Bend It Like Beckham
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe. From TMDB
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60 of 110 · most liked firstIt’s been a quarter of a century and Bend It Like Beckham still stands up as an absolutely epic film
unlabelledView post →What is the perfect movie and why is it Bend it Like Beckham
unlabelledView post →Trying to introduce my kids to the classics. On Bend It Like Beckham, my son says: "There's not enough soccer in this movie"
unlabelledView post →I watched Bend it Like Beckham again last night and omg. That movie might be gayer than Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Can’t believe I didn’t register this when I first watched it at age 11 or whatever.
unlabelledView post →It’s debut of Big Citrus & Chill, the Good Game Movie Club! @byalexazzi.bsky.social, @biancahillier.bsky.social & I sat down to discuss Bend it Like Beckham. How the movie has aged, our favorite gay moments, & the things we saw differently with older eyes. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
unlabelledView post →showing Zoë “Bend It Like Beckham” and I was like “so basically the theme of this movie is Indian and British culture are very different, but Jess and Jules both face restrictive roles about what girls are supposed to be like”
unlabelledView post →From the Department of Fun: Deadline is reporting that a sequel to Bend It Like Beckham is in the works. Gurinder Chadha, writer/director of the original film, has enlisted #USWNT head coach Emma Hayes as a collaborator. Hounslow Harriers, let's go! Full story: deadline.com/2025/07/bend...
unlabelledView post →Bend It Like Beckham sequel in works more than 20 years after first film www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
unlabelledView post →What's the greatest fictional soccer movie ever? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (It's Bend It Like Beckham, of course, but let's hear yours anyways! 👇)
unlabelledView post →I know a trans man whose favorite movie is Bend It Like Beckham, and he's probably not in a good place right now. JFC, Kiera.
unlabelledView post →Og kom igjen, hvis vi skal se tilbake på en 20 år gammal Kiera Knightly-film og problematisere noe så kan vi drite i Love Actually og heller prate om hvordan Bend It Like Beckham slutter med at Tony fortsatt er i skapet og ikke har noen utsikter til å kunne leve et åpent og lykkelig liv.
unlabelledView post →Master & Commander Cold Comfort Farm Much Ado About Nothing (Branagh version) Auntie Mame Bend It Like Beckham Last of the Mohicans Sense & Sensibility (both the movie & miniseries w Dan Stevens) Raider of the Lost Ark The Fall Guy School of Rock The Commitments The Snapper
unlabelledView post →This image is of Keira Knightley from the film Bend It Like Beckham. She was 16. Women don't look like this because women aren't children. Girls are children. You are telling millions of strangers that you are attracted to children.
unlabelledView post →Bend It Like Beckham is actually the gayest movie ever created and somehow u forget every time. Also "Jess. I'm Irish" deserves an award.
unlabelledView post →#MarchMovieChallenge Parent of an LGBTQ child in a film Paula Paxton (Kiera Knightley's mom) in Bend It Like Beckham (2002) "All I'm saying is there's a reason Sporty Spice is the only one who doesn't have a fella! "
unlabelledView post →Huh. Bend It Like Beckham is the only film distributed in every country in the world, including North Korea? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
unlabelledView post →This image is of Keira Knightley from the film Bend It Like Beckham. She was 16. Women don’t look like this because women aren’t children. Girls are children. You are telling millions of strangers that you are attracted to children.
unlabelledView post →It’s taken me what, 20 years to finally watch #BendItLikeBeckham and what a perfect, lovely film.
unlabelledView post →That being said, the movie that Made Me Gay (tm) in a way that I understood was Bend it Like Beckham. Without question.
unlabelledView post →#MarchMovieChallenge #filmsky #moviesky Day 11: Parents of a LGBTQ character in a movie BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
unlabelledView post →Holy hell Bend It Like Beckham did NOT age well. Wife and watched it for fun for the first time since we were kids and my god I haven’t seen that much homophobia in one film… ever?
unlabelledView post →Bend it Like Beckham Gurinder Chadha (2002) Wonderful film: funny, poignant and uplifting. #film #cinema #movies
unlabelledView post →Not a single film here that touches on the British immigrant experience East Is East, Bend It Like Beckham, My Beautiful Launderette, Babylon, Pressure, Bullet Boy... All say more about life in multicultural Britain than bloody Four Weddings, which is the whitest British film of the 1990s
unlabelledView post →>Be me >Write a flashback set in 2003 >Describe a stealth bisexual trans girl (Megumi) as having the swagger of a soccer-playing tomboy >Have Annabeth think of Megumi as being able to "Bend It Like Beckham" >Double-check what year that movie came out >It's 2002 I am a GODDESS
unlabelledView post →I am so mad I don't have a photo of the weirdest one of these I ever saw, which was labeled something like "Girl Power!" and included Bend it Like Beckham, a second upbeat teen movie I'm blanking on, and... Thirteen.
unlabelledView post →watching Bend it Like Beckham with my kid and this movie has TWO montages, movies today really do not give us such riches
unlabelledView post →#JanuaryMovieChallenge Movie about ethnic heritage Bend it Like Beckham (2002) A teen girl grapples with being a soccer player in her strict Sikh household
unlabelledView post →A League of Their Own is the highest grossing baseball movie. Bend It Like Beckham is the highest grossing soccer movie. Why aren't there more movies about women's sports? It's not about the money. It's about power and control to minimize women. @iwbc4me.bsky.social www.togethxr.com/blogs/guides...
unlabelledView post →Whakaata Māori raised my hopes and then immediately dashed them when I found out the Bend It Like Beckham film currently available for streaming isn’t dubbed. Would love to have heard the “Jess, I’m Irish!” scene played out in our reo
unlabelledView post →If you're at Bristol Uni, you can join our ongoing Queer Film Club. This month we're watching Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and I'll be prefacing the film with some thoughts from my recent article in lambda nordica. Here's to our 2nd term at the Sexualities Research Group!
