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1. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The crypto-zoological agency Monarch faces off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah.
Director: Michael Dougherty | Stars: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe
Votes: 207,006 | Gross: $110.50M
2. The Abyss (1989)
PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester
Votes: 193,341 | Gross: $54.46M
3. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, War
An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 518,277 | Gross: $0.28M
4. Armageddon (1998)
PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler
Votes: 450,833 | Gross: $201.57M
5. Deep Impact (1998)
PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.
Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 190,382 | Gross: $140.46M
6. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Diana must contend with a work colleague, and with a businessman whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing.
Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal
Votes: 291,783 | Gross: $46.37M
7. Never Say Never Again (1983)
PG | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent has stolen two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Sean Connery, Kim Basinger, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow
Votes: 73,139 | Gross: $55.50M
8. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum, Adrianne Palicki, Lee Byung-hun
Votes: 187,332 | Gross: $122.52M
9. Under Siege (1992)
R | 103 min | Action, Thriller
An ex-Navy Seal turned cook is the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. battleship.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Tommy Lee Jones, Erika Eleniak
Votes: 95,506 | Gross: $83.36M
10. Crimson Tide (1995)
R | 116 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven, George Dzundza
Votes: 123,325 | Gross: $91.40M
11. Men of Honor (2000)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Carl Brashear, the first African-American U.S. Navy Diver, and the man who trained him.
Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert De Niro, Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Votes: 125,143 | Gross: $48.82M
12. MacGruber (2010)
R | 90 min | Action, Comedy
Former special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his arch-enemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, D.C.
Director: Jorma Taccone | Stars: Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer, Ryan Phillippe
Votes: 47,334 | Gross: $8.46M
13. Stealth (2005)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard
Votes: 56,272 | Gross: $32.12M
14. In Like Flint (1967)
Unrated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Super-spy Flint takes on a cabal of women plotting to rule the world.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan
Votes: 6,084 | Gross: $11.00M
15. The Bedford Incident (1965)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
An American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.
Director: James B. Harris | Stars: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam
Votes: 5,975
16. Iron Eagle II (1988)
PG | 105 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A joint U.S.- Soviet strike force is assembled to wipe out a nuclear base in an outlaw nation that plans to take the world hostage.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Alan Scarfe
Votes: 5,462 | Gross: $10.50M
17. Hamilton (1998)
Not Rated | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A nuclear armed SS20 will be smuggled from Russia via Finland to Sweden unless Swedish agent Hamilton +5 stop them with "no loose ends". What about the other stolen SS20?
Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Peter Stormare, Lena Olin, Mark Hamill, Mats Långbacka
Votes: 4,384
18. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two years after the death of Solid Snake, a rookie FOX-HOUND agent, on his first mission, infiltrates an offshore decontamination facility to rescue the President.
Director: Hideo Kojima | Stars: David Hayter, Quinton Flynn, Christopher Randolph, Lara Cody
Votes: 9,227
19. 10.5 (2004)
Unrated | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An earthquake reaching a 10.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, strikes the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. A large portion of land falls into the ocean, and the situation is worsened by aftershocks and tsunami.
Stars: Kim Delaney, Fred Ward, Ivan Sergei, Dulé Hill
Votes: 4,023
20. The Dark Side of the Moon (1990)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
In 2022, a repair crew is sent to fix an orbital weapon but their spaceship malfunctions and ends up heading towards the dark side of the moon. There, in a mysterious, seemingly abandoned space shuttle, a sinister force lies in wait.
Director: D.J. Webster | Stars: Robert Sampson, Will Bledsoe, Joe Turkel, Camilla More
Votes: 2,922
21. Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a volcano expert becomes convinced that a cataclysmic natural disaster is about to unfold, a volcanologist Professor John Shepherd and his graduate students believes that recent ... See full summary »
Director: Ian Gilmore | Stars: Xander Berkeley, Amy Jo Johnson, David O'Donnell, George R. Sheffey
Votes: 983
22. Hamilton (2001)
TV-14 | 190 min | Action, Thriller
Swedish intelligence agent Carl Hamilton gets busy when it is discovered that a group of Soviet rebels intend to smuggle a nuclear missile through Sweden. Carl and his colleague must risk life and limb to stop the uprising.
