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1. Oppenheimer (I) (2023)
R | 180 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 735,479 | Gross: $326.11M
2. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
PG-13 | 164 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Eight years after the Joker's reign of chaos, Batman is coerced out of exile with the assistance of the mysterious Selina Kyle in order to defend Gotham City from the vicious guerrilla terrorist Bane.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman
Votes: 1,829,954 | Gross: $448.14M
3. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki
Votes: 333,005 | Gross: $45.45M
4. Clue (1985)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.
Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd
Votes: 109,470 | Gross: $14.64M
5. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
PG-13 | 147 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
Director: Christopher McQuarrie | Stars: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg
Votes: 378,603 | Gross: $220.16M
6. American Assassin (2017)
R | 111 min | Action, Thriller
After the death of his girlfriend at the hands of terrorists, Mitch Rapp is drawn into the world of counterterrorism, mentored by tough-as-nails former U.S. Navy S.E.A.L. Stan Hurley.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa Lathan, Taylor Kitsch
Votes: 91,116 | Gross: $36.25M
7. 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: 190,586 | Gross: $140.46M
8. The Master (2012)
R | 138 min | Drama, History
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by the Cause and its charismatic leader.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 186,371 | Gross: $16.38M
9