unlabelledView post →What 90s cult movie are we gonna turn into a queer af tv series next? I vote Bend it Like Beckham
unlabelledView post →Last week's Name This Movie: Bend It Like Beckham, a 2002 Gurinder Chadha film about young woman of high school age playing sports like the gods intended. Never seen it, but I had to pick a movie with ⚽ in it because World Cup, amirite? :) 📽️ #NameThisMovie #WrongAnswersOnly #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →😸This one is so much fun; I first heard the song on the soundtrack of movie Bend it Like Beckham (good movie!). #paws4music
unlabelledView post →#MayMovieChallenge 5/19 Extravagant wedding in a movie Bend It Like Beckham (2002) There's no wedding quite like an Indian wedding. Wish I could find a full clip (including the fight). 😂 #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTOq...
unlabelledView post →Thought I'd watch Bend It Like Beckham bc I've never watched it, and I'm only half way, but this movie is SO GAY for a movie that hasn't once mentioned that gay women exist. (but also fuck Keira Knightly for being in the new HP audiobook and that awful face she made when asked about trans rights)
unlabelledView post →I love Bend it Like Beckham. Every other soccer movie I can think of off the top of my head is a much worse “girls soccer in schools” comedy.
unlabelledView post →2)...Turns out it was BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM. It's hard to imagine a more perfect film to show, in a largely South Asian neighborhood, on the first day of summer, *during* the World Cup!
unlabelledView post →After watching Goal, I have to turn on Bend It Like Beckham, and I'm reminded that I'm still obsessed with Kiera Knightley's hair in this movie...
unlabelledView post →There is a great movie called Bend It Like Beckham. It is about a woman and her soccer game. It is wonderful, and it is about those women in India. If you can find it I am sure you would enjoy it
unlabelledView post →#EdwardsMovieCharacterChallenge2025 October 11 - plays soccer Jules & Jess - Bend It Like Beckham #filmsky #moviesky
unlabelledView post →These are all great! I haven’t rewatched Bend It Like Beckham in quite awhile or The Princess Bride either but I have seen the Humphrey Bogart movie recently. I need to rewatch The Parent Trap soon.
unlabelledView post →You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature? Billy Elliot (2000) Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
unlabelledView post →Three cast members of “Bend It Like Beckham” are at the match tonight. Yea, one of them is Archie Panjabi. I love that movie so much.
unlabelledView post →MusicAdvent Day 2: I'm pretty sure Bina Mistry's cover of "Hot Hot Hot" was the reason I bought the soundtrack of Bend It Like Beckham (2002). (I'm attempting an alphabetical subtheme for the movie titles. Given 24 days and 26 letters, I'm probably skipping Q and V.)
unlabelledView post →what if Zanarkand had a Bend it Like Beckham movie called "Jump it Like Jecht"
unlabelledView post →Get excited for: • Maryland’s biggest crab feast • Art walks at Glen Echo and Dupont • African Diaspora film fest • Shark fest • Wine and jazz fest • $10 Kayaking • Jerry Garcia week • Bend it Like Beckham outdoors • Much more! Gift link: wapo.st/3IRC1lL
unlabelledView post →I'm reshelving my movies and I'm paralyzed by whether Bend It Like Beckham is a chick flick or a sports movie.
unlabelledView post →I thought that was what that song was when I began the video, Lola! When I hear that song, it makes me think of the movie "Bend It Like Beckham" because it's on the soundtrack. Good song! 👏👏 #paws4music
unlabelledView post →I'm watching BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM. Not even 20 minutes into the film and I'm sick of the sight of Beckham's smug face. Couldn't the main girl have looked up to Raul or Olivier Dacourt instead?
unlabelledView post →Bend It Like Beckham Now this was a much better film to enjoy with my 11 year old daughter Some parts have aged badly but it doesn’t stop it being charming and heartwarming
unlabelledView post →The first womens sports movie that popped into my head was Bend it Like Beckham. The second movie that came to mind was Bring It On (cheerleading is a sport right? Also Eliza Dushku 😃)
unlabelledView post →Latest additions to my vhs collection!! Bend It Like Beckham was one of my first queer awakenings—if you see this, tell me what movie or show felt like yours!
unlabelledView post →#BostonWeekend Sat MOVIE watch #BendItLikeBeckham at the Pru - free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKB4r-8GfqA https://www.prudentialcenter.com/experiences/events/summer-flicks/ #Boston #BostonFilm #BostonSports #BostonFree
unlabelledView post →The two main ads I see watching the World Cup are Austin Powers, and a riff on the phrase “Bend it Like Beckham”, so apparently Fox thinks the average soccer fan is someone who hasn’t seen a movie since 2002.
unlabelledView post →The first best soccer film better be Bend It Like Beckham
unlabelledView post →New York area!! Anyone up for a Bend It Like Beckham meetup??? randallsisland.org/events/movie...
unlabelledView post →Keira Knightley as Jules. This was a big role her in the midst of her “early 00s period films” era #MusComEnt #BendItLikeBeckham #KeiraKnightley
unlabelledView post →Punjabi-English actress Paraminder Nagra as Jess. This was her first big role before she hired for the show “E.R.” #MusComEnt #BendItLikeBeckham #ParaminderNagra
unlabelledView post →I’m happy to report that I’ve watched All the Marbles (1981) again & loved it even more the second time around! Had a big, goofy grin on my face the whole time. This film explained why I became a fan of women’s sports movies like A League of Their Own, Bend It Like Beckham, and Battle of the Sexes.
unlabelledView post →Bend It Like Beckham is such a weird movie lol
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