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 ...

Hector Babenco is as global a filmmaker as they come. Born in Argentina and a naturalized Brazilian, he shoots in Spanish, Portuguese and English, in settings ranging from stylish Buenos Aires to the ...

The late Roger Ebert called the cinema “a machine that generates empathy,” and that’s as good a definition of the power of movies as you’re likely to hear. The director Hector Babenco, who died last ...