Bomb shelter movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant bomb shelter movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic and psychological films and TV shows about / with bomb shelter, survival, death, blood, explosion, family relations, catastrophe, murder, violence and fight plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bomb shelter: Hidden (2015), The Divide (2011), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), Phobos. Fear Kills (2010), Greenland (2020), Girl in the Basement (2021), These Final Hours (2013), Shelter (2008), Ladybug Ladybug (1963), The Tunnel (2011).
Best films
New films
| Other (2025) | 5.1 | |
| Air Strike (2018) | 3.2 | |
| Girl in the Basement (2021) | 6.3 | |
| Summerland (2020) | 7.0 | |
| Truth & Treason (2025) | 7.1 |
List of bomb shelter movies
29K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
virus, post apocalypse, twists and turns, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, epidemic, nightmare, infected, plot twist, isolation ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Style:
suspense, satanic, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, group of strangers, nuclear holocaust, torment, losing-it hero, survival, survival horror, social decay, violence, confined, apocalypse, nuclear explosion ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, north korea
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, minimal cast, twist ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, post apocalypse, kidnapping, bunker, strong female character, alien, underground bunker, survivalist, end of the world, conspiracy theory, bomb shelter ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Estonia, Russia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Rainy summer evening... Young people are arriving at the new trendy club named Phobos which is still under construction. Or re-construction - since it's a former bomb shelter which is reconstructed to become a club. At first, the party sees ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, tension ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
bomb shelter, fear, panic, survival, isolation, club, trapped, danger, torture, ghost, group of strangers, confined ...
Time:
year 2010
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163K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style:
suspense, exciting, scenic, unusual plot structure, psychotronic ...
Plot:
natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, panic, husband wife relationship, diabetic, comet, kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
greenland, atlanta georgia, canada, kentucky, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
basement, abusive father, father, hostage, father and daughter, captivity, strict father, hidden room, domineering father, bomb shelter, violent father, rescue ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
apocalypse, natural disaster, sex, little girl, end of the world, on the road, post apocalyptic, redemption, orgy, survival, party, life is a bitch ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
australia, new zealand
Is relevant?
175
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
With a catastrophic event rapidly approaching, 18 people vie for 10 spots in the small town's only bomb shelter.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, epic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, chaos, small town, disaster, family relations, danger, society, escapades, hopes, clergy, fight, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
nuclear threat, elementary school, youth, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, cold war, panic, bomb shelter, bombing, nuclear explosion, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the ...
Style:
spooky, dark, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, creature, missing person, journalism, tunnel, urban legend, underground, food, survival, investigation, uncover truth, hidden truth ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania, sydney australia, new zealand
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona. As he forms uneasy alliances with other survivors and they try to escape the city, an unexpected ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
creature, apocalypse, bird, blood, daughter, blindness, suicide, journey, river, hiding, terror, security ...
Place:
barcelona, europe, spain
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A family man becomes obsessed with looking at his own life out of context.
Style:
contemplative, psychological, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, midlife crisis, family life, couple relations, introspection, obsession, hopes, surrealism, husband wife relationship, lie, routine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
Style:
feel good, touching, humorous, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
bunker, opposites attract, fish out of water, happy ending, cold war, genius, cuban missile crisis, father son relationship, love story, fall in love, nuclear war, destiny ...
Time:
60s, future, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, cuba
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
In an illegal hospital, hidden in an Oslo underground station, a physician is desperately trying to find a cure for his wife's terminal illness.
Style:
tense, noir, medical drama, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
doctor, ethical dilemma, nordic, family tragedy, moral ambiguity, terminal illness, medical, doctors and patients, physician, criminal, organized crime, outlaw gang ...
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A lonely German clerk captures two American flyers and keeps them as prisoners in his basement long after WWII has ended. Director Gottfried Reinhardt's 1965 comedy stars Alec Guinness, Robert Redford and Michael Connors.
Style:
period piece, psychological, absurd, dark comedy, art house ...
