Los Olvidados

Luis Buñuel · 1950 CE · Film · Latin American · Contemporary

Boys living rough on the edge of Mexico City fall in with Jaibo, a bigger one just out of reform school, and the gang's violence works its way down to a blind beggar and a legless man. Pedro tries to hold a job and get back into his mother's house. Neorealism's compassion answered with a dream of raw meat.

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• responds to ↑ Bicycle Thieves
  Vittorio De Sica · 1948 CE · Film

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