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...

Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

Based on a true story; from the small town of Odessa The Permian High Panthers of 1988 were the most successful high school American football team in Texas history. This thoughtful tale depicts the immense pressure these young lads and their coach found themselves under in a town with nothing else to aspire to; like a "Springfield" devoid of wit, irony or indeed hope. 'Friday Night Lights' is a powerful, gripping drama with excellent performances and a refreshing lack of sporting schmaltz. find out more...

The trials and tribulations of small town Texas football players, their friends, family, and coaching staff.
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Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.

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A charming story of a Scottish adolescent who struggles to get to grips with being replaced by a girl on the school football team. Demoted to goalie he becomes infatuated by this wonder woman. But will she be interested in poor spotty Gregory? Or will Gregory perhaps become the next George Best? Watch and see in this fantastic British comedy! find out more...

It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career? Fairly standard 80s flick that will strike a chord with anyone who grew up in a fantasy world with a fictitious affluent LA family. find out more...

11-year-old swimming ace Tommi and 12-year-old Viola are being raised by financially struggling single dad Renato. Their individual lonelinesses, and the collective family need for the return of the most important woman in their lives, creates a strong bond within the surviving family unit, that is until she actually returns. Italian actor Kim Rossi Stuart makes an impressive directorial debut with this moving and richly rewarding coming-of-age drama, which won the Directors' Fortnight prize at find out more...

Gemma Atwal's dynamic epic follows four-year-old Budhia, rescued from poverty by Biranchi Das, a larger-than-life judo coach and operator of an orphanage f find out more...

After the first 10 minutes of Minding the Gap, I began to wonder why this film was nominated for an Oscar for best Documentary. How could a skateboarding documentary made by a young filmmaker be that great? Well, I was very wrong. This film about skateboarding covered many different issues, including child abuse, drug/alcohol abuse, poverty, teen parenting, racial prejudice find out more...