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- A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
- In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team.
- Two good friends entering different women's colleges, joining the wrestling club, and fighting as rivals.
- From the bright lights of Florida to the spotless streets of Japan and the chaos of the Congo, Damian Abraham dives headlong into the fascinating ways cultures around the world have embraced one of America's greatest exports: professional wrestling.
- Frank Bass takes a stand and defends what he thinks is right. Gamblers and money-grubbing conspire to corrupt the industry. Frank's efforts climax as he promotes an over-the-hill champion in the final matches of his career.
- A year in the life of the Knight wrestling dynasty from suburban Norfolk, a family who pack a real punch - often at each other.
- Plot under wraps.
- The WWF Superstars, including Rowdy Roddy Piper, The Iron Sheik, The Junkyard Dog, Classy Freddie Blassie, Nikolai Volkoff and others, cover the 1960s classic "Land of a Thousand Dances," and the expected mayhem follows.
- A championship wrestling match pits Koji Taguchi against Crush Volcano, the latter no match to Koji's signature move, the Torture Ring Strangler. Koji beams as he clutches the champion belt, only to have it snatched away by a mysterious new challenger in the ring - a giant squid, in fact, who not only evades Koji's key attack, but destroys him with a Northern Light Suplex! Koji's fiancÃf©e Niako watches tearfully, though there's something about this calamari wrestler that seems familiar... The Tentacle Tackler is the hottest story in the Japanese sports news, the President ofthe Cho-Nippon wrestling team proposes a fixed match as a publicity stunt, but the honourable Calamari Wrestler will hear nothing of it. Wrongfully banned from the sport, he retreats to the Monhonji Temple to train and meditate, where a young reporter tracks him down and begins to unravel his enigma. But the Squid's problems are just beginning - treacherous businessmen, unrequited love, and the wrestling ring menace of the Octopus Wrestler and the Insectoid Squilla boxer await.
- Chronicles the unsung stories of African-American women athletes who pioneered in professional wrestling's male-dominated arenas, defying societal barriers well before civil rights and feminist movements.
- A young man carries on an affair with a wrestler's wife, without the wrestler's knowledge. The young man's father finds out, and tries to stop the whole thing. He proposes that the young man and the wrestler have a match, a fair fight, and if the young man wins he gets to keep sleeping with the wife. The young man wins against the wrestler, but it turns out that the wrestler flubbed the match as a favor to the young man, not knowing about the bet. The wrestler's wife is in on it, and begins to flirt with the boy's father too. Shenanigans ensue, and the wrestler finds out about the cheaters. When he knocks out the young man, his wife leaps back into his arms and the father drives away (almost without) his disgraced son.
- Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.
- This is the story of an Israeli man, Jack, whose wife has been killed in a suicide bombing, leaving him in charge of two young daughters. Jack, on the verge of suicide, decides they need a fresh start and moves the family to New York. He quickly meets, marries, and moves in with Kathy, a mother of four, to try to fill the void. It doesn't. He needs some quixotic pursuit to keep him going. Kathy's stepdaughter Carmen gives him an idea: Sumo Wrestling. With Jack training, the kids start getting into trouble, Carmen tries to seduce Jack, Kathy's at her wits end... the family is falling apart. With his first match approaching, what can Jack do to do save his life and save his family?
- Two railway signal men, Nemai and Balaram, share a passion for wrestling and spend their days wrestling after working hours. However, things change when Balaram marries Uttara.
- Porky, along with everyone else, is hitchhiking to the big wrestling match. He gets a ride from the challenger, but at the arena, Porky is mistaken for the challenger and gets thrown into the ring. The champ is making mincemeat of Porky when Porky crawls out and has the champ tying himself in knots, then swallowing a spectator's pipe and doing a steam locomotive impression.
- A feature length documentary on British professional wrestler Will Ospreay, from his humble beginnings to the precipice of global stardom. Covering a span of 4 years, this true underdog story follows Ospreay's rise as a struggling child barely given a chance, to being the face of the UK wrestling scene and becoming an international star.
