International Children’s Day is coming up on June 1st. Here we have chosen some films from around the world that are most worthy for children to see.

E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Country: United States of America

Storyline: A group of aliens are visiting the Earth at night. But one of the visitors from space is left behind and finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, he meets Elliot, a lonely boy himself, and slowly makes friends with Elliot’s older brother Michael, his sister Gertie. Meanwhile government officers work day and night to track down the little alien. Elliot and others try their best to help the alien go home.

Children of Heaven (1997)

Director: Majid Majidi

Country: Iran

Storyline: Ali takes his little sister Zahra’s shoes to the shoemaker to be repaired but loses them on the way home. There is no money to buy another pair. Ali makes a plan to share his shoes: Zahra will wear them in the morning and hand them to Ali at midday so he can attend school classes. Ali then enters a children’s racing competition in hopes of receiving the third prize, a new pair of shoes.

Kes (1969)

Director: Ken Loach

Country: United Kingdom

Storyline: Bullied (欺凌) at school and getting little attention at home by his mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old boy from a working-class family, finds peace in his pet falcon (猎隼), Kes. With encouragement from his English teacher, Billy eventually discovers a positive purpose to his unfortunate life, until some bad thing comes.

Films for you!

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving（1973）

A true classic，this Peanuts cartoon gives many viewers a sense of nostalgia（怀旧）．Return to the iconic moment when Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown right as he's about to kick it．Life is hard，but in this animated film，sweetness wins when the Peanuts group prepares a Thanksgiving feast，complete with jelly beans．

Planes，Trains and Automobiles（1987）

This John Hughes comedy starring Steve Martin and John Candy is already a Thanksgiving classic for many．Neal ends up rerouting the plane because of a snowstorm．Ashe struggles to find a way home for Thanksgiving，he gets stuck with extremely positive Del．

One True Thing（1998）

Meryl Streep was nominated（提名）for an Academy Award for her performance in this movie as a wife and mom who struggles with cancer．Renée Zellweger plays the grown daughter who has to come home to help with the holiday．The two try to hold the family together，especially during a tense Thanksgiving meal when guests get all the attention．

The Gold Rush（1925）

Charlie Chaplin as the Little Tramp eats his shoe for Thanksgiving dinner while trapped in a snowstorm in this endearing silent film classic fro m 1925．Watch this one if you're in the mood to see a leather shoe prepared and eaten as if it were a delicious turkey．It makes you grateful for what you have!