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 suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, suspense and bleak films and TV shows about / with radiation, nuclear, danger, death, apocalypse, disaster, nuclear holocaust, survival, post apocalypse and nuclear war plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as radiation: Chernobyl (2019), Inseparable (2013), Pu-239 (2006), Chernobyl Diaries (2012), Chernobyl: Abyss (2021), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), The Day After (1983), Z for Zachariah (2015), Aftermath (2014), Radioactive (2019).

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 9.3
 854K
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 ...
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 7.3
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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
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 6.7
 4K
Pu-239 (2006)
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot: radiation, radiation poisoning, plutonium, danger, manhunt, uncover truth, life is a bitch, race against time, dishonesty, contamination, computer hacker, hacker ...
Place: russia
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Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: virus, radiation, survival, tourist, nuclear power plant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, stranded, mutant, zombie, vacation, abandoned building, death ...
Time: year 2012
Place: chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
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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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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 ...
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 7.0
 18K
The Day After (1983)
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: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, disaster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear holocaust, radiation, end of the world, dystopia, nuclear threat, nuclear ...
Time: 80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, soviet union, missouri, ussr ...
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Z for Zachariah (2015)
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: tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, love triangle, end of the world, survivor, post apocalyptic, radiation, nuclear war, farm, distopia, isolation ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.8
 2K
Aftermath (2014)
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, radiation, apocalypse, supernatural, isolation, nuclear, chaos, danger, radiation poisoning, confined, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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 6.3
 21K
Radioactive (2019)
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: captivating, uplifting, poignant, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: nobel prize, scientist, radioactivity, chemistry, radiation, nuclear, physics, science, biopic, scientific research, physicist, genius ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era, victorian era, year 1961, year 1945 ...
Place: chernobyl, europe, poland, stockholm sweden, paris france ...
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 7.1
 22K
Silkwood (1983)
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: touching, sad, thought provoking, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: whistleblower, working class, conspiracy, radiation, workplace, women, environmental, research, fighting the system, environment, labor union, contamination ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1974, 70s
Place: oklahoma, usa, washington d.c.
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Like a Star Shining in the Night (2008)
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: serious, captivating, realistic, emotional
Plot: optimism, radiation, terminal illness, couples, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, couple relations, male female relationship, family relations, family reunited, love, wedding planning ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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The China Syndrome (1979)
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: suspenseful, suspense, tense, political, psychological ...
Plot: reporter, radiation, journalism, power plant, politics, investigation, disaster, nuclear, media, nuclear power, environmental, corruption ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: california, usa, los angeles, pennsylvania
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 4.2
 2K
Atomica (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, philosophical, futuristic ...
Plot: nuclear, radiation, strong female lead, insanity, nuclear power, scientist, science runs amok, workplace situations, engineer, twists and turns, science, technology ...
Time: future
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Harbinger Down (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, ...
Style: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: alien, creature, creature feature, infection, ship, winter, scientist, fishing boat, monster, body horror, snow, military ...
Time: year 1982
Place: alaska
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 3.4
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S.N.U.B! (2010)
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: suspense, stylized, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: terrorist plot, bunker, contamination, apocalypse, terrorist bombing, radiation, military police, survival, mutant, post nuclear, group of strangers, rescue ...
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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, anthology, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot: surrealism, dream, artist, tunnel, art, magic realism, nuclear disaster, environmentalism, beautiful scenery, philosophy, fantasy world, painting ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 20th century
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, pacific ocean
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 6.6
 469K
Elysium (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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, cyber, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, space station, apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, dark future, ecological disaster, post apocalypse, utopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa
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Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone. The Movie (2019)
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: captivating, tense, intense, mysterious
Plot: powerful corporation, fantasy world, nuclear holocaust, danger, friendship, supernatural ability, demolished city, scientific experiment, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rescue, investigation, memory loss ...
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Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki (2008)
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, stylized, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot: one against many, martial arts, friendship, brother vs brother, fight, warrior, good versus evil, battles, honor, fight to the death, radiation, wrestler ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: japan
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 5.7
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Eat Me! (2010)
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: semi serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: heroism, radiation, apocalypse, survival, stranded, music band, trapped, group of friends, eaten alive, dystopia, zombie, blood ...
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Guilty Not Guilty (2018)
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, sick child, changing the future, un, journalism, loss of husband, poverty, toxic waste, loss of family ...
Place: new york, washington d.c.
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 4.9
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Shelter (2008)
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, hopes, society, escapades, danger, clergy, fight, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
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Doomsday Machine (1976)
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: space travel, astronaut, sexism, end of the world, venus the planet, radiation, outer space, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, threat, macabre ...
Time: year 1972
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Style: black comedy, black and white, dark comedy, political, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: cold war, military, satire, nuclear war, nuclear threat, anti war, disaster, doomsday, nuclear holocaust, u.s. president, nuclear, president ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1942
Place: soviet union, washington d.c., persia, united kingdom, britain ...
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 6.1
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Coppelion (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Many years after a great tragedy killed 90% of the people in Japan, three girls arrive in the ruins of Tokyo. In the devastated capital, their unusually clean clothes set them apart. But that's not the only strange thing about them - they also ...
Style: anime, entertaining, captivating, disturbing
Plot: squad, radiation, rescue mission, post apocalypse, dystopian future, radioactivity, genetic engineering, mission, power, ghost town
Time: near future
Place: japan
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 3.4
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Solar Impact (2019)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Solar debris crashes down to Earth, causing widespread destruction and unleashing solar radiation around the world. As genetic mutations rapidly spread, a group of friends must fight to stay alive and escape the chaos.
Style: apocalyptic, captivating, thrilling, tense, dread ...
Plot: mutation, struggle for survival, cannibal, cannibalism, friends, group of friends, survival, radiation poisoning, sun, radiation, epidemic, zombie ...
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 6.1
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Happy End (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly bizarre and eventually apocalyptic, leading us down a narrative ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: virus, snow, husband wife relationship, contamination, apocalypse, poison, father daughter relationship, end of the world, suicide, death, couple relations, vacation ...
Place: europe, spain, france
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The Bedford Incident (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, political, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, submarine, navy, war, battlefield, military, confrontation, u.s. navy, reporter, propaganda, world war two, nuclear ...
Time: 60s
Place: greenland, atlantic ocean
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The Spy Gone North (2018)
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, captivating, tense, social ...
Plot: dictatorship, undercover agent, political campaign, political corruption, spy, top secret, undercover, dictator, double agent, government official, military, disguise ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 2000s, year 1998
Place: north korea, south korea, beijing china, asia, china ...
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