Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "nuclear"

1. Fallout (2024– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

Stars: Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Walton Goggins, Moises Arias

Votes: 189,845

2. 3 Body Problem (2024– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

A fateful decision made in 1960s China reverberates in the present, where a group of scientists partner with a detective to confront an existential planetary threat.

Stars: Jovan Adepo, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong

Votes: 117,013

3. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)

R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.

Votes: 746,650 | Gross: $326.11M

4. Godzilla (2014)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.

Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe

Votes: 442,822 | Gross: $200.68M

5. Shin Godzilla (2016)

Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Drama, Horror

Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.

Directors: Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi | Stars: Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Ren Ôsugi

Votes: 37,242 | Gross: $1.92M

6. Armageddon (1998)

PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler

Votes: 452,010 | Gross: $201.57M

7. Battlestar Galactica (2003)

TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Following the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol by the Cylons, a rag-tag fugitive fleet of the last remnants of mankind flees the pursuing Cylons while simultaneously searching for their true home: Earth.

Stars: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber

Votes: 80,528

8. Threads (1984 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 112 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May

Votes: 20,339

9. Fallout: New Vegas (2010 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After surviving a bullet to the head, Courier Six traverses the post-apocalyptic Mojave desert in search of the men who wronged him, while making an impact on thousands in the process.

Director: Josh Sawyer | Stars: Matthew Perry, Wayne Newton, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman

Votes: 14,118

10. The Day After (1983 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

The effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum

Votes: 18,273

11. One Shot (III) (2021)

96 min | Action, Thriller

An elite squad of Navy SEALs, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same prisoner.

Director: James Nunn | Stars: Scott Adkins, Ashley Greene, Ryan Phillippe, Emmanuel Imani

Votes: 6,581

12. Ghosts of Mars (2001)

R | 98 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier, Jason Statham

Votes: 58,086 | Gross: $8.43M

13. The Chain Reaction (1980)

92 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A holidaying couple is pursued by the thugs of a nearby nuclear storage facility's boss, who is intent on covering up an accidental leak.

Director: Ian Barry | Stars: Steve Bisley, Arna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Ralph Cotterill

Votes: 1,189

14. Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.

Directors: Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton, Robert Prichard, Pat Ryan

Votes: 9,515

15. The Days (2023)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, Thriller

Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat an unprecedented nuclear disaster.

Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hao Feng, Nobi Nakanishi, Minae Noji

Votes: 6,570

16. Impact (2009)

Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A luminary crashes on the moon, causing to change its orbit and head straight toward Earth. With less than 40 days, scientists are in a desperate race to launch a lunar mission that will save both planets from mutual destruction

Stars: David James Elliott, Natasha Henstridge, Benjamin Sadler, Florentine Lahme

Votes: 3,603

17. Super Fuzz (1980)

PG | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Red powder from a nuclear explosion gives a police officer super powers as long as he doesn't see anything red. He is eventually framed for murder and is unsuccessfully executed by many different methods.

Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Terence Hill, Ernest Borgnine, Joanne Dru, Marc Lawrence

Votes: 8,229

18. My Daemon (2023)

TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy

To save his mother, a kind-hearted boy and his tiny daemon friend set out on a journey across post-apocalyptic Japan as dark forces close in.

Stars: Miyuri Shimabukuro, Kokoro Kikuchi, Cristina Valenzuela, Cassandra Lee Morris

Votes: 1,542

19. Edge of Darkness (1985)

53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When his daughter Emma is murdered, cop Craven discovers that she was in a GAIA group of activists occupied with exposing Northmoor nuclear waste storage facility for illegal activities.

Stars: Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Charles Kay, Ian McNeice

Votes: 4,176

20. Death Stranding

Action, Adventure, Drama | Pre-production

Plot is being kept under wraps. Based on the 2019 hit video game by Hideo Kojima.

