Pedar (1996)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117315/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Father_(1996_film)

Pedar / پدر / The Father

Director: Majid Majidi

Stars: Hassan Sadeghi, Hossein Abedini, Mohammad Kasebi, Parivash Nazarieh

Pedar (translated here as The Father, though the film's working title was The Stepfather) is about 14-year-old Mehrollah, whose father dies and who heads off to a southern port city to find work and support the family. When he returns home, however, he discovers that his mother has remarried to the local cop, no less and begins a campaign of silent protest against his stepfather, which gradually becomes more dangerous until a stroke of fate forces Mehrollah and his stepfather to come to terms with one another.

Iran

In Persian, with English subs (VobSub)

 

La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111622/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vie_sexuelle_des_Belges_1950–1978

La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 / The Sexual Life of the Belgians

Director & Writer: Jan Bucquoy

Stars: Jean-Henri Compère, Noe Francq, Isabelle Legros, Sophie Schneider, Jacques Druaux, Boris Bucquoy, Pascale Binnert, Michel Angely, Michele Shor, Stefan Lernous, Kathleen Joye

A semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy.

Belgium

In French, with Dutch & English subs (VobSub)

 

Starik Khottabych (1957)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049794/

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

Старик Хоттабыч / Starik Khottabych / The Flying Carpet

Director: Gennadiy Kazanskiy

Stars: Nikolay Volkov, Aleksei Litvinov, Gennadi Khudyakov, Lev Kovalchuk, Olga Cherkasova, Maya Blinova, Yefim Kopelyan, Evgeniy Vesnik

A boy named Volka discovers an ancient vessel on the bottom of a river. When he opens it, a genie emerges from there. He calls himself Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab, or in Russian style Khottabych. Grateful Khottabych is ready to fulfill any of Volka's wishes. But it appears that Volka should use the powers of the genie carefully, for they can have undesirable results.

Soviet Union

In Russian, with English subs (embed)

 

Snezhnaya koroleva (1967)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254782/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snow_Queen_(1967_film)

Снежная королева / Snezhnaya koroleva / The Snow Queen

Director: Gennadiy Kazanskiy

Stars: Valeri Nikitenko, Elena Proklova, Slawa Zjupa, Yevgeniya Melnikova, Natalya Klimova, Nikolay Boyarskiy, Evgeniy Leonov, Irina Gubanova, Georgiy Korolchuk, Olga Viklandt

The Snow Queen is a Hans Christian Andersen fable about a cold-hearted queen of the frozen north who steals away young Kay and takes him to her ice palace. Kay’s friend Gerda gets worried when Kay does not come home, and so she sets out to find him. Along the way, she meets an eccentric flower woman, a prince and a princess, a magical reindeer, a talking court raven, and many other fantastic characters. Once Gerda discovers that Kay is in the Snow Queen’s palace, she has to find some way to save him in spite of the formidable queen.

One of the classics of Soviet cinema for children - this fairy tale strays somewhat from the classic version of the story, basing itself instead on the screenplay by a well-known Russian playwright Evgeny Schwartz.

Soviet Union

In Russian, with English subs (embed)

 

Trás-os-Montes (1976)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075354/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trás-os-Montes_(film) 

Directors & Writers: Margarida Cordeiro & António Reis

Stars: Albino S. Pedro, Carlos Margarido, Mariana Margarido, Luis Ferreira, Armando Manuel, Rosalía Comba, Rui Ferreira

It's a docudrama with a poetic writing and non-linear narrative. Specifically, it's an "etnofiction": portraits the typical characters of Terra Fria, the North-east of Portugal, showing secular habits, in a majestic rural ambient. It's one of the works that represents the New Cinema (Novo Cinema) portuguese movement, and one of the first portuguese docudrama.

Portugal

In Portuguese, with English hardsubs

 

The Toy (1982)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084809/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Toy_(1982_film)

Director: Richard Donner

Stars: Richard Pryor, Scott Schwartz, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Teresa Ganzel, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Annazette Chase, Tony King, Don Hood

An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.

USA

In English, with English subs (embed)

 

Siblings (2004)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401787/

Director: David Weaver

Starring: Alex Campbell, Paul Soles, Andrew Chalmers, Samantha Weinstein, Sarah Gadon, Rocket the Dog, Nicholas Campbell, Sonja Smits, Aaron Abrams

Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.

Canada

In English

 

New Year's Adventures of Masha and Vitia (1975)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756321/

Directors: Gennadiy Kazanskiy & Igor Usov

Stars: Natalya Simonova, Yuriy Nahratov, Irina Borisova, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Nikolay Boyarskiy, Igor Efimov, Valentina Kosobutskaya, Georgiy Shtil, Boris Smolkin

Vitya believes in science and technology, Masha believes in miracles. In Christmes Eve, a sculpture of Ded Moroz (Russian Santa Clause) gets in live and tells "Koschey kidnapped my grand child". So the kids help Ded Moroz to save his grand child.

USSR

In Russian, with embed Russian & English subs; also English .srt subs include songs

 

Valahol Európában (1947)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039949/

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

Valahol Európában / Somewhere in Europe

Director: Géza von Radványi

Stars: Artúr Somlay, Miklós Gábor, Zsuzsa Bánki, György Bárdy, László Horváth, István Rozsos, László Kemény, Abraham Ronai, György Bodó

A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They are taken in by a former concert pianist who’s hiding out in a ruined castle.

Hungary

In Hungarian, with Hungarian & English subs (embed)

 

Ellos Volvieron (2015)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3894340/

Ellos Volvieron / They Returned

Director & Writer: Iván Noel

Stars: Valentina Sartorelli, Juan Ignacio Molina, Lauro Veron, Camila Cruz, Julio Mendez, Rosana Rossotti, German de Goycoechea, Edmee Aran, Romina Pinto, Jorge Booth, Oscar Mira, Facundo Ezequiel Cordoba Noceta, Candelaria Lopez Bellina, Thomas Lopez Bellina

"They Returned" is a beautifully touching and unnerving story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys and one girl, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. Not even the children themselves are able to help anyone understand what happened.

Argentina

In Spanish, with English & French subs (embed)