Dottie Gets Spanked (1993)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106757/

Director & Writer: Todd Haynes

Stars: J. Evan Bonifant, Barbara Garrick, Julie Halston, Robert Pall, Harriet Sansom Harris, Ashley Chapman, Adam Arkin, Richard DeDomenico

An artistic six-year-old boy in 1960s America is obsessed with The Dottie Show. His father is concerned about the show's sexual influence, especially the boy's fascination with a spanking scene.

Short

USA  

In English, with English subs (embed)

 

Tange Sazen: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo (2004)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486212/

Tange Sazen: Hyakuman ryo no tsubo / 丹下左膳　百万両の壺 / Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo

Director: Toshio Tsuda

Stars: Etsushi Toyokawa, Emi Wakui, Hironobu Nomura, Kumiko Asô, Akashi Takei, Akio Kaneda, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Chie Tanaka, Hiroyuki Watanabe

The Yagyu family's elder son sends an old and cheap looking pot to his young brother, ignoring that the pot contains a map showing where it was hidden a treasure of a million ryo. He tries to recover it but his brother's wife has sold it to some junk dealers. Finally the pot ends up in Yasu's hands, a kid whose father was killed although Tange Sazen was supposed to protect him from in his way to home, so Tange Sazen will look after Yasu. Nearly a shot-by-shot remake of the 1935 film of the same title.

Japan

In Japanese, with Japanese, Chinese & English subs (VobSub in the archives)

 

De bruit et de fureur (1988)

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094959/

De bruit et de fureur / Sound and Fury

Director & Writer: Jean-Claude Brisseau

Stars: Vincent Gasperitsch, María Luisa García, François Négret, Bruno Cremer, Thierry Hélaine, Sandrine Arnault, Victoire Buff, Françoise Vatel, Albert Montias

This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13-year-old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a fantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who’s from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he’s doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher to despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno’s interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears losing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.

France, n French

With English subs (embed)

 

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