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Three childhood friends join the Hong Kong Triads only to discover that fame and fortune will ultimately break them apart as only one can become the leader of the gang.

In the midst of a violent gang war, a series of misfortunes threaten the fate of a gang boss and his mob.

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

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An aging crime boss discovers his rebellious daughter is dating a punk. His former gang members try to bring her back using tricks and force, only to find out the punk is tied to the drug business in America, and is not to be messed with.

Three souls are sent to Earth from the Parallel on an eternal mission to fulfill God's plan. They've come to guard and train Cyrus, a young mechanic who has lost his way in life, and they help him understand his calling.

Seventeen years ago, an assassin ambushes triad boss Yau. Yau’s wife, Nam, sends Chai, Kam and others to find the assassin. Chai catches the assassin and discovers that he is Meow, Chai and Kam’s childhood best friend. To save his friend, Chai helps Meow flee Hong Kong. Though Yau survives the attack, the injuries leave him crippled for the rest of his life.

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The 16th century wall in Ferrara, Italy has a surface made up of thousands of pyramids. Using slides taken from this wall in 1982, photography, multiple exposure overlayering, gels and coloured light break the wall material into shimmering triadic forms. Substance - disintegration.

A patriotic period melodrama in which a father and son are in love with the same lady.The son does not tell her that his father, an officer, has fought in a duel over her, but lies that he has left her for the army. Melodrama written by Douglas Sirk.

One of the gang’s most respected elders, Fa Kam is expected to be the gang’s next leader. However, when his three trusted underlings - Wah, Fei and Kwok - are robbed while transporting the gang’s money, his future is put in jeopardy. When Wah discovers the stolen money’s whereabouts, he must choose between his boss and his two best friends.

Simon Yam Tat-wah and Rosamund Kwan Chi-lam star in this gauzy melodrama about the life and loves of the gangster elite, directed by Andy Chin Wing-keung. The film centers around Ching Kit, a mob boss who instead of using typical tools of underworld shakedowns -- mob hits, blackmail, and the like -- employs the dinner party to negotiate deals, to forge partnerships, and craft revenge. When Ching works out a deal with the Portuguese mob that would give him partial control of Macau's casinos, he quickly learns that treachery lurks around every corner. Veronica Yip Yuk-hing, Cecila Yip Tung, and Pauline Wong Siu-fung also appear.

The head of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau, Inspector San Lee, will do anything to put triad boss Tung in jail.

Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

Visuals and sounds accompanying a recitation of Adelaide Crapsey's cinquain Triad.

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Gang leader Jimmy Yam gathers all of his closest people after receiving a death threat in order to reveal their true nature.

Hong Kong movie

Two childhood friends become mortal enemies after their lives take drastically different paths and they discover that they are both in love with the same woman.

Brother Kwan (Francis Ng) is a triad boss gunned down outside his home and rushed to the hospital where he recounts his life story and how he became such a horrible person. And then, after he's gained our sympathy, he tells us the real story.

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crime lord trying to get his brother out of prison.

After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.

In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When repentant convict Carl Lucas discovers there's a price on his head, his only hope is to survive a twisted race against an army of hardened criminals and tricked-out cars.

Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist. As an international security expert, he must uncover an international plot in which ruthless terrorists threatened to bring down the United Nations on the eve of an historic summit with China. A mysterious chain of events leads to the murder of the Chinese U.N. Ambassador, and the terrorists frame Neil Shaw, the one man they believe can stop them. Accused of the crime, Shaw goes underground — in effect, vanishing from his own life — as he tries to stop what could become World War III.

In Hong Kong, Ho Chen-tung is the aging Mob boss, living by a code of honor, keeping peace among rival factions. For years, he has been estranged from his son, Hui, who lives in Australia. Tung has become a sort of father to Han, a Vietnamese refugee who also lives by an ethical code. At the same time that Hui reaches out to his father, the Hong Kong CID conclude their years'-long effort to get the goods on Tung and his associates. Tung expects the younger gangsters to live by the code he loves, but at his trial, he has a surprise coming to him. It may be up to Han to restore the balance.

In this prequel to the original, a bloody power struggle among the Triads coincides with the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, setting up the events of the first film.

After sparing a girl's life during a massacre, an elite Triad assassin is targeted by an onslaught of murderous gangsters.

A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.

Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.

Struggling director Sing is forced to make a Category III film for a triad boss who wants his girlfriend to star, leading to conflicts over artistic integrity, nudity, and his relationship with his own girlfriend.

Ben Archer, an ex-mob enforcer, seeks revenge against a ruthless Chinese kingpin responsible for his wife's brutal murder. When Archer joins forces with his old underworld friends, an all-out war is waged against the Chinese Triad.

While battling a psychic gambler, Sing hurtles back in time to 1937 Shanghai. Now he must come to grips with his family history and get back to 1991.

As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.

Ko Chun, a renowned gambler, loses his memory in an accident and starts behaving like a child. Little Knife, an amateur gambler, offers him shelter and realizes that he has a penchant for gambling.

Three young martial arts masters emerge from the back streets of Hong Kong to help the powerless fight injustice.

Chicken is back in exile. Hung Hing, a triad, is trying to ally with Chicken's new group, the Taiwanese triad San Luen. A contest is on in Hong Kong. The winner will head the Causeway Bay branch.