- On the occasion of a forthcoming arm-wrestling fight in Athens and his training for it, the film builds the portrait of a young man who shifts daily between his dreams and the reality of life in the Greek countryside.
- Documentary following a group of Canberrans with a common hobby - Professional Wrestling. The Pro Wrestling Alliance (PWA) are filmed in the lead up to the biggest show of the year Clash in the Capital.
- With one last shot at jelly glory, washed up wrestler and barmaid Eileen must grapple with aging, betrayal and her own jelly wrestling demons - a task that may well put her down for the count.
- Sheldon might have met his match this time around. After riling up a wrestler during a show, Sheldon creates a new arch rival for himself. That might not be so bad if this new arch rival wrestler hadn't encountered a very contagious vampire bat.
- Louis and Char Magnifico learn the ropes of professional wrestling from Alan Steel then step in the ring for a mixed gender wrestling match. Includes an interview with Lynne Margulies and new footage of Andy Kaufman.
- Mutt and Jeff break into a wrestling tournament. Mutt suffers severe punishment at the hands of a professional, but Jeff comes to the rescue.
- Ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own, next to an abandoned railway station with pigs running loose on the tracks in almost constant rain. The institution is filled with the most diverse characters, all trying to go on with their own familiar ways instead of giving way to apathy or to mockery by others -- a retired cellist, war veterans, and an artistic old lady with whom the Wrestler slowly becomes romantically attached. After showing her all the strongman feats he's still capable of, the Wrestler sets out with her on a dramatic escape, pulling a railway car behind him with his teeth.
- Littler person wrestlers traveling through the American south.
- Anders Emil Våge has no fighting sport experience. Despite this, he decides to sign up for the Norwegian 2015 Beach Wrestling National Championship. With the help of his mentor - the beach wrestling veteran and Team Norway coach John Harald Foss Fjeldbu - Anders has four months to prepare for the championship. John Harald takes him to train with many of Norway's best athletes in various beach wrestling related sports - judo, Greco-Roman wrestling, viking wrestling, sumo wrestling, American football, mixed martial arts, and more. But will it be enough to get Anders ready and fit for fight?
- Second chances are tempting, but some come at a cost - the second installment of the Thumb Wrestler Series finds injured thumb wrestling champ, Newt "The Digit" Feldenstein, bored with conventional life...twiddling his thumbs on the sidelines. A new scientific breakthrough, a prosthetic Smart-Thumb Technology, suddenly offers Newt hope and another shot at the big-time. Enter Antoinette Legume...vivacious, retired Olympic Gold-Medalist in Skiing. Like Newt, her career was cut short by a horrible accident during competition. But now, through Prosthetic limb-replacement surgery, this former amputee has "legs for days" and knows how to use them. What's Newt's next move? Should he embrace technology and go under the knife? Is he risking too much? Will using a new fake thumb compromise the soul of the sport? Does a man with a busted thumb just go and risk everything on a dream?. As one passes through life, some transitory passions may fade, but can the true fighting spirit of a thumb wrestler ever really be broken?
- A documentary about Jimmy Lidberg's career as a wrestler and life. Jimmy, often called "Martin Lidberg's little brother" has been fighting for his own identity during his life. Jimmy has achieved great success in the European Championships, the World Cup and the Olympic Games.
- After completing his schooling, Abhay goes University for further education. As Abhay belongs to Wrestler father, he participated in University wrestling championship and beat Sanjay, the son of Thakur Durjan Singh. Thakur couldn't to bear it and he implicated Abhay in drugs case. At last Abhay vindicated him.
- Q.T. Marshall has been independently wrestling for nearly a decade. Turning 30, and sustaining multiple injuries in the ring, his career could quite possibly, be coming to an end. Q.T. has one last shot in making it into the WWE - if he fails, he will be forced to hang up his wrestling boots forever.
- An epic tale about life, heartache and thumb wrestling.
