Jess is a Sikh teenager with a passion for football, something that her traditionalist parents, who want her to grow up as a nice Asian girl with an arranged marriage and cooking Aloo Gobi, are horrified by. After making friends with white girl Jules she is introduced to the local womens' team, for whom she must play without her parents' knowiledge, and where she develops a forbidden love interest with the coach. Poor girl, her parents find out everything she does, and imagine worse. A witty find out more...

Diana Guzman (newcomer Michelle Rodriguez) is about to be expelled from school after her third fight of the term. When her father pays for her brother to take up boxing, he gives Diana the lessons, behind their father's back. Determined to prove to everyone, especially her father, that she has what it takes to become a boxer, Diana becomes entrenched in the male-dominated world of boxing. Of course she kicks butt and falls in love but the predictability is all forgiven by Rodriguez's breakthr find out more...

The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989. This is a film that doesn't leave you: the images of gigantic waves and ice bergs and superhuman levels of courage and endurance are hard to process. If it were a work of fiction you would dismiss it as Hollywood hype: but it's not, find out more...