancy
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A sex worker is all but explicitly stated to have had a botched abortion.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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A prison guard refers to the juvenile inmates as "deaf, blind and dumb." In another scene, a teenager makes an ableist joke about another he knew in the reformatory who wore a metal cast.
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Is there gun violence?
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The victims are mostly kids
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