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When Bea Smith arrives at Wentworth Prison, arrested for the attempted murder of her abusive husband, she is thrown head-first into a hostile and unforgiving environment with rules of its own. Bea tries to stay out of trouble, but quickly becomes caught up in a brutal rivalry between celebrity inmate Franky and former mob boss Jacs. Wentworth proves to be a dangerous place for the officers as well as the inmates, who are often prisoners to their own...
62) Bright star
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Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
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Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
64) Tanna
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Austronesian
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In one of the last traditional tribes in the South Pacific, a young girl falls in love with her chief's grandson. But when war with their enemies escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, but are pursued by warriors of both tribes. With their lives on the line, the star-crossed lovers must choose between their hearts and the peaceful future of the tribe.
65) 2:22
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An air traffic controller tries to discover what is behind a series of events that happen to him everyday ending at 2:22 in the afternoon.
66) Sleeping beauty
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English
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Lucy is a university student possessed by radical passivity, letting coin tosses decide random sexual encounters and enduring her menial jobs with patience. After answering an ad for a lingerie waitress, Lucy is secretly initiated into the job of a Sleeping Beauty, for which she is sedated and given in absolute submission to her clients. As this unnerving experience bleeds into her daily life, Lucy develops the courage to break the spell and discover...
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Jack Irish, is a brooding antihero of Australia. Reeling in the wake of his wife's murder, the former lawyer has reinvented himself as a part-time private investigator and full-time alcoholic, intent on drowning his demons. When an old client dies after leaving Jack several frantic voicemails, the PI realizes he can't outrun or out-drink his past. Jack returns to the world that took everything away from him: a seedy place of lowlifes, corruption,...
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Aaron Pedersen returns as Detective Jay Swan in this mystery set in the Australian outback. When a decapitated body is found along the coast, Jay teams up with a local constable to investigate. Facing obstruction from an archaeologist working nearby, Jay must expose the web of corruption plaguing the town as the body count rises.
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"A sniper who leaves no trace is terrorizing the city, and Jane Halifax is approached by Commander Tom Saracen to help find the killer. Currently a professor of forensic psychiatry, it's been almost 20 years since Jane worked with the police. As a celebrated academic in a long-term relationship with Ben Sailor, a gifted musician, her life now seems complete, along with his daughter, Zoe. Does Jane want to change all that now? Ben is opposed to the...
70) Mystery road
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"Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outback hometown to solve the murder of a teenage girl whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Alienated from both the white-dominated police force and his own community, including his teenage daughter (now connected to the murdered girl), Jay stands alone in his determination to fight back -- for his town and his people"--Container.
71) Animal kingdom
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English
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Seventeen year-old J is in the process of becoming initiated into a gang of armed robbers, known as the Cody brothers. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world, but soon discovers that the entire situation is far larger and more menacing than he could ever imagine. Meanwhile, senior police officer Nathan Leckie recognizes that J's youth and inexperience may prove to be the key to finally conquering the Codys, and hopes to lure...
72) The mule
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A naive man transporting lethal narcotics in his stomach is detained by the police. Alone and afraid, the "mule" makes a desperate choice -- to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence, literally. By doing so, he becomes a "human time-bomb, " dragging cops, criminals, lawyers and his mother into his impossible escapade. Inspired by true events.
73) Lake Mungo
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Sixteen-year-old Alice Palmer drowns while swimming in the local dam. When her body is recovered and her death ruled accidental, her grieving family buries her. The family then experiences a series of strange and inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Profoundly unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of Ray Kemeny, a psychic and parapsychologist. Kemeny discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. A series of clues lead the family...
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"Legends say there's a world beneath this one where a dragon lies sleeping. They say be careful how you wake the dragon. The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the most profound change in the history of human enterprise on Earth: the unleashing of the elemental force within uranium, the explosion of an atomic bomb, the unleashing of the dragon. The story of uranium is part science, part history and all epic adventure. From its creation in an...
75) Beneath Hill 60
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English
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The story of the Australian miners and soldiers who tunnelled under Hill 60 near Ypres and eventually broke through to create a new frontline and enabled the march to Berlin.
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When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry among right-wing Christians and media-savvy jihadists.
77) Goldstone
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Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry, and what seems like a simple investigation unearths a web of crime, corruption human trafficking, and the exploitation of aboriginal lands.
78) Deadhouse dark
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English
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An anthology of six interconnected horror short films, it is anchored by a woman who receives a 'mystery box' from the dark web, each item within it gradually unveiling a dark and troubling truth. A boxful of dark and chilling tales of terror inspired by frighteningly familiar modern trends including dark web mystery boxes, dashcam footage, and Insta-fame-hungry vloggers.
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Tomorrow volume 1
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English
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Seven college bound friends return from a weekend camping trip to discover that a foreign army has invaded their Australian homeland. With their friends and families taken prisoner, they must band together and find a way to fight for their freedom and survival.
80) Red Hill
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English
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On Constable Shane Cooper's first day with the Red Hill Police Department, a convicted murderer escapes from prison and seeks revenge on the men who put him there.