My Hindu Friend
Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says goodbye to his friends and begins a routine of long days of treatment in hospital. While learning to live with the pain and also conversing with death, he meets a Hindu boy who is a fellow patient and who becomes his friend. But one day the boy disappears. Diego is discharged, but his life has changed forever. His marriage fails and, living alone, he begins to wonder whether he may in fact be dying and no one has told him. He tries to find out what happened to his Hindu friend, and eventually meets another woman.
Pixote
10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who frame Lilica, a 17-year-old trans hustler. Pixote helps Lilica and three other boys escape and they start to make their living by a life of crime which only escalates to more violence and death.
Carandiru
When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest days in Brazilian History when the State of São Paulo’s Military Police, with the excuse for law enforcement, shot to death 111 people. Based on real facts and on the book written by Dráuzio Varella.
Kiss of the Spider Woman
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
Ironweed
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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Hector Babenco
Director
Denise Weinberg
as
Anita
Willem Dafoe
as
Diego Fairman
Raquel Karro
as
Enfermeira #19
Marília Pêra
as
Sueli
Rodrigo Santoro
as
Lady Di
Luis Miranda
as
Paulo Boca
Gero Camilo
as
Sem Chance - No Way
Wagner Moura
as
Zico
Nuno Leal Maia
as
Gabriel
Sonia Braga
as
Leni Lamaison / Marta / Spider Woman
Ken Kaneko
as
Prison Guard
Raul Julia
as
Valentin Arregui
Meryl Streep
as
Helen
Diane Venora
as
Peg
Ted Levine
as
Pocono Pete
Frank Whaley
as
Young Francis
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