Los chicos crecen (1942)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034592/

Los chicos crecen / The Kids Grow Up

Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen
Stars: Arturo García Buhr, Pepita Serrador, María Duval, Santiago Gómez Cou, Maruja Gil Quesada, Miguel Gómez Bao, Aurelia Ferrer, Mariana Martí, Quico Moyano, Edgardo Morilla, Tito Alonso

A married man takes advantage of his friendship with another man, making him pretend to be the father of the children he has out of wedlock.

Argentina
In Spanish

América (2010)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1322266/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/América_(2011_Portuguese_film)

América - Uma História Portuguesa

Director: João Nuno Pinto
Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Fernando Luís, María Barranco, Manuel Custódia, Dinarte Branco, Cassiano Carneiro, Raul Solnado, Mikhail Evlanov, Francisco Maestre, Nikolay Glinskiy, Dmitry Bogomolov

Portugal, beginning of the new millennium: Liza is a young Russian immigrant married to a Portuguese called Vítor. He is in fact a petty crook who lives off scams and tricking old ladies. Their son, Mauro, is a strange child who has decided not to speak. Besides her domestic chores, Liza has to take care of Vítor’s grandmother, a bed-ridden hundred-year-old lady who rejects any care that is given to her. Fernanda, Vítor’s Spanish ex-wife, taking advantage of the wave of illegal immigrants into Portugal, turns up with a proposal for a false passports business. From then on, and to Liza’s great despair, her house becomes a halfway home for countless immigrants of different nationalities and races, all looking for a better future.

Country: Russia | Brazil | Spain | Portugal
Language: Portuguese | Spanish | Russian
Subtitles: Portuguese, English, Spanish (in .mkv)

Ezra (2007)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923688/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_(2007_film)

Director: Newton I. Aduaka
Stars: Mamoudu Turay Kamara, Mariame N'Diaye, Mamusu Kallon, Richard Gant, Mercy Ojelade, Emile Abossolo M'bo, Cleophas Kabasita, Merveille Lukeba, Peter Odeke, Wale Ojo

Ezra is the first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing phenomenon of abducting child soldiers into the continent's recent civil wars. Ezra is structured around the week-long questioning of a 16 year old boy, Ezra, before a version of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, created in Sierra Leone in 2002 in the wake of its decade long civil war. This hearing is then inter-cut with chronological flashbacks to pivotal moments during Ezra's ten years in the rebel faction which made him who he is.

Nigeria
In English, with French subs (VobSub)

La Lettre (1998)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219872/

La Lettre / The Letter

Director & Writer: Michel Gondry
Stars: Elodie Saada, Thomas Mouty, Jérôme Monot, Ilda Mouty, Frédéric Daniel

Michel Gondry's examination of childhood love is replete with his trademark surreality. One evening at the turn of the century, Stephane discusses with his brother the end of the millennium, but also girls, particularly Aurelie, a classmate with whom he is secretly in love. The following day, Aurelie has a letter to give to him...

Short
France, in French, with English hardsubs

Brekkukotsannáll (1973)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0350653/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fish_Can_Sing

Brekkukotsannáll / Annals of Brekkukot / The Fish Can Sing

Director: Rolf Hädrich
Stars: Jon Laxdal, Nikulas Thorvardsson, Thorsteinn Ö. Stephensen, Regina Thordardottir, Árni Árnason, Þóra Borg, Sigridur B. Bragadottir, Róbert Arnfinnsson, Sigrun Hjalmtysdottir, Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir, Halldór Laxness

This is a high quality TV film in two episodes and one of the best and most important in Icelandic film history. It is based on the novel Brekkukotsannáll (Annals of Brekkukot) by the Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Halldór Laxness, published in 1957. The story takes place in Iceland in the beginning of the twentieth century and deals with the orphaned boy Álfgrímur, his adoptive grandparents, and the small, tolerant community of misfits and eccentrics they gather around them at Brekkukot, their cottage on the outskirts of Reykjavík.

Iceland
In Icelandic

Everyone's Child (1996)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116243/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone%27s_Child

Director: Tsitsi Dangarembga
Stars: Thulani Sandhla (Itai), Elizjah Madzikatire, Nomsa L. Mlambo, Walter Muparutsa, Casey Mugabe (Nhamo), Killness Nyati, Chunky Phiri, Simon Shumba

Two teens, Tamari and Itai, are impoverished following the death of their parents when their uncle takes their plow which they need to feed themselves. While their preoccupied neighbors in the village ignore them, Itai leaves for Harare and Tamari stays behind to care for their younger brother and sister. Finally, some of the neighbors notice and come together to support the children.

