Les mésaventures de Jean-Paul Choppart (1968)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3970606/

Director: Yves-André Hubert

Stars: Georgette Anys, Robert Murzeau, Patrick Jeantet, William Coryn, Jacques Seiler, Jean Coste, Muriel Beautour, Pierre Julien, Françoise Bertin, Henri Poirier, Nieves Gomes, Sylvia Declercq

Jean-Paul Choppart, 9 and a half years old, son of a bourgeois family, is a dreadful jojo: wicked, thief, and brutal. To escape yet another punishment, he runs away from home. Then begins a long journey of initiation where his wickedness will find himself confronted with the harshness of the real world, which he does not yet know... Based on the book "Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart" (1832) by M. Louis Desnoyers.

Two episodes from Le théâtre de la jeunesse TV antology, first aired Dec 25, 1968.

France

In French

 

Oliver Twist (1962)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355851/

Director: Jean-Paul Carrère

Stars: André Oumansky, Gérard Riou, Alice Reichen, René Clermont, Philippe Ogouz, Jacques Seiler, Françoise Fleury, Albert Rémy, Marcel Dalio, Anne Doat, Maurice Garrel

Another adaptation of Charles Dickens' well-known novel. In the slums of London in the 19th century, a woman died giving birth to a boy. The orphan will be called Olivier Twist. Years later, he is apprenticed to an undertaker who beats and humiliates him. He flees and joins a band of street children, who survive by robbing passers-by...

Two episodes from Le théâtre de la jeunesse TV antology, first aired May 6, 1962

France

In French

 

Le général Dourakine (1963)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309649/

Director: Yves-André Hubert

Stars: Michel Galabru, Claude Winter, Roger Rudel, Joël Flateau, Pascal Duc, Bernard Verley, Denise Gence, Jacques Fabbri, Paul Le Person, Georges Audoubert, Roland Demongeot, Alain-Noël Fabiani, Philippe Mahrer, Pascal Duffard

General Dourakine is a man whose terrible anger is compensated by a real kindness, and especially a great concern for justice. Back in his castle in Russia, in the company of the French family Dérigny, he is forced to welcome his niece Papofski and her four boys. The general's patience will be severely tested... Based on a novel by Countess of Ségur (1799–1874), French writer of Russian origin.

Two episodes from Le théâtre de la jeunesse TV antology, first aired Dec 25, 1963

France

In French

 

Le tour d'écrou (1974)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299183/

Director: Raymond Rouleau

Stars: Suzanne Flon, Robert Hossein, Marie-Christine Barrault, Andrée Tainsy, Stéphane Guiraud, Laure Jeanson, Robert Rimbaud

A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children. Another Henry James' Turn of the Screw adaptation.

France

In French

 

Desert People (1967)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1817125/

Director & Narrator: Ian Dunlop

Two Aboriginal families live like their ancestors have for centuries in this anthropological documentary.

Documentary

Australia, in English

 

Ecce Homo Homolka (1970)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132935/

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

Ecce Homo Homolka / Behold Homolka

Director: Jaroslav Papousek

Stars: Josef Sebánek, Marie Motlová, Frantisek Husák, Helena Ruzicková, Petr Forman, Matej Forman, Yvonne Kodonová, Miroslav Jelínek

The hedonistic Homolková family departs Prague for a Sunday trip to the countryside. But they are forced to return home early by a woman’s voice calling – fruitlessly – for help. While grandpa prepares for a game of football, the rest of the family – the resolute grandmother, corpulent Heduš, her rather wimpy husband Ludva, and two naughty young twins – head out on an alternative trip to Chuchle to “see the horses”. But nothing quite manages to turn out as planned – and the Homolkas' Sunday ends full of self-pity and recriminations…

Czechoslovakia

In Czech, with Czech & English subs (embed)

 

Santa Claus Upgrade

Mexican film Santa Claus gas been upgraded with 2.42 Gb BDRip & English translation, enjoy this masterpiece!

Tian guo ni zi (1994)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111424/

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

Tian guo ni zi /  天國逆子 / The Day the Sun Turned Cold

Director: Ho Yim

Stars: Gaowa Siqin, Tsung-Hua Tou, Jingwu Ma, Zi Wei, Shu Zhong, Li Hu

Based on real events in China 1988, a son has to come to terms with the implications of informing that his mother may have murdered his father ten years ago to police, a crime that will undoubtedly carry the death sentence.

