My Brilliant Career (1979)
Biography | Drama | Romance
A proud young woman in early 20th century Australia must choose between marriage and independence.
Starring: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Robert Grubb, Julia Blake, David Franklin, Aileen Britton
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Little Women (1994)
Drama | Family | Romance
The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Drama | Romance
In 19th-century England, Oscar is a youthful Anglican priest, a misfit, and an outcast, but he has the soul of an angel. As a child, even though part of a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him to leave his father and his faith and instead join the Church of England. Lucinda is a spirited Australian heiress determined to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia at the time. She purchases a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass and then transporting it to the Australian outback. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship bound for Australia; both are passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance he cannot transport the glass church to the remote bush safely. Oscar agrees to her wager, and this leads to events which change both of their lives forever.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Richard Roxburgh, Clive Russell
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Charlotte Gray (2001)
Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
Charlotte Gray's World War II assignment could be the first of many. Or her fatal last. The people she meets could be friends. Or insidious traitors. Trained to be an undercover courier for England, Charlotte straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Only one out of three couriers will return home. Cate Blanchett plays Charlotte, who goes behind enemy lines while keeping secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones, James Fleet, Hugh Ross
Director: Gillian Armstrong
