Follows the story of a group of British athletes preparing for the Olympic Games 1924. One of the most successful and acclaimed British movies ever made, and responsible for the birth of that optimistic cry "the Brits are coming". Indulge yourself with a bit of nostalgia and watch us winning. find out more...

Set during the Great Depression and based on the true story of James J Braddock, Cinderella Man is the story of an ex-prize-fighter (Russell Crowe) who makes a last-chance bid to return to the ring in order to help his impoverished family. With no one thinking he has a chance, and with nothing to lose, Braddock begins an amazing comeback. A heartwarming, well acted film with enough blood and guts to give balance to the slightly sentimentalised script. Highly enjoyable. find out more...

An elite clique of girls, all vying for the attention of the charismatic (female) trainer, form the school swimming team. When an exotic foreign girl (Spanish) arrives in the isolated community the swimming teacher's attention wanders from her bevy, causing mucho disharmony and jealousy. Homosexual crushes in an elite single sex British boarding school. find out more...

The trials and tribulations of small town Texas football players, their friends, family, and coaching staff.
DISC 5: I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE SEX, EXTENDED FAMILIES, CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES.

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Central India 1893, and the villagers of Champaner have just been informed by the local British commander that the enforced tax (Lagaan) is to be doubled. One young man stands up to colonial authority, pleading that any increase will cripple the community, and the nasty Brit in charge gives him one option, win a game of cricket, which the Indians have never before played, against the colonials and the tax will be scrapped, lose, and it will be tripled. Will the village cripple, the last man in, find out more...

Set during the mid 1920s Leatherheads is a romantic comedy drama that uses the backdrop of American football's transition from hicks getting brutal in a cow field to the money spinning cash cow that we know and love today. Beautifully visualised and likeably performed this is a very pleasantly tasteful way to allow a couple of hours to slip you by. find out more...

In 1936 the North Face of the Eiger was the holy grail for European climbers. This is an account of how two poorly equipped Bavarian pioneers, Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser, came to try the ascent up the terrible face itself, where they were joined by two Austrian climbers, and the girl they left behind. It is also a story that inspired thousands, including Joe Simpson, whose retracing of the tragic events can be found in the film 'The Beckoning Silence'. This is a thrilling story, with a find out more...

An epic family drama spanning three generations of a Jewish family, who moved from a rural village to the city, became wealthy, respected, bourgeois and/or radicalised and Hungarianised, set against a backdrop of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, World War 1, the rise of fascism, the Holocaust and the Communist era. A tour-de-force performance by Ralph Fiennes in various reincarnations, especially as the character who won a fencing gold medal for Hungary in the 1936 Olympics, in th find out more...

Napoleonic soldiers may never have been the sharpest tools in the military box, but these two duelling nutters take the cake - after a minor incident they duel obsessively for 30 years. Based on Conrad's story this film was voted the Best Debut film at the 1977 Cannes festival. A kind of Napoleonic Western dealing with obsession and honour, with great costumes and visually stunning. find out more...

Set in the aftermath of WW1 we follow the degeneration of Rannulph Junuh, a veteran of the trenches who, before he went to war, was a golfer of enormous promise. Now haunted by the horrors he has seen, Rannulph keeps the nightmares at bay by burying himself in the bottle. Given one more opportunity to redeem himself in the form of a local celebrity golf match, Rannulph must find his long lost swing and in the process perhaps regain the love of the woman he left behind, and so appears the mysteri find out more...