Plot:
world war two, loneliness, isolation, captivity, companionship, prisoners of war, delusion, satire, basement, claustrophobia, bomb shelter, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When three friends open a hot pot restaurant in a former bomb shelter, they discover it’s linked by a single wall to the bank vault next door. While deciding to take the easy money or go to the police, they find out one of the bank’s employees ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
bank robbery, heist, satire, encounter, unlikely criminal, unlikely criminals, humour, robbery, burglar, bank robber, criminal, stolen money ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
269K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, father son relationship, distopia, end of the world, cannibalism, starvation, dystopia, on the road, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, distant future, 2000s ...
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, north america, canada
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41K
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, cult classic, period piece, retro ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
high school, motorcycle, dancing, teenage girl, love, biker, greaser, opposites attract, secret identity, dance, teenage boy, cheerleader ...
Time:
year 1961, year 1982, 60s, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of students trapped in a high school must fight for survival when predatory mutant freaks take over after a meltdown at the local chemical plant.
Style:
dark, enigmatic, suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, school, zombie, danger, relationships, death, fight, teenager, zombie outbreak, exodus, infected ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style:
futuristic, harsh, apocalyptic, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cold war, nuclear war, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear explosion, disaster, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, dystopia, radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, soviet union, kansas city, ussr ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Canada
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Higinio and Rosa have only been married for a few months when the Civil War breaks out, representing a serious threat to his life. Helped by his wife, they decide to use a hole dug into their own home as a provisional hiding place. The fear of ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, hispanic ...
Plot:
dictatorship, spanish civil war, secret, revenge, assassination, political repression, fear, arrest, small village, spanish history, hiding place, delusion ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1936, year 1945 ...
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain, andalusia, europe, morocco ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Spain, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's ...
Style:
political, social, sad, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, anarchist, anarchism, feminism, spanish history, civil war, rebellion, revolution, radical, female soldier, revolt, strike ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1938, year 1939, year 1936 ...
Place:
barcelona, iberian peninsula, europe, spain, basque country ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ...
Style:
sad, cult classic, emotional, uplifting, semi serious ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, shoah, nazi, gestapo, world war, radio, judaism, hopes, lie, death ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1942, year 1939 ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, russia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Style:
realistic, epic, contemplative, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, adult
Plot:
world war two, war, military, japanese history, battles, anti war, survival, japanese military, japanese army, imperial japan, violence, stallion ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2006, ancient times, 2000s ...
Place:
japan, asia, nebraska, tokyo, germany
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, realistic, epic, factual ...
Plot:
war, military, world war two, propaganda, wartime, survival, battles, guilt, photograph, world war, fame, american history ...
Time:
year 2006, post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1939 ...
Place:
japan, asia, america, north america, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the Germans.
Style:
sexy, epic, realistic, serious, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
war, world war two, sniper, military, stalingrad, world war, courage, friendship, nazi, wartime, hide and seek, winter ...
Time:
20th century, year 2001, 1940s, year 1940, year 1944 ...
Place:
germany, soviet union, iraq, persia, russia ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Based on the graphic novel by James Jones, The Thin Red Line tells the story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II ...
Style:
philosophical, visually stunning, visually appealing, visual, epic ...
Plot:
war, world war two, sergeant, jungle, infantry, soldier, pacific war, anti war, u.s. army, pacific island, survival, existentialism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 90s, year 1998, year 1940 ...
Place:
asia, japan, america, germany, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Norway, Germany, Malta
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
War Sailor is a magnificent drama that tells the story of the more than 30,000 Norwegian war sailors and their families' fate during and after the Second World War.
Plot:
world war two, bombing, strangulation, getting home, death of husband, hospital, sinking ship, lost at sea, sea, teenage son, ship, grandfather ...
Time:
year 1941, year 1972, year 1940, year 1944, year 1948 ...
Place:
new york, canada, liverpool, malta, singapore
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority ...
Style:
lovecraft, serious, bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot:
farm, meteorite, child in peril, mutant, contamination, contaminated water, child abuse, religious fanatic, water, infection, space and aliens, chaos ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tennessee
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, France, Spain
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Style:
epic, cult classic, realistic, exciting, spectacular ...
Plot:
world war two, aviation, luftwaffe, aerial combat, air battle, fighter pilot, raf, british history, fighter plane, battles, world war, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940, 1930s
Place:
london, poland, england, english channel, europe ...
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