Stars: Peter Stormare, Lena Olin, Mark Hamill, Mats Långbacka
Votes: 822
23. Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
R | 90 min | Comedy
An ex-pop singer kills her much-hated husband to be with her young lover. Her daughter plots Electra-like revenge.
Director: Mark Rucker | Stars: Charles Busch, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Priestley, Angela Paton
Votes: 2,137
24. The Lost Missile (1958)
Approved | 70 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi
A strange missile from outer space circles the Earth at low altitudes, destroying everything in its path.
Directors: Lester Wm. Berke, William Berke | Stars: Robert Loggia, Ellen Parker, Phillip Pine, Larry Kerr
Votes: 1,023
25. Command and Control (2016)
PG | 92 min | Documentary, History
Documentary of 1980's near-launch of a nuclear missile from Arkansas, based on Eric Shlosser's award-winning book of the same name.
Director: Robert Kenner | Stars: Michael Bideller, Andreas Birnbaum, Tom Brokaw, Robin Brosch
Votes: 991 | Gross: $0.05M
26. 2012: Supernova (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A scientist, races against a deadline to place a shield between the Earth and the oncoming blast-wave from a Supernova. As well as the efforts of doom cult to sabotage the project believing it to be God's Will Course" and allow the population of the Earth to be consumed by the intense radiation in the wave.
Director: Anthony Fankhauser | Stars: Brian Krause, Heather McComb, Najarra Townsend, Allura Lee
Votes: 3,004
27. Asteroid vs Earth (2014 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a shower of massive meteors threatens an extinction level event on Earth, the world's greatest minds devise a dangerous plan that will take the planet off its axis in order to avoid the impact.
Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Tia Carrere, Jason Brooks, Tim Russ, Darin Cooper
Votes: 1,100
28. Project I.G.I.: I'm Going In (2000 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure
David Jones is on a mission to capture Jack Priboi, a Russian arms dealer to uncover a nuclear threat being planned by a Russian leader.
Stars: Michael Ironside, Kerry Shale, Amanda Mealing, Danny McCall
Votes: 434
29. Hatsujô kateikyôshi: Sensei no aijiru (2003)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Sachiko Hanai is a call girl. One day she is caught up in a gunfight and is shot in the forehead. Instead of killing her, the bullet in her head gives her psychic powers. She also ... See full summary »
Director: Mitsuru Meike | Stars: Kyôko Hayami, Kikujirô Honda, Yukijirô Hotaru, Yûichi Ishikawa
Votes: 768 | Gross: $0.00M
30. OP Center (1995)
TV-14 | 114 min | Thriller
Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear ... See full summary »
Stars: Harry Hamlin, Patrick Bauchau, Kabir Bedi, Tom Bresnahan
Votes: 693
31. Cheon gun (2005)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In a historically altered Korea, by 2005 the North and South Korean governments have secretly joined forces to create a nuclear warhead.
Director: Joon-ki Min | Stars: Kim Byeong-chun, Ma Dong-seok, Kil Eun-sung, Kong Hyo-jin
Votes: 617
32. Disaster at Silo 7 (1988 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A fuel leak inside an ICBM silo creates a dangerous situation that sends the local military and civilian authorities into a panic.
Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Ray Baker, Peter Boyle, Patricia Charbonneau, Perry King
Votes: 209
33. Caillou's Ultimate Punishment Day (2019 Video)
18+ | 52 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
As karma for causing a huge ruckus, Boris gives Caillou the worst punishment day in history.
