Bend It Like Beckham Bend It Like Beckham Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 British-Indian family romantic comedy sports film produced, written and directed by Gurinder Chadha, and starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis and Archie Panjabi. The film's title refers to the football player David Beckham, and his skill at scoring from free kicks by curling the ball past a wall of defenders. It follows the 18-year-old daughter of Punjabi Sikhs in London. She is infatuated with football but her parents have forbidden her to play because she is a girl. She joins a local women's
A Girl Called Jules A Girl Called Jules A Girl Called Jules () is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Tonino Valerii. After directing three spaghetti western films, director Tonino Valerii was worried about being typecast as a director of only spaghetti westerns. He began exploring other genres and was initially interested in adapting Livia De Stefani's novel "Black Grapes". The original story of "Black Grapes" involved gangsters, a topic that became popular in Italy after the release of Damiano Damiani's "The Day of the Owl". Valerii was introduced to producer Francesco Mazzei by Riz Ortolani. When approaching him for "Black Grapes", Mazzei