Dinky (1935)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026279/

Directors: Howard Bretherton, D. Ross Lederman
Stars: Jackie Cooper, Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Henry Armetta, Betty Jean Hainey, Henry O'Neill, Jimmy Butler, George Ernest, Edith Fellows, Sidney Miller, Richard Quine, Frankie Genardi, Addison Richards

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won’t find out she’s been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

USA
In English

Rue cases nègres (1983)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086213/

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

Rue cases nègres / Sugar Cane Alley / Street of the Black Shacks

Director: Euzhan Palcy
Stars: Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus, Douta Seck, Joby Bernabé, Francisco Charles, Marie-Jo Descas, Marie-Ange Farot, Henri Melon, Eugène Mona, Joël Palcy

In the French colony of Martinique in the 1930s, rambunctious teenager Jose lives in a rundown shack in a small farm village with his doting grandmother, M'Man Tine. While studying diligently at the local school, Jose also learns at the side of wise village elder Medouze, who tells him first-hand of the lives of African slaves. When Jose wins a scholarship to a prestigious high school in the capital, he brings the wisdom of the village with him.

France | Martinique
Language: French | Creole
With French and English subs (embed)

The Adventures of Chico (1938)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229200/

Directors: Horace Woodard, Stacy Woodard

In the Mexican desert, young Chico lives a solitary life, with only his hunter father and various animals for company. When a mother roadrunner bird is killed by a coyote, Chico spends the next several weeks finding food and caring for her baby chicks. The boy is deeply saddened one day when the grown birds fly away, until one bird returns to the hut. Chico bonds with the bird but doesn't realize the depth of their relationship -- until one fateful day when the bird saves his life.

Documentary
USA, in English, with English subs (embed)

The Marva Collins Story (1981)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082719/

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

Director: Peter Levin
Stars: Cicely Tyson, Morgan Freeman, Rodrick F. Wimberly, Mashaune Hardy, Brett Bouldin, Samuel Muhammad Jr., Dianne Kirksey, Frankie Hill, Charlie Brown, Duke Thorbs, Steven Williams

Cicely Tyson and Morgan Freeman star in the true story of Marva Collins, a talented and determined teacher who leaves Chicago's public school system to open her own school.

USA
In English, with English subs (embed)

Portrait of a Young Man Drowning (1999)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220705/

Director & Writer: Teboho Mahlatsi
Stars: Ronnie Nyakale, Meshack Mavuso, Patrick Ndlovu, Ernest Msibi, Thufani Didi

In a Soweto township, a young contract killer is badly wounded; in his delirium, he seeks redemption.

Short
South Africa, with English subs (.srt)

Haft-tirhaye choobi (1975)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495707/

Haft-tirhaye choobi / Wooden Pistols

Director & Writer: Shapur Gharib
Stars: Abdollah Yaghuti, Hossein Hajian, Simin Mosaferi, Abbas Nazeri, Mahin Ashayer, Reza Yaghuti

Wooden Pistols revolves around the simple life of children who live in a train station, until the family buys a TV set, which leads to several problems.

Iran
In Persian

Kharij (1982)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084198/

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

Kharij / The case is closed

Director: Mrinal Sen
Stars: Anjan Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Sreela Majumdar, Indranil Moitra, Dehapratim Das Gupta, Nilotpal Dey, Charuprakash Ghosh, Debatosh Ghosh, Gita Sen

The servant boy, a minor, engaged in a middle class family dies mysteriously locked in a kitchen. Police inquiries reveal he was sleeping in the kitchen near a burning coal oven to keep himself warm in winder. Post-mortem report confirms death by carbon-monoxide gas poisoning. The happy household is suddenly thrown into a psychological trauma. Torn between a sense of guilt and fear of a police case and consequently scandal, the young employer and his wife expose their petty, hypocritical selves. Fearing accusation from the father of the deceased, they make futile attempts to please him. That nothing happens to them and the father departs quietly, leaves them completely defeated and crushed.

India
In Bengali, with English subs (sub/idx, in archive)

The Other Pair (2014)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6191612/

Director: Sarah Rozik
Stars: Omar Rozik (Poor Boy), Ali Rozik

A poor boy whose slippers are broken tries to repair them while watching a rich boy continuously cleaning his new and shiny shoes.