Star: Samuel Johnson

21. Crack in the World (1965)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A dying scientist pushes forward his project to tap through to the Earth's magma layer, with results that threaten to destroy the Earth as we know it.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Alexander Knox

Votes: 2,880

22. An Acceptable Loss (2018)

R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller

Libby teaches at a university but 4 years ago she was top aide to VP Rachel and was part of a total victory action. Rachel is now US president and worried about Libby keeping quiet. Libby also has a student spying on her.

Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Tavassoli, Deanna Dunagan

Votes: 1,616 | Gross: $0.03M

23. 10.5: Apocalypse (2006– )

85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A massive earthquake creates a chain of events that threaten two of the largest nuclear reactors.

Stars: Kim Delaney, Dean Cain, David Cubitt, Oliver Hudson

Votes: 2,774

24. Warriors of the Wasteland (1983)

R | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari | Stars: Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman, Anna Kanakis

Votes: 3,105

25. Spontaneous Combustion (1989)

R | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Brad Dourif, Cynthia Bain, Jon Cypher, William Prince

Votes: 3,017

26. Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022)

96 min | Documentary, History

Newly-discovered archive footage and witness accounts to lay bare the tragedy and heroic efforts made to prevent another explosion.

Director: James Jones | Stars: Lyudmila Ignatenko, Oleksiy Breus, Leonenko Vitaliy, Aleksandr Syrota

Votes: 1,891

27. Meltdown: Three Mile Island (2022)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, History

Insiders recount the events, controversies and lingering effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.

Stars: Rick Parks, Nicole Remsburg, Paula Kinney, Joyce Corradi

Votes: 5,448

28. MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994 TV Movie)

93 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A close friend of MacGyver is murdered. In searching of a reason for this assassination, MacGyver discovers a secret nuclear weapons plant right in the center of Britain.

Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Beatie Edney, Peter Egan, Alun Armstrong

Votes: 1,571

29. Detonator (1993 TV Movie)

R | 98 min | Action, Thriller

A train with hostages is stolen in Bremen, Germany. It's heading south through Europe with a nuclear bomb. A UN crime-fighting task force is in charge of stopping it in cooperation with local military and police.

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Alexandra Paul, Ted Levine

Votes: 4,017

30. Pu-239 (2006)

R | 97 min | Drama

A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.

Director: Scott Z. Burns | Stars: Paddy Considine, Oscar Isaac, Valeriu Pavel Dan, Kenneth Bryans

Votes: 4,187

31. The Spy Gone North (2018)

Not Rated | 137 min | Drama, Thriller

In the mid-1990s, a loyal South Korean secret agent is caught in a political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of North and South Korea.

Director: Yoon Jong-bin | Stars: Hwang Jung-min, Lee Sung-min, Cho Jin-woong, Ju Ji-hoon

Votes: 6,244 | Gross: $0.50M

32. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.

Director: Ranald MacDougall | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer

Votes: 3,564

33. Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015)

TV-14 | 76 min | Animation, Drama, Horror

Three children decide to leave their homes looking for a better life.

Directors: Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez | Stars: Andrea Alzuri, Eba Ojanguren, Josu Cubero, Félix Arcarazo

Votes: 3,164 | Gross: $0.04M

34. Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018)

Not Rated | 129 min | Action, Drama, History

Ashwat Raina and his teammates arrive in Pokhran to re-conduct a confidential nuclear test, where they face challenges from the American Lacrosse satellite and local spies.

Director: Abhishek Sharma | Stars: John Abraham, Boman Irani, Diana Penty, Anuja Sathe

Votes: 25,253

35. Special Bulletin (1983 TV Movie)

103 min | Drama

A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC... See full summary »

Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Ed Flanders, Kathryn Walker, Roxanne Hart, Christopher Allport

Votes: 1,333

36. Ghostbusters: Station 6 (2017– )

Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Oscar Barrett struggles to evade the shadow of Peter Venkman in the mundane Orange County Ghostbusters office, but his team discovers a deep-rooted conspiracy connected to the Barrett family.

Stars: Chris Kato, Veronica Rose, Brent Huff, Kelly Perine

Votes: 27

37. Aftermath (VII) (2014)

Not Rated | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Thanks to a devastating nuclear war, a group of people find themselves crammed together in a house in rural Texas, struggling to cope with radiation poisoning, grief and the locals.

