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| Star Blazers (1979) | 8.4 | |
| The Day After (1983) | 7.0 | |
| Saw X (2023) | 6.6 | |
| Coppelion (2013) | 6.1 |
Radiation movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of radiation movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
My Secret Identity was a Canadian television series starring Jerry O'Connell and Derek McGrath. Originally broadcast from October 9, 1988 – May 25, 1991 on CTV in Canada, the series also aired in syndication in the United States. The series ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, high school student, high school, missing person, radiation, family relations, disorder, escapades, heroes, young heroes, undercover ...
Time:
year 1989, 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991 ...
Place:
north dakota, usa, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's ...
Style:
christian film, sincere, sentimental, sad, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
god, faith, letter, hopes, cancer, pastor, brain tumor, terminal illness, child illness, christian, sick child, salvation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
DIE WOLKE (The Cloud) is about a breakdown of a nuclear power station in Germany and the story of two teenager-lovers Hannah and Elmar who take refuge. 38.000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.
Style:
serious, touching, bleak, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
radiation, nuclear power plant, warning, disaster, radiation sickness, teenage love, hospital, supportive parent, survival, contamination, chaos, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, northern germany, hamburg germany
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake an tsunami in 2011.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, sincere
Plot:
nuclear disaster, nuclear power plant, nuclear radiation, japanese wife, nuclear power, japanese history, mishap, fukushima, grandfather, white house, flooding, businessman ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2011
Place:
japan, pacific ocean
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face ...
Style:
exciting, gloomy, serious, saga, action packed ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, chase, transformation, mutant, unstoppable, creature, experiment gone awry, scientist, split personality, giant, antidote ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, rio de janeiro, virginia, british columbia, brazil ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, tense, apocalyptic, serious ...
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, cold war, dystopian future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, small town, death, visceral, danger, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1983, 80s, near future
Place:
california, usa, bay area, san francisco
Is relevant?
45K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Germany, Poland, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Style:
suspense, psychological, visually stunning, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience:
toddlers, adult
Plot:
survival, astronaut, spaceship, space mission, galaxy, baby, trapped in space, outer space, deep space, experiment, father daughter relationship, taboo ...
Time:
2010s, future, year 2019
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don't yet know it. As the operation unfolds, we see the working lives of ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
radical, terrorism, nuclear holocaust, political conspiracy, terrorist bombing, terrorist plot, firefighter, save the day, secret agent, counter terrorism, danger, race against time ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Is relevant?
462K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
monster, giant monster, godzilla, dinosaur, disaster, creature, kaiju, catastrophe, military, mutant, deadly creature, chaos ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1999 ...
Place:
japan, hawaii, san francisco, tokyo, honolulu hawaii ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
wilderness, radio, solitude, isolation, survival, arctic, human nature, danger, confined, dishonesty, snow, winter ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, antarctica
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
Plot:
natural disaster, survival, hiding place, disaster, desperation, loss of father, angry mob, self sacrifice, marauder, teenage girl, shootout, building collapse ...
Place:
united kingdom, greenland, france, liverpool, britain ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In postwar Japan, a new terror rises. Will the devastated people be able to survive... let alone fight back?
Style:
ambiguous ending, crying, road movie, prehistoric, biting ...
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, monster, post war japan, trauma, nightmare, orphan, island, baby, giant monster, post war, scientist ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, year 1945, post world war two, year 1946 ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The comedy film sees TV Burp star Hill embark on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan (Julie Walters) when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
on the road, goofy hero, escapades, chase, pets, silly humor, disorder, friendship, nuclear power plant, road trip, hamster, grandmother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will ...
Style:
apocalyptic, depressing, poetic, spiritual, twisted ...
Plot:
nuclear war, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, survival, nuclear explosion, atomic bomb, underground, disaster ...
Time:
distant future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Many years after a nuclear war destroyed much of human kind, the survivors have created a new society where much of the work done by artificial beings referred to derisively by humans as "clickers". Humans are producing fewer and fewer ...
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, suspense, intelligent, grindhouse ...
Plot:
robot, artificial intelligence, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, post thermonuclear war, sentient robot, humanoid robot, racism, man versus machine, philosophy, machine, monster ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A dysfunctional family attempts to work together to support their grandmother during her final days of life.