Short
Egypt, in Arabic, with Portuguese and English subs (embed)

The Pocketbook (1980)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2075348/

Director: Billy Woodberry
Stars: Ray Cherry, David Jenkins, Ella 'Simi' Nelson, Christopher Thompson, Phillip Weatherspoon, Al Williams

In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in 16mm, adapts Langston Hughes’ short story, Thank You, M’am, and features music by Leadbelly, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis.

Short

USA

In English, with Spanish & English subs (embed)

 

Fantaghirò (1991-1996)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101095/

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

Fantaghirò / Fantaghiro / Cave of the Golden Rose / La Grotta della Rosa d'Oro

Director: Lamberto Bava
Stars: Alessandra Martines, Mario Adorf, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ángela Molina, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Luciano Manzalini, Eraldo Turra, Stefano Davanzati, Katerina Brozová, Jakub Zdenek, Ludwig Briand, Joan Fort

Fantaghirò is an Italian fantasy series consisting of five television films (two parts each) directed by Lamberto Bava and released between 1991 and 1996. The series is based on Italo Calvino's Fanta-Ghiro the Beautiful and takes place in a fairy tale setting, featuring princesses, princes, witches, wizards and talking animals.

Italy
In Italian, with Italian and English subs (.srt)

Lars i porten (1984)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087587/

Lars i porten / On the Threshold

Director & Writer: Leif Erlsboe
Stars: Magnus E. Haslund, Joachim Calmeyer, Anne Krigsvoll, Peder Hamdahl Naess, Anne Marie Ottersen, Frode Rasmussen, Espen Skjønberg

The summer Lars turned 12, he still feels he should stay away from the girls, but the prostitute Lill teaches him to dance tango. He also have an uncle with a motorbike.

Norway
In Norwegian

Killing Klaus Kinski (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9640530/

Director & Writer: Spiros Stathoulopoulos
Stars: Juan Camilo Amaris, Placido Mendoza, Ramiro Mendoza, David Ortiz, Joseh Wager

The vertiginous reimagination of a myth of the history of film: the filming of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog.

Short
Colombia | Netherlands
Language: English | German | Spanish
With English hardsubs

Geometria (1987)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369452/

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

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Fernando Garcia Marin, Guadalupe Del Toro, Napo, Rodrigo Mora

A boy is tired of failing geometry, so he summons a demon.

Short
Mexico, Italian dubbed - every voice in the Italian dub is done by Guillermo himself.
English subs (embed)

Dinosaurus! (1960)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053768/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurus!

Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Stars: Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, Kristina Hanson, Alan Roberts, Fred Engelberg, Wayne C. Treadway, Lucita Blain, Howard Dayton, Gregg Martell

After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the unsuspecting population. Freed from his watery tomb, as well, is a very friendly Neanderthal man who proceeds to befriend a local orphan boy. The boy, Neanderthal and irritated dinosaur make for an interesting dramatic climax.

USA
In English

Heaven Only Knows (1947)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039453/

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

Heaven Only Knows / Montana Mike

Director: Albert S. Rogell
Stars: Robert Cummings, Brian Donlevy, Marjorie Reynolds, Peter Miles, Jorja Curtright, Bill Goodwin, John Litel, Dwayne Hickman, Gary Gray, Michael Chapin

An angel is sent to earth to help a saloon owner and gambler save his soul.

USA
In English

Oliver Twist (1982)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084438/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist_(1982_TV_film)

Director: Clive Donner
Stars: Richard Charles, George C. Scott, Tim Curry, Martin Tempest, Matthew Duke, Lysette Anthony, Philip Locke, Cherie Lunghi, Michael Hordern, Timothy West, Eileen Atkins

Made-for-television film adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic of the same name; tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.

UK | USA
In English

Bloomfield (1970)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068694/

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

Bloomfield / The Hero

Directors: Richard Harris, Uri Zohar
Stars: Richard Harris, Romy Schneider, Kim Burfield, Maurice Kaufmann, Yossi Yadin, Shraga Friedman, Aviva Marks, Zvi Yaron

The story is of a young soccer fan who is obsessed with Eitan, the legendary football star of Isreal. He runs away from to find his hero. Arriving at Bloomfield stadium , he sees Eitan practicing with the team, unaware that the Football club have fallen through on their promise to Eitan. The boy and Eitan strike up a friendship because of their shared love of the game. They go on a journey together and Nimrod gets a real life view of his hero. The soundtrack have some Maurice Gibb's songs (The Bee Gees).

