Based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. A young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.

Skin
2009
6.4/10

Gracie
2007
6.2/10

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1972
7.3/10

Won't Back Down
2012
6.1/10

Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
7.2/10

What Maisie Knew
2013
7.1/10

Come Sunday
2018
5.8/10

The Young One
1960
6.9/10

Babylon
1980
7.0/10

Burden
2018
6.1/10

Imagine
2012
7.3/10

The Road Dance
2022
6.7/10

The Kindness of Strangers
2019
6.3/10

Scandalous Sex
2004
6.9/10

The Lords of Discipline
1983
6.6/10

The Girl in the Book
2015
5.8/10

The Browning Version
1994
6.5/10

Lady Driver
2020
6.4/10

El Chicano
2019
6.6/10

Salomé
2013
6.2/10
Brighton Beach
1980
0/10