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, rough and cult film films and TV shows about / with radiation poisoning, danger, radiation, catastrophe, death, violence, suspense, race against time, mentor and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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radiation poisoning movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as radiation poisoning: Chernobyl (2019), Aftermath (2014), Pu-239 (2006), Elysium (2013), The Day After (1983), Silkwood (1983), Radium Girls (2018), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), Monster of Terror (1965), Grand Central (2013).

List of radiation poisoning movies

 9.4
 778K
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, thought provoking, atmospheric, realistic, harsh ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: nuclear power plant, radiation, radiation poisoning, nuclear reactor, nuclear holocaust, save the day, scientist, nuclear explosion, salvation, nuclear threat, disaster, abandoned city ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chernobyl, ussr, ukraine, moscow russia, europe ...
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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, psychological, serious, bleak ...
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, radiation, survival, supernatural, isolation, chaos, confined, escapades, zombie apocalypse, nuclear, hiding place ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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 6.8
 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, bleak ...
Plot: radiation, plutonium, manhunt, radiation poisoning, uncover truth, life is a bitch, dishonesty, race against time, contamination, computer, nuclear war, nuclear radiation ...
Place: russia
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 6.6
 454K
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, stylized, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, space station, distopia, future dystopia, space, class conflict, space and aliens, dystopic future, dark future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, ecological disaster ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: los angeles, south africa, africa, usa
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 7.0
 17K
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, thought provoking, futuristic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, disaster, apocalypse, post apocalypse, end of the world, nuclear holocaust, radiation, catastrophe, distopia, nuclear bomb, natural disaster ...
Time: 80s, future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, new jersey, missouri, nebraska ...
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 7.1
 21K
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: thought provoking, touching, sad, serious, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: conspiracy, whistleblower, working class, workplace, women, research, environmental, fighting the system, contamination, uncover truth, corporate crime, lesbian ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: oklahoma, usa, washington d.c., california
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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: disturbing, captivating, social, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot: factory worker, factory, american history, workplace problem, disgruntled worker, labor union, labor movement, social injustice, worker, social problems, labor leader, fighting the system ...
Time: 1920s
Place: new jersey
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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: suspenseful, tense, realistic, rough, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, cold war, navy, nuclear submarine, military, courage, nuclear, radiation sickness, sea, suspense, radiation, disaster ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1989 ...
Place: ussr, russia, moscow russia
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Monster of Terror (1965)
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim ...
Style: gothic, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher ...
Plot: mad scientist, mutant, monster, supernatural, experiment gone awry, old dark house, paranoid, ghost, haunted house, suspense, fiancee, cosmic horror ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, europe
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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, emotional, sincere, tense, serious ...
Plot: love affair, radioactivity, infidelity, fall in love, workplace situations, workplace, nuclear power plant, contamination, woman, isolation, relationships, nude ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
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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: cult film
Plot: alien, invasion, alien abduction, alien invasion, conspiracy, fashion model, secret organization, radiation poisoning, ufo, model, murder, secretary ...
Place: britain
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 6.2
 232K
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: thought provoking, futuristic, philosophical, exciting, intellectual ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, technology, scientist, consciousness, resurrection, technology gone awry, hi-tech, chaos, computers and web, a.i., nanotechnology, utopia ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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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, exciting, tense ...
Plot: terrorism, technology, mental disorder, plutonium, atomic bomb, sexploitation, professor, high school teacher, satire, nuclear threat, car chase, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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 6.2
 64K
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: captivating, tense, disturbing, perverse, mind blowing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female assassin, revenge, murder, female protagonist, vengeance, suspense, fight, poison, woman, murderer, assassin, female serial killer ...
Time: 2020s
Place: tokyo, japan, osaka japan
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 6.1
 12K
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, intense, touching, semi serious, sweet ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: monkey, chimpanzee, justice, uncover truth, experiment gone awry, animal training, rescue, partners, teenager, suspense, secret project, animal rescue ...
