Nuclear fallout movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant nuclear fallout movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing, independent film and apocalyptic films and TV shows about / with nuclear fallout, survival, nuclear, nuclear war, death, disaster, post apocalyptic, catastrophe, nuclear bomb and danger plots mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nuclear fallout: The Creator (2023), How I Live Now (2013), When the Wind Blows (1986), The Day After (1983), 54 Days (2014), Sex (2003), Jericho (2006), Zombie Night (2003), Pandora (2016), Panic in Year Zero! (1962).

List of nuclear fallout movies

 6.7
 194K
The Creator (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Cambodia
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, epic ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, technology, fictional war, ex special forces, space station, human versus robot, killer robot, secret laboratory, nuclear fallout, nuclear explosion, humanoid robot ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, 21st century
Place: asia, los angeles, tokyo
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 6.4
 33K
How I Live Now (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.
Style: suspenseful, teen, romantic, sweet, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: survival, longing, danger, teenage life, young adult, post apocalypse, love and romance, coming of age, cousin cousin relationship, youth, countryside, teenager ...
Time: year 2013, future, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, scotland, london
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When the Wind Blows (1986)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II
Style: adult animation, depressing, apocalyptic, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, cold war, nuclear threat, tragedy, countryside, nuclear explosion, apocalypse, nuclear disaster, epidemic, chaos, nuclear bomb ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, distant future, 80s
Place: europe, england
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 7.0
 20K
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: 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 ...
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 6.5
 68
54 Days (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 5 people trapped in a bunker after a nuclear and biological attack are forced to make an impossible decision - either one dies or they all die.
Style: tense, suspenseful, grim, apocalyptic, thought provoking ...
Plot: post apocalypse, post nuclear, claustrophobia, food shortage, nuclear fallout, confined space, human nature, water shortage, moral dilemma, fear, panic, contamination ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
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 3.8
 345
Sex (2003)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Erotic behaviour of a man leads to female deflowerment, which chronically was a disease in ancient zones.
Style: erotic, teen sex comedy, explicit, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: sexploitation, sex, nightmare, death, erotic fantasy, seduction, erotica, attempted seduction, eroticism, post apocalyptic, taboo, dystopia ...
Time: future
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 7.9
 61K
Jericho (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style: captivating, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, disaster, small town, danger, chaos, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, conspiracy, distopia, leadership ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
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 2.7
 570
Zombie Night (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Pakistan and India exchange nukes. Other countries join the fray, and the nuclear fallout causes a plague of the living dead. David attempts to lead a band of survivors from safe house to safe house, hoping to outlast the zombies, while also trying ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, independent film
Plot: zombie, survival, dark humor, violence, infection, siege, nuclear fallout, supernatural power, living dead, plague, zombie violence, corpse ...
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 6.7
 9K
Pandora (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min.
Story: When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, tear jerker
Plot: nuclear power plant, disaster, nuclear holocaust, tragedy, panic, small town, survival, workplace situations, save the day, workplace, virus outbreak, nuclear fallout ...
Place: south korea, korea, indiana, busan
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Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, retro, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, dystopia, nuclear bomb, disaster, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, survival horror, nuclear explosion, post-apocalyptic future, bombing, nuclear threat ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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Friend of the World (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Style: suspense, black and white, postmodern, art film, independent film ...
Plot: body horror, parasite, military, surrealism, absurdism, acid trip, good versus evil, survival horror, satire, fight, murder, violence ...
Time: 2020s, future, near future, 21st century
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Raiders of the Living Dead (1986)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In an abandoned prison, a doctor has revived executed convicts as the living dead. Teenager, Jonathan creates a laser gun from a videodisc player and pursues the walking dead, aided by his girlfriend and grandfather. Also tracking down the zombies ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot: swat team, reporter, hostage, cell phone, nuclear fallout, danger, deadly creature, journalism, prodigy, mad scientist, supernatural, disorder ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
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 8.3
 374K
Fallout (2024)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind ...
Style: captivating, spaghetti western, dark comedy, psychotronic, biting ...
Plot: post apocalypse, nuclear, arizona desert, mutation, desert, destruction, capitalism, wasteland, bandit, underground bunker, ruins, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, north america
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 7.0
 15K
Miracle Mile (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After 30 years of searching, Harry (Edwards) has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los ...
Style: black comedy, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nuclear war, end of the world, night, nuclear explosion, coffee shop, post apocalyptic, race against time, apocalypse, fall in love, chaos, nuclear holocaust, telephone call ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: los angeles, soviet union, antarctica
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 4.1
 6K
Skybound (2017)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Five friends on a small airplane mysteriously lose their radio connection on a trip from New York to LA. As they continue their flight, they're forced to assume that a major disaster happened on the ground. They discover a stowaway, Erik, who ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, action thriller
Plot: disaster, airplane, stowaway, save the day, trapped, confined, escapades, deception, isolation, abduction, danger, conspiracy ...
Place: chicago
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Barefoot Gen 2 (1986)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three years after the Hiroshima bombing, a teenager helps a group of orphans to survive and find their new life.
Style: anime, political, disturbing, adult animation
Plot: radiation sickness, starvation, virus outbreak, bombing, post apocalyptic, nuclear disaster, nuclear holocaust, post war, nuclear fallout, group, radiation, child abuse ...
Place: hiroshima japan, japan
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 5.7
 40K
The Divide (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Style: suspense, satanic, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: isolation, group of strangers, nuclear holocaust, torment, losing-it hero, survival, survival horror, social decay, violence, confined, apocalypse, nuclear explosion ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, north korea
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 5.0
 175
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, danger, society, escapades, hopes, clergy, fight, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
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Twenty Twenty-Four (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A lone scientist maintains an underground bunker for the coming global nuclear disaster. But after becoming prematurely isolated, he slowly begins to question his own reality and whether he is truly alone. Director Richard Mundy's immersive ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: underground bunker, bunker, mind game, isolation, mental disorder, isolated place, psychological manipulation, psychology, psychological torment, introspection, antisocial behavior, trapped in a building ...
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Godzilla 1985 (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves ...
Style: daikaiju, political thriller, natural horror, cult classic, serious ...
Plot: kaiju, monster, godzilla, giant monster, disaster, giant animal, island, monster terrorizes city, dinosaur, mutant, scientist, undead ...
Time: jurassic, year 1985, 80s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, soviet union, ussr
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 6.9
 8K
Testament (1983)
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
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 7.9
 27K
Threads (1984)
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 ...
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 9.3
 1.0M
Chernobyl (2019)
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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