Aside from being a really great show, Anne with an E series is one of the few shows in recent memory that deal with the struggles of growing up as a girl.
Movies like Anne with An E are surprisingly rare, but we’ve done our best to find them for you so you can sit back and watch stories of perseverance starring young girls.
Little Women follows the lives of the March family as Jo, Amy, Beth, and Meg grow up and learn about how harsh the world can be for young women like them.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett follows 10-year-old Mary Lennox as she crafts a world of imagination to cope with the neglect she’s subjected to.
In this adaptation, Sara is the daughter of a wealthy British Army officer who sends her to a lavish boarding school. It gets taken away from her father dies in a gas attack.