Time: 80s
Place: everglades
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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: talky, stylized, bloody, splatter, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kaiju, monster, giant monster, godzilla, dinosaur, suspense, greed, catastrophe, island, creature feature, dangerous animal, adaptation ...
Time: 80s, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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 5.2
 4K
Detonator (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Croatia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijacked train, special agents are dispatched to disarm the deadly device. Ten tons of steel and one ounce of hot plutonium are now riding roughshod ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, railway, hijacking, spy, suspense, gulf war, general, scientist, mercenary, terrorism, heroes, hostage ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, russia, ussr, middle east, iran ...
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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, surprise ending, bloody, erotic ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, murder, macabre, musician, killer, mental illness, murder mystery, gay, suspense, female psychopath, blackmail ...
Time: 70s
Place: europe, rome italy, italy, germany, vatican
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Chernobyl: Abyss (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance
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, thought provoking, serious, dark ...
Plot: nuclear power plant, radiation, disaster, radiation sickness, nuclear reactor, death, evacuation, accident, firefighting, rescue mission, communism, society ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: chernobyl, ussr
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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, psychotronic
Plot: spy, espionage, secret agents, police officer, panic, evil man, hospital, bomb, russian, solitude, suicide, atomic bomb ...
Time: 60s
Place: los angeles, pacific ocean
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Nine Days of One Year (1962)
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. ...
Plot: scientist, science, marriage crisis, nuclear, dysfunctional marriage, romantic rivalry, love, radiation, love triangle, optimism, physicist, cynicism ...
Place: ussr
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 5.8
 37K
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: tense, apocalyptic, bleak, futuristic, disturbing ...
Plot: survival, confined, survival horror, isolation, torment, losing-it hero, suspense, social decay, disaster, apocalypse, group of strangers, nuclear holocaust ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, north korea, new york
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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: serious, realistic, bleak, touching, gloomy
Plot: nuclear power plant, evacuation, radiation, dealing with death, small town, accident, radiation poisoning, dead animal, wedding party, post apocalypse, ukrainian, tour guide ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1986
Place: ukraine
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Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Style: suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, experiment gone awry, supernatural ability, government agency, body horror, secret past, monster, murder, exploitation, scientist, conspiracy, burned alive ...
Time: 50s, 90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1955
Place: california
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 8.0
 8K
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, political, epic ...
Plot: world war two, anti war, coming of age, disaster, nuclear disaster, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, distopia, radiation sickness, destruction of the world, bombing, atomic bomb ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, hiroshima japan
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite meteor to frame Superman and declare a $1 billion bounty on the heads of the Man of Steel and his ‘partner in crime’, Batman. Heroes and villains alike launch a ...
Style: stylized, anime, atmospheric, talky, exciting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: superhero, batman, good versus evil, superman character, justice, frame up, false accusation, violence, transformation, heroes, fight scenes, supernatural power ...
Place: washington d.c., japan, tokyo, new york
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 6.5
 47K
Imperium (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, political, realistic, intense ...
Plot: skinhead, racism, terrorism, neo nazi, fbi, gangsters, gang, undercover, organized crime, fascism, investigation, genocide ...
Time: 70s, year 1969
Place: washington d.c., usa
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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, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: race against time, soldier, heroes, battles, military, betrayal, rescue mission, u.s. navy, woman with a gun, graphic violence, sexual content, renegade ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, congo, johannesburg south africa
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Edge of Darkness (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, 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: tense, suspenseful, brutal, exciting, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: vengeance, father daughter relationship, murder, investigation, corruption, fighting the system, uncover truth, suspense, riddles and clues, conspiracy, political corruption, violence ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
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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, teens
Plot: martial arts, kidnapping, fight, vengeance, robbery, gangsters, gang, redemption, one man army, father daughter relationship, race against time, daring rescue ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, san francisco, los angeles
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