My "Top 50" Coming-of-Age/Childhood Movie Wishlist for Bluray

[Aunt Peg]

Some great titles there. I would add:

For a Lost Soldier (1992)
Paw (1959)
La Grand Chemin (1987)
No Greater Glory (1934)
The Boys of Paul Street (1968)
Little Crumb (1999)
Zozo (2005)
In the Battlefields (2004)
Born in '68 (2008)
The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Candleshoe (1977)
Tuck Everlasting (2002)
The Devil is a Sissy (1936)
La Famille Belier (2014)
Fast Talking (1984)

[anthony21879]

Coming-of-Age Director Ivan Noel

Iván Noel was a French/Argentine producer, director, and composer. In their July, 2009 journal, Camilo José Cela University compared his works to that of Truffaut and Comencini. He originally started in the arts by writing and performing his own musical compositions. The transition from music to film came from his love for combining and juxtaposing the two art forms in order to make something greater than the two by themselves.

“I was having a hard time finding the sort of films to put my own music to, so I began shooting small scenes for specific pieces of mine. From small scenes I made short movies, then eventually went on to write and produce feature films. All that just to showcase my music! There must have been a cheaper way, but it was more fun this way.” –Iván Noel

Since those first small scenes, he has gone on to release ten feature films and numerous publicities, videoclips and short films. All of the movies, despite their different plots, characters, and other thematic elements, share the commonality of confronting moral issues without yielding to the conventions of political correctness.

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

These great titles have never been released on pressed bluray in unedited form. All but !Primaria!, have a Directors Cut that was issued to those who helped with the indiegogo campaigns to make the movies; some with an autograph from the director. They can be found in the wild on ebay occasionally. All have been released with English subtitles. For Ellos Volvieron and La Tutora, I have linked the MOD US distributed bluray in the first picture. I cannot confirm if these are the directors cuts, but I highly doubt it. Update: The director has confirmed that the Merridian MOD blus are edited. I am waiting to hear back whether Artsploitations release of the vampire film Limbo and the German release of La Tutora is or not.

In Your Absence (2008)
En tu ausencia (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1289396

Thirteen-year-old Pablo (Gonzalo Sánchez Salas) is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence and give him some advice on sex, love, and life in general. On a quiet country road just outside of the village, Pablo meets Paco, an oddly calm, well-dressed stranger whose car just broke down.

Paco seems more interested in the boy than fixing his car problem. At first, Pablo maintains a cautious distance from the stranger, vaguely heeding his fellow villagers' advice to keep his distance. However, the boy's subconscious quest to find an understanding of his dark past and guilt makes him lose all of his protective layers. He sees a new friend in Paco; someone he can open up to and feel valued by almost like a replacement father. As Pablo's affection grows for the man, he is unknowingly and blindly being led toward a tragedy that will scar him for life.

Brecha (2009)
1h 29min | Drama


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500140

Brecha is a particularly vivid and realistic portrayal of the emotional rupture between a father recently released from jail and his 12-year-old son Jose (Jose Ramon Lafita), following a dark family tragedy that no one has strength enough to confront.

Herself a victim of the same non-communication, the boys grandmother tries her best to normalize their lives. However father's incapacity to forget the past, and his son's isolation and peculiar behavior leads the family increasingly towards disaster. All three of them awkwardly attempt to plug the rift, only to worsen the situation with every try, leading them slowly to the brink of a new re-arrangement of their lives.

Primary! (2010)
¡Primaria! (original title)
1h 47min | Comedy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1733317

In an explosive celebration of children's creativity, ¡Primaria! follows the lives of several students and their teachers in a peculiar, yet somewhat recognizable, primary school. When José Maria-more apt at lecturing on Fine Arts at University than controlling a group of primary kids-fills in his new post as an art teacher, chaos seems absolutely inevitable. However, the journey on which his young and infinitely imaginative little students take him shows him there's much he can learn from them! A life-embracing tale of discovery, and the reciprocal understanding between children and adults.

Vuelve (2013)
1h 28min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1961649

A visual incursion into the troubles psyche of a young boy whose unstable and manipulative mother committed suicide in front of him.

They Returned (2015)
Ellos Volvieron (original title)
1h 34min | Crime, Drama, Horror

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

The return of three disappeared children create violent ripples in their small town.

The Tutor (2016)
La tutora (original title)
1h 54min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5959698

Mona picks up her first job tutoring two orphaned children living in a derelict house in the country. Her obsession with trying to educate these two nearly feral children blind her to the fact they have other plans for her.