Children of Heaven (1997)

A pair of worn sneakers shared between a brother and sister in Tehran, and somehow it plays like a thriller. Ali loses Zahra's only shoes, and rather than tell their struggling parents, the two swap his pair between morning and afternoon school shifts, sprinting through alleys to make the handover. Majid Majidi's film became the first from Iran nominated for the foreign-language Oscar. It is gentle, funny and tense in equal parts, and one of the few films here that suits a family movie night with older kids.