Le matelot de nulle part (1964)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446484/

Director: Marcel Cravenne

Stars: Pierre Mondy, François Chaumette, Jacques Grello, Michèle André, Lucien Hubert, Alain Mottet, Sabine Haudepin, Didier Haudepin, Paul Mercey, Claude Piéplu

Adaptation of Herman Melville's novel Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1854). Israel Potter, a "sailor from nowhere", engages out of loving spite in the American War of Independence. At the first scuffle, he fell into the hands of the English who boarded him on a prison boat. It is the beginning of a series of adventures which will lead him from England to France, from prisons to escapes, to meet famous characters.

An episode from Le théâtre de la jeunesse TV antology, first aired May 30, 1964.

France

In French

 

Fighting Mad (1976)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074529/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Mad_(1976_film)

Director & Writer: Jonathan Demme

Stars: Peter Fonda, Gino Franco, Harry Northup, Philip Carey, Noble Willingham, John Doucette, Scott Glenn, Lynn Lowry, Kathleen Miller, Ted Markland

An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.

USA

In English; commentaries with director Jonathan Demme, producer Roger Corman, and actors Peter Fonda and Lynn Lowry

 

Sa Mao cong jun ji (1994)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5781778/

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

Sa Mao cong jun ji / 三毛从军记 / San Mao Joins the Army

Director: Jianya Zhang

Stars: Jia Lin, Zongwan Wei, Sun Feihu, Yi Zhu, Mingyu Zhang, Ying Li, Jiang Wen, Lin Dong, Lin Shi, Che Zhan

Street boy Three-hair flees from the police and joins the army, which is fighting against Japan. The story begins in 1937 and ends September 9, 1945, the day Japan capitulates.

China

In Chinese (Mandarin), with Chinese & English subs (embed)

 

Drømmen (2006)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425235/

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

Drømmen / We Shall Overcome

Director: Niels Arden Oplev

Stars: Bent Mejding, Janus Dissing Rathke, Anders W. Berthelsen, Jens Jørn Spottag, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Peter Hesse Overgaard, Sarah Juel Werner, Elin Reimer, Kurt Ravn

The year is 1969. The world is changing rapidly and corporal punishment has been banned. The tyrannical headmaster, however, hasn't bothered to notice. 13 year old Frits spends his summer holidays watching the family's first television, and is influenced by the winds of change. Martin Luther King's speeches and dreams of a better life have armoured him with courage and the desire for rebellion. When the headmaster steps over the line, the boy takes up battle against the authorities.

Denmark

In Danish, with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish & English subs (VobSub)

 

San tiao ren (1999)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187590/

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

San tiao ren / 三條人 / 孔雀 / Away With Words

Director: Christopher Doyle

Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Takanori Kubo, Kevin Sherlock, Georgina Hobson, Christa Hughes, Mavis Xu

Famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle made his directorial debut with this film about a Japanese man who arrives in Hong Kong and plants himself at a local gay bar inhabited by a cast of eccentric characters.

 

Gaspard ou le petit tambour de la neige (1961)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2059969/

Director: Jean-Pierre Marchand

Stars:  Gilles Tamiz, Fernand Berset, André Weber, Sylviane Margollé

During the conflict which opposed Greeks, Prussians and Turks in 1750, Gaspard, small drummer of the armies of fourteen years, tries to escape the war. Hidden in a barrel of rum, he went on to experience many adventures across Europe.

An episode from Le théâtre de la jeunesse TV antology, first aired Jan 1, 1961.

France

In French

 

My Brilliant Brain: Born Genius (2007)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1066834/

Director: Robert Hartel

Narrator: Gina McKee

First episode of three part documentary series exploring the incredible inner workings of the human brain. Focusing on the case of young musician Marc Yu, it explores the development of child genius.

Documentary

UK, in English

 

Hong xiang (1982)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0926298/

Hong xiang / The Red Elephant

Directors: Zhuangzhuang Tian, Xiaojing Xie, Jianya Zhang

No info about actors

In the southwest frontiers of China there lie many luxuriant forests where live a great variety of plants and animals. Three kids of Daizu minority is told by a granny that a red elephant which is the symbol of God lives in the forest so in a summer vacation they go into the forest to look for the elephant and finally they discover the secret of the elephant.

China

In Mandarin, with Chinese & English subs (VobSub)

 

English subs for Klava K.

English subs for the Soviet movie with long title V moey smerti proshu vinit Klavu K. / I Ask to Accuse Klava K. of My Death (1979) have been added, enjoy!

Fei tian (1996)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115459/

Fei tian / 飛天 / Accidental Legend

Director & Writer: Shaudi Wang

Stars: Rene Liu, Doze Niu, Shih Chang, Tien Miao, Su Wei, Hsiao-Bin Ge, Hsin Chen, Zhaoji Jia, Hsiao-Pao Ko, Tsu-Jun Lang, Zi Lin

Splendidly anarchic first feature from a well-known TV director/screenwriter, this is a prime mix of adventure, comedy, satire and fantasy shot on spectacular locations in NW China and inspired by the long history of peasant revolts in the late-imperial era. At least three strands of storyline are intertwined, the main one centred on two boy thieves from a village of outcasts who unwittingly bring the wrath of the regional authorities down on their community. It all revolves around the authenticity (or otherwise) of gold, superstitions, good government and redeemer myths; sorting the real from the fake, Wang concludes, is not always as easy as it seems.

Taiwan

In Mandarin, with English hardsubs