Style:
independent film
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family relations, wanting to die, hospital, father son relationship, pregnancy, brother brother relationship, cell phone, grandmother granddaughter relationship, husband wife relationship, grandmother grandson relationship, brother sister relationship, death of grandmother ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In 1995, Italy annihilates Libya, which destroys Israel. Africa bombs Germany, which in turn attacks France. Luxembourg conquers England. Sweden, Monte Carlo and Switzerland immolate themselves.The Russians decide to liquidate the Americans, who ...
Style:
adult animation, sex comedy, anime, slapstick comedy, slapstick ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
female robot, sex, god, superhero, avenger, adult humor, satire, cancan dance, ballet, space, crossdresser, man on the run ...
Time:
near future, year 1995, 90s
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
slasher, splatter, futuristic, independent film
Plot:
club, serial killer, 666, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, dystopia, body horror, occult, revenge, murder, psychopath, kidnapping ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea, Thailand, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A giant crocodile is terrorizing Thai villagers. A group of adventurers set out by boat to track it down and kill it.
Style:
wild
Plot:
crocodile, boat, kaiju, alligator, killer crocodile, shark, nature, group, small town, death, violence, blood ...
Place:
thailand
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: East Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A socialist story of "atoms for peace" and compulsory labor in an East German uranium mine under Soviet control.
Style:
light, banned
Plot:
soviet army, mine, miner, uranium, bar fight, drunkenness, prostitute, wedding party, ex nazi, soviet soldier, labor leader, orphan ...
Time:
1940s, year 1949
Place:
berlin germany, east germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A re-edited version of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by a few members of its creative team, excluding director George Romero. It cuts 15 minutes from the original and replaces it with 15 minutes of newly-shot footage.
Plot:
zombie, living dead, night of the living dead, zombie attack, cemetery, gas station, cop, friends who live together, helicopter, farm, african american man, news reporter ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Still today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO military training range, a nine-year-old girl called Alica, ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, bleak, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
post war, cancer, child protagonist, poverty, grief, terminal illness, death, loss, family bonds, social realism, survival, desperation ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, balkan
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
MUTANT VAMPIRE ZOMBIES FROM THE 'HOOD! follows an unlikely group of inner-city survivors who fight to flee a city now free of gang-bangers, but infested with blood-sucking, sex-starved zombies instead. C. Thomas Howell plays the last man ...
Style:
apocalyptic, thrilling, captivating, hood
Plot:
flesh eating zombie, zombie, mutant, vampire, blaxploitation, solar flare, black, problem, zombie survival, post apocalypse, walking dead, zombie attack ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
Style:
bleak, reflective, poignant, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
memory, identity, family drama, memories, family secret, trauma, grief, domestic drama, post traumatic stress, survivor, relationships, reconciliation ...
Place:
hiroshima japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
zoophilia, revenge, love, murder, friendship, prisoner, psychiatrist, reincarnation, subconscious, self discovery, transformation, child abuse ...
Place:
southern usa, jerusalem
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sport, War, Western
Country: Canada
Story:
Science activism for health in sports, medicine, and tiger team research and development from Canada and International open collaboration to help anti-radiation material Borax to Japan.
Style:
educational, independent film, non fiction
Plot:
public health, problem solving, teamwork, determination, medical research, laboratory, professional rivalry, science, radiation, hardcore, party, interview
Place:
japan, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Italy, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
While covering a test of guided torpedoes, two reporters believe they see what appears to be a strange-looking swimming creature. They investigate the matter further and discover that there is a race of fish-men living under the sea. The fish-men ...
Style:
psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
underwater, diving, monster, human experiment, creature, scuba diving, reporter, electrocution, radiation, navy, mutation, submarine ...
Time:
year 1966
Is relevant?
628
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
They live in the steppe. A father and a daughter. Nothing may disturb the eternal order. Tomorrow always comes. And every morning the father goes away to work. And she stays alone. To wait for her father. And to feel. Two men are in love with her. ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, teenage love, parents and children, love and romance, rivalry, father daughter relationship, death of father, black, youth, coming of age, farm, nuclear testing ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
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:
science, scientist, spirituality, moving, realism, dysfunctional marriage, marriage crisis, nuclear, romantic rivalry, love triangle, love, radiation ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Taiwan, UK, Germany
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, road movie ...
Plot:
evacuation, elderly, family relations, life is a bitch, family life, forceful separation, moral dilemma, danger, couple relations, couples, nuclear threat, parents and children ...
Place:
japan, asia
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