Si le vent soulève les sables (2006)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889222/

Si le vent soulève les sables / Sounds of Sand

Director: Marion Hänsel

Stars: Issaka Sawadogo, Asma Nouman Aden, Carole Karemera, Saïd Abdallah Mohamed, Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed, Moussa Assan, Emile Abossolo M'bo

The endless dry season has caused the village well to run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Despite the threat of war, Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and his wife Mouna.

Belgium | France

In French, with English subs (embed)

 

O Fat White Woman (1971)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067518/

Director: Philip Saville

Cast: Maureen Pryor, Peter Jeffrey, William Relton, Simon Gipps-Kent, Alethea Charlton, Roger Hammond, Martin Bodley

The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils.

Part of BBC's Play for Today, first aired Nov 4, 1971

UK

In English

 

Trobriand Cricket (1975)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1783406/

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

Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism

Directors: Gary Kildea & Jerry Leach

A documentary on how Papua New Guinea's have modified and incorporated their culture in the British game of Cricket.

UK

In English & Kilivila, with English hardsubs for non English parts

 

Hände hoch (1942)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159486/

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hände_hoch!_(1942)

Hände hoch / Hands Up!

Director & Writer: Alfred Weidenmann

Stars: Erich Dunskus, Maria L. Fodorova, Johannes Schütz, Willy Witte

German boys at a Hitler Youth recreation camp in Slovakia find themselves bored and irritated when bad weather confines them to their quarters. Things brighten up when the police inform them that a pair of escaped convicts are in the area, and the boys determine to catch them.

Germany (Third Reich)

In German, with English hardsubs

 

Yo ho ho (1981)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278827/

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

Director: Zako Heskiya

Stars: Kiril Variyski, Viktor Chouchkov, Iliya Penev, Anani Anev, Sonya Djulgerova, Kirill Kavadarkov, Georgi Bakhchevanov, Trifon Dzhonev, Boris Lukanov

A 10-year-old boy with a broken arm befriends a young, paraplegic actor in the hospital. Together, the two make up a pirate story in which they play the main roles.

Bulgaria

In Bulgarian, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

 

Iratan e Iracema (1987)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22796324/

Director: Paulo Guilherme d' Eça Leal

Stars: Paulo Cruz, Mónica Monteiro, Maria Helena d'Eça Leal, Carlos Wallenstein, Rita Rodrigues, João Malaquias, João D'Ávila

Whenever reality bothers them, which often happens, two siblings - Iratan and Iracema, on the threshold of adolescence - transform it, through fantasy, into something more interesting, more exciting.

TV series in 6 episodes, based on Olavo d'Eça Leal's story (1939).

Portugal, in Portuguese

 

Le bel été 1914 (1996)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115649/

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Bel_Été_1914

Le Bel ete 1914 / 1914 the Glorious Summer

Director: Christian de Chalonge

Stars: Claude Rich, Maria Pacôme, Hippolyte Girardot, Robinson Stévenin, Judith Henry, Marianne Denicourt, Philippe Torreton

A chateau in the French countryside is the setting for the story of the Mercadier family, who find that the presence of lodgers from Lyons in their summer retreat acts as a catalyst for a series of disruptions to their orderly, bourgeois lives. Based on a novel by Louis Aragon (1942).

France

In French, with English subs (.srt)

 

Leaving (1989)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451098/

Director: Sandy Johnson

Stars: Kenneth McFadyen, Gary Greer, Alan Summers, Alex Norton, Paul Young, Gerry Slevin, Hugh Ross, Sean Scanlan, Paul Hannaway, Marcus Railton, Maggie Bell, Gerard Kelly

Greenock, Scotland 1960: Nick, Gus and Jada are in their last weeks at school, aware that the decisions they make now will be crucial to their future.

BBC Screen Two s5e5, first aired Feb 5, 1989

UK

In English, with English subs (VobSub)

 

Un bon petit diable (1961)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305469/

Director: Jean-Paul Carrère

Stars: Joël Flateau, Madeleine Clervanne, Michèle Bardollet, Catherine de Seynes, Josée Steiner, Jacques Fabbri, Pierre Leproux, Yves Arcanel, Henri Crémieux

Scotland, 1842. Charles, a mischievous boy, is taken in by his aunt after the death of his father. Mrs. MacMiche is mean, stingy and gullible. She beats up her nephew and seeks to get rid of him after stealing his inheritance. As soon as he can, Charles will find refuge with his cousins Juliette and Marianne. He can also count on the help of Betty, the maid. Based in the novel Un bon petit diable by Sophie de Ségur (1865).

Two episodes from Le théâtre de la jeunesse TV antology, first aired Dec 25, 1961

France

In French

 

The Magic Toyshop (1987)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097806/

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

Director: David Wheatley

Stars: Caroline Milmoe, Tom Bell, Kilian McKenna, Gareth Bushill, Patricia Kerrigan, Lorcan Cranitch, Marlene Sidaway

After her parents are killed in a plane crash over the Grand Canyon, Melanie, a teenager girl and her younger brother and sister are sent to London to live with their uncle, Philip. He is a toy maker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but he also maintains dictatorial control over his family and intends to exercise the same control over the new arrival. Adapted by Angela Carter from her own 1967 novel of the same name.

UK

In English