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1. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.
Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel
Votes: 432,058 | Gross: $352.39M
2. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.
Director: Ranald MacDougall | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer
Votes: 3,546
3. K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
PG-13 | 138 min | Drama, History, Thriller
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo
Votes: 67,406 | Gross: $35.17M
4. The China Syndrome (1979)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.
Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady
Votes: 33,037 | Gross: $51.72M
5. Dreams (1990)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy
A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada
Votes: 29,184 | Gross: $1.96M
6. The Days (2023)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
Stars: Koji Yakusho, Hao Feng, Nobi Nakanishi, Minae Noji
Votes: 6,491
7. Pandora (2016)
Not Rated | 136 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The explosion of a nuclear power plant caused by an earthquake leads to a disaster which no one other than its workers can stop from spreading further.
Directors: Jeong-woo Park, Jong-woo Park | Stars: Kim Nam-gil, Kim Joo-Hyun, Jung Jin-young, Kim Yeong-ae
Votes: 8,583
8. The War Game (1966)
48 min | Drama, War
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.
Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff
Votes: 7,311
9. Fukushima 50 (2020)
TV-PG | 122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu | Stars: Ken Watanabe, Riho Yoshioka, Takumi Saitô, Tomorô Taguchi
Votes: 3,370
10. Fist of the North Star: The Legends of the True Savior: Legend of Raoh-Chapter of Death in Love (2006)
95 min | Animation, Action
After a nuclear explosion, the survivors must hide from the terrible Sauzer, who wants to dominate the world. Kenshiro is the only hope
Director: Takahiro Imamura | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Kô Shibasaki, Akio Ôtsuka
Votes: 766
11. New Fist of the North Star (2003–2004)
TV-MA | 58 min | Animation, Action, Drama
In the 21st century, a nuclear war turned most of the Earth's surface into a desert wasteland, which also resulted in the contamination of the Earth's water supply. A man named Sanga has ... See full summary »
Stars: Takehito Koyasu, Romi Park, Gackt, Robert Ashker Kraft
Votes: 729
12. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Documentary, Drama, War
'Ukraine on Fire 2' is one-minute docu-series about the Russia's war on Ukraine.
Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Valerii Fedorovych Zaluzhnyi, Vitali Klitschko, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Votes: 121
13. Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Kenshiro (2008)
83 min | Animation, Action
Ken is backstabbed by Shin (Fist of The South Star) who kidnapped his love, and claimed Kens powers to stop conflict . So Ken now almost dead , goes through the post apocalyptic wasteland to learn to fight for the innocent ,and reclaim his title as the legendary fighter .
Director: Kôbun Shizuno | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Yuriko Ishida, Romi Park, Takeshi Aono
Votes: 474
14. Thunderball: The Radio Play (2016 Video)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
BBC Radio 4's version of Ian Fleming's Bond story of the same name.
Director: Martin Jarvis | Stars: Toby Stephens, Tom Conti, Alfred Molina, Janet Montgomery
Votes: 25
15. Sayonara (2015)
112 min | Drama
In the not distant future Japan has again experienced a nuclear incident and is gradually becoming uninhabitable. The entire population has to evacuate before being deluged by radiation ... See full summary »
Director: Kôji Fukada | Stars: Bryerly Long, Geminoid F, Hirofumi Arai, Makiko Murata
Votes: 194
16. Fist of the North Star 2 (1987–1988)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Having disappeared years earlier, Kenshiro returns to help his old friends Lin and Bat confront a string of new threats, including masters of "Gento Koken" and "Hokuto Ryuken".
Stars: Akira Kamiya, Mîna Tominaga, Shigeru Chiba, Shinji Ogawa
Votes: 914
17. Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama, History
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Jon Voight, Jason Robards, Sammi Davis, Annette Crosbie
Votes: 343
18. Fist of the North Star: Legend of Raoh - Chapter of Fierce Fighting (2007)
85 min | Animation, Action
Earth was devastated by a terrible nuclear conflict that wiped out any sign of civilization. In this scenario, kenshiro and Raoul will face off.
Director: Toshiki Hirano | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Yuriko Ishida, Nobuaki Kakuda
Votes: 534
19. Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Yuria (2007 Video)
65 min | Animation, Action
It is the story of the young Julia who is in love with Kenshiro but is kidnapped by the evil Shin
Director: Hidehito Ueda | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Yuriko Ishida, David Itô
Votes: 415
20. Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005 Video)
PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Fintan McKeown, Jacinta Mulcahy, Michael Zelniker, Zoe Thorne
Votes: 556
21. Pripyat (1999)
100 min | Documentary
After 1986, a restricted zone was erected at a radius of 30km around Chernobyl. More than 100.000 people have been evacuated from there, but some have remained or returned. "Pripyat" follows four protagonists who live or work in this zone.
