| Chernobyl (2019) | 9.3 | |
| Chernobyl: Abyss (2021) | 5.2 | |
| Coppelion (2013) | 6.1 | |
| Back to the Future (1985) | 8.5 | |
| Fail Safe (1964) | 8.1 |
Radiation movies and TV shows – page 5
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
With no means for defeating Godzilla Earth, mankind watches as King Ghidorah, clad in a golden light, descends on the planet. The heavens and earth shake once again as the war moves to a higher dimension.
Style:
anime, adult animation, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, mutant, giant monster, spaceship, humanity in peril, good versus evil, monster, self sacrifice, danger, captain, race against time ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the year 2048, the human race is forced to leave Earth after decades of losing against Godzilla and other giant monsters. They take a twenty-year journey to another planet called Tau Ceti-e, but upon arrival, they discover that the planet has ...
Style:
anime, 3d animation, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
godzilla, giant monster, human in outer space, kaiju, human versus monster, battles, fight, creature, captain, monster terrorizes city, bomb, professor ...
Time:
2010s, distant future
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Godzilla comes to the rescue when an alien race rebuilds Mechagodzilla to destroy Earth's cities. A traitorous scientist gives them a second weapon: Titanosaurus.
Style:
daikaiju, natural horror, fast, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, alien invasion, robot, dinosaur, mad scientist, evil alien, space and aliens, androids and robots, giant animal, reptiles ...
Time:
jurassic, year 1975, 70s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After the appearance of a new Gojira (Godzilla), the Japanese government builds a robotic Godzilla from the bones of the original monster that attacked Tokyo in 1954 to stop the beast.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, supernatural thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
godzilla, giant monster, kaiju, creature feature, androids and robots, monster, bio weapon, human versus monster, robot, danger, chaos, battles ...
Time:
year 1999, year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, jurassic ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the 6th Godzilla movie, mysterious aliens from the Planet X ask earth's people to help them save their world from the dreaded Ghidorah (aka "Monster Zero") by letting them "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan. Monster mayhem ...
Style:
grindhouse, daikaiju, natural horror, classic horror, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, godzilla, alien invasion, monster, ufo, alien, impossible love, crossover, evil alien, creature, giant animal ...
Time:
jurassic, 60s, prehistoric times
Place:
japan, tokyo, usa
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The 9th Godzilla film was the last made by the original Godzilla creators, and was meant to be a grand finale. Aliens have released all the giant monsters from their imprisonment on Monster Island and are using them to destroy earth's major ...
Style:
grindhouse, daikaiju, classic horror, natural horror, suspense ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, monster, monster terrorizes city, giant spider, mothra, dinosaur, giant animal, creature feature, alien, moon base ...
Time:
jurassic, future, 90s, prehistoric times, year 1999
Place:
japan, mount fuji, asia, paris france, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The 8th Godzilla film is aimed at an even younger audience than its predecessors. In the South Seas, scientists conducting weather experiments encounter gigantic mantises and a giant spider that are attacking Godzilla's offspring.
Style:
scary, suspense, natural horror, daikaiju, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, island, godzilla, weather manipulation, giant spider, disaster, weather, danger, heroes, killer animal ...
Time:
year 1967, jurassic, 60s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Australia, China, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Evil Space Aliens called the Xilians unleashes all the Earth's monsters to lay waste to most of the world's major cities, including Tokyo, New York, Sydney, Shanghai and Paris. It is up to Godzilla and the Earth Defense Force to vanquish ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, evil alien, chaos, danger, battles, survival, demolished city, dangerous animal, deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, chases and races ...
Time:
jurassic, 60s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1964 ...
Place:
new york, japan, tokyo, usa, vancouver ...
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Earth is headed for disaster and when an archeological research team visits Infant Island to find out why, they discover two tiny women who reveal that the Earth is fighting back for all the harm humans have done here and sends out the evil ...
Style:
daikaiju, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, biting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, mothra, archaeologist, reptiles, giant animal, dinosaur, mutant, creature, monster terrorizes city, phenomenon ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The aftermath of the Oxygen Destroyer brings forth Destoroyah, a beast intent on killing Godzilla, who is on the verge of a nuclear meltdown.
Style:
natural horror, dark, depressing, daikaiju, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, killer animal, giant monster, mutant, giant animal, disaster, reptiles, giant creature, dinosaur, creature, monster ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, hong kong
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Godzilla saves Tokyo from a flying saucer that transforms into the beast Orga.
Style:
exciting, stylized, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, monster, giant monster, skyscraper, transformation, technology, fight scenes, redemption, danger, island, deadly creature ...
Time:
2000s, jurassic, future, 80s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Serbia, Slovenia, Montenegro, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.
Style:
serious
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, secret mission, friendship, doctor, secret service, laboratory, humanism, nudity, nobel prize, public nudity ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade serbia, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The widow of a scientist who was murdered by his colleagues goes undercover at the research lab where he worked to expose them.
