Hotel Dallas (2016)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5134976/

Directors & Writers: Sherng-Lee Huang, Livia Ungur

Stars: Livia Ungur, Larry Hagman, Razvan Hîncu, Sherng-Lee Huang, Patrick Duffy, Crenguta Hariton, Dumitru Pop Tincu, Neculai Predica, Maria Croitoru

In communist Romania in the 1980s the population collectively watches “Dallas”, their only window into capitalism. Inspired by the US TV show, a young woman decides to emigrate to America. “Hotel Dallas” mixes documentary scenes with staged and experimental sequences.

Documentary

Romania, USA

In Romanian, with English subs (embed)

 

Storm Center (1956)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049800/

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

Director: Daniel Taradash

Stars: Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly, Joe Mantell, Kevin Coughlin, Sally Brophy, Edward Platt, Kathryn Grant

Alicia Hull is a widowed small town librarian dedicated to introducing children to the joy of reading. In exchange for fulfilling her request for a children's wing, the city council asks her to withdraw the book The Communist Dream from the library's collection. When she refuses to comply with their demand, she is fired, and branded as a subversive. Especially upset by this is young Freddie Slater, a boy with a deep love of books whom Alicia has closely mentored.

USA 

In English (2nd audio)

 

El camino (2008)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053822/

El camino / The Path

Director & Writer: Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez

Stars: Sherlin Paola Velásquez, Marcos Ulises Jiménez, Juan Borda, Morena Guadalupe Espinoza, Cornelio Flores Meza, Germán Pomares, Jean-François Stévenin

Two young Nicaraguan children, Saslaya and her mute brother Dario, must travel to Costa Rica to find their long-lost mother.

Costa Rica

In Spanish, with  Spanish, German, French, Arabic & English subs (embed)

 

Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi (1950)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1630056/

Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi / 白雪先生と子供たち

Director: Ren Yoshimura

Stars: Setsuko Hara, Takashi Kohama, Jun Miyazaki, Sachio Mozaki, Chieko Seki, Hisako Takihana, Isamu Yamaguchi, Kôichirô Yoshikawa

A grade school in Tokyo, where students curse and gamble, has a pond on-premises with one particular teacher who is in charge and takes care of it. The pond holds a number of carp, but someone is snatching them. Amidst the student, one lives with his mother in poverty. The mother works at a factory whose owner is a member of the parent-teacher association and asks her son to help her employer's son to help with homework. Her son is not happy spending time doing this. Finally one day the teacher finds out who is stealing the carp when the poor boy finds out and reports it. It is a child who is not attending the school.

Japan

In Japanese

 

Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids (2010)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1642627/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Medicated_Kids

Director: Danny Horan

Star: Louis Theroux

BBC documentary. Louis meets parents who have turned to medication to keep their children under control.

UK

In English, with English subs (embed)

 

Village Rockstars (2017)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7297966/

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

Director & Writer: Rima Das

Stars: Bhanita Das, Basanti Das, Boloram Das, Rinku Das, Bishnu Kalita, Manabendra Das, Kulada Bhattacharya

Residing in a gorgeous remote village in Assam, Dhunu a young girl, loves to climb the trees, go fishing with the boys and flaunt her thermocol guitar when she isn’t helping her widowed mother with her daily chores. She wishes to own a real guitar someday, but can people of limited means dare to dream?

India

In Assamese (Kamrupi dialect)

With English subs (embed)

 

Son of Man (2006)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492490/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Man_(2006_film)

Director: Mark Dornford-May

Stars: Noluthando Boqwana, Andile Kosi, Pauline Malefane, Andries Mbali, Mvuyisi Mjali, Gwebile Jim Ngxabaze, Zorro Sidloyi

One man's journey of love, deception and betrayal in contemporary South Africa. Based on the New Testament.

South Africa

In Xhosa

With English hardsubs

 

Coto de caza (1983)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085368/

Coto de caza / Code of Hunting / Hunting Ground

Director: Jorge Grau

Stars: Assumpta Serna, Víctor Valverde, Luis Hostalot, Alejandro Hernández, Montserrat Salvador, Paloma Lorena, Sahli Mimoun Amar El, José Antonio García Romeu, Manuel Rodríguez 

A pacifist lawyer's husband is accidentally killed during a home invasion. One of the culprits is caught, and his deranged brother begins to threaten the lawyer that if his brother isn't released, he will violently retaliate.

Spain

In Spanish + English dubbing

With English subs (embed), more at opensubtitles

Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007464/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown%27s_Schooldays_(1916_film)

Director: Rex Wilson

Stars: Joyce Templeton, Jack Coleman, Miss Marley, Evelyn Boucher, Wilfred Benson, Mr. Daniels, Mr. Johnson, Laurie Leslie, Eric Barker

Based on Thomas Hughes 1857 novel, "Tom Brown's Schooldays" recounts the adventures of a boy's youth, with three actors playing Tom at different ages. The film follows the young Tom as he begins life at Rugby School, confronting school bully Flashman and befriending Harry East. Later, the older Tom enters his final year of school, finds himself guardian of the timid boy Arthur and becomes an upstanding young man.

UK

English intertitles

 

Kurôn wa kokyô wo mezasu (2008)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313130/

Kurôn wa kokyô wo mezasu / The Clone Returns Home

Director & Writer: Kanji Nakajima

Stars: Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Eri Ishida, Hiromi Nagasaku, Kyûsaku Shimada, Ryô Tsukamoto, Shô Tsukamoto, Ken'ichi Yajima

Kohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone: however, contrary to the scientists’ expectations, he reverts to his childhood memories when his twin brother drowned sacrificing his life for Kohei. Kohei’s clone discovers the body of his former self mistakenly believing that it is his deceased twin. Reliving his tragic past, he sets off carrying his corpse body to the beautiful hometown where he lived with his now dead mother.

Japan

In Japanese

With English subs (embed), other subs at opensubtitles