Nuclear reactor movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant nuclear reactor movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, exciting and surprise ending films and TV shows about / with nuclear reactor, danger, disaster, explosion, deadly, heroes, survival, scientist, race against time and chases and races plots mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nuclear reactor: American Meltdown (2004), Chernobyl: Abyss (2021), Chernobyl (2019), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Atomic Twister (2002), The China Syndrome (1979), Innocent Saturday (2011), Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018), Chernobyl Diaries (2012), The Sitting Duck (2022).

List of nuclear reactor movies

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American Meltdown (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The telefilm centers on a present-day nuclear plant disaster and its aftermath.
Style: serious, exciting, tense, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nuclear reactor, nuclear threat, terrorism, conspiracy, save the day, race against time, danger, betrayal, scientist, found footage, special agent, catastrophe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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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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 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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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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Atomic Twister (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When tornadoes hit a nuclear power plant, critically damaging the plant's cooling system, the results could be catastrophic. Atomic Twister, a countdown to disaster, traces an extraordinary day in the lives of small town citizens who ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: disaster, tornado, race against time, danger, heroes, natural disaster, nuclear reactor, nuclear power plant, friends, apocalypse, weather, chief of police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tennessee, usa
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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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Innocent Saturday (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
Style: disturbing, serious, sincere, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: friendship, danger, survival, race against time, small town, disaster, nuclear reactor, escape, post apocalypse, rock, government facility, couples ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: chernobyl, russia
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Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A look at India's second confidential nuclear test series at Pokhran lead by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, during the time of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure.
Style: patriotic, psychological, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: nuclear, nuclear reactor, husband wife relationship, satellite, political unrest, politics, espionage, danger, nuclear explosion, indian history, propaganda, patriot ...
Time: year 1998
Place: india
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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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The Sitting Duck (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: La syndicaliste is the true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, ...
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, politics, crime investigation, crime solving, secret, nuclear reactor, whistleblower, nuclear power plant, sexual assault, french police, contract ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2017
Place: france, paris france
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 7.6
 23K
Tehran (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA, UK, Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A Mossad agent embarks on her first mission as a computer hacker in her home town of Tehran.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Plot: mossad, covert operation, computer, hacker, danger, spy, israeli, secret agent, investigation, criminal, terrorist group, hostage ...
Place: tehran iran, israel, iran, middle east, palestine
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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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 5.3
 13K
DeepStar Six (1989)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sea monster, underwater, survival, creature feature, race against time, giant monster, ghost ship, alien, disaster, rescue, shark, space ...
Time: future, prehistory
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Grand Central (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
Style: atmospheric, tense, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: love affair, male nudity, danger, radioactivity, infidelity, fall in love, workplace situations, workplace, nuclear power plant, bare chested male, contamination, nude women ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
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 4.4
 307
Terror Squad (1987)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A squad of Libyan terrorists infiltrate the city of Kokomo, Indiana, and take over a nuclear power plant. A counter-terrorist expert must stop them before they blow it up.
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorist attack, hostage situation, car chase, chase, terrorism, nuclear reactor, detention, violent content, swat, revolution, hitman, isolation ...
Time: 80s
Place: indiana, new york
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 8.4
 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
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Doom: Annihilation (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Doom: Annihilation follows a group of space marines as they respond to a distress call from a base on a Martian moon, only to discover it’s been overrun by demonic creatures who threaten to create Hell on Earth.
Style: scary, bloody, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: monster, mars, biopunk, zombie, secret laboratory, survival, violence, space marine, soldier, scientist, hell, space ...
Time: near future, future
Place: space western, nevada
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 5.9
 96K
Underwater (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, creature, monster, giant monster, water, sea monster, creature feature, animal attack, earthquake, ocean, survival, destruction ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: pacific ocean
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 4.3
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The Clones (1973)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather.
Style: psychedelic, tech noir, twisted, classic horror, gothic horror ...
