Radiation poisoning movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant radiation poisoning movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, bleak and rough films and TV shows about / with radiation poisoning, radiation, danger, death, explosion, nuclear, blood, survival, race against time and disaster plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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radiation poisoning movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as radiation poisoning: Aftermath (2014), Chernobyl (2019), Radium Girls (2018), Pu-239 (2006), The Days (2023), Silkwood (1983), Chernobyl: Abyss (2021), The Day After (1983), The Divide (2011), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002).

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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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 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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 6.3
 2K
Radium Girls (2018)
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: thought provoking, social, captivating, disturbing, costume drama ...
Plot: radiation poisoning, factory worker, factory, american history, social injustice, disgruntled worker, labor union, workplace problem, labor movement, coworker, worker, workplace ...
Time: 1920s
Place: new jersey
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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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 7.2
 6K
The Days (2023)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
Style: captivating, tense, dark
Plot: nuclear disaster, nuclear radiation, nuclear power plant, flooding, radiation poisoning, nuclear holocaust, nuclear explosion, problem, alternate history, gas mask, entity, tragedy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
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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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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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 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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 5.8
 38K
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, tense, apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: survival, isolation, survival horror, torment, nuclear holocaust, losing-it hero, disaster, social decay, group of strangers, apocalypse, confined, danger ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, north korea
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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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 6.2
 238K
Transcendence (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, cerebral, exciting, philosophical ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, technology, scientist, consciousness, technology gone awry, resurrection, computers and web, chaos, hi-tech, utopia, robot, science ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: peru, usa, california, new mexico
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 6.2
 70K
Kate (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After she's irreversibly poisoned, a ruthless criminal operative has less than 24 hours to exact revenge on her enemies and in the process forms an unexpected bond with the daughter of one of her past victims.
Style: suspense, cult classic, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female assassin, murder, revenge, assassin, female protagonist, woman, yakuza, fight, poison, strong female lead, murderer, vengeance ...
Time: 2020s
Place: tokyo, japan, osaka japan
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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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 3.4
 863
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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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link ...
Style: futuristic, dieselpunk, stylized, surreal, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: steampunk, robot, heroic mission, alternate reality, mad scientist, airplane, transformation, alternate history, danger, save the world, aviation, kidnapping ...
Time: future, 1930s, year 2004, 2000s, year 1939 ...
Place: new york, himalaya, manhattan new york city, nepal, new york state ...
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Panic in the City (1968)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
Style: slasher, neo noir, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, agent, city, police officer, panic, suicide mission, evil man, hospital, radiation poisoning, bomb ...
Time: 60s
Place: los angeles, pacific ocean
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 6.2
 13K
Project X (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious "Project X". Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being ...
Style: humorous, touching, intense, semi serious, suspense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: monkey, animal, chimpanzee, justice, uncover truth, partner, animal training, experiment gone awry, rescue, animal rescue, laboratory, top secret ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: everglades
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Edge of Darkness (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to ...
Style: brutal, tense, suspenseful, exciting, detective ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: vengeance, father daughter relationship, murder, investigation, corruption, uncover truth, fighting the system, riddles and clues, conspiracy, political corruption, violence, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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 7.3
 584K
Tenet (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Plot unknown. The project is described as an action epic revolving around international espionage.
Style: unusual plot structure, suspense, twist ending, mind blowing, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: time paradox, time travel, time, time loop, cia agent, alternate timeline, quantum physics, terrorism, save the world, espionage, propaganda, time traveler ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s
Place: mumbai india, los angeles, india, vietnam, london ...
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Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Gang leader Tony pulls off a major diamond heist with his crew, but cop-turned-criminal Ling knows who has the loot and responds by kidnapping Tony's daughter and holding her for ransom. Unfortunately, Tony's lost the diamonds as well. As ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kidnapping, robbery, vengeance, gangster, redemption, one man army, father daughter relationship, fight, daring rescue, race against time, kidnapped ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, los angeles
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Flight of Black Angel (1991)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A top US Air Force fighter pilot decides that his call sign of Black Angel means that he's a messenger of God. Freely committing murders as he goes, he steals a nuclear weapon and his plane. Taking a family hostage to help him, he works on ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, futuristic, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, hijacking, space, disaster, world war, hostage, radioactivity, fighter pilot, atomic bomb, u.s. air force, chaos, tough heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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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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Land of Oblivion (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Ukraine, Poland, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tchernobyl, 1986, a few hours before the disaster. Piotr and Anya's wedding is interrupted by a fire at the power station.
Style: bleak, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy
Plot: nuclear power plant, evacuation, dealing with death, small town, accident, radiation poisoning, wedding party, dead animal, post apocalypse, tour guide, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1986
Place: ukraine
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 8.0
 9K
Barefoot Gen (1983)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Based on the acclaimed manga by Nakazawa Keiji, the author of Barefoot Gen, who was 6 years old ...
Style: anime, disturbing, adult animation, heartbreaking, political ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, nuclear holocaust, anti war, disaster, atomic bomb, radioactivity, radiation sickness, bombing, atrocity, demolished city, burned alive, contamination ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, hiroshima japan
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Eyes Behind the Stars (1978)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that they decide to cut their session short and leave. Later, when they develop the photos they took, they ...
Style: mysterious, independent film, detective
Plot: alien, ufo, alien invasion, invasion, alien abduction, conspiracy, photography, exploitation, secret organization, murder, fashion model, secretary ...
Place: britain
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no ...
Style: anime, touching, depressing, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: world war two, hunger, war, orphan, homelessness, survival, siblings relations, children, desperation, death of child, anti war, boy ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1945, post world war two
Place: japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A high-school teacher (Kenji Sawada) builds an atomic bomb to hold Tokyo hostage, then cannot decide what he wants.
Style: philosophical, realistic, semi serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: terrorism, plutonium, atomic bomb, technology, mental disorder, professor, sexploitation, high school teacher, satire, nuclear threat, car chase, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Seal Team Eight must fight their way deep into Africa's Congo, decommission a secret uranium mine, and stop our most dangerous enemy from smuggling weapon's grade yellow-cake out of the country.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soldier, heroes, danger, battles, military, betrayal, rescue mission, wartime, conflict, propaganda, struggle, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, johannesburg south africa, congo
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Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The 4th film in the Godzilla franchise restores the serious tone of the original Godzilla film. A greedy developer has placed huge machines to suck dry a part of the ocean near Tokyo so he can build luxury condos. After a storm, a giant egg washes ...
Style: suspense, grindhouse, natural horror, daikaiju, classic horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, godzilla, monster, giant monster, mothra, dinosaur, greed, island, creature feature, crossover, dangerous animal, prehistoric creature ...
Time: jurassic, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He ...
Style: slasher, mind bending, grindhouse, creepy, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, female serial killer, closeted homosexual, murder, obsession, female psychopath, psychotic, macabre, murder mystery, gay, musician, killer ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: europe, rome italy, italy, germany
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