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Votes: 346
22. Fukushima: A Nuclear Story (2015)
84 min | Documentary, News
A powerful documentary - shot from March 11th, 2011 through March 2015 - that sheds some light on what really happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant after the 2011 earthquake and the tsunami that followed.
Director: Matteo Gagliardi | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Massimo Dapporto, Hal Yamanouchi
Votes: 411
23. Fist of the Blue Sky (2006–2018)
Animation, Action
Kasumi Kenshiro, also known as Yan Wang or the King of Death, is a Tokyo professor and the 62nd successor to the deadly assassin art known as Hokuto Shinken. He leaves his teaching job and ... See full summary »
Stars: Kôichi Yamadera, Hitoshi Bifu, Yôichi Nishjima, Kinryû Arimoto
Votes: 120
24. I'm Dreaming of a White Doomsday (2017)
TV-14 | 71 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A mother and her 8 year old son struggle to survive in a bomb shelter after an unnamed apocalypse.
Director: Mike Lombardo | Stars: Holly Andrew, Hope Bikle, Reeve Blazi, Damian Maffei
Votes: 318
25. Fist of the North Star: The Legend of Toki (2008 Video)
60 min | Animation, Action
The life of Toki, Kenshiro's older brother and Raoul's younger brother: he was forced to give up the title of master of the Sacred School of Hokuto because of an incurable disease.
Director: Kôbun Shizuno | Stars: Hiroshi Abe, Takashi Ukaji, Yuriko Ishida, Ken'yû Horiuchi
Votes: 329
26. Twenty Twenty-Four (2016)
88 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A lone scientist maintains an underground bunker for the coming global nuclear disaster. But after becoming prematurely isolated, he slowly begins to question his own reality and whether he... See full summary »
Director: Richard Mundy | Stars: Andrew Kinsler, Peter McCrohon
Votes: 822
27. Ten Years Japan (2018)
98 min | Drama
Five short 'film' stories of how 5 different directors imagine Japan to be in 10 years from now.
Directors: Akiyo Fujimura, Chie Hayakawa, Kei Ishikawa, Yusuke Kinoshita, Megumi Tsuno | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Hana Sugisaki, Taiga Nakano, Masaki Miura
Votes: 207
28. Legends of the Dark King: A Fist of the North Star Story (2008– )
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Focuses on the formation of an empire, specifically a hegemony, by an inheritor of the fist of the north star, Raoh. Accompanied by his two loyal comrades Souga and Reina, as well as a ... See full summary »
Stars: Takashi Ukaji, Masaya Matsukaze, Mai Nakahara, Akiko Kimura
Votes: 213
29. Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover (2007 TV Movie)
65 min | Documentary
What would happen if the world were suddenly without people - if humans vanished off the face of the earth? How would nature react - and how swiftly? On the edge of Europe, the deserted ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Hayden
Votes: 160
30. Anomaly (2011)
Short, Action, Adventure
Chernobyl 1986. The biggest nuclear disaster in history. A lot of unanswered questions. Now, all fear of fallout appears to be gone. Maybe it is still there. Or is it, according to some scientists, even worse?
Directors: Niels Medemblik, Rik Schutte | Stars: Corry ten Berg, Miro Brooks, Georges Devdariani, Peter in 't Hout
31. Chernobyl: The Invisible Enemy (2021)
57 min | Documentary
In Ukraine, on the 26th of April 1986, a catastrophe shook the whole of Europe, and the world experienced a fatal day that became engraved in its history - A major nuclear accident at ... See full summary »
Director: Roxane Schlumberger | Stars: Peter Frank, Lee Jagow, Mike O'Riordan, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 139
32. I'm So Sorry (2021)
96 min | Documentary
Artistic documentary about the aftermaths of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. Some images can be disturbing.
Director: Liang Zhao
Votes: 51
33. Rich Hall's Red Menace (2019)
Documentary
Comedian Rich Hall presents an alternative history of the Cold War, from nuclear near misses and fallout shelters to the CIA wiring a cat to spy on the Russian ambassador.
Director: Chris Cottam | Stars: Rich Hall, Eleanor Clift, William Darden, Thomas Doherty
Votes: 18
34. Kolokol Chernobylya (1987)
88 min | Documentary
The film focuses very much on the human side of Chernobyl. It was made between May 28 and June 26, 1986, and some parts were added in September 1986. Many of those featured in the film ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Rollan Sergienko, Vladimir Sinelnikov
Votes: 42
35. Chernobyl: Men of steel (2022)
60 min | Documentary
Samosely are the people who did not come to terms with the forced evacuation after the Chernobyl disaster. They returned to their homes to live on the land of their fathers.
