Hector Babenco

Filmography

Hector Babenco - filmography

Carandiru (2003)
Starring: Luis Carlos Vasconcelos, Milhem Cortaz, Milton Goncalves
Director: Hector Babenco
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Acclaimed Argentinean director Hector Babenco (KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, PIXOTE), blends pathos and black comedy in this adaptation of the autobiographical book CARANDIRU STATION by Dr. Drauzio Varella, who worked inside Sao Paulo's now-defunct Carandiru Prison. In 1992, overcrowded Carandiru ..read more »

65% from 5,023 members
Not currently released

Before Night Falls on DVD (2000)
Starring: Javier Bardem, Olivier Martinez, Andrea Di Stefano
Director: Julian Schnabel
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The life of Reinaldo Arenas, an exiled Cuban homosexual writer, is chronicled in an adaptation of his memoir BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, directed by Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT). Javier Bardem (in an Oscar-nominated performance) portrays Arenas as he journeys from poverty to university to the sexual ..read more »

62% from 5,372 members

At Play In the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Starring: Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn
Director: Hector Babenco
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Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort ..read more »

50% from 30 members
Currently unavailable

Ironweed (1987)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep
Director: Hector Babenco
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A schizophrenic drifter spends Halloween in his home town after returning there for the first time in decades.

62% from 77 members
Currently unavailable

Kiss Of The Spider Woman (1985)
Starring: William Hurt, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga
Director: Hector Babenco
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Set in the kind of Latin American gaol where even the clean linen is bloodstained, this explosive, sad yet stirring story tells of two prisoners with nothing in common except an extraordinary friendship that grows as they step into each other's worlds.

68% from 176 members
Currently unavailable

Pixote - A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981)
Starring: Fernando Ramos da Silva, Jorge Juliao
Director: Hector Babenco
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Portraying the casual cruelty and abuse that an eight-year-old Brazilan street boy suffers when he is taken to a boys reformatory.

86% from 13 members
Currently unavailable

Carandiru - 3.5 stars
Before Night Falls - 3.0 stars
At Play In the Fields of the Lord - 2.5 stars
Ironweed - 3.0 stars
Kiss Of The Spider Woman - 3.5 stars

Kiss Of The Spider Woman - 3.5 stars
Carandiru - 3.5 stars
Before Night Falls - 3.0 stars
Ironweed - 3.0 stars
Pixote - A Lei do Mais Fraco - 4.0 stars

At Play In the Fields of the Lord - 2.5 stars
Pixote - A Lei do Mais Fraco - 4.0 stars
Ironweed - 3.0 stars
Before Night Falls - 3.0 stars
Carandiru - 3.5 stars

Ivan De Almeida - 1 times - show films
Johnny Depp - 1 times - show films
Tom Waites - 1 times - show films
Jorge Juliao - 1 times - show films
Vito Schnabe - 1 times - show films

Julian Schnabel - 1 times - show films