Le matou (1985)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089567/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alley_Cat_(1985_film)

Le matou / The Alley Cat

Director: Jean Beaudin

Stars: Serge Dupire, Monique Spaziani, Jean Carmet, Julien Guiomar, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Miguel Fernandes, Pierre Beaudry, Paul Berval, Rita Bibeau, Yvan Canuel, Johanne Fontaine

Florent and his wife Elise always had one dream: to own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream becomes a reality, but only to quickly turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they have been tricked by him and lose everything.

Canada

In French, with English subs (embed)

 

Little Cheung upgrade

Little Cheung (1999) upgraded with better quality 2.33 Gb DVDRip, enjoy!

Dime with a Halo (1963)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056999/

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

Director: Boris Sagal

Stars: BarBara Luna, Rafael López, Roger Mobley, Paul Langton, Robert Carricart, Manuel Padilla Jr., Larry Domasin, Tony Maxwell, Vito Scotti, Jay Adler, Theodore Newton, Steven Geray

Five Mexican street boys bet two dollars on a horse race every week. Mr. Jones, a kindly American who visits Mexico weekly for his pleasures, places their bets for them. To get some luck, the kids decide to steal a "dime" from the church poor-box to "make Jesus a partner" in the bet. Do they win?

USA, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

In English

 

Nattlek upgraded

 Swedish classical Nattlek (1966) upgraded with better quality DVDRip, enjoy!

Flavio (1964)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270368/

Director & Writer: Gordon Parks

Stars: Flavio da Silva, Peter Martinez (voice)

Documentary by African American photographer Gordon Parks about a boy living with his family in extreme poverty in a Rio de Janeiro slum.

Short

USA, in English, with Portuguese subs (embed)

 

Lazarillo (1960)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2059970/

Director: Claude Loursais

Stars: Joël Flateau, Jean-Marie Amato, Lucien Baroux, Anne Caprile, Hubert de Lapparent, Jacques Dynam, Jacques Marin, Jean Rochefort

Little Lazarillo, a mischievous servant of around ten, goes from master to master. He is always hungry, and hopes that his new master will feed him according to his appetite. He thus fell successively into the hands of a blind man, a priest, and a noble but penniless squire...

Le théâtre de la jeunesse - Episode aired Dec 22, 1960

France

In French

 

La belle Nivernaise (1924)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013868/

La belle Nivernaise / The Beauty from Nivernais

Director: Jean Epstein

Stars: Blanche Montel, Marie Lacroix, Maurice Touzé, Pierre Hot, Max Bonnet, Jean-David Évremond, Georges Charlia

Bargeman Louveau finds an abandoned boy, Victor, and with the authorities permission takes him back to his own family where he raises him. 10 years later Victor and Louveau's daughter Clara have fallen in love...

France

Silent, with French & Spanish intertitles + English subs (.srt)

 

L'Enfance de l'Art (1992)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2698170/

L'Enfance de l'Art / Childhood of Art

Directors & Writers: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville

Star: Antoine Reyes

A woman, a child, a man and another child, the noise of bombs falling and of planes passing by, in a urban landscape destroyed by war... 

Short

France, in French, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

 

Zendegi va digar hich (1992)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105888/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_and_Nothing_More...

Zendegi va digar hich / زندگی و دیگر هیچ / Life, and Nothing More...

Director & Writer: Abbas Kiarostami

Stars: Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour, Hossein Rezai, Hocine Rifahi, Ferhendeh Feydi, Mohammad Reza Parvaneh, Mahrem Feydi, Bahrovz Aydini, Ziya Babai

A film director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.

Iran

In Persian, with English subs (embed)

 

Mosafere Jonub (1997)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134828/

Mosafere Jonub / مسافر جنوب / The Traveler from the South

Director & Writer: Parviz Shahbazi

Stars: Reza Moghadam, Qamar Nasiri-Jozani

Reza, a boy on the verge of his teens, takes an overnight train from the south of Iran to visit his aunt in Tehran during a public holiday. En route, he helps an old lady recover some stolen money and jewelry, and when they reach the capital he insists on seeing her safely to the airport, whence she's flying to Germany to visit her son. Reza's selfless gesture turns into an obsessive mission. At the airport, the old lady has a mild heart attack and is eventually hospitalized, and Reza, arriving late at his aunt's, finds she's already left on vacation. Unable to check into a hotel because he doesn't have the right papers, the kid ends up sleeping in the hospital. Next day, he scurries around town trying to raise enough money to pay for the lady's operation.

Iran

In Persian

 

Una isla para Miguel (1968)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498510/

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

Una isla para Miguel / An Island for Miguel

Director: Sara Gómez

The first part of the “Isle of Youth” trilogy shows the process of the reeducation of adolescents who are sent as juvenile delinquents to Pinos Island (later renamed the Isle of Youth).

Short documentary

Cuba, in Spanish