Zimbabwe
In English

Un fils unique (1969)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191608/

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_fils_unique

Director & Writer: Michel Polac
Stars: Eric Ancian, Francis Bouvet, Eléanor Farouel, Serge Hureau, Guy Schoeller, Paul Vanier-Baulier

The young son of a shopkeeper seeks into a painter a new father figure.

France
In French

Hollywood kaçaklari (1997)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243309/

Hollywood kaçaklari / Hollywood Runaways

Director & Writer: Muammer Özer
Stars: Füsun Demirel, Halil Ergün, Bülent Kayabas

Inspired by the director's childhood, the film tells the story of a poor Turkish neighbourhood in the outskirts of a city and the idle boys who live there. We also meet an old woman and her naive son Kocaoğlan. Tuna, the boy's ringleader, is a film fanatic who dreams of a future in the film business, and his best friend Fedai wants to become a famous football player like Pelé. The two boys decide to go to Hollywood to realize their dreams.

Turkey | Sweden
In Turkish

Violet (2014)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3089904/

Director & Writer: Bas Devos
Stars: Cesar De Sutter, Koen De Sutter, Mira Helmer, Brent Minne, Fania Sorel, Jeroen Van der Ven, Raf Walschaerts

15-year-old Jesse is the only one who witnessed the stabbing of his friend Jonas. Now he has to face his family and friends form the BMX riders crew and explain the unexplainable - how he feels about it.

Country: Belgium | Netherlands
Language: Flemish | Dutch
With English subs (embed)

I Horodia tou Haritona (2005)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484357/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariton%27s_Choir

I Horodia tou Haritona / Chariton's Choir

Director: Grigoris Karantinakis
Stars: Georges Corraface, Akilas Karazisis, Maria Nafpliotou, Stefanos Karadinakis, Christos Stergioglou, Fotini Baxevani, Anthi Andreopoulou, Argyris Angelou

It is the spring of ’68. A small country is in turmoil. Everyone’s life revolves around the regional Annual Choir Contest, which, for a half a century, has been the focus of the town’s existence. The charismatic high school principal Chariton leads the school choir in his own magical way. The arrival of the new and ambitious military commander Major Dimitriou to reinstate ‘order and security’ among the residents, will sparkle a conflict between the two men for the fair Helen, the beautiful maths teacher, billiards and, of course, music.

Greece
In Greek

Lots of Luck (1985)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089506/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lots_of_Luck

Director: Peter Baldwin
Stars: Martin Mull, Annette Funicello, Fred Willard, Polly Holliday, Mia Dillon, Tracey Gold, Jeremy Licht, Christina Nigra, Hamilton Camp, Dick O'Neill, Vincent Schiavelli

The film focuses on a blue-collar family who wins the lottery. Their lives are changed forever, sometimes for the good, sometimes for the bad.

USA, Walt Disney Television
In English

Invisible Boy (2010)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Parreno

Director: Philippe Parreno

A portrait of an illegal immigrant Chinese child through the imaginary monsters that incarnate his fears and anxieties. A fiction tacked onto a reality. The reality of the illegal aliens in Manhattan’s Chinatown. People who are called ‘invisible’. This portrait gives an image to someone who doesn’t have one and, at the same time, a real person gains the social identity he’s missing by becoming a fictional character. High definition images make sensible impressions of a city as we cross over to the imaginary.

Short
France, no dialogue

Les enfants du placard (1977)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230186/

Les enfants du placard / Closet Children

Director: Benoît Jacquot
Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel, Georges Marchal, Sophie Baragnon, Vincent Balvet, Hassane Fall, Danièle Gégauff

Nicola (Lou Castel) bears the psychological scars of unbearable guilt. As a boy, he was given the job of looking after his mentally unstable mother and protecting her from herself. One day, he and his sister went instead into a large closet and enacted a childishly intensive "I dare you" bonding ritual, marking one another with the blade of their father's sword cane. While he was occupied in this manner, the boy's mother hung herself and died. Now an adult, he still has an unhealthily strong fixation on his sister. This is so obvious that a girlfriend of his sister's, with whom he has an affair, breaks it off, complaining that she is not interested in being a stand-in for the sister.

