Cargo

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Cargo (2017)

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2018 ★ 6.8

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2017 ★ 5.9

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2009 ★ 7.0

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Higher Ground

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2011 ★ 5.9

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Mothers' Instinct

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2024 ★ 6.9

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The Nightingale

The Nightingale

2018 ★ 7.1

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Songbird

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2020 ★ 6.2

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Magpie

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2024 ★ 6.5

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1989 ★ 6.7

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2020 ★ 5.8

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Doomsday

Doomsday

2008 ★ 5.9

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

Suburbia

Suburbia

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