In the Cut (2003)
New York City writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in her neighborhood
Holy Smoke (1999)
Ruths been brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India Her parents in Sydney hire a specialist in reversing this Ruth is tricked to return to Australia and is isolated in an outback cabin with the specialist It gets messy
The Piano (1993)
In the mid 19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker
Bright Star (2009)
Nineteenth century English poet, John Keats and his dressmaking neighbor, Fanny Brawne, have total disregard for each other An unlikely romance develops and they fall deeply in love near the end of his life
Top of the Lake (20132017)
Obsessed with the disappearance of a 12 year old pregnant girl near a freezing lake in New Zealand, a brave detective will find herself up against small town secrets and a side of herself that was meticulously kept at bay
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare
Sweetie (1989)
An introspective young womans life is upturned by the arrival of her maladjusted sister
2 Friends (1986)
The evolving relationship of two teenage girls in Sydney backwards through time, from estrangement to the height of their friendship a year earlier
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia Explore Janets discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim
A Girls Own Story (1984)
The awkwardness and confusion of burgeoning sexuality in teenage girls in a twisted and repressed suburban culture