- THE INDY WRESTLER Action/ Adventure/ Suspense In the world of broken bones, Times are hard and the action is hardcore, with old veteran Ricky Morton taking on a youngster Josh TKO and teaching him the ropes of this dyeing business. STARRING Larry Zbyszko, Ricky Morton, Tracy Smothers, Josh Turner, Stro, Amanda Webb, and Shawn Cain Directed by Shawn Cain
- 'Chikara - the Sumo wrestler's son' follows the 10-year-old Japanese boy, Chikara, and his struggle to become a Sumo wrestler. His father was a professional Sumo wrestler, so expectations surrounding Chikara are extremely high. Today his father owns a noodle-shop where he works a lot. Their only time together is when they train Sumo wrestling. It's a very valuable time for Chikara. He wants to impress his father, but when he's there, Chikara gets nervous and everything seems to go wrong. The national Sumo Championship is approaching and Chikara wants to do well. It's a story of a small boy in a tough sport, parental pressure and expectations, but above all, it's a universal narrative about the relationship between father and son.
- We interview, indie pro wrestler, actor and now director, John "The Bouncer" Catheline. We learn how he balances his time doing all three and how Covid-19 has effected his work and what kinds of horror films he enjoys.
- Started in the sleepy college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, The Collective of Lady Arm Wrestlers (AKA CLAW), is spreading like cooties; with sister branches in Austin, Brooklyn, New Orleans, DC, and even Sao Paolo, Brazil. Each league sticks to simple rules, ladies arm wrestle in character, raising money for good causes. Other then that, there are no rules. Together, they have raised over $250,000 for charity. Who are the iconoclastic women behind the movement and the wrestling personalities who grip up for philanthropic glory(this ain't your mother's Junior League)? Is it the fourth wave of feminism of the latest form of burlesque? And whats with the Ref?
- It's a story about two of the most famous russian personages. They become friends, and then go along on the path of glory in parallel.
- After awakening from a coma, an out-of-shape Turkish émigré returns home to confront the past - and an army of oil wrestlers - during his last year of eligibility to participate in one of the oldest sports in the world.
- A successful wrestling athlete is in a relationship with a wealthy woman. His wife finds out and wants revenge.
- A young woman falls in love with a masked wrestler, only to discover that he and her sweetheart are the same person.
- A documentary about Autism and Professional Wrestling
- An elderly man from a fishing village who challenges a wrestling champion to combat.
- Alex Sandow, wrestler and strong man of the circus, holds in his hand a photograph of his wife and himself. The wife, unable to contend with the vicissitudes of circus life, has left him, taking their baby boy, and sacrificing her happiness in the knowledge that her husband had possibilities of a great future as a wrestler. Unknown to his wife and son. Hans, now twenty-one years of age, fate has directed the circus to the village where they are residing. The customary challenge is issued on behalf of the wrestler, and Hans is persuaded by his friends to accept it. Hans is in ignorance of his relationship to his opponent. The bout commences and Hans is severely thrown. With a thud he alights on his neck, and to the horror of the onlookers, he remains motionless. A hasty examination results in the discovery that he is dead. While the unfortunate mother is being summoned, Sandow sees a locket hanging around his victim's neck, and he instantly recognizes it as being a present which he gave his wife. Husband and wife meet, and overcome by the awfulness of the tragedy, Alex Sandow dies of heart failure. The last scene of this touching drama shows the unfortunate widow tending the grave of her dear departed.
- The story of WWF Hall of Fame wrestler Johnny Valiant.
- Fritz, a slow-witted, clumsy, German boy, works as clerk in a grocery store. He is in love with pretty Mamie, who, however, prefers the attentions of Patsey, the champion wrestler and all-around athlete. Patsey chases Fritz away from courting Mamie, which causes Fritz to plot revenge. Fritz eats some limburger cheese and discovers the terrible blows he can inflict as a result. He plots to defeat Patsey, the champion wrestler, and issues a challenge. Fritz then proceeds to train for the match by eating enormous gobs of limburger, punctuated with strings of garlic, while he takes a daily bath in noisome and pungent chemicals. Fritz wins the contest almost without a struggle, but his sweetheart proves false, and he escapes from vengeance of the community with difficulty.