France
In French

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146984/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Bagger_Vance

Director: Robert Redford
Stars: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, J. Michael Moncrief, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch, Peter Gerety

A disillusioned war veteran, Captain Rannulph Junuh, reluctantly agrees to play a game of golf. He finds the game futile until his caddy, Bagger Vance, teaches him the secret of the authentic golf stroke which turns out also to be the secret to mastering any challenge and finding meaning in life.

USA
In English (second audio), with English subs (in .mkv)

DuPont Show of the Month: Treasure Island (1960)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217103/

DuPont Show of the Month: Treasure Island

Director: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Hugh Griffith, Richard O'Sullivan, Max Adrian, Michael Gough, Barry Morse, Boris Karloff, Douglas Campbell, George Rose, John Colicos, George Mathews, Tim O'Connor, Tom Clancy, Betty Sinclair

A boy comes into possession of a map showing the way to buried treasure, and a ship-board expedition is mounted to find it. But the crew is really under the control of Long John Silver, and that scoundrel has plans of his own... A TV adaptation of the famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

USA
In English

English subs for La finestra sul Luna Park (1957)

English subs for La finestra sul Luna Park (1957) added, enjoy!

7 ans (2006)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808462/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Years_(film)

7 ans / 7 Years

Director: Jean-Pascal Hattu
Stars: Valérie Donzelli, Cyril Troley, Bruno Todeschini, Pablo de la Torre, Nadia Kaci, Martine Verdeau, Karim Elganfoud

The relationship between a dutiful wife and her incarcerated husband grows increasingly complicated when a curious third party seduces her beyond her husband's reach.

France
In French, with English subs (vobsub, in archive)

Ya no basta con rezar (1972)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130375/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enough_Praying

Ya no basta con rezar / Enough Praying

Director: Aldo Francia
Stars: Marcelo Romo, Tennyson Ferrada, Leonardo Perucci, Roberto Navarrete, Claudia Paz, Rubén Sotoconil, Gonzalo Palta, Arnaldo Berríos

A priest is so concerned about the harsh conditions of living of Chilean lower classes that he gradually becomes a political activist and 'worker-priest'.

Chile
In Spanish

Luz dos Meus Olhos (1947)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182297/

Luz dos Meus Olhos / Light of My Eyes

Director: José Carlos Burle
Stars: Cacilda Becker, Celso Guimarães, Grande Otelo, Heloísa Helena, Luiza Barreto Leite

Roberto is a pianist who becomes blind and, ashamed by that, leaves his wife, although he loves her much. Alone, he is very depressed. But comes up a little boy who will modify the destiny of both disappointed lovers.

Brazil
In Portuguese

Shooting Bokkie (2003)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172539/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_De_Mezieres

Directors: Rob De Mezieres (as Robert de Mezieres), Adam Rist
Stars: Christo Davids, Charlton George, Rob De Mezieres, John Fredericks

A South African filmmaker convinces a film crew to help him make a documentary about a 13-year-old assassin in the South African Cape Flats. Following the 13-year-old hitman (a bokkie) as he goes about his daily business, the audience gains unique insight into the lives of people living on the Cape Flats, living under conditions of poverty and violence, and the gangster culture that is prevalent there.

South Africa
Language: Afrikaans | English
With English hardsubs

Un angelo è sceso a Brooklyn (1957)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051237/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Wagged_His_Tail

Un angelo è sceso a Brooklyn / Un ángel pasó por Brooklyn / An Angel Over Brooklyn / The Man Who Wagged His Tail

Director: Ladislao Vajda
Stars: Peter Ustinov, Pablito Calvo, Aroldo Tieri, Silvia Marco, Maurizio Arena, Isabel de Pomés, José Marco Davó, Franca Tamantini, Carlos Casaravilla, Dolores Bremón

A cold-hearted landlord is turned into a dog by a magician, and will remain a dog until he can find someone who loves him.

Italy | Spain
In Spanish with English subs (.srt)

Taafé Fanga (1997)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120266/

Taafé Fanga / Skirt Power

Director: Adama Drabo
Stars: Fanta Berete, Ramata Drabo, Dumu Berté, Yamadou Cissé, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Ibrahim Koïta, Michel Sangaré, Ténéman Sanogo

A group of woman in an African village finds a mystical mask. Using the mask, they reverse gender roles, women act like men, and men act like women.

