| Godzilla (2014) | 6.4 | |
| The Cloud (2006) | 6.3 | |
| Chernobyl (2019) | 9.3 | |
| Back to the Future (1985) | 8.5 | |
| The Day After (1983) | 7.0 |
Radiation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant radiation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, suspenseful, bleak, serious, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with radiation, survival, death, danger, catastrophe, disaster, nuclear, blood, apocalypse and nuclear holocaust plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as radiation: Inseparable (2013), Chernobyl (2019), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Pu-239 (2006), Chernobyl Diaries (2012), Aftermath (2014), Chernobyl: Abyss (2021), After Chernobyl (2021), The Day After (1983), Z for Zachariah (2015).
Best films
New films
| The Days (2023) | 7.2 | |
| Chernobyl (2019) | 7.3 | |
| Saw X (2023) | 6.6 | |
| Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) | 6.3 | |
| Chernobyl (2019) | 9.3 |
List of radiation movies
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:
bleak, suspenseful, rough, historical drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
radiation, nuclear power plant, tragedy, love, evacuation, accident, nuclear disaster, self sacrifice, grief, heroism, loss, ecological disaster ...
Time:
year 1986
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, ussr, chernobyl
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 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, harsh, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
radiation, nuclear power plant, nuclear holocaust, nuclear reactor, disaster, radiation poisoning, save the day, nuclear explosion, salvation, abandoned city, evacuation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
chernobyl, ussr, soviet union, ukraine, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
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, realistic, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
cold war, submarine, navy, nuclear submarine, radiation, courage, underwater, radiation sickness, nuclear, radioactivity, sea, sea disaster ...
Time:
60s, year 1989, year 2002, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
soviet union, nova scotia, russia, moscow russia, atlantic ocean ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot:
radiation, plutonium, danger, manhunt, uncover truth, race against time, dishonesty, life is a bitch, contamination, nuclear war, radiation poisoning, computer ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, surprise ending, creepy ...
Plot:
radiation, tourist, nuclear power plant, death, survival, abandoned building, stranded, brutality, nuclear radiation, group of friends, virus, mutant ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in rural Texas. The United States has hastily become embroiled in World War 3. A young doctor named ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, radiation poisoning, radiation, nuclear, supernatural, isolation, danger, chaos, survival horror, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Is relevant?
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, thought provoking, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
nuclear power plant, radiation, radiation sickness, nuclear reactor, disaster, firefighting, evacuation, death, accident, hospital, communism, society ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place:
chernobyl, ussr, poland, europe, ukraine ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia, Ukraine, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of American tourists travels across Eastern Europe. By accident, they get to Chernobyl, where they face some local evil. These are the ghosts of killed citizens who tried to flee the city through military cordons. But it turns out that not ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
radiation, found footage, missing person, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation, survival, uncover truth, adaptation, conspiracy, escapades, ghost ...
Place:
chernobyl
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style:
futuristic, harsh, apocalyptic, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cold war, nuclear war, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear explosion, disaster, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, dystopia, radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, soviet union, kansas city, ussr ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, sex scene, post apocalypse, farm, love triangle, post apocalyptic, nuclear war, survivor, radiation, survival, jealousy, distopia ...
Time:
2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Is relevant?
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:
tense, captivating, dark
Plot:
nuclear disaster, nuclear radiation, nuclear power plant, tragedy, disaster, nuclear power, radiation poisoning, flooding, radiation, nuclear, accident, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Style:
poignant, captivating, serious, harsh, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
nobel prize, chemistry, scientist, radioactivity, scientific research, nuclear, radiation, physics, science, physicist, genius, nobel prize winner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 1945, year 1957 ...
Place:
chernobyl, europe, stockholm sweden, paris france, poland ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style:
futuristic, breathtaking, cyber, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopian future, dystopia, space station, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, politics, robot, dark future, ecological disaster, utopia ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place:
los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa ...
Is relevant?
24K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Style:
sad, touching, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
whistleblower, working class, conspiracy, nuclear power plant, fighting the system, workplace, labor union, radiation, women, environmental, radioactivity, environment ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s, year 1974
Place:
oklahoma, usa, washington d.c., california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the anomalous zone of Chernobyl, under the protective sarcophagus of the fourth power unit, the Global Kintek Corporation is carrying out illegal construction. A special interstate commission is trying to prevent these plans, but right during a ...
Style:
tense, captivating, intense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, friendship, powerful corporation, fantasy world, danger, supernatural ability, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, memory loss, rescue, demolished city, killing, radiation ...
