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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.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80% | No Score Yet | Babenco - Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer: Parou | Self | - | 2019 |
| 83% | 62% | My Hindu Friend |
Director, Producer |
- | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crítico | Self | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The Past |
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 |
| 58% | 59% | Ironweed | Director | $6.9M | 1987 |
| 86% | 81% | 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 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Past | Director | - | 1970 |