Mali
Language: Kaado | Bambara
With English hardsubs

Kopfjäger von Borneo (1936)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366687/

https://second.wiki/wiki/die_kopfjc3a4ger_von_borneo

Kopfjäger von Borneo / Headhunters of Borneo

Director: Baron Victor von Plessen

Baron Victor von Plessen's "Kopfjäger von Borneo" (1936) is a magnificent early ethnographic film. The plot involves a love story between a girl and a boy of incompatible social classes, but I assume very much that Plessen first filmed the village life and the social customs of the people of Borneo and then used this footage to adapt it to tell a mythical tale well known in that culture.

Germany
In German, with English subs (.srt)

Roberte (1978)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256343/

Director: Pierre Zucca
Stars: Denise Morin-Sinclaire, Pierre Klossowski, Martin Loeb, Barbet Schroeder, Michel Berto, Juliet Berto, Alain Cuny, Jean-François Stévenin, Daniel Schmid, Jérôme Zucca

In her 50s, Roberte (Denise Morin Sinclaire) is still an attractive woman who has kept her figure. She is married to Octave (Pierre Klossowski) a substantially older man. His twisted fantasies require that Roberte seek out other men while he follows behind and keeps track of her activities with them. He mulls over sexual photographs he has taken of the episodes he has forced her to enact, in the street, or at their own house. Despite the somewhat claustrophobic atmosphere created by her husband's obsessions, she wants to bring up her nephew, who is in her charge, free of the darkness that hovers over her.

France
In French

Sizdah (2014)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4080028/

Sizdah / سیزدهسیزده / 13

Director & Writer: Houman Seyyedi (as Hooman Seyedi)
Stars: Yasna Mirtahmasb, Azadeh Samadi, Amir Jafari, Rima Raminfar, Amir Jadidi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Vishka Asayesh, Mehran Ahmadi

A drama about Bemani, a reticent and monosyllabic 13-year-old boy. His parents are separated and he's being bullied at school. His world is falling apart. A gang whose leader is a lovely-looking girl is his safe haven. Or so it seems.

Iran
In Persian, with English subs (in .mkv)

Dek To (2005)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_%282005_film%29

Dek To / เด็กโต๋ / Innocence

Directors: Nisa Kongsri & Areeya Chumsai

Innocence is a 2005 independent documentary film about a boarding school for hill tribe children in Northern Thailand.

Thailand
In Thai

La grande aurora (1947)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038572/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dawn_(1947_film)

La grande aurora / The Great Dawn

Director: Giuseppe Maria Scotese
Stars: Pierino Gamba, Renée Faure, Rossano Brazzi, Giovanni Grasso, Michele Riccardini, Yvonne Sanson, Fausto Guerzoni, Loris Gizzi

Child prodigy symphonic conductor Pierino Gamba plays himself in this charming Italian bio-pic. Piero wants to become a professional but finds himself arguing with his wealthy grandfather who wants him to pursue other paths. The boy's dad, a composer with little talent, becomes a clown in Paris so that he can help the lad's mother get custody of the boy from the grandfather. The boy, has other plans. Enlisting the aid of a local priest, the boy organizes a full orchestra which he will conduct during their open-air concert. After the concert the mother and father get back together and the grandfather changes his mind.

Italy
French dubbed

The Mother (2007)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1369537/

The Mother / La Mère / Мать

Directors & Writer: Antoine Cattin, Pavel Kostomarov

This is a powerful portrait of a very Russian mother at extremes. After suffering abuse at the hands of her violent husband, Lyuba flees to the countryside with her nine children, where she struggles to earn a living and care for a family increasingly fragmented by time, poverty, and crime. Shot over three years, The Mother is a landmark in observational cinema, looking unflinchingly at people enduring socio-economic hardships while letting the fullness of human experience and emotion shine through.

Documentary
Country: Switzerland | France | Russia
Language: Russian

Elephant Boy (1937)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028827/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Boy_(film)

Directors: Robert J. Flaherty (as Robert Flaherty), Zoltan Korda
Stars: Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes, Bruce Gordon, D.J. Williams, Wilfrid Hyde-White

This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.