Director: Péter Engert | Stars: C.J. Thomason, Monica Keena, Edward Furlong, Andre Royo

Votes: 2,139 | Gross: $0.35M

38. Spawn of the Slithis (1978)

PG | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A nuclear leak creates a mutant Slithis sea monster, which terrorizes the variety of pets, winos, and hippies who hang around Venice, California.

Director: Stephen Traxler | Stars: Alan Blanchard, Judy Motulsky, J.C. Claire, Dennis Falt

Votes: 1,365

39. Earth II (1971 TV Movie)

G | 100 min | Sci-Fi

When Earth II, an orbiting research space station, is menaced by a Red Chinese nuclear weapon, its 2,000 inhabitants take action to disarm and dispose of the missile without resorting to violence.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: Gary Lockwood, Scott Hylands, Hari Rhodes, Anthony Franciosa

Votes: 390

40. Bakterion (1982)

R | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town.

Director: Tonino Ricci | Stars: David Warbeck, Janet Agren, Roberto Ricci, José Lifante

Votes: 884

41. Island Claws (1980)

Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.

Director: Hernan Cardenas | Stars: Robert Lansing, Steve Hanks, Nita Talbot, Jo McDonnell

Votes: 607

42. Deep Shock (2003 TV Movie)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

A mysterious trench has formed on the ocean floor, and a deadly species of creature emerges from the depths.

Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: David Keith, Simmone Mackinnon, Mark Sheppard, Sean Whalen

Votes: 1,081

43. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Horror

You play as a scavenger suffering from amnesia inside the exclusion zone of a nuclear power plant in the Ukraine which exploded, creating mutants, and weird paranormal activity.

Director: Zach Hanks | Stars: Anthony Green, Aleksandr Vilkov, Anatoliy Bogush, Andrey Podubinskiy

Votes: 1,680

44. Thunder Run (1985)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Charlie, a Korean War veteran, is driving a truck which is transporting plutonium from Nevada to Arizona. But there are a bunch of terrorists who want to steal the stuff...

Director: Gary Hudson | Stars: Forrest Tucker, John Ireland, John Shepherd, Jill Whitlow

Votes: 397 | Gross: $0.15M

45. Future-Kill (1985)

X | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Horror

The star of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" returns in a story about frat boys lost in the big city while hunted by a violent leader and his elite gang of gun-happy guards.

Director: Ronald W. Moore | Stars: Edwin Neal, Marilyn Burns, Gabriel Folse, Wade Reese

Votes: 731

46. War of the Colossal Beast (1958)

Approved | 69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Glenn Manning, "The Amazing Colosasal Man," believed dead after falling from the Hoover Dam, reemerges in rural Mexico, brain damaged, disfigured, and very hungry.

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Sally Fraser, Roger Pace, Duncan 'Dean' Parkin, Russ Bender

Votes: 2,620

47. Time Bomb (1984 TV Movie)

95 min | Action, Drama

A gang of terrorists tries to hijack a truck carrying plutonium.

Director: Paul Krasny | Stars: Morgan Fairchild, Billy Dee Williams, Joseph Bottoms, Merlin Olsen

Votes: 188

48. Scorcher (I) (2002)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, California.

Director: James Seale | Stars: Mark Dacascos, John Rhys-Davies, Tamara Davies, Mark Rolston

Votes: 1,486

49. The Chernobyl Disaster (2022)

180 min | Documentary

The Chernobyl Disaster, narrated by Ben Fogle, is a dramatic and detailed 3-part documentary series that reveals the events that led to the 1986 nuclear accident.

Star: Ben Fogle

Votes: 61

50. The Return of Captain Nemo (1978 TV Movie)

102 min | Sci-Fi

After a century of being in suspended animation, the mysterious submarine commander is revived in modern times for new adventures.

Directors: Alex March, Paul Stader | Stars: José Ferrer, Burgess Meredith, Mel Ferrer, Horst Buchholz

Votes: 448