Director: Amadeusz Kocan | Stars: Maciej Bogaczyk, Krystian Machnik, Miroslaw Utta
Votes: 6
36. La noche del fin del mundo (2008 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, History
Exactly to the 1:23:45 AM, in the night of Friday 26 April, 1986, happened the worst nuclear disaster of all 20th Century: Chernobyl. Journalist Iker Jiménez, host and creator of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Iker Jiménez, Sergio Fernández de Pinedo, Manuel Romo, Álvaro Sanmartín, Carmen Porter | Stars: Iker Jiménez, Carmen Porter, Anna Korolevskaya, Ricardo García
Votes: 50
37. ABC News: Chernobyl, 30 Years Later 360° (2016 TV Short)
7 min | Documentary, Short, News
As the clean-up operation around the nuclear disaster is still continuing in Chernobyl, take a 360° tour inside the ghost town on the 30th anniversary of the meltdown at the local nuclear plant that let out a lasting peak of radioactivity.
39. Radioactive Fallout and Shelter (1965)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Purporting that fallout is nothing more than a minor nuisance and that the government knows what to do and that silly fallout problem.
Votes: 10
40. We Are the Guinea Pigs (1980)
90 min | Documentary
A report on the Three Mile Island nuclear accident made by a group of independent film-makers, who spent nine days in Harrisburg interviewing residents and their children, farmers, union ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Harvey | Stars: Gene Adams, Helen Caldicott, Kevin Cassidy, Susan Cassidy
Votes: 9
41. Pripyat (2008)
16 min | Short
The city of Pripyat was once considered the finest place to live in the whole of the Soviet Union. A thoroughly modern city, it was built in 1970 to house the workers of the new Chernobyl ... See full summary »
Director: Nicky Larkin
Votes: 18
42. Tchernobyl: Une histoire naturelle (2010 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Luc Riolon | Stars: Gin Candotti Besson, Carl-Magnus Larsson, Sergey Gashchak, Denise Stammose
Votes: 64
43. Eye of the Holy See (2009)
19 min | Short, Action
When the world is threatened with nuclear destruction, the papal secret service steps in.
Director: David C. Schmidt | Stars: Catherine Gleason, Michael Gleason, Quint Hankel, Barry Link
44. Punktering af en myte - 15 år efter Tjernobyl (2002 TV Movie)
Documentary
On April 26, 1986 at 01:23 AM Chernobyl's power reactor no. 4 exploded and exposed radioactivity on hundreds of thousands Ukraine citizens. Now, 15 years later this documentary looks back ... See full summary »
Directors: George Fajnburg, Karsten Lund | Star: Per Hedemann Jensen
45. Knocking on the Devil's Door: Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy (2011)
96 min | Documentary, History, News
The nuclear reactor catastrophes at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now at Fukushima, Japan, remind us that a heinous specter hovers over the health and security of millions of people ... See full summary »
Directors: Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve | Stars: Ryan Alexander, Christopher Busby, Helen Caldicott, Betty Chavey
Votes: 9
46. Chernobyl's Heritage: the Zone (2011)
102 min | Documentary
April 26, 1986 went down in history as the day the biggest nuclear disaster in human history. Radioactive dust released from the destroyed reactor came across the Europe, and polluted ... See full summary »
Directors: Anton Bendarjevskiy, Márk Maczelka | Stars: Anton Bendarjevskiy, István Gyukity
Votes: 59
47. Teufelsberg or Devil's Hill (2018)
10 min | Short, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Completed
Two men trek through an abandoned military building, blown to ruins like their own lives. The journey leads them to an epiphany: there is no solution, there is no happy ending, there is only the past.
Directors: Mark Howett, Grayson Millwood, Gavin Webber | Stars: Gavin Webber, Grayson Millwood, Grayson Millwood
48. Errand (2014)
11 min | Short, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Anush Gorak | Stars: Sneha Maduri, D.V.S. Paresh, Sanjana Thadakanti
Votes: 8
49. From Chechnya to Chernobyl (1998)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short
Winds scattered the heaviest radioactive deposits across the tiny country in Belarus, where, even after a decade, 25% of the land is judged uninhabitable. Thousands of villages and towns were abandoned or evacuated.
Director: Slawomir Grunberg
50. Kyôbô na made no chinmoku (2017)
Documentary, Short
December 21, 2015. The image of a fox was captured by a camera inside the unit 2 building at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant... A film-essay about contemporary Japan in the aftermath of March 2011 earthquake.
Director: Vincent Guilbert | Star: Mayumi