Nuclear power movies and TV shows – page 2

List of nuclear power movies

The Sitting Duck (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: La syndicaliste is the true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, ...
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot: sexual assault, investigation, nuclear power plant, whistleblower, nuclear reactor, secret, uncover truth, crime investigation, crime solving, politics, intimidation, trial ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2017
Place: france, paris france
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Fugitives of the Federation for their daring rescue of Spock from the doomed Genesis Planet, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew begin their journey home to face justice for their actions. But as they near Earth, they find it at the mercy of ...
Style: futuristic, action adventure, clever, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: time travel, star trek, space travel, space opera, spacecraft, teleportation, space, marine biologist, space adventure, planet earth, falling from height, beer ...
Time: future, year 1986, 80s, 23rd century, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, usa, california
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 8.6
 465K
The Simpsons (1989)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, adult animation, adult cartoon, spoof ...
Audience: teens, family outing, chick flick, toddlers, kids ...
Plot: dark humor, goofy hero, satire, social satire, beer, suburbs, bully, siblings relations, family relations, werewolf, eccentric family, adult humor ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 2010s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: usa, nova scotia
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 4.5
 285
Supertrain (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Supertrain is an American television drama/adventure series that ran on NBC from February 7 to May 5, 1979. Nine episodes were made, including a 2-hour pilot episode.
Style: anthology, period piece, suspense, comedy drama, lighthearted
Audience: family friendly
Plot: train, railroad, cross country, escapism, travelogue, theater, stranger on a train, trucker, passenger, train travel, nuclear power, murder ...
Time: 70s
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The Plutonium Incident (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A worker at a nuclear power plant finds life in danger after she points out unsafe conditions.
Style: tense, tension, suspense, grim
Plot: plutonium, cover up, whistleblower, female protagonist, corruption, intimidation, corporate conspiracy, danger, paranoia, investigation, moral dilemma, survival ...
Place: oregon
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The Bedford Incident (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, political, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cold war, submarine, war, navy, nuclear explosion, reporter, u.s. navy, confrontation, propaganda, battlefield, military, torpedo ...
Time: 60s
Place: greenland, atlantic ocean, russia
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, cerebral, satirical, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: satire, cold war, military, nuclear war, nuclear threat, nuclear explosion, u.s. air force, nuclear holocaust, nuclear bomb, doomsday, anti war, absurdism ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1942, 1930s
Place: soviet union, washington d.c., persia, united kingdom, england ...
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Back to the Future (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his ...
Style: feel good, exciting, funny, light, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, mad scientist, time, time loop, destiny, teenager, scientist, changing the past or future, inventor, fish out of water, high school ...
Time: future, 80s, 1950s, year 1985, 20th century ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, north america
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 8.0
 997K
The Martian (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style: futuristic, biting, clever, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: survival, mars, astronaut, stranded, space travel, nasa, isolation, science, outer space, struggle for survival, space, loneliness ...
Time: year 2015, 2030s, year 2016, near future, future ...
Place: china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, beijing china ...
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Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The science of miniaturization has been unlocked, and the army has big plans. But when a scientist carrying the secret of the process is injured in a surprise attack, a life-threatening blood clot puts him into a coma. Now, a team of adventurers ...
Style: medical horror, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: submarine, double agent, space and aliens, medical, rescue, military, assassination attempt, danger, chases and races, shrinking, trippy, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, year 1966, 60s, future
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Edge of Darkness (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: The mysterious murder of an environmental activist leads her straight-laced father, an Inspector of the local police force, through a haunting revelation of the murkiness of the British Nuclear Policy of the eighties.
Style: detective, political, political thriller, cult classic, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: conspiracy, revenge, politics, nuclear, murder, legal investigation, police, murder mystery, whistleblower, conspiracy theory, capitalism, new world order ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: england, northern england, yorkshire, europe
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The Devil, Probably (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In order to be technically free of the mortal sin of suicide, a young man who has given up on the world pays a drug-addict to shoot him. Charles (Antoine Monnier), who is a student, has tried political action and investigated the claims of religion ...
Style: slow cinema, spiritual, anthology, art house, light ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: suicide, nihilism, loser, religion, female nudity, minimalism, shoplifting, teenage boy, logic, post war, betrayal, existentialism ...
Time: year 1977, 70s
Place: france, paris france, ussr, soviet union, mediterranean sea
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