Nuclear testing movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant nuclear testing movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, independent film and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with nuclear testing, danger, nuclear, nuclear explosion, survival, desert, radiation, escapades, cigarette smoking and explosion plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nuclear testing: Blue Sky (1994), Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), Dark Blood (2012), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961), Godzilla (1998), Kiss or Kill (1997), Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018), Barn of the Naked Dead (1973), The New People (1969).

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 6.4
 8K
Blue Sky (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons-testing in 1950's America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different ...
Style: light, melancholic, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mental illness, couples, infidelity, love, dysfunctional marriage, character study, secrets, couple relations, family problems, nymphomania, love affair, redemption ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: alabama, usa
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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Style: factual, suspense, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, nuclear bomb, atomic bomb, scientist, military, biopic, idealism, politics, scientific research, nuclear, ego clash, moral dilemma ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 20th century
Place: usa, new mexico, bay area
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 6.3
 1K
Dark Blood (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: desert, captivity, danger, isolation, dangerous attraction, on the road, couples, under the surface, nuclear testing, contamination, radiation, off the road ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona, utah
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The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
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, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cannibalism, gory, desert, survival, torture, rape, fear, human monster, victim, kidnapping, danger, massacre ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
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The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story: A Russian scientist is arriving to the states caring secret information’s. Disembarking from his plane, he and his American contacts are attacked by a pair of KGB assassins (Anthony Cardoza and John Morrison). Later, it is revealed that he has ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, scary, rough, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, mutant, nuclear bomb, mad scientist, danger, chaos, psychopath, chase, murder, kgb, monster, nuclear testing ...
Time: 60s
Place: nevada
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 5.4
 202K
Godzilla (1998)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: When a freighter is viciously attacked in the Pacific Ocean, a team of experts -- including biologist Niko Tatopoulos and scientists Elsie Chapman and Mendel Craven -- concludes that an oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: dinosaur, godzilla, monster, giant monster, disaster, experiment gone awry, giant, lost world, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, creature, human versus monster, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, jurassic, year 1998
Place: new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, tahiti, usa ...
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 6.3
 1K
Kiss or Kill (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: lovers on the run, murder, hotel room, scam, outlaw, sex crime, hotel, on the road, nuclear testing, road trip, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: australia, south australia
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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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Barn of the Naked Dead (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have car trouble and are stuck all night out in the desert. The next morning cheerful Andre offers them help in fixing their car. However, Andre is really a maniac with a lot of family problems; his mother ...
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: redneck, serial killer, exploitation, crazy, women's prison, night, car, insane, women in prison, psychopath, mutant, captive ...
Place: nevada
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 7.3
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The New People (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: The New People is a short-lived 1969 American television series on ABC that focused on a group of young college students who were returning from a trip in Southeast Asia when their plane crashed on an island in the south Pacific Ocean. The crash ...
Plot: island, desert island, survival, stranded, nuclear testing, abandoned city, teenager, survivor, castaway, airplane accident, young woman, nuclear ...
Place: pacific ocean
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 6.3
 500
Nightbreaker (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dr. Alexander Brown (Martin Sheen) arrives in Las Vegas, awarded for his recent medical invention. An ex-G.I. tells Brown he was a test subject during the 1950's, exposed to atomic bomb radiation in the Nevada desert-- will Brown help the man ...
Plot: cigarette smoking, world war three, puppet, nuclear testing, cold war, radiation, psychiatrist, duplicity, nuclear explosion, desert, casino, pig ...
Time: 1950s
Place: las vegas, nevada
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have ...
Style: bleak, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: end of the world, disaster, cold war, nuclear bomb, newspaper, natural disaster, science, chaos, race against time, danger, nuclear, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, distant future, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, russia, new york ...
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Test (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: They live in the steppe. A father and a daughter. Nothing may disturb the eternal order. Tomorrow always comes. And every morning the father goes away to work. And she stays alone. To wait for her father. And to feel. Two men are in love with her. ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, teenage love, parents and children, love and romance, rivalry, death of father, father daughter relationship, black, youth, coming of age, farm, nuclear testing ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: russia
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Choice of Purpose (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: A story of the creation of the atomic bomb in America, Germany and the USSR.
Plot: world war two, historical event, scientist, cold war, post war, nuclear threat, physicist, nuclear testing, nuclear, nuclear bomb, beard
Place: soviet union, usa
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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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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, action adventure, action packed, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, manly, family outing ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeologist, adventurer, archaeology, indiana jones, jungle, chase, desert, artifact, alien, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: peru, ussr, south america, latin america, mexico city ...
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 6.4
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Ground Zero (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, atomic bomb, investigation, aborigine, australian aboriginal, survival, dead father, nuclear holocaust, politics, murder, conspiracy theory, advertising ...
Time: year 1987, 50s
Place: australia, south australia, melbourne
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 6.6
 1K
Desert Bloom (1986)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story involves Rose Chismore's youth. She flashes back and remembers her coming-of-age. Her recollections are sometimes less than sweet, particularly those of her troubled and alcoholic step-father. Her memories of Robin, her first-love, ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, desert, dysfunctional family, youth, bittersweet, single parent, introspection, crumbling marriage, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, bad father ...
Time: 1950s, year 1986, 50s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
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Ulzhan (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or glory. He's looking for a way to heal his wounded ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: gulag, introspection, looking for love, travel, quest, oil well, loss of family, treasure, nuclear explosion, mountain, nuclear testing, oil company ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan, asia
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 3.8
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Atomic Rulers (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
Style: psychotronic, stylized, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: superhero, alien invasion, orphan, martial arts, alien encounter, apocalypse, good versus evil, androids and robots, save the world, escapades, danger, evil alien ...
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The Wolf's Call (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Thriller set in the milieu of French nuclear submarines.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, futuristic
Plot: submarine, sea battle, torpedo, sea, nuclear submarine, naval battle, chain of command, nuclear threat, danger, investigation, water, nuclear testing ...
Time: near future
Place: france
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 7.6
 326K
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, India, Germany
Duration: 142 min.
Story: During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate ...
Style: suspense, realistic, dramatic, intense, historical drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cold war, lawyer, espionage, spy, cia, justice, courtroom, court, trial, berlin wall, soviet spy, negotiation ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 50s, 60s ...
Place: east germany, berlin germany, soviet union, new york, persia ...
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