UK
In English

Buongiorno, elefante! (1952)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043986/

Buongiorno, elefante! / Hello Elephant

Director: Gianni Franciolini
Stars: Vittorio De Sica, María Mercader, Nando Bruno, Sabu, Stefano Carnetta, Giampiero Donini, Giuseppe Mendola, Gisella Sofio, Michele Sakara, Ciro Berardi, Giuseppe Chinnici, Antonio Nicotra, Piero Mastrocinque, Pasquale De Filippo, Teresa Fimiani, Fausto Guerzoni, Sofi Fort

Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and life will become easier for his wife and kids. An Indian prince (Sabu) visits Italy, is assisted by the teacher, and gives De Sica a baby elephant as a reward. This upsets the landlord the other tenants and the neighborhood.

Italy
In Italian

Ciske De Rat (1955)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047940/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciske_de_Rat_(1955_film)

Director: Wolfgang Staudte
Stars: Kees Brusse, Dick Van Der Velde, Heli Finkenzeller, Jenny Van Maerlant, Dick Bos, Berta Drews, Walter Janssen

The story is set in the Amsterdam of the thirties, and told from the perspective of a teacher named Bruis. The narrative is centered around Cis Vrijmoeth, an oaf who never sees his father, because he is a sailor, and who is neglected by his mother. Time after time he is expelled from school. Only teacher Bruis can really handle and restrain the boy. In an fit of rage and fear, Ciske kills his mother with a knife and he is sent to a youth detention center. In the end, his father returns from the sea and decides to take care of him, together with his wife Aunt Jans.

West Germany | Netherlands
In Dutch, with English subs (.srt)

Mr. Celebrity (1941)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035089/

Director: William Beaudine
Stars: Robert 'Buzz' Henry, James Seay, Doris Day, William Halligan, Laura Treadwell, Gavin Gordon, Frank Hagney, John Berkes, John Ince, Francis X. Bushman, Clara Kimball Young

After he was orphaned young Danny Mason (Robert 'Buzz' Henry) was left in the custody of his Uncle Jim (James Seay) who frequents racetracks as a horse vet. It is because of this that Danny's grandparents have hired a private investigator to track them down as they don't believe hanging around the track is good for Danny and so they want custody of him. Danny and Jim's travels lead them to a stud where they along with a mixed bunch of people including former boxers, writers and an old silent movie star all have a share in an old horse, an old horse called "Mr. Celebrity" which is going to become very important in the long run.

USA, Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)
In English

Ettore Fieramosca (1938)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030107/

Director: Alessandro Blasetti
Stars: Gino Cervi, Mario Ferrari, Elisa Cegani, Osvaldo Valenti, Lamberto Picasso, Corrado Racca, Clara Calamai, Umberto Sacripante, Andrea Checchi

Costume drama of the love of the condottiere Fieramosca for the lady of the castle which triumphs over the betrayal of the castle by her husband to the French in 1500 or so.

Italy
In Italian, with English subs (.srt)

Un enfant comme les autres... (1972)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270002/

Un enfant comme les autres... / A Child Like Any Other

Director: Denis Héroux
Stars: René Simard, Régis Simard, Jean-Roch Simard, Paolo Noël, Guy Cloutier

René Simard is a pop singer from Quebec, chiefly popular in the 1970s. He was discovered and managed by Guy Cloutier. His first albums were produced by René Angélil, whom later managed and eventually married Céline Dion. This documentary recalls the boy's rise to stardom at the tender age of eight and shed light on Cloutier's machiavellian management.

Canada
In French, with English subs (in .mkv)

Spasatel (1980)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081544/

Spasatel / Спасатель / The Lifeguard / The Rescuer

Director & Writer: Sergey Solovev
Stars: Tatyana Drubich, Vasiliy Mishchenko, Sergey Shakurov, Olga Belyavskaya, Vyacheslav Kononenko, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Yekaterina Vasilyeva

About a teacher of literature Larikov and his schoolchildren in one year after graduating the school. The film is full of dramas attended with a collapse of hopes. Hardened during the lessons of the talented teacher the young people are able to overcome any difficulties. However Larikov got frightened when learned that his former schoolgirl Asya fell in love with him.

