Movies like Chernobyl: The Final Warning

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Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991)
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Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.
Style: medical drama
Plot: nuclear power plant, explosions, catastrophe, radiation, disaster, lapland, reporter, husband wife relationship, death of husband, radiation sickness, female doctor, culture clash, art dealer, death of brother, american abroad, pregnant wife, coworker relationship, nuclear, press conference, government coverup, death in the family, fireman, old couple, nuclear disaster, japanese man ...
Time: year 1986
Place: ussr, california, soviet union

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Most similar movies to Chernobyl: The Final Warning

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and suspenseful films with plots about disaster, husband wife relationship, nuclear, radiation, accident, explosion and society mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres. Some movies like Chernobyl: The Final Warning: Chernobyl: Abyss (2021), Collapse (1990), Chernobyl (2019), The Days (2023), Inherit the Wind (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chernobyl: Abyss (2021)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The film tells about the firefighter, heroically eliminating the consequences of the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Style: rough, depressing, disturbing, dark, thought provoking ...
Plot: radiation, nuclear power plant, disaster, radiation sickness, nuclear reactor, firefighting, death, evacuation, accident, hospital, heroic mission, communism ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: chernobyl, ussr, soviet union
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95%
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Collapse (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Plot: disaster, post apocalypse, survival, environmental issue, radioactivity, power plant, tragedy, evacuation, contamination, nuclear power, nuclear power plant, radiation sickness ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: ussr, soviet union, ukraine, chernobyl
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90%
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Chernobyl (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatization of the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Style: dark, atmospheric, rough, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: radiation, nuclear holocaust, radiation poisoning, nuclear power plant, nuclear reactor, disaster, save the day, nuclear explosion, salvation, scientist, nuclear radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time: year 1986, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place: chernobyl, ussr, soviet union, ukraine, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Days (2023)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
Style: captivating, tense, dark
Plot: nuclear disaster, nuclear radiation, nuclear power plant, flooding, radiation poisoning, nuclear holocaust, nuclear explosion, problem, alternate history, gas mask, entity, tragedy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Inherit the Wind (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Style: contemplative, talky, thought provoking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, religion, lawyer, evolution, legal, bigotry, religions or cults, social relations, small town, small town life, rebellion ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Challenger (2013)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challenger's 1986 explosion.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, intellectual ...
Plot: investigation, space shuttle, science, uncover truth, research, mission gone awry, scientist, satellite, space travel, professor, nasa, space exploration ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 2K
Roe v. Wade (2019)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial court case in history.
Style: psychological, suspense, thought provoking, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: abortion, conspiracy, court, lawsuit, women's rights, court case, courtroom drama, social problems, family problems, civil rights, social relations, human rights ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Inseparable (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: It's April of 1986. Pripyat, Ukraine. A core meltdown occurred at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Power Plant. Over thirty people died during the blast but the estimated death toll as a result of the radiation fallout will reach a four-digit number. ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, bleak
Plot: radiation, nuclear power plant, catastrophe, love, evacuation, accident, tragedy, post apocalypse, radiation sickness, looting, helicopter, disaster ...
Time: year 1986
Place: ukraine, ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Reunion (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, West Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German aristocrat. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking
Plot: world war two, anti semitism, friendship, nazi, friendship between boys, against humanity, confined, society, youth, coming of age, religions or cults, homecoming ...
Time: 1940s, year 1989, 1930s
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Wackersdorf (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Not an easy decision! District Administrator Hans Schuierer from the Upper Palatinate first opposed his own political line in 1981 and finally against the entire Bavarian Free State and Prime Minister Strauss. Because the planned reprocessing plant ...
Audience: date night
Plot: political protest, police brutality, german politics, disagreement, forest, protestor, german history, conflict between friends, nuclear, family relations, protest sign, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: germany, west germany, southern germany, bavaria, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Save and Protect (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, West Germany
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: children, erotica, underground, madam, cuckolded husband, death, sex, infidelity, extramarital affair, male nudity, suicide, funeral ...
Time: 1840s
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing. (1997)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The incredible story of the events leading up to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists.
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: terrorism, world trade center manhattan new york city, disaster, politics, undercover, witnessing a crime, state affairs, leadership, chases and races, law enforcement, incompetent official, failed attempt ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Pompeii: The Last Day (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 79 AD, one of the infamous natural disasters in human history occurred when Mount Vesuvius erupted. With speculative dramatizations of various inhabitants' final hours along with detailed documentation of the known facts concerning the ...