Hong Kong

In Chinese, with English hardsubs

 

En djungelsaga (1957)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050321/

En djungelsaga / The Flute and the Arrow

Director: Arne Sucksdorff

With Chendru, Ginjo, Riga, Tengru-Shikari

A documentary about the muria people of the Bastar jungle in central India.

The story revolves around Chendru, a small boy who lives in Bastar with his grandfather, his cousin Ginjo and Ginjo´s wife, Riga, who is not a Muria. One day a leopard appears near the village. Chendru reaches for his bow but is stopped from shooting; it might be a bad omen. Maybe it is the same leopard that once killed Chendru´s father. The next day Chendru, again, spots a leopard, which triggers a series of dramatic events, involving the lives of both animals and human beings.

Sweden

In Swedish, with English and other subs (embed)

 

Le Carrefour des enfants perdus (1944)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042317/

Le Carrefour des enfants perdus / Children of Chaos

Director: Léo Joannon

Stars: René Dary, Raymond Bussières, Jean Mercanton, Janine Darcey, Robert Demorget, Aman Maistre Julien, Serge Reggiani, Michel Barbey, Gérard Blain

Marseille, 1940. In the chaotic aftermath of France’s capitulation to Nazi Germany, three former inmates of a reform school meet up by chance. They are Jean Victor, a journalist, Émile Ferrand, a recently demobbed solider, and Joseph Malory. All three are moved by the plight of a homeless young orphan boy, La Puce, whom they save from the hands of the police. Victor suggests that they open a home for abandoned youngsters like La Puce, a home that provides its inmates with hope and an education, instead of iron bars and beatings. With the support of a local notable, Victor obtains the authorisation to go ahead and he converts an old hotel into what will be called The Crossroads for Lost Children. But not all of the youngsters appreciate the kindness they are offered…

France

In French

 

Edad difícil (1956)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201585/

Director & Writer: Leopoldo Torres Ríos

Cast: Oscar Rovito, Bárbara Mujica, Julia Dalmas, Miguel Dante, Enrique Colombo, Margarita Corona, Duilio Marzio, Carlos Benso, Jorge Salcedo

The love between two teenagers awakens.

Argentina

In Spanish

 

Kyoshitsu no kodomotachi (1954)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046854/

Kyôshitsu no kodomotachi / 教室の子供たち 学習指導への道 / Children in the Classroom

Director: Susumu Hani

Initially conceived as an instructional film on the discipline of troubled children, the Ministry of Education sponsored Children in the Classroom became an important showcase for Hani’s remarkable observational filmmaking and a catalyst for decisive changes in Japanese documentary cinema. Boldly anticipating its Anglo-European counterparts of American direct cinema and French cinema vérité, Hani’s objective camera exhaustively and masterfully interrogated his subjects’ inner worlds. This sensational debut by the then only twenty-six year old Hani stunned documentary and educational film circuits in Japan, who heralded the young director as the emblem of a new breed of film artist.

Documentary, short

Japan, in Japanese, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

 

When Pomegranates Howl (2020)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13376084/

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

Director: Granaz Moussavi

Stars: Arafat Faiz, Elham Ahmad Ayazi, Saeida Sadat, Freshta Alimi, Amir Shah Talash, Hashmatullah Fanai, Andrew Quilty

Hewad is an irrepressible kid from Kabul hustling everything from pomegranate juice to protection from the evil eye. His real ambition is to be a movie star, and this comes a step closer when he meets an Australian photographer. But in a city where it is easy to be "martyred," the streets are as perilous as they are vivid.

Australia - Afghanistan

In Pashtu, with Portuguese subs (embed)

 

Time for School: 2003-2016 (2016)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6520324/

Director: Nina Chaudry

Time for School: 2003 - 2016 puts a human face on an underreported global crisis, by spotlighting the journey of five extraordinary children in five countries as they struggle to get a basic education. Time for School introduces viewers to Nanavi in Benin; Jefferson in Brazil; Neeraj in India; Joab in Kenya; and Shugufa in Afghanistan on their first days of school and follows them from for the next 12 years. Told primarily through the point of view of the children and their families, Time for School presents the contrasting lives of those who were forced to abandon schooling and those who are still following their dreams. It tells a gripping story of what's at stake when war, abject poverty, or just being a girl stands between a child and the simple promise of a basic education.

Documentary

USA, in English, with English hardsubs for non English parts