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, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic and independent film films and TV shows about / with nuclear testing, nuclear, survival, danger, desert, death, catastrophe, chase, nuclear explosion and radiation plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi 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), Godzilla (1998), Kiss or Kill (1997), Dark Blood (2012), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Nightbreaker (1989), Most Dangerous Man Alive (1961), Godzilla (1977), The Gift to Stalin (2008).
List of nuclear testing movies
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:
sexy, melancholic, light, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
couples, infidelity, mental illness, love, nymphomania, dysfunctional marriage, passion, character study, secrets, military life, couple relations, family problems ...
Time:
1950s, year 1994, 20th century, 60s, 50s
Place:
alabama, usa, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
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, intense, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
world war two, nuclear bomb, atomic bomb, scientist, politics, military, scientific research, biopic, idealism, nuclear, moral dilemma, ego clash ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, new mexico, bay area, germany, russia
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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:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, godzilla, giant monster, creature, experiment gone awry, giant, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, lost world, military, disaster, human versus monster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, jurassic, year 1998, future
Place:
new york, tahiti, manhattan new york city, new jersey, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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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, desert, young couple, outlaw, sex crime, hotel room, scam, on the road, hotel, nuclear testing, road trip ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
australia, south australia
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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, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
desert, captivity, on the road, danger, isolation, dangerous attraction, couples, under the surface, doomed love, tragic romance, nuclear testing, native american reservation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa, utah
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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, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, gory, survival, torture, fear, rape, victim, human monster, brutality, stranded, danger ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
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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 ...
Style:
historical drama, thought provoking, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
nuclear testing, cold war, ethical dilemma, guilt, conspiracy, whistleblower, investigation, conscience, regret, corruption, flashback, biopic ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
las vegas, nevada
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Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An escaped, but framed, prisoner escapes prison during a cobalt explosion and soon discovers he has grown a special power that makes his body impervious to everything. Learning this, he seeks vengeance on the bad guys who framed him for jail.
Style:
retro, crime drama, suspense, black and white, tension ...
Plot:
revenge, frame up, mutation, nuclear testing, prison break, superhuman powers, invulnerability, escaped prisoner, mobster, betrayal, cold war, fugitive ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film is a re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of Godzilla featuring 80 minutes of footage from the original Gojira (1954) and the US version Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) plus 25 minutes of WWII newsreel footage and clips from ...
Style:
colorized, apocalyptic, cult classic, melancholic, psychotronic
Plot:
kaiju, monster, godzilla, giant monster, nuclear testing, destruction, giant creature, ethical dilemma, helplessness, panic, sea creature, cold war era ...
Time:
1950s, jurassic
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees ...
Style:
historical drama, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
boy, totalitarian regime, loss, tragedy, deportation, nuclear testing, oppression, social problems, foster child, reprisal, dysfunctional family, repression ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
kazakhstan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Filmed during their sell-out 1997 tour, Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island features Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson at their comedic finest. This time around Richie Richard (Mayall) and Eddie Hitler (Edmondson) are marooned on a desert island in ...
Style:
dark comedy, slapstick, absurd, raunchy, funny ...
Plot:
marooned, desert island, stranded, nuclear testing, isolation, tropical island, atomic bomb, survival, toilet humor, satire, farce, political satire ...
Place:
pacific ocean, bristol
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Though its aftertitles detailing the history of French nuke experiments suggest otherwise, writer/director Marion Hänsel’s Black Ocean is not a political treatise or a history lesson, instead taking advantage of the remote, isolated environments ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
military life, friendship, ship, soldier, power relations, partner, crew, nuclear, nuclear testing, gay subtext, coming of age, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe, pacific ocean
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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, nuclear bomb, mad scientist, danger, chaos, psychopath, chase, murder, kgb, woman strangled to death, strangulation, nudity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
nevada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A surf vacation turns into a nightmare when a group of surfers go looking for waves on a mysterious island that isn't on any map.
Style:
suspenseful
Plot:
survival horror, survival, beach, claustrophobia, visceral, local legend, slow burn, rescue, surfing, attempted rape, left for dead, nuclear testing ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
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, propaganda, nuclear reactor, husband wife relationship, satellite, nuclear explosion, political unrest, politics, danger, espionage, time, indian history ...
Time:
year 1998
Place:
india
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Thriller set in the milieu of French nuclear submarines.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, political thriller, futuristic
Plot:
submarine, sea battle, torpedo, naval battle, sea, nuclear submarine, nuclear threat, chain of command, nuclear missile, investigation, danger, water ...
Time:
near future
Place:
france, mediterranean sea, syria, finland
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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, showgirl, circus, settler, abandoned baby, father son relationship, mutation, homestead ...
Time:
70s
Place:
las vegas, nevada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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 ...
Style:
suspense, period piece, tense
Plot:
desert island, stranded, survivor, isolation, coming of age, generation gap, youth culture, island, law and order, young adult, survival, nuclear testing ...
Time:
60s
Place:
pacific ocean
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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:
sexy, bleak, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
end of the world, disaster, cold war, nuclear bomb, newspaper, chaos, natural disaster, apocalypse, science, race against time, danger, nuclear ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, distant future, 20th century, future ...
Place:
london, england, russia, europe, moscow russia ...
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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, atmospheric, touching, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, teenage love, parents and children, love and romance, rivalry, father daughter relationship, death of father, black, youth, coming of age, farm, nuclear testing ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
russia
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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.
Style:
historical drama, thought provoking, serious, political, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, nuclear, cold war, atomic bomb, realism, moral dilemma, biopic, espionage, physicist, nuclear bomb, nuclear threat, post war ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa, ussr, germany, soviet union
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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, light ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, monster, mothra, dinosaur, monster versus monster, giant animal, greed, island, creature feature, crossover ...
Time:
jurassic, 60s, 80s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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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:
exciting, entertaining, breathtaking, action packed, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, manly, family outing ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure, archaeologist, archaeology, adventurer, indiana jones, desert, jungle, artifact, chase, alien, sword fight ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
peru, south america, ussr, mexico city, latin america ...
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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:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
atomic bomb, conspiracy, investigation, aborigine, australian aboriginal, dead father, bombing, nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, survival, murder, politics ...
Time:
year 1987, 50s
Place:
australia, south australia, melbourne
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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, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, desert, dysfunctional family, youth, bittersweet, crumbling marriage, single parent, introspection, alcoholism, depression, drug addiction, bad father ...
Time:
1950s, year 1986, 50s, 70s
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
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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, existential, art house, reflective ...
Plot:
gulag, nuclear explosion, introspection, looking for love, travel, quest, treasure, oil well, loss of family, loneliness, isolation, spiritual journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
Style:
psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
superhero, alien invasion, orphan, chaos, battles, alien encounter, apocalypse, martial arts, space and aliens, rivalry, danger, escapades ...
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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, historical drama, dramatic, period piece, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cold war, espionage, lawyer, spy, cia, agent, soviet spy, courtroom, politics, berlin wall, court, negotiation ...
Time:
year 1960, year 2015, 2010s, year 1957, 1950s ...
Place:
east germany, berlin germany, soviet union, new york, west germany ...
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