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Hector Babenco

Hector Babenco

Highest Rated: 94% Pixote (1981)

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.

Highest rated movies

74% 83% Before Night Falls

Filmography

Movies

Credit
80% No Score Yet Babenco: Tell Me When I Die Self - 2019
83% 62% My Hindu Friend Director,
Producer
- 2015
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crítico Self - 2008
No Score Yet 55% El Pasado Projecionista (Character),
Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 2007
67% 86% Carandiru Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$214.0K 2003
74% 83% Before Night Falls Virgilio Pinera (Character) $4.2M 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Venice Project Danilo Danuzzi (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Foolish Heart Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
- 1998
57% 74% At Play in the Fields of the Lord Director,
Screenwriter
$1.3M 1991
60% 59% Ironweed Director $6.9M 1987
86% 80% Kiss of the Spider Woman Director $13.2M 1985
94% 93% Pixote Director,
Writer
- 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lucio Flavio Director,
Writer
- 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet O Rei da Noite Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 1975