Plot: clone, exploitation, conspiracy, science runs amok, shootout, scientist, doctor, chase, running, mouse, death, laboratory ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, southern california
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Style: melancholic, talky, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, disaster, survival, betrayal, race against time, apocalypse, moral dilemma, dystopic future, brutality, rescue, shark ...
Time: future, year 1961, 20th century
Place: new york
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Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux. Rearmed and reprogrammed, Deveraux must take on his nemesis from the original Universal Soldier and a ...
Style: exciting, intense, tense, serious, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, soldier, military, martial arts, fight, chase, violence, fight scenes, lone hero, superpower, heroes, gunfight ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2000s, 60s
Place: virginia
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 6.7
 159K
Pandorum (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style: futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, survival, outer space, isolation, monster, post apocalypse, space, survival horror, spacecraft, memory loss, danger, end of the world ...
Time: future, year 2009
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Interceptor Force 2 (2002)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the not too distant future a new team of specially trained government soldiers called an Interception Team contend with the latest hostile alien encounter. When an alien scout ship crashes in eastern Russia, Sean Lambert and his elite force are ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien encounter, evil alien, space wars, soldier, terrorism, race against time, heroic mission, rescue, danger, deadly creature, heroes, space and aliens ...
Time: future
Place: russia
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 3.7
 479
Freedom Strike (1998)
Genre: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a peace treaty between America and Syria is thwarted, the renegade head of the Syrian army retaliates in a major way. He steals a nuclear weapon that only the Freedom Strike team can stop! Cue an action-packed race against time to save the ...
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, disaster, die hard, world war, race against time, military, computer cracker, u.s. navy, escapades, confined, danger, undercover ...
Time: 90s
Place: mediterranean sea, washington d.c.
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Dragon Fighter (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The movie begins in Southern England in the Middle Ages and then six knights are seen riding in horses towards a destroyed town. They see the remains of burned buildings and dead people until they come upon a mother and her dead baby. She quickly ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: dragon, survival, experiment gone awry, imaginary, chaos, dangerous animal, heroes, rescue, supernatural, danger, good versus evil, disorder ...
Time: jurassic, middle ages, 20th century, 2000s
Place: england, europe
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 7.2
 179K
Dr. No (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey ...
Style: action packed, stylized, entertaining, saga, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: 007, james bond, spy, terrorism, murder, british secret service, terrorist plot, undercover, secret service, spy hero, cold war, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place: caribbean, jamaica, west indies, fictional island, england ...
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 3.3
 394
Atomic Dog (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a pooch is irradiated by a nuclear plant and threatens the town, only a teenage boy can redeem him.
Style: natural horror
Plot: dog, animal, killer animal, mutation, monster, puppy, dog actor, mutant, small town, teenage boy, radioactivity, teenager ...
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10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
TV show
Story: A jolted West Coast deals with the deadly aftereffects of a massive tremor in this sequel to the disaster drama 10.5. Concerned that a widening fault line may set off two nuclear reactors, seismologist Samantha Hill (Kim Delaney) contacts the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, survival, apocalypse, save the world, rescue, save the day, danger, escapades, race against time, chaos ...
Place: texas, las vegas, usa, south dakota, denver colorado ...
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 2.4
 83
Sharp Teeth (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A nuclear leak mutates the fish in the lake next to the local university. Journalism student, Lola Dent sees this story as an opportunity to make the honor list. She uses her wiles to convince a rookie harbor police officer to help her crack the ...
Style: semi serious, absurd, captivating, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mutant, eaten alive, marine biologist, journalism, shark, escapades, danger, ocean, media, terrorism, sea monster, environment ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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 6.9
 528K
Pacific Rim (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, stylized, serious, visually stunning ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: giant monster, monster, robot, kaiju, creature, battles, androids and robots, invasion, chaos and mayhem, destruction, danger, survival ...
Time: future, year 2013, near future, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place: tokyo, pacific ocean, seattle, san francisco, hong kong ...
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