UK | Israel
In English

Re dai yu (1995)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117970/

Re dai yu / Tropical Fish

Director & Writer: Yu-Hsun Chen
Stars: Akio Chen, Yi-fan Chen, Hsiao-fan Fan, Pi-tung Lien, Cheng-sheng Lin, Ching-Luen Shi, Wen-Ying

Young boy, Ah-Jiang, a school failure and day dreamer witnesses the kidnapping of a child. After being taken hostage by a corrupt family, he begins an unusual adventure away from home.

Taiwan
Language: Min Nan | Mandarin
With English subs (embed)

Vecernja zvona (1986)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092153/

Vecernja zvona / Večernja Zvona / Evening Bells

Director: Lordan Zafranovic
Stars: Rade Serbedzija, Petar Bozovic, Miodrag Krivokapic, Kristijan Ugrina, Neda Arneric, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Irfan Mensur, Ivo Gregurevic

Screenwriter Mirko Kovac adapted his novel about the self-aggrandizing Tomislav (Rade Serbedzija). Starting with Tomislav's childhood, when he plays practical jokes on the nuns at his elite school, or spies on his brother and his wife in their bedroom, he is already offensive and secretive. These traits continue when he grows up and starts an affair with his brother's wife, and marries someone else in spite of that affair. He ends up tormenting the woman he marries through a misunderstanding, though he survives World War II thanks to her efforts. After the war he goes into politics and continues in much the same vein as in his private life.

Yugoslavia
In Serbo-Croatian, with English subs (.srt in archive)

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L'isola di Arturo (1962)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056107/

L'isola di Arturo / Arturo's Island

Director: Damiano Damiani
Stars: Vanni De Maigret (Arturo), Key Meersman, Reginald Kernan, Gabriella Giorgelli, Elvira Tonelli, Luigi Zerbinati, Michele Barone, Aldo Vinci, Ireneo Petrucci, Luigi Giuliani, Ornella Vanoni

Arturo is a teenage boy who lives alone on an island. His mother died when he was born, and his father is always away. From time to time, Arturo's father comes to see him, but only to soon leave him again. He seems not to appreciate his son at all, but, nevertheless, Arturo adores his father. One day, Arturo's father arrives with his second wife, Nunciata, a seventeen-year-old girl with whom Arturo soon falls in love with...

Italy
In Italian, with Italian and English subs (.srt in archive)

Thursday's Children (1954)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047585/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday%27s_Children

Directors & Writers: Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton
Narrator: Richard Burton

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children.

UK
In English, with English and Portuguese subs (.srt in archive)

À l'ombre (2006)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0841188/

Director: Simon Lavoie
Stars: Julie McClemens, Simon Pigeon, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Louise Proulx

A mother who has recently been incarcerated refuses to give up on her young son, no matter how fragile their connection may now be.

Short
Canada, in French, with English subs (.srt in archive)

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Zhenikh (1960)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173494/

Director: Elem Klimov
Music from Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet.

A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a math test. Elem Klimov's student work.

Zhenikh (the groom); Zhinikh (The grum)

Short
Soviet Union, in Russian - no words spoken, English subs (.srt in archive) for a few lines.

Skippy (1931)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022397/

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

Director: Norman Taurog
Stars: Jackie Cooper, Robert Coogan, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl, Willard Robertson, Enid Bennett, Donald Haines, Helen Jerome Eddy

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.

Director Norman Taurog won the Academy Award for Best Director. For his performance, Cooper, at the age of nine, also became the youngest person to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

USA
In English

Crónica de un niño solo (1965)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057977/

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

Crónica de un niño solo / Chronicle of a Boy Alone

Director: Leonardo Favio
Stars: Diego Puente (Polín), Tino Pascali, Cacho Espíndola, Victoriano Moreira, Beto Gianola, Leonardo Favio,  María Vaner, Elcira Olivera Garcés, María Luisa Robledo, Hugo Arana

Focusing on the bleak life of eleven-year-old bad boy Polin, who’s been abandoned by his family and sent to live in a state-run orphanage, it’s also a moving portrait of the human spirit imprisoned by the chains of well-intentioned fools.

Argentina
In Spanish, with English subs (.srt in archive)