FLY AWAY HOME (1996) Stream on Criterion; rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Amy Alden (Anna Paquin) is 13 when her mother dies in a car crash, uprooting her from New Zealand, where she was raised, and sending her to rural Canada, where her father lives. Her father, Thomas Alden (Jeff Daniels), is a quirky inventor trying desperately to connect with his estranged daughter. But the plot takes off when Amy finds an abandoned nest of goose eggs and — looking for a project — decides to hatch and raise them herself. “A string of enchanting, unsentimental girl-and-geese scenes are the film’s central highlight,” Janet Maslin wrote in her review for The Times, and the cinematographer Caleb Deschanel “finds miraculous new ways to show off pastoral green landscapes and back-lighted yellow fuzz.” Complications arise when the geese must fly south for the winter, and the Aldens must lead the way.

GABRIELLE (2005) Stream on Mubi. Based on “The Return,” a short story by Joseph Conrad, the French film “Gabrielle” is given new life by the director Patrice Chéreau in his onscreen adaptation. Dargis wrote in her review for The Times that it’s “a film of eccentric beauty and wild feeling,” starring Pascal Greggory and Isabelle Huppert. Greggory is Jean Hervey, a well-to-do member of Paris’s pre-World War I bourgeoisie who frequently finds himself itemizing what he considers his life’s greatest possessions — including his wife, Gabrielle (Huppert). When Gabrielle leaves her husband a letter saying she is leaving him for another man, Jean’s meticulously arranged life comes crashing down.