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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: Adventure, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A serpent, created by radioactivity, threatens a Spanish coastal town.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, independent film
Plot:
sea monster, eaten alive, science, giant animal, kaiju, underwater, nuclear, sea captain, ocean, survival, monster, creature feature ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China, Hong Kong, Morocco
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A squad of the Jiaolong Commando Unit - Sea Dragon, a spec ops team of the Chinese Navy, carries out a hostage rescue operation in the nation of Yewaire, on the Arabian Peninsula, and fiercely fights against local rebel groups and Zaka, a terrorist ...
Style:
breathtaking, exciting, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ex special forces, chinese army, ship, nuclear, law enforcement, terrorism, desert, military, group of criminals, save the day, arms dealer, weapons ...
Place:
somalia, china, morocco
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A former agent from the North Korean intelligence and a senior member of the South Korean security services conduct a secret mission to prevent the breakout of a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.
Style:
suspense, political thriller, political, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
spy, politics, coup d'etat, inter-korean relations, geopolitics, society, sting operation, danger, rivalry, kickass, covert operation, espionage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north korea, south korea, east asia, korea, seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dramatization of the trial of Christian anti-war activists, known collectively as the "Plowshares Eight". In September 1980, they broke into a General Electric weapons plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, and in an act of protest ...
Style:
independent film, political drama
Plot:
protest, anti war, political protest, civil disobedience, nuclear, courtroom drama, moral dilemma, social justice, liberation theology, experimental narrative, economist, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
Style:
thought provoking, allegory, grim, political thriller, tense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, nuclear, ethics, guilt, catastrophe, remorse, anti war, inventor, conspiracy, manipulation, doomsday, tragic hero ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Linda is trapped when the nuclear power plant in which she works threatens a meltdown, while her girlfriend takes on a major storm which could destroy their island home.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, bleak, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disaster, hurricane, storm, artificial intelligence, nuclear power plant, lesbian, computer, race against time, nuclear, power plant, computer system, evil computer ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II
Style:
adult animation, depressing, apocalyptic, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, cold war, nuclear threat, tragedy, countryside, nuclear explosion, apocalypse, nuclear disaster, epidemic, chaos, nuclear bomb ...
Time:
20th century, year 1986, distant future, 80s
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Uruguay
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
STALKER: Monolith's Whisper tells the story of Alexey Savchuk, an exiled victim of the 1986 Chernobyl accident who enters the Exclusion Zone to find his lost brother after "The Second Catastrophe" where a mysterious second explosion ...
Style:
art house, psychological, bleak, philosophical
Plot:
stalker, mercenary, nuclear explosion, loner, freedom, nuclear power plant, quest, dystopian future, escapades, nature, ecology, life & death ...
Place:
chernobyl, ukraine, uruguay
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Style:
futuristic, sexy, exciting, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, space opera, outer space, space and aliens, space wars, space battle, artificial intelligence, human in outer space, heroes, androids and robots, military, cyborgs ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
space western
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
father son relationship, violence, cia agent, tough cop, car chase, terrorist, terrorism, 007, american abroad, car accident, traffic jam, uranium ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia, seattle, new york, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Story:
A group of college friends head to a remote cabin for the weekend when a mysterious earthquake unleashes a horde of bloodthirsty, subterranean dinosaurs.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, scary, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
dinosaur, creature feature, monster, vacation, earthquake, violence, vengeance, chase, survival, friendship, prehistoric creature, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A man haunted by the mysterious death of his 4-year-old sister brings her back to life thirty years later as an adult woman, with dire consequences.
Style:
parody, spoof, scary, grindhouse, splatter ...
Plot:
incest overtones, body horror, nuclear, strong violent content, undead, monster, cadaver, cremation, cemetery, punk, living dead, apocalypse ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film tells about the cold reality of death and the horrors of grave torments.
Style:
scary, black comedy, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
death, social problems, transformation, night of the living dead, punk, flesh eating zombie, epidemic, american horror, attic, zombie apocalypse, cannibalism, blood ...
