A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband's death.

Mrs. Soffel

1984

English

6.1

♡ 6

46%

Gillian Armstrong Director

Mel Gibson as Ed Biddle

Heather Graham as Factory Girl

Diane Keaton as Kate Soffel

David Fox as McNeil

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.

Starstruck

1982

English

6.8

♡ 4

83%

Gillian Armstrong Director

Geoffrey Rush as Floor Manager

Kaarin Fairfax as Ice Cream Girl

Max Cullen as Reg

Carol Burns as Teacher

A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

My Brilliant Career

1979

English

7.1

♡ 13

86%

Gillian Armstrong Director

Sam Neill as Harry Beecham

David Franklin as Horace

Max Cullen as Mr. McSwatt

Mark Spain as Tommy McSwat

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

Oscar and Lucinda

1997

English

6.5

♡ 9

65%

Action

australia

based on novel or book

Gillian Armstrong Director

Geoff Morrell as Charley Fig

Cate Blanchett as Lucinda Leplastrier

Ralph Fiennes as Oscar Hopkins

Ciarán Hinds as Reverend Dennis Hasset

After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.

The Last Days of Chez Nous

1992

English

6.5

♡ 3

86%

Gillian Armstrong Director

Miranda Otto as Annie

Bill Hunter as Beth's Father

Bruno Ganz as J.P.

Kerry Fox as Vicki

The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.

Little Women

1994

English

7.3

♡ 32

92%

parent child relationship

pregnancy

Romance

sister

Gillian Armstrong Director

Eric Stoltz as John Brooke

Winona Ryder as Jo March

Christian Bale as Laurie

Kirsten Dunst as Younger Amy March

With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household.

Charlotte Gray

2001

English

6.4

♡ 17

32%

Gillian Armstrong Director

Cate Blanchett as Charlotte Gray

Abigail Cruttenden as Daisy

Billy Crudup as Julien Levade

Hugh Ross as Psychiatrist

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.