Style: captivating, bleak, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot: ancient rome, roman empire, disaster, ancient history, heroes, on the run, life is a bitch, escapades, danger, legends and myths, society, forces of nature ...
Time: 1st century, 70s, 18th century
Place: mediterranean sea, pompeii
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
10 Days in a Madhouse (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Nellie Bly, a 23 year-old reporter for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in the notorious Blackwell's Island women's insane asylum in order to expose corruption, abuse and murder.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, bleak, independent film
Plot: uncover truth, reporter, life is a bitch, journalism, working undercover, mental institution, doctors and patients, women, spy, feminist, psychology, destruction ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Julius Caesar (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes' ...
Style: epic, cult classic, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, shakespeare, ancient, roman empire, antiquity, betrayal, assassination, medieval, ancient world, warrior, bible ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Day One (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. ...
Style: tense, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: atomic bomb, world war two, nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, super weapon, nuclear, cold war, holocaust, terrorism, war, atomic weapons, politics ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: usa, new mexico, london, hiroshima japan, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: submarine, cold war, navy, nuclear submarine, radiation, sea, underwater, nuclear, radiation sickness, disaster, sea disaster, nuclear threat ...
Time: 60s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1989, 80s ...
Place: soviet union, russia, nova scotia, moscow russia, atlantic ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Aftershock (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the lives of 240,000 people.
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, psychological, factual ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, family reunited, parents and children, haunted by the past, adoption, moral dilemma, redemption, family in crisis, family tragedy, presumed dead, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976, 90s, 80s ...
Place: china, canada, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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She Said (2022)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Style: serious, sexual, interesting
Plot: sexual harassment, based on real people, rape, abuse of power, sexism, sexual assault, female protagonist, women's rights, investigation, female journalist, sexual abuse, sexual predator ...
Time: 2020s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1992, year 2016
Place: manhattan new york city, hong kong, new york, venice, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Nine Days of One Year (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: scientist, realism, moving, spirituality, science, romantic rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, nuclear, pessimism, physicist, optimism ...
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Challenger (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story: A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: space shuttle, nasa, exploration, space exploration, astronaut, disaster, danger, escapades, space and aliens, heroes, test pilot, tragedy ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century, year 1985
Place: texas, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Rainbow Warrior (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: terrorist attack, international law, environmental, spy, environmental issue, disaster, conspiracy, special agent, rebellion, terrorism, investigation, society ...
Time: 80s
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Mountain of the Lord (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Woodruff to a young reporter. It portrays the pioneers' dedication to temple worship.
Plot: temple, mormon, interview, reporter, architect, religion, latter day saints, construction, diary, quarry, prayer, building
Time: 19th century, 1890s, 1860s, 1850s, 1840s ...
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Land of Oblivion (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Ukraine, Poland, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tchernobyl, 1986, a few hours before the disaster. Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
Style: bleak, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Plot: nuclear power plant, evacuation, dealing with death, small town, accident, radiation poisoning, wedding party, dead animal, post apocalypse, tour guide, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1986
Place: ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story: The Titanic disaster is depicted as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Style: fairy tale, realistic, serious, suspenseful, black and white
Audience: boys' night
Plot: titanic, disaster, ocean, ship, sinking ship, iceberg, shipwreck, survival, rescue, race against time, older man younger woman marriage, accident ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1912
Place: england, atlantic ocean, newfoundland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin (1989)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.
Plot: perestroika, totalitarian regime, josef stalin, town, stalinism, dictator
Place: ussr, soviet union, caucasus, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Tank T-34 (1965)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that ...
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, tank, red army, pow, behind enemy lines, self sacrifice, armor, uniform
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 2K
Radium Girls (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
Style: thought provoking, social, captivating, disturbing, costume drama ...
Plot: radiation poisoning, factory worker, factory, american history, social injustice, disgruntled worker, labor union, workplace problem, labor movement, coworker, worker, workplace ...
Time: 1920s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Plutonium Incident (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A worker at a nuclear power plant finds life in danger after she points out unsafe conditions.
Plot: working conditions, radioactivity, accident, plutonium, nuclear power, security, radiation sickness, intrigue, nuclear, union, nuclear power plant, nuclear reactor ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 660K
Oppenheimer (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style: epic, dramatic, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nuclear, world war two, atomic bomb, scientist, american politics, historical event, mastermind, top secret, physics, moral dilemma, guilt, arizona desert ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, year 1943, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: new mexico, netherlands, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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