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Chef Xu Fu and manager Ma Junsheng successfully run a Chinese restaurant in the Middle East, only to face the brutal reality of war breaking out.

A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.

Documentary film covers issue of Middle East problem, its history and contemporary state of things.

A director in a dead-end marriage holds auditions for her debut film. The actress she casts for the lead faces opposition from her father, sparking turmoil.

A theater directed by Kiumars Moradi

A theater directed Kiumars Moradi

A theater directed by Pouya Pirhosseinlou

A teenage runaway and a widowed father each fight to take matters into their own hands to redeem their dark past.

Elias is a theater actor. He has been successful in the theater for a short time in the past, but now those days are long gone. Elias is now suffering from severe constipation. This problem has caused him pain and suffering and has affected his private and professional life. He is now trying to get out of this situation.

Wouldn't it be brilliant if 'West Side Story' was set in the Middle East? No, of course not. But Ms. Reynolds thinks it would.

Discusses the history of the Middle East. Contrasts old ways with the new in agriculture, industry, etc. in emphasizing the changing image of this part of the world.

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This Film opens a window on the Napoleon Bonaparte Campaign towards Egypt and Syria in the year 1798, and impact affected the relationship between East & West. The film while discovers some of the personal configuration of such an outstanding figure, it emerges in some traditions and life properties. Yet the film establishes Multi-Directional Cultural Dialog.

In the late 1960's and 1970's the Middle East is the proving ground for air combat weapons and tactics as Israeli and Arab countries flex their muscles. Isreal, armed with the latest French and American aircraft score a string of victories and firsts against the Arab pilots flying second string Russian aircraft.

FRONTLINE traces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities and counter its proxy forces, the conflict with the Palestinians, and the role of the U.S. through decades of difficulty in the region. Drawing on new, insider interviews, this two-hour special examines how long-running and escalating tensions between Israel and Iran erupted into all-out war in June 2025. The film also explores how multiple U.S. presidents have tried to manage the volatile issues at play. “Remaking the Middle East: Israel vs. Iran” is a FRONTLINE production with Left/Right Docs. The correspondent is James Jacoby. The producers and writers are Anya Bourg and James Jacoby. The co-producer is Christina Avalos. The director is James Jacoby. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

Filmed during their 2005 reunion tour, this release captures the sonic guitar assaults of Dinosaur Jr. onstage, playing the songs "Gargoyle," "Little Fury Things," "Just Like Heaven," and more. Also included is rare behind-the-scenes footage featuring the band, as well as interviews with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Mike Watt (The Minutemen), and guitarist Steve Albini.

As part of the theatrical release of It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley, Magnolia Pictures will proudly present 26 minutes of exclusive, remastered footage from a rare solo performance at The Middle East in Cambridge, MA, filmed on February 19, 1994. This previously unreleased set will screen immediately following the film, offering both longtime fans and newcomers a rare opportunity to experience Jeff Buckley’s raw, unfiltered brilliance. Setlist: Eternal Life, Last Goodbye, Dink's Song, Lover You Should’ve Come Over.

Hosted by Ahmed Ahmed and Avi Liberman, "Bridging the Gap" brings together for the first time Middle East Comedians to showcase today's funniest Jewish and Muslim comics together for the first time un-censored on one stage for the Showtime Network. Bridging the Gap stars; Dan Naturman, Max Amini, Mark Schiff, Eman Morgan, Maria Shehata and last comic standing winner Iliza Shlesinger.

Noam Chomsky, the extremely influential dissident, linguist, and media critic behind such works as Manufacturing Consent and What We Say Goes. In this Paper Tiger classic he deconstructs several New York Times articles by historians Bernard Wertzman and Thomas Friedman in order to examine the foreign policy of the United States in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Chomsky examines how these articles skew the facts through “suppression” or “framing” in order to recreate history to meet the needs of current U.S. foreign policy.

ADCC Middle East Open 2024: Pro Finals took place on February 3, 2024 at the Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Sport Hall Complex in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

'Afghanistan 1979: the war that changed the world', is a French documentary about the Sovjet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. It was one of the most crucial events of the 20th century, and changed the world forever. This documentary gives a good insight in the Afghan-Russian war ; the alliance between the Russian and Afghan communist governments ; Islamic resistance ; the support of America for the resistance and its consequences on the war.

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and intrusive Western interference. In this program, a feminist delegation composed of author Nawal Saadawi and other renowned activists from the Middle East and North Africa gathers at the UN, on college campuses, and in church basements to speak out about deterioration of women's rights in the Arab states in an effort to heighten awareness of the Arab feminist struggle for equality--and the effects of U.S. foreign policy on their efforts.

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.

Three friends – a reporter, an oil analyst and a financial executive – reunite after ten years and accidentally uncover one of the key, hidden reasons for what motivated the war in Iraq. The trio struggles to present evidence to major media that America invaded Iraq to force oil sales from the Euro back to the Dollar to preserve US global monetary supremacy. Against incredible odds, the team must face their pasts, find willing sources to corroborate the story, and survive the conspirators as they push to bring the truth to light.

The story of a young mother who loses her husband in Afghanistan and struggles to raise their young daughter in his absence.

An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do anything -- including faking his own death and going head-to-head with an Arab cab driver -- to make his dreams come true.

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

A disgraced treasury agent Mike Rand, who teams with his boss to halt a Red Chinese plot to destroy the free world by flooding the market with opium and turning everyone into addicts. Along the way he manages to bed junkie Lou, get into various fights and destroy the refinery that is ending out the drugs.

A miss-matched couple embark on a frantic search for the Dead Sea Scroll hidden in the ancient city of Petra.

After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.

In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

When a bombing in a Tel Aviv café takes the lives of both a young Palestinian bomber and a young Israeli soldier, their two mothers encounter one another in a police station, neither aware of who the other is, until realization sets in...

An elite commando unit must rescue a captured peacekeeping force from a ruthless international arms dealer.

In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.

An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.

The evil Jafar escapes from the magic lamp as an all-powerful genie, ready to plot his revenge against Aladdin. From battling elusive villains atop winged horses, to dodging flames inside an exploding lava pit, it's up to Aladdin - with Princess Jasmine and the outrageously funny Genie by his side - to save the kingdom once and for all.

The lives of three young Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. From an arranged marriage and a lesbian love affair to an abusive family situation, the film delicately tackles some of the issues Middle Eastern women are confronted with today.

Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.