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Hector Babenco

Highest Rated: 94% Pixote (1980)

Lowest Rated: 57% At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)

Birthday: Feb 7, 1946

Birthplace: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Hector Babenco became Brazil's leading post-"cinema novo" director in the 1970s and an acclaimed Hollywood director in the 80s. All his films deal with social issues, and are best seen as personal and subjective accounts of "marginalized" people--the homeless, prostitutes, political prisoners, homosexuals.

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Highest-Rated Movies

94% 93% Pixote
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86% 81% Kiss of the Spider Woman
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83% 62% My Hindu Friend Watchlist
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
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74% 83% Before Night Falls
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67% 85% Carandiru
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60% 59% Ironweed
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57% 74% At Play in the Fields of the Lord
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O Rei da Noite
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Foolish Heart
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Filmography

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Babenco: Tell Me When I Die 2019 Self My Hindu Friend 83% 62% 2015 Director, Producer Crítico 2008 Self El Pasado 55% 2007 Projecionista Actor, Director, Writer, Producer Carandiru 67% 85% 2003 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Before Night Falls 74% 83% 2000 Virgilio Pinera Actor The Venice Project 1999 Danilo Danuzzi Actor Foolish Heart 1998 Director, Screenwriter, Producer At Play in the Fields of the Lord 57% 74% 1991 Director, Screenwriter Ironweed 60% 59% 1987 Director Kiss of the Spider Woman 86% 81% 1985 Director Pixote 94% 93% 1980 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Lucio Flavio 1977 Director, Screenwriter O Rei da Noite 1975 Director, Writer, Producer
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