Director: PaperLuigi99 | Stars: Eric, Julie, Ivy, Salli
34. Critical Assembly (2002 TV Movie)
120 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Two college students (Heigl and Smith) build a nuclear device, which is stolen by a fellow student. When it ends up in the hands of a terrorist, they work with an FBI agent (Beach) in a race against time.
Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Katherine Heigl, Kerr Smith, J. August Richards, Jeff Roop
Votes: 420
35. Die Kaltenbach-Papiere (1991– )
208 min | Adventure, Crime
Istvan Kaltenbach is an unscrupulous arms dealer. No court in the world has ever been able to prove his involvement in this murderous business. Together with his beautiful daughter Sharon ... See full summary »
Stars: Mario Adorf, Simona Cavallari, Ulrich Tukur, Gudrun Landgrebe
Votes: 42
36. Combat Wounds
Short, Action, Thriller | Announced
An important operation to retrieve vital information on nuclear warheads held by terrorists goes wrong.
Director: Joseph Hofer | Stars: Austin Burmeister, Jordan Miller, Jaden Roblewsky, Tommy Vickhorev
37. Kreuzfeuer (1997 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Crime
Director: Thomas Roth | Stars: Michael Schottenberg, Igor Breakenback, Inga Busch, Daniela Gäts
Votes: 25
38. For Whom the Bomb Tolls (2006)
4 min | Short, Comedy
Two writers brainstorm the end to their epic film, "For Whom the Bomb Tolls".
Director: James Spence | Stars: Ron Sparks, K. Trevor Wilson
Votes: 20
40. The Mark (2006 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure
A huge city is marked for death, an unbelievable terror attack is approaching. You're the only two(!) to stop the madness, in our unusual shooter experience.
41. Pet Planet (2020)
5 min | Animation, Short, Action
Pet Planet is the best toy you've never had. Once unpacked and switched on, it forms an entire living world. Take good care of it and witness the rise of civilizations right on your tabletop. Nothing could ever go wrong.
Director: Ratimir Rakuljic
44.
Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Episode:
Children of the Gods
(1997)
R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Colonel Jack O'Neill is brought out of retirement to lead a new expedition back to Abydos, only to find an old friend, a new enemy and a far wider use of the Stargate.
Director: Mario Azzopardi | Stars: Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge
Votes: 3,705
45.
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993–1997)
Episode:
Lucky Leon
(1995)
TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Lois and Clark's second attempt at a first date is hampered not only by Lois's fears about what a relationship would do to their friendship, but also by the discovery that Jimmy has been accused of murder.
Director: Jim Pohl | Stars: Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher, Lane Smith, Justin Whalin
Votes: 299
46.
SeaQuest 2032 (1993–1996)
Episode:
Hide and Seek
(1994)
TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Family
The crew dreams of Darwin including an evil dictator named Tezlof (Shatner). Tezlof comes aboard to get help for his son from Darwin.
Director: Lindsley Parsons III | Stars: Roy Scheider, Stacy Haiduk, Don Franklin, Jonathan Brandis
Votes: 143
47.
Sledge Hammer! (1986–1988)
Episode:
The Spa Who Loved Me
(1987)
TV-PG | 24 min | Action, Comedy
A bevy of bikini-clad 'terrorettes' steal a nuclear warhead and threaten to blow up the city unless their billion dollar demand is met. Sledge and Dori trace the suspects to a health spa operated by aerobics video magnate Jill Taylor.
Director: Jackie Cooper | Stars: David Rasche, Anne-Marie Martin, Harrison Page, Mary Woronov
Votes: 140
48.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Assignment: Earth
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Robert Lansing
Votes: 3,703
49.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Balance of Terror
(1966)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, Paul Comi
Votes: 5,699
50.
Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode:
Patterns of Force
(1968)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Looking for a missing Federation cultural observer, Kirk and Spock find themselves on a planet whose culture has been completely patterned after Nazi Germany.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Richard Evans
Votes: 3,467