Second film from Solovev's trilogy, with One Hundred Days After Childhood (1975) and Direct Heiress (1982)

Soviet Union
In Russian, with English subs (.srt)

Le père Chopin (1945)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038010/

Director: Fyodor Otsep
Stars: Madeleine Ozeray, Marcel Chabrier, Pierre Durand, Louis Rolland, François Rozet, Janine Sutto, Guy Mauffette, Pierre Dagenais, Ginette Letondal

A duel to finish: moral values and love against money and selfishness, in Québec of the 40s. Widower Paul Dupont (or Père Chopin) lives happily with his children, and his music. A millionaire is in search of his family and - you 'd never have guessed it, - Père Chopin is none other than his brother. The singing family leaves their humble house for the desirable mansion of the rich uncle. But they soon realize that they are puppets in the hand of the businessman...

Canada
In French

Kinshasa Kids (2012)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379332/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinshasa_Kids

Director & Writer: Marc-Henri Wajnberg
Stars: Gabi Bolenge, Bebson Elemba, Joël Eziegue, Emmanuel Fakoko, Mickaël Fataki, Gauthier Kiloko, José Mawanda, Sammy Molebe, Joséphine Nsimba Mpongo, Rachel Mwanza

Set in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the film focuses on a group of street kids, expelled from their homes after being accused of witchcraft, who form a hip hop group while a documentary crew films their efforts.

Belgium
Language: French | Lingala
With English hardsubs

Outcast of the Islands (1951)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045002/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_of_the_Islands

Director: Carol Reed
Based on Joseph Conrad's novel
Stars: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Tamine, Wendy Hiller, Kerima, George Coulouris, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Frederick Valk, Betty Ann Davies, Dharma Emmanuel, Peter Illing, Robert Lee

A man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port. He's sacked when he's caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide and a captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading post.

UK
In English

Dead Birds (1963)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059091/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Birds_(1963_film)

Director & Narrator: Robert Gardner

This informative documentary focuses on the Dani people of New Guinea, and in particular tribal members Weyak and Pua. Weyak, an adult, protects the land his tribe lives on from other tribes and outsiders. Their territory was then one of the few places not colonized by Europeans. Pua is a young boy who cares for the village's pigs. Battles take place frequently between the various Dani tribes. When someone is killed, the death must be avenged, and the fighting continues in a deadly cycle.

USA
In English

Mideia 70 (1969)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1112723/

Director & Writer: Michalis Papanikolaou
Stars: Marietta Rialdi, Christos Kalavrouzos, Dora Sitzani, Giorgos I. Bletas, Giorgos P. Bletas

Euripides’ Medea in... twenty minutes, set in the shabby outskirts of Athens circa 1970.

Short
Greece, in Greek, with English subs (.srt)

En blomst (1971)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013528/

En blomst / A Flower

Director & Writer: Lars von Trier (as Lars Trier)
Cast: Ole Benzon

Boy meets flower in a world at the brink of annihilation.

***
The wonders of the internet have made a very early Lars Von Trier short film, “En Blomst,” available for your eyes. The 1971 film, shot by the then 15-year-old director who was going as Lars Trier, shows signs of the sensibility for a bit of shock that he would develop later on. The music choices and even the “plot” all seem like ingredients he would use in later efforts, but mostly, this seven-minute movie is a nice peek of a director developing his skills. Give it a whirl below.

Short
Denmark, no dialogue - translation don't needed

Gyerekbetegségek (1965)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132999/

Gyerekbetegségek / Children's Sicknesses

Directors & Writers: Ferenc Kardos, János Rózsa
Stars: István Géczy, Tünde Kassai, Emil Keres, Judit Halász, Béla Horváth, Éva Tímár, Dóri Bánfalvi, Mária Mamusich, Irma Patkós, Márta Bakó

An action packed, brightly colored film depicting the adventures of a six-year-old boy attending school for the first time. He befriends a little girl, Zizi, who becomes his constant companion in a child's world of discovery.

Hungary
In Hungarian

Messi (2014)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3538766/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messi_(2014_film)

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Stars: Johan Cruyff, Lionel Messi, Kike Domínguez, Álex García, Pere Gratacós, Andrés Iniesta, Xavier Llorens, Javier Mascherano, César Luis Menotti
As Messi: Valentín Rodríguez, Juan Ignacio Martínez, Àlex Burgués, Marc Balaguer

Lionel Messi from early life to international stardom.