A hitman accidentally kills a little girl. Filled with regret, he wants to quit. But then to tie up loose ends, he is forced to go on another job, to kill the girl's mother.

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she testifies in court over a triad beating. When this news reaches the triad leader Brother Smart, Yuen Fong must pay him protection money for what she has done as events begin to escalate.

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A couple moves to a remote village for work only to find themselves hunted by a supernatural entity out to claim their unborn child.

A hike on Mount Gede during school break turns terrifying for two friends when one defies a local superstition — and a vengeful spirit takes hold of her.

Rawa, the only surviving passenger with injuries and trauma, must face the grief of Zahra, the pilot’s daughter, as well as the anger of Dita, the wife of a passenger who questions: “Why wasn’t it her husband who survived?”

Mirah, a woman shunned by her village after the mysterious deaths of men connected to her, seeks refuge in a Padang restaurant owned by Bana, who falls in love with her. As more men die, Mirah discovers she’s cursed by her stepsister Puti with the deadly “Bahu Laweyan” curse, which kills any man who becomes intimately involved with her. Fueled by revenge, Mirah plans to destroy Puti’s happiness by targeting her husband. Despite the deadly curse, Mirah and Bana craft their own tragic love story, choosing to be together no matter the consequences.

Dika and his family want to move out of his house for a reason, but Dika doesn't feel well about it. As time goes by, he found Patricia, his high school old friend. Problem arise when his old love comes back to his life.

Students of two different high schools, infamous for their rivalry in school brawls, are gathered together to be disciplined by Lt. Col. Rahmat.

In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.

In the bustling chicken stall of Jakarta, a dispute over the last piece of chicken escalates into a surreal journey. Three individuals find themselves transported to an expressionistic jail realm, where a deadly fight unfolds.

Greta's parents have decided that the three of them are going back to their hometown. Greta has to tell them that she won't return with them.

Kuncoro, a hearse driver who regrets the sins of his life because he met a prostitute who wants to experience death.

Erna, a mother who has just been released from prison, then she looks for the figure of her child who she has lived with all this time

Suryo (45) is running for village chief, and everyone loves him. They see him as the perfect leader. But Suryo has a secret habit nobody knows about.

A short music experience created with the sounds, both rhythmic percussive and vocal of 35 Indonesian street vendors.

After her mother's heartbreaking demise, 11 year old Nandhana disrupts the final mourning day rituals by running away with the 'bali pindam', putting on hold the final duty of a child as part of the Hindu traditions. Her cousin, Amit, tries to understand her pain and help her go through this hard period of grief.

An account of the brief life of the writer Albert Camus (1913-1960), a Frenchman born in Algeria: his Spanish origin on the isle of Menorca, his childhood in Algiers, his literary career and his constant struggle against the pomposity of French bourgeois intellectuals, his communist commitment, his love for Spain and his opposition to the independence of Algeria, since it would cause the loss of his true home, his definitive estrangement.

To pay off his mounting debt, a boy secretly takes a job as a debt collector for the same illegal lending operation he owes money to.

In a bleak corner of the city, a young man is trapped in the nightly routine of his father’s inherited Javanese food cart. Haunted by guilt, he searches for a way out of the fate that is draining him.

In a bleak corner of the city, a young man is trapped in the nightly routine of his father’s inherited Javanese food cart. Haunted by guilt, he searches for a way out of the fate that is draining him.

As an adult, Ana is haunted by the shadows of her past, bravely sharing one of her most painful memories in a support group. Years earlier, Ana and her mother, Hawa, lived a life of relentless hardship inside a brothel. As a child, Ana loved her mother unconditionally, unaware of the cruel world around them. But as she grew older, the harsh truths of her environment began to surface, leaving her with painful questions and a fractured sense of trust. During a quiet visit to a church, Ana and Hawa met a mysterious figure who offered a glimmer of hope. For Hawa, it was a chance for peace and escape from suffering. For Ana, it stirred a storm of emotions, forcing her to confront her beliefs about faith, forgiveness, and the meaning of salvation. Now, as Ana navigates the delicate balance between past wounds and present struggles, she embarks on a soul-searching journey toward healing, redemption, and the courage to reclaim her life from the darkness that shaped it.

"Luminara" is about a meeting between a boy who has big sadness from his past, and a girl who has many questions but can't talk well. Their meeting changes their life. Arsa, the boy, gives his light of life to Kaia, the girl, who lives in darkness. Maybe that's why destiny brings them together in this life. But... Arsa forgets something. He also needs light to live. In the end, will Arsa lose all his light?

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A film student is reluctant to take on the task of creating storyboards after having been pressured into it by his director's friend.

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It was supposed to be just an ordinary holiday on sunny Kos, but Toni has to rescue a beautiful local girl, a talented free-diver, from the clutches of kidnappers. When it appears that nobody else can be trusted, Toni must reluctantly rely on his step-brothers' assistance.

Summer in an Athenian neighborhood, the alarm of a car does not leave their neighbors in peace. But every one has its own problems. Infidelity, robbery, jealousy, flirtation, and family reconciliation on corpses, all pour forth into five intertwined stories

Antigone returns from Athens to her troubled hometown, determined to keep a low profile. But this is a complex, difficult woman — her name is no coincidence — and her run-ins with the town's brutish men set a dramatic series of events in motion. A moral drama with an edge.