Rahaee (1971)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7861596/

Rahaee / Release

Director: Naser Taghvai

Stars: Shahbaz Parsipoor, Mashaollah Ghassemi, Mehri Mehrnia

One morning, a boy named 'Dada' catches a red fish in one of the ports of south sea in Iran. His friend 'Masho' seems to like the fish and steals it. They fight, and the result is broken head for 'Masho'. His mother comes to complain to Dada's parents, and Dada's father imprisons him in a tiny room. Dada and the fish together in the room, makes him think of their identification as prisoners who long for release.

Short

Iran, in Persian 

 

El último tren (2002)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303267/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Train_(2002_film)

El último tren / The Last Train

Director: Diego Arsuaga

Stars: Héctor Alterio, Federico Luppi, Pepe Soriano, Gastón Pauls, Balaram Dinard, Eduardo Miglionico, Elisa Contreras, Saturnino García, Jenny Goldstein

A powerful Hollywood studio has purchased a historic 19th century Uruguayan locomotive for its next film. The news is not well received by the veteran members of the Friends of the Rail Association. Determined to boycott the transfer of the locomotive to the United States, three of them and a child, moved by the slogan "Our national heritage is not for sale", hijack the machine and set out to travel the abandoned tracks of the interior of the country, pursued by the authorities.

Uruguay

In Spanish, with Russian & English subs (.srt in the archive)

 

The Learning Tree (1969)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064579/

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

Director: Gordon Parks

Stars: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans, Dana Elcar, Mira Waters, Joel Fluellen, Malcolm Atterbury, Richard Ward, Russell Thorson, Peggy Rea

A bittersweet and idyllic story about a year in the life of a 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, immorality.

USA

In English, with English subs (VobSub)

 

Omuretsu (1992)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6542940/

Omuretsu / オムレツ / Omelette

Director & Writer: Shunji Iwai

Stars: Junji Takada, Yûta Yamazaki, Aya Nakagawa, Aya Katsuragi

Two children, a boy and a girl, are in a coffee shop. They are living apart since their parents divorced. The boy tells his sister how their father's life had been ruined after the divorce. And 'the horrifying case of an omelet'...

Short

Japan, in Japanese, with English subs (embed) 

 

Blue Jeans (1977)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077251/

Blue Jeans / Du beurre aux Allemands

Director: Hugues Burin des Roziers

Stars: Gilles Budin, Michel Gibet, Daniel Véry, Thierry Dolon, Jérôme Cadiou, Eric Noël, Eric Bourcier, Pierre Bident, Pierre Marichal

First love and the fickleness of adolescence is the theme in this charming drama. The story follows a pretty blonde French youth who is sent with his classmates to an English seaside resort for the summer to study English. It is there that he first meets and "falls in love" with a girl, but when the girl spurns him for an older teenager, his attentions and affections are soon shifted to him.

France

In French, with German & English subs (embed)

 

The Black Hand Gang (1930)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128078/

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

Director: Monty Banks

Stars: Wee Georgie Wood, Dolly Harmer, Violet Young, Lionel Hoare, Junior Banks, Viola Compton, Alfred Wood, Molly Lamont, Eric Pavitt, John Singer

Wee Georgie Wood leads his gang of ragamuffins through a series of comic vignettes, including disrupting a well-to-do children's party, fighting a rival gang and thwarting a robbery.

This film was an extended version of the play "Black Hand George" by stage songwriters Bert Lee and R.P. Weston. Both the play and the film starred the variety and music hall actor 'Wee Georgie Wood' (the stage name of George Wood Bamlett, 1895-1979, who had dwarfism) as the leader of the gang of boys.

United Kingdom

In English

 

El planeta de los niños (1992)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1539142/

http://filmgazette.blogspot.com/2020/05/planet-of-children-el-planeta-de-los.html

El planeta de los niños / Planet of the Children

Director: Valeria Sarmiento

In a modern city children go about their lives -- singing, playing, bottling beverages, operating heavy machinery, running restaurants, performing surgery, fighting a war. This is a world of children, no one here is looks older than fourteen or fifteen. Where are we?

Documentary about Cuban education.

Cuba

In Spanish

 

Mon maître d'école (2015)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4948932/

Mon maître d'école / Farewell My Teacher

Director: Emilie Thérond

In St Just-and-Vacquières, Jean-Michel Burel, a schoolmaster of a multilevel class, begins his last school year before retirement. The teacher teaches tolerance and wisdom in the same way as spelling and mathematics. He leads his program with determination. He strives to support students to give them confidence and elevate them higher. Through the eyes of a former student, now a director, there is a timeless school where rigor is combined with good humor, a school where freedom begins with respect for others. A school that belongs to everyone and to the universal domain of childhood.

Documentary

France, in French, with French subs (VobSub)

 

Stad (1958)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2293800/

Stad / City

Director & Writer: Jan Troell

Daily life of Malmö, Sweden through the adventures of a boy and his turtle.

Short

Sweden, in Swedish, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

 

Beleet parus odinokiy (1937)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028674/

Beleet parus odinokiy / The Lonely White Sail

Director: Vladimir Legoshin

Stars: Igor But, Boris Runge, Aleksandr Melnikov, Nikolai Plotnikov, Aleksandr Chekayevskiy, Ivan Pelttser, Fyodor Nikitin, Irina Bolshakova, Svetlana Pryadilova, Olga Pyzhova

Based on a Valentin Kataev's novel of the same name, The Lonely White Sail shows, with both comic and dramatic overtones, the 1905 Revolution from the perspective of two Odessa schoolboys.

Soviet Union

In Russian, with English subs (.srt)