الريس جابر

film by Fady Dagher

Fight Club was a two-day professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by Game Changer Wrestling (GCW) that was held on October 8 and 9, 2022. Both nights of the event were held in Atlantic City, New Jersey; night 1 of the event took place at the Garden Pier at the Showboat while night 2 was held inside Showboat Hotel itself. The event aired on PPV via the FITE TV service.

This comprehensive documentary explores the history and music of legendary San Francisco Bay Area thrash band Vio-Lence. Interviews with band members and insights from fans, friends, journalists and other local metal bands -- including Exodus, Testament, Forbidden and Death Angel -- shed light on both Vio-Lence and the thrash metal scene. Rare video footage shot by band members and tons of live clips from their various eras round out the package.

The Gift That Gives follows the story of Callum Mori (Takaya Honda), the author of a book entitled, The Gift That Gives. He makes his first television appearance as a guest of The Arts Corner television show, presented by Kate Sedgeman (Lily Brown-Griffiths), who falls for him. Callum, however, falls for her best friend, Linda (HaiHa Le). Linda owns the bookshop where Callum launches his book but luckily for Kate, fate brings her and Callum’s brother, Austin (Damien Sato) together, as they discover hidden love letters, signed by aliases. Jointly, they all try to find out who penned them.

Pro Wrestling NOAH caps off a thrilling year with their final Budokan event of 2005.

This was Henri Storck first art documentary, a portrait about the painter, Paul Delvaux.

A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set.

A woman wants to divorce her husband, but is forced to live with him for six months first. Will she long to be with the one she loves, or will she learn to love the one she's with?

Bartolomeo Pagano as Maciste in Maciste in the Lions' Den. A Italian silent from 1926.

The film takes a deeper look at the social status of people who are forcefully converted to a different religious belief, and how they are looked down upon.

Are words, photographs and speeches sufficient means for describing and communicating a complex, harsh, unmanageable reality? These unsolved questions pursue Cassandra during her trip through the impenetrable Chaco as chronicler of a means of communication, her first job after graduating from literature school. The unknown reality of native peoples who live in the Chaco communities, their beautiful and uncomprehensive languages and their dilemmas facing an economy which excludes them, are part of a trip in which Cassandra finds an inhabitable world within her status as foreigner. Her visions start merging with the cosmovision of ancient inhabitants until she becomes part of the enigma herself.

High school student Ha-Na experiences trouble sleeping after her classmate Jin-A committed suicide. Not being able to sleep, Ha-Na sees her parents fighting. The next day, her parents act like nothing happened the night before. She doesn't like her parents hypocritical behavior. Around this time, Se-Mi, a senior in the band club, approaches Ha-Na. Ha-Na begins to act differently, but she becomes to regret her behavior. A rumor spreads about her and she becomes the target of bullies.

Inspektor Ko wird von Hongkong auf die Philippinen beordert, um den inhaftierten Drogengangster Loader in Gewahrsam zu nehmen. Bei der Überführung zum Flughafen gelingt es Loaders Männern jedoch, ihren Boß zu befreien. Ko setzt sich gegen den Willen lokaler Behörden auf die Fährte der Gangster, die ihrerseits den Cop jagen, weil er in Besitz eines wichtigen Tresorschlüssels ist. Mit Hilfe der kampfsporterfahrenen Interpolagentin Kim kann Ko den Kampf für sich entscheiden. Stuntgeladener Cop-Thriller aus Hongkong. Regisseur und Co-Produzent Philip Ko ("Mistaken Identity") machte es sich nicht schwer und spielte höchstselbst an der Seite von Kampfsportcracks wie Cynthia Luster ("Born To Fight 2-5") in den Straßen von Manila den Schwarzeneggererfolg "Red Heat" von Walter Hill nach. Das Experiment gelingt den Umständen entsprechend unterhaltsam, wenngleich die Umsetzung nicht unbedingt vor Originalität strotzt. Easternfreunde greifen zu.

Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself, Red Hollywood) reconsiders the films of Spencer Williams, the pioneering African American screenwriter, director, and actor whose 1940s melodramas centered on sinners and saints—Beale Street mamas and storefront preachers, crime bosses and upwardly striving lawyers and soldiers—who are tempted by jazz and sex and then set back on the glory road to salvation. - MoMA

Asha lives in poverty with her alcoholic father in Bombay, before being sold to an impotent husband. A series of events leads her to love.

Serena Scott is a late-night host on London Talk Radio. Ratings are down, and she has only two weeks to turn things around or management will switch to elevator music. It's also her 27th birthday, and three friends invite for a girls night in where they play "Truth or Dare." All but one chooses "Truth," and by the end of the evening, each woman's story may give Serena an idea that will save her show, her job, and her private life.