Rugby (Season 1)

Rugby (2021) is a Russian sports drama you can watch online on iFILM. After falling out with her coach, national gymnastics champion Nastya walks away from the sport she's built her whole life around.

She can't picture life without competition, so she signs up for women's rugby. Meanwhile a former boxer named Max, forced out of mixed martial arts, joins the men's side of the same club. Both have to learn a bruising, full-contact game from scratch, where every spot on the roster is fought for. Directors Anya Mirokhina and Ilya Kulikov shoot the sport without gloss — mud, bruises and sheer stubbornness included.

Margarita Abroskina and Oleg Gaas lead the cast. It's a show about grit and second chances, about leaving one sport to find yourself in a far rougher one. Stream every episode of Rugby online on iFILM.