Billy Moore, an English boxer, down on his luck, addicted to Ya Ba, and stuck in Thailand, ends up getting arrested and sent to Chiang Mai Prison, where he struggles to survive and eventually ends up fighting in Muay Tai boxing tournaments. 

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Sang-hwan's rebellious criminal behaviour finally lands him in juvenile prison. There, at what seems to be the lowest moment in his young life, a guard turns him towards boxing in the hope of safely channelling his rage at the world. 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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'Gridiron Gang' tells the story of a juvenile detention camp probation officer who firmly believes in discipline, teamwork and full contact sport as the cure for hard core teenage felons. Despite gang rivalries and bitter hatred he moulds his reprobates into a football (American style) side and, as the kids journey towards a greater sense of self-respect and responsibility, teaches some hard lessons and learns a few himself. Based on a true story. find out more...

Vinnie Jones plays a washed up football superstar (and we accuse the Americans of having no irony) in jail for assaulting a police officer and forced by the prison governor to put together a football team from the odd job of inmates in a match against the prison wardens. Mean Machine is a carbon copy (including the title) of an American film starring Burt Reynolds, which was a hard brutal affair that also had much grim humour. This British offering is like an alcohol free version of Bourbon..... find out more...

Ex-pro quarterback Paul Crewe, residing in the local state prison, is coerced into putting together a football team by the warden, who wants to see his prison guard team win the national championship, but, though the match is supposed to be little more than a walk over for the guards, how can you truly persuade a dozen hardened, warden hating, criminals to lie down and take a beating? Mean Machine is leaner, meaner, harder and funnier than the recent remake starring Vinnie Jones, oh....and the c find out more...

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty, Norman Stanley Fletcher, the new prison officer, Beale, makes Mackay look soft and, what's more, an escape plan is hatching in the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it. The breakout is set for the day of a morale-raising football match between a "celebrity" football team and the inmates of Slade. Everything is going to plan until Godber is injured. In the ensuing confusion, Fletcher finds himself on the wrong side of t 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...

Paul "Wrecking" Crewe is the (unlikely) star American football player thrown into the klink after a drunken blow-out. The dodgy warden enlists Paul to put together a team of inmates to play the guards, apparently not aware of the prisoners' potential desire for a bit of payback. A remake of Burt Reynold's Mean Machine, this watered down version of the brutal original is a pretty pointless time-filler. find out more...

Olympian Louis “Louie” Zamperini, along with two other crewmen, survive in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash while on a bombing raid in WWII, but it is when they are caught by the Japanese and sent to prisoner of war camp that Louis’ endurance test really begins. A rather ‘worthy’ dramatisation of the man’s biopic. 

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