Place:
chernobyl
Is relevant?
27K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Style:
depressing, grim, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, cold war, nuclear explosion, survival, world war three, nuclear, post apocalypse, distopia, post apocalyptic, radiation ...
Time:
80s, near future, distant future, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
england, northern england, europe, ussr, soviet union ...
Is relevant?
96K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A corrupted doctor who sells so-called miracle treatments to desperate people gets trapped in a decaying hospital and must play Jigsaw's brand new game.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bloody, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
torture, brutality, bloody violence, sadism, game of death, cancer, revenge, extreme violence, graphic violence, blood, game, dead body ...
Place:
mexico, mexico city
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Style:
suspense, lovecraft, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
time travel, drug, ambulance, best friend, paramedic, brain tumor, time, swamp, racism, chemotherapy, investigation, alligator ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young couple finds out what love truly means when one of them has a brush with death. When Anne and Marc met, it was love at first sight, and the longer they were together, the more they realized they never wanted to be apart. But not long after ...
Style:
emotional, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
sister in law, optimism, radiation, couples, terminal illness, wedding planning, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, couple relations, male female relationship, family relations, family reunited ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style:
suspense, tension, suspenseful, political, tense ...
Plot:
reporter, conspiracy, investigation, power plant, radiation, politics, journalism, nuclear power, whistleblower, disaster, murder, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, southern california, pennsylvania
Is relevant?
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Following a nuclear attack by terrorists on London, a mixed bag of survivors are trapped in a Government bunker cut off from the outside world. As they come to terms with their predicament they find that their security and safety are not as assured ...
Style:
serious, suspense, rough, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot:
contamination, bunker, terrorist plot, apocalypse, radiation, terrorist bombing, military police, survival, rescue, group of strangers, post nuclear, mutant ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In 1993, former military officer Suk-young Park is recruited as a spy by South Korea's National Intelligence Service, and given the code name "Black Venus". He is then sent to infiltrate a group of high-ranking North Korean officials ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
dictatorship, inter-korean relations, undercover agent, political campaign, political corruption, undercover, dictator, top secret, secret mission, government official, military, double agent ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 1998, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
north korea, south korea, beijing china, china, asia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Spies discover that the Red Chinese have built a "doomsday machine" capable of destroying the surface of the Earth, and that they plan to use it within a matter of days. Meanwhile, Project Astra, a manned U.S. space mission to Venus, is in ...
Style:
psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
astronaut, sexism, venus the planet, space travel, end of the world, radiation, outer space, nuclear war, bare chested male, racism, spacewalk, press conference ...
Time:
year 1972
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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.
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak, period piece, tragic
Plot:
survival, radioactivity, radiation, disaster, evacuation, contamination, nuclear disaster, anxiety, panic, uncertainty, realism, loss ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
chernobyl, soviet union, ussr, ukraine
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Genre: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Fourth part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Toki's perspective, leading up to Toki's imprisonment in Cassandra and eventually his duel with Raoh.
Style:
anime, captivating, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Plot:
one against many, martial arts, friendship, good versus evil, battles, honor, brother vs brother, warrior, fight, fight to the death, radiation, wrestler ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
111
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stoner band mates escape Brooklyn after a mysterious blackout strikes, transforming everyone above ground into zombies. Hilarious complications arise
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, heroism, radiation, stranded, stoner, group of friends, music band, trapped, eaten alive, zombie, basement ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A dark side of India's Nuclear Programme
Style:
educational, independent film
Plot:
human rights, abuse of power, indigenous people, world politics, changing the future, sick child, un, nuclear explosion, radiation, warning, loss of husband, social media ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
175
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
With a catastrophic event rapidly approaching, 18 people vie for 10 spots in the small town's only bomb shelter.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, epic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, chaos, small town, disaster, family relations, danger, society, escapades, hopes, clergy, fight, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A meltdown at a nuclear power plant turns a bunch of folks into lethal shambling flesh-eating zombies who go on a gory rampage.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, splatter, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
power plant, radiation, nuclear disaster, bloodbath, graphic violence, undead, body horror, infection, contamination, exploitation, mutant, apocalypse ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such ...
Style:
bleak, action adventure, tense, apocalyptic, surprise ending ...
Plot:
solar flare, survival, mona lisa, dystopia, radiation, wasteland, mutant, quest, moral dilemma, rivalry, exploration, redemption ...
Place:
london, france
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