Nuclear power movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant nuclear power movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic and captivating films and TV shows about / with nuclear power, catastrophe, radiation, nuclear, danger, disaster, nuclear power plant, technology, explosion and death plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nuclear power: Atomica (2017), Chernobyl (2019), Fukushima 50 (2020), Chernobyl: Abyss (2021), The Manhattan Project (1986), The Big Bus (1976), Radioactive (2019), The China Syndrome (1979), Cloud Atlas (2012), The Days (2023).
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List of nuclear power movies
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange ...
Style:
philosophical, tense, suspenseful, captivating, futuristic ...
Plot:
nuclear power, strong female lead, nuclear, scientist, insanity, desert, workplace situations, engineer, science runs amok, hi-tech, science, worker ...
Time:
future, near future
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1.0M
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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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake an tsunami in 2011.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, sincere
Plot:
nuclear disaster, nuclear power plant, nuclear radiation, japanese wife, nuclear power, japanese history, mishap, fukushima, grandfather, white house, flooding, businessman ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2011
Place:
japan, pacific ocean
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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, thought provoking, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
nuclear power plant, radiation, radiation sickness, nuclear reactor, disaster, firefighting, evacuation, death, accident, hospital, communism, society ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place:
chernobyl, ussr, poland, europe, ukraine ...
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Genre: Biography
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dive into the life of the father of the nuclear Navy: Hyman Rickover. Combative, provocative, and blunt, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was a flamboyant maverick and a unique American hero. When few thought it possible, then-Captain Rickover harnessed ...
Style:
captivating, serious, educational
Plot:
submarine, nuclear power, cold war, navy, military, nuclear submarine, u.s. navy, maverick, science and technology, atomic weapons, military officer, science ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, action adventure, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
cold war, teenager, nuclear, military, atomic bomb, whistleblower, nuclear bomb, nuclear war, scientist, plutonium, laboratory, bombing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york state, new york
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is making it's maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down on ...
Style:
road movie, parody, spoof, absurd, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bus, disaster, sabotage, road trip, veterinarian, priest, nuclear power, bowling, old woman, rescue, singer, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s, year 1976
Place:
new york, colorado, usa, tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, China, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
Style:
poignant, captivating, serious, harsh, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
nobel prize, chemistry, scientist, radioactivity, scientific research, nuclear, radiation, physics, science, physicist, genius, nobel prize winner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 1945, year 1957 ...
Place:
chernobyl, europe, stockholm sweden, paris france, poland ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style:
suspense, tension, suspenseful, political, tense ...
Plot:
reporter, conspiracy, investigation, power plant, radiation, politics, journalism, nuclear power, whistleblower, disaster, murder, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, southern california, pennsylvania
Is relevant?
385K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, futuristic, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
destiny, dystopia, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, clone, homosexual, distopia, post apocalypse, karma, tribe ...
Time:
future, year 1936, distant future, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
seoul, san francisco, belgium, persia, berlin germany ...
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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:
tense, captivating, dark
Plot:
nuclear disaster, nuclear radiation, nuclear power plant, tragedy, disaster, nuclear power, radiation poisoning, flooding, radiation, nuclear, accident, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline ...
Style:
tension, suspense, intense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
terrorism, helicopter, hostage, rescue, nuclear power, threat, race against time, terror, terrorist, terrorist attack, risk, saving a life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, china
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
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, realistic, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
cold war, submarine, navy, nuclear submarine, radiation, courage, underwater, radiation sickness, nuclear, radioactivity, sea, sea disaster ...
Time:
60s, year 1989, year 2002, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
soviet union, nova scotia, russia, moscow russia, atlantic ocean ...
Is relevant?
1.0M
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Style:
period piece, epic, exciting, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear, scientist, world war two, atomic bomb, american politics, physics, laboratory, arizona desert, top secret, husband wife relationship, moral dilemma, desert ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945, 1950s, year 1954, year 1943 ...
Place:
new mexico, england, zurich switzerland, north america, soviet union ...
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28K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring. Director Sidney Lumet gives an atmospheric ...
