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Nuclear & Radiation Movies

Name: Nuclear & Radiation Movies
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Films about nuclear disasters, radiation, and the atomic age — mushroom clouds and fallout.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991	James Cameron	8.1	Action, Thriller, Science Fiction	France	137	Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb	1964	Stanley Kubrick	8.1	Comedy, War	United Kingdom	95	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 it.
Oppenheimer	2023	Christopher Nolan	8	Drama, History	United Kingdom	181	The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Godzilla Minus One	2023	Takashi Yamazaki	7.6	Science Fiction, Horror, Action	Japan	124	In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
Godzilla	1954	Ishirō Honda	7.6	Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction	Japan	96	Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that thr...
The Hunt for Red October	1990	John McTiernan	7.4	Action, Thriller	United States of America	135	A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst Jack Ryan has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he...
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	1982	Nicholas Meyer	7.4	Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller	United States of America	113	The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
Watchmen	2009	Zack Snyder	7.3	Mystery, Action, Science Fiction	United States of America	163	In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but...
The Abyss	1989	James Cameron	7.3	Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction	United States of America	140	A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destr...
Crimson Tide	1995	Tony Scott	7.2	Thriller, Action, Drama, War	United States of America	116	After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. ...
Shin Godzilla	2016	Shinji Higuchi	7.2	Action, Science Fiction, Horror	Japan	120	When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their...
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol	2011	Brad Bird	7.1	Action, Thriller, Adventure	United States of America	133	Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the I...
WarGames	1983	John Badham	7.1	Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama	United States of America	114	High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizard...
Dr. No	1962	Terence Young	7	Adventure, Action, Thriller	United Kingdom	110	Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
Unthinkable	2010	Gregor Jordan	6.8	Drama, Thriller	United States of America	97	The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.
Blast from the Past	1999	Hugh Wilson	6.8	Drama, Romance, Comedy	United States of America	112	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.
Thunderball	1965	Terence Young	6.7	Adventure, Action, Thriller	United Kingdom	130	A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
The Hills Have Eyes	2006	Alexandre Aja	6.5	Horror, Thriller	France	107	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 realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actual...
K-19: The Widowmaker	2002	Kathryn Bigelow	6.5	Drama, History, Thriller, Mystery, War	Canada	138	When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Octopussy	1983	John Glen	6.4	Adventure, Action, Thriller	United Kingdom	131	James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
The Sum of All Fears	2002	Phil Alden Robinson	6.4	Thriller, Action, Drama	Canada	124	When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkabl...
Broken Arrow	1996	John Woo	6.1	Action, Thriller	United States of America	108	When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nuclear warheads -- and Deakins's co-pilot, Riley Hale, is the military's only hope for getting them back. Traversing the deserted canyons of Utah, Hale teams wi...
The Peacemaker	1997	Mimi Leder	6	Action, Thriller	United States of America	124	When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union, a nuclear specialist discovers the accident is really part of a plot to cover up the theft of the weapons. Assigned to help her recover the missing bombs is a crack Special Forces Colonel.
Godzilla	1998	Roland Emmerich	5.7	Science Fiction, Action, Thriller	United States of America	139	French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races...
A Good Day to Die Hard	2013	John Moore	5.3	Action, Thriller	United States of America	98	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 heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and b...
Chernobyl Diaries	2012	Bradley Parker	5.3	Horror, Thriller	United States of America	88	A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brie...

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