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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: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret ...
Style:
suspense, retro, period piece, twisted, spy comedy ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, kidnapping, nuclear, fbi, covert operation, exotic locale, rescue mission, secret organization, female agent, gambler, chase ...
Time:
60s
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, mockumentary, tragic ending
Plot:
nuclear explosion, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, apocalypse, world war three, cold war, nuclear bomb, post apocalypse, found footage, u.s. president, president, catastrophe ...
Place:
usa, soviet union, saudi arabia, middle east, ussr
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, 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, brutal, suspenseful, political thriller, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, violence, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, vigilantism, fighting the system, investigation, corruption, riddles and clues, political corruption, conspiracy ...
Time:
2000s, year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a nuclear missile is launched by presumably Soviet forces toward Turkey, the beginning of the ultimate war to end all wars WW 3 is started. Powers Boothe, his girlfriend and copilot Rebecca DeMornay and their flight crew take off in a B 52 on ...
Style:
serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear explosion, world war three, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, nato, nuclear threat, aviation, nuclear bomb, doom, post apocalypse, politics ...
Time:
80s, year 1991, 90s
Place:
usa, nebraska, ussr, washington d.c., soviet union ...
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550
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. ...
Style:
captivating, tense, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
atomic bomb, world war two, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, super weapon, nuclear, cold war, bombing, holocaust, war, terrorism, atomic weapons ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new mexico, london, hiroshima japan, chicago ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, retro, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, dystopia, nuclear bomb, disaster, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, survival horror, nuclear explosion, post-apocalyptic future, bombing, nuclear threat ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse, independent film ...
Plot:
nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, supernatural, save the world, chaos, religions or cults, nightmare comes true, parents and children, good versus evil, danger, family relations, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, salt lake city utah, london, britain, england ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dave Speed is no ordinary Miami cop--he is an irradiated Miami cop who has developed super powers. Unfortunately, he doesn't quite know how to use them and this gets him in trouble with his long-suffering partner. Red powder from a nuclear ...
Style:
parody, fast, semi serious, humorous, spoof ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, law enforcement, heroes, buddy cop, nuclear, flying man, nuclear missile, supernatural power, humour, police, truck ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
miami, china
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.
Style:
horror comedy, cult classic, slasher, splatter, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, nuclear power plant, monster, bullying, nudity, mutant, absurd humor, violent, exploitation, body horror, school, gory ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering the mining crew.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
creature feature, monster, spaceship, outer space, spacecraft, alien, creature, space, space opera, hibernation, doomsday, alien monster ...
Time:
jurassic
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, cold war, politics, save the day, rescue, state affairs, heroic mission, race against time, danger, government agency, military, disaster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
soviet union, atlantic ocean, ussr, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of ...
Style:
futuristic, cult classic, dutch angle, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, heroic mission, violence, slavery, escape attempt, danger, escapades, survival, rat ...
Time:
future, year 2000, y2k, distant future
Place:
denver colorado, washington d.c.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The star of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" returns in a story about frat boys lost in the big city while hunted by a violent leader and his elite gang of gun-happy guards.
Style:
slasher, splatter, futuristic, independent film
Plot:
club, serial killer, 666, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, dystopia, body horror, occult, revenge, murder, psychopath, kidnapping ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the future Saturn's moon of Titan houses a prison where Earth's worst criminals are kept awaiting their return to Earth for trial and execution. One of those criminals, Python Diamond, is being flown back to Earth, escorted by five ...
Style:
bleak, grim, tense
Plot:
military, gang, siege, post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, nuclear war, post nuclear, survival, wasteland, desolation, armed conflict ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of ...
Style:
surreal, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
coming of age, child abuse, brother brother relationship, surrealism, supernatural, suicide, animal abuse, nudity, abusive mother, cemetery, molestation, hair loss ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 90s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
idaho, usa, midwest
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