Style:
tense, political, political thriller, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, politics, nuclear threat, u.s. air force, military, nuclear explosion, atomic bomb, bomber, nightmare, nuclear bomb ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1967
Place:
russia, new york, washington d.c., usa, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, historical drama, period piece, melancholic, political drama
Plot:
commune, political protest, mother son relationship, coming of age, environmentalism, alternative lifestyle, ecology, village life, young adult, social experiment, nuclear power, cannabis ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany, chernobyl, central europe
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A cinematic adaptation of Jules Verne's 1874 novel "The Mysterious Island", the story begins during the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia. Five northern POWs make the decision to escape the ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
giant bird, sea disaster, escape, deadly creature, american civil war, monster, fantasy world, catastrophe, race against time, imaginary, escapades, runaway ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
fictional island, louisiana
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A teen-aged computer enthusiast named Gregory writes a computer program, P-1, that grows and becomes self aware. P-1's instinct for survival starts to cause problems in the real world. Based on the 1977 Thomas Ryan novel, The Adolescence of P-1.
Style:
suspense, tension, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hacker, computer hacking, power plant, nuclear threat, artificial intelligence, high school, teenager, school, hacking, ethical dilemma, cat and mouse, paranoia ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A hitman comes to a hill town to plot the murder of a top scientist. A young man and his righteous father stand in his way.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
son, killing, battles, problem, family relations, relationships, crime solving, murder mystery, murderer, accused of murder, fight, crime investigation ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In 1993, former military officer Suk-young Park is recruited as a spy by South Korea's National Intelligence Service, and given the code name "Black Venus". He is then sent to infiltrate a group of high-ranking North Korean officials ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
dictatorship, inter-korean relations, undercover agent, political campaign, political corruption, undercover, dictator, top secret, secret mission, government official, military, double agent ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 1998, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
north korea, south korea, beijing china, china, asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the year 2011, historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model, Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV ...
Plot:
dystopia, surrealism, democracy, past, class conflict, model, stripper, class struggle, nuclear power plant, photo model, nuclear power, strike ...
Time:
future, year 2012
Place:
finland
Is relevant?
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
amnesia, private detective, police detective, manhunt, chase, investigation, murder, dishonesty, mind game, uncover truth, spy, russian roulette ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mysterious power failure in a small mountain town coincides with the disappearance of one of its most eccentric young residents. Mystery piles upon mystery as his family and friends search for him, fail, and ultimately try to forget about him, an ...
Style:
stylized, surreal, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
small town, social relations, friendship, best friend, family relations, disorder, friends, family life, missing person, nothing goes right, dark humor, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after all ...
Style:
daikaiju, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, psychotronic
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, godzilla, disaster, saturn the planet, dinosaur, spacesuit, giant animal, virus, flood, walrus ...
Time:
future, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
japan, antarctica, south pole, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Style:
apocalyptic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, end of the world, apocalypse, bare chested male, failed pilot, post-apocalyptic future, epidemic, loner, wasteland, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time:
22nd century, near future, future, 70s, year 1979
Place:
arizona, new mexico
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17K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
Style:
black comedy, cynical, not serious, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot:
atheism, nudist, brutality, dark humor, insanity, farce, satire, screwball, moral dilemma, human nature, sarcasm, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., mexico, st. louis missouri
Is relevant?
24K
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:
sad, touching, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
whistleblower, working class, conspiracy, nuclear power plant, fighting the system, workplace, labor union, radiation, women, environmental, radioactivity, environment ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s, year 1974
Place:
oklahoma, usa, washington d.c., california
Is relevant?
77K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ivan Tretiak, Russian Mafia boss who wants to create an oil crisis in Moscow and seize power as a result sends Simon Templar, great international criminal, to England to get a secret formula for cold fusion from U.S. scientist Emma Russell. Templar ...
Style:
romantic, action packed, breathtaking, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
love, conspiracy, on the run, thief, one last job, espionage, master thief, orphan, disguise, career criminal, coup d'etat, knights templar ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
russia, scotland yard, moscow russia, europe, berlin germany ...
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301
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Style:
historical drama, tense, bleak, period piece, tragic
Plot:
survival, radioactivity, radiation, disaster, evacuation, contamination, nuclear disaster, anxiety, panic, uncertainty, realism, loss ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
chernobyl, soviet union, ussr, ukraine
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Godzilla returns to terrorize Japan! This time, however, Japan has two new weapons to defend themselves. The Gryphon, a high-tech ship, and the Dimension Tide, a device that creates artificial black holes! During a test of the Dimension Tide, eggs ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, daikaiju, natural horror, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, giant monster, save the world, space and aliens, survival, chaos, danger, heroes, supernatural, disorder, escapades ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, 1950s, year 1954, 50s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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