Documentary
Spain, in Spanish (second audio), with English subs (in .rar)

Ptitsy bez gnyozd (1996)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4505282/

Ptitsy bez gnyozd / Птицы без гнезд / Птушкі бяз гнёздаў / Birds Without Nests

Director: Vitaliy Dudin
Stars: Tatyana Kovalevskaya, Pavel Kormunin, Aleksey Buldakov, Gennadiy Garbuk, Aleksandr Tkachenok, Lyubov Rumyantseva, Nikolay Kirichenko, Oleg Korchikov

Country: Belarus
In Russian

Short Skin - I dolori del giovane Edo (2014)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3976280/

Director: Duccio Chiarini
Stars: Matteo Creatini, Francesca Agostini, Nicola Nocchi, Miriana Raschillà, Bianca Ceravolo, Anna Ferzetti, Edoardo Pagliai (Young Edoardo)

An awkward teenage boy with phimosis deals with lack of confidence and sexual pressure from the outside world.

Italy
In Italian (English subs embedded)

Peter Pan (1924)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015224/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_(1924_film)

Director: Herbert Brenon
Stars: Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, George Ali, Mary Brian, Jack Murphy, Philippe De Lacy, Esther Ralston, Cyril Chadwick, Maurice Murphy, Mickey McBan, George Crane Jr., Winston Doty, Weston Doty, Terence McMillan, Kit Wain, Virginia Brown Faire, Anna May Wong

Peter Pan, the kid who doesn't want to grow up, arrives at the Darling home searching for his shadow. He meets the Darling children and takes them to Never-Never Land, where they will fight against Capt. Hook and his pirate ship and crew. The first film adaptation of the famous play by J. M. Barrie.

USA
Silent, with English intertitles + Russian subs (in .mkv)

Härte (2015)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4363672/

Härte / Tough Love

Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Stars: Andreas Marquardt, Marion Erdmann, Hanno Koffler, Luise Heyer, Katy Karrenbauer, Rüdiger Götze, Ilse Amberger-Bendin, Steffen Bielig

The film tells the story of Andreas Marquardt who was sexually abused by his mother as a boy, became a karate champion and later a pimp.

Germany
In German, with German and English subs (in .mkv)

Sklenená oblaka (1957)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176150/

Sklenená oblaka / Skleněná oblaka / Clouds of Glass / Glass Skies

Director & Writer: Frantisek Vlácil
Star: Antonín Zíb

A young boy’s infatuation with flight is the subject of Vláčil’s poetic, prize-winning early short, made for the Czechoslovak Army’s film unit. With its emphasis on striking visual compositions and rhythm, Glass Skies announced the artistic methods that would continue to distinguish the director’s work.

Short
Czechoslovakia, in Czech, with English subs (.srt, in archive)

He Who Eats Children (2016)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5339812/

Director & Writer: Ben Russell

In Suriname, in a small jungle village, blindfolded girls and boys play a kind of hide-and-seek – the one with the monster who catches and eats children. According to local legend, the monster is the village’s only white person, a Dutch man who repairs outboard motors. Alternating between colour and black and white, Ben Russell leads the investigation, meeting the villagers and the infamous European. His camera sensuously explores this small world, where apparitions are never far off. A terrifying rubber white-man mask, frenzied races and scary stories: there are as many participants as elements from which the film constructs itself before our eyes, like a true myth.

Short, documentary
USA, in Creole, with English hardsubs

Todos somos estrellas (1993)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121820/

Todos somos estrellas / We're All Stars

Director: Felipe Degregori
Stars: Milena Alva, Dante Herrera, Ivonne Barriga, Élide Brero, Julián Legaspi, Rebeca Ráez, Mariella Balbi, Katia Condos, Hernán Romero

This Peruvian comedy takes a poke at Latin living and at the power of the media. The story centers around the troubled family of Carmen Huambachano, who never miss Lima's popular weekly TV series "We Are All Stars." In this show, a typical family is first interviewed and then given the opportunity to win prizes. The Huambachano family is chosen, a TV crew is at the door, and now the family must decide how they are going to present themselves on national television. They rally together and quickly begin repainting and redecorating the house, finding their best clothing, and finally looking for a suitable "husband" for Carmen. Her real husband, a "no good rat" left her years before...

Peru
In Spanish, with English hardsubs