Style:
serious, realistic, mind bending, suspenseful
Plot:
scientist, frame up, experiment gone awry, laboratory, undercover, amateur detective, intrigue, rivalry, uncover truth, disorder, woman in danger, revenge plot ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War 4, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the ...
Style:
cult classic, surreal, humorous, futuristic, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dog, post apocalypse, dystopia, desert, distopia, nuclear holocaust, wedding, survival, wasteland, dystopian future, violent, escape ...
Time:
future, year 1975, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
phoenix arizona, oklahoma
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Cuba
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In an alternate reality, Fidel Castro uses genetic engineering to build the new man and thus save utopia. The experiment fails as these beings are highly intelligent but also cruel and uncontrollable. Rejected by their own creators, a group ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
human monster, taboo, scientific experiment, science runs amok, science gone wrong, experiment gone awry, experiment, dna, explicit sex, terrorist, against humanity, fate of humanity ...
Place:
cuba
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
After the apocalypse, all water is radioactive and deadly to drink. In this dystopian world, Gylian goes to extreme lengths to make sure her daughter gets the medication she needs to survive.
Style:
independent film, bleak, surprise ending, grim
Plot:
end of the world, apocalypse, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dehydration, daughter, radiation, torture, punched in the face, pistol ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 232 min.
TV show
Story:
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing ...
Style:
mysterious, dark, splatter, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
stephen king, on the run, rejuvenation, military, experiment, scientist, conspiracy, fugitive, gym, laboratory, aging, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Two men from Pennsylvania give up hope in their small run down coal mining town, and head off in search of the beaches of California. The two steal cars as they travel across the USA and are joined by a wild young woman.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
wild ride, on the road, friendship, outlaw, unlikely criminals, chases and races, youth, buddies, teenage life, disorder, dull life, contamination ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, pennsylvania, usa, illinois
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, action adventure, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
cold war, teenager, nuclear, military, atomic bomb, whistleblower, nuclear bomb, nuclear war, scientist, plutonium, laboratory, bombing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york state, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Captain Nemo (José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day people in order to battle the King of Atlantis, who is under the control of a fiendish mad scientist (Burgess Meredith).
Style:
psychotronic, fairy tale, exciting, tense, semi serious
Plot:
ocean, underwater, creature, disaster, animal, adventurer, battles, exotic island, obsessive quest, danger, escapades, mad scientist ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1978, 1860s
Place:
washington d.c., pacific ocean, fictional island
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Based on true events, a boy and a girl fall in love during the worst nuclear disaster in history.
Plot:
radiation sickness, looting, forced abortion, disaster, radiation, helicopter, catastrophe, robbery
Time:
year 1986
Place:
ussr, ukraine
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young German woman bonds with an elderly Japanese woman while touring the Fukushima region of Japan in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake.
Style:
crying
Plot:
geisha, female protagonist, german woman, foreigner in japan, fukushima, buddhism, natural disaster, old age, haunted by the past, friendship, saving a life, personal growth ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Americans investigating the results of nuclear radiation discover a man-eating monster on a remote island.
Style:
psychotronic, grindhouse, suspense, independent film, scary ...
Plot:
human sacrifice, monster, tropical island, interracial relations, island, body horror, wedding, bare chested male, superstition, mutation, evil, exploitation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
scientist, investigation, fbi, mad scientist, misfit partners, save the day, bio weapon, characters in danger, danger, reluctant partners, supernatural, law enforcement ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a brutal, radioactive future, fearless warrior Dow (David Carradine) is humanity's last hope against the Warlord and his mutant hordes. With the gorgeous, deadly Danny (Dawn Wildsmith) and the strange Ammo at his side, Dow makes desperate ...
Style:
independent film, serious, exciting, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, desert, monster, distopia, betrayal, nudity, dystopian future, violent content, profanity, strong violent content, against the odds, apocalypse ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain ...
Style:
tense, apocalyptic, serious, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
apocalypse, nuclear, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, nuclear war, save the world, atomic bomb, post apocalypse, chaos, survival, heroic mission, race against time ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
australia, asia, melbourne, san francisco
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Spain
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, ...
Style:
futuristic, neo noir, detective, tech noir, thought provoking ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, dystopia, investigation, dark future, technology, robot, flying car, bounty hunter, violence, police detective, memory ...
Time:
future, near future, 2040s, distant future, year 2017 ...
Place:
california, nevada, space western, san diego california, los angeles ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series is an American animated series based on the Marvel comic book superhero character Spider-Man, which ran for one season, 13 episodes, starting on July 11, 2003. It is a loose continuation of 2002's Spider-Man ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, feel good, adult animation, saga ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
superhero, secret identity, villain, spider man, fighting crime, good versus evil, supernatural, master villain, imaginary, save the day, rivalry, undercover ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, gory, survival, torture, fear, rape, victim, human monster, brutality, stranded, danger ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
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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:
costume drama, captivating, social, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
factory worker, factory, american history, labor union, social injustice, workplace problem, disgruntled worker, labor movement, labor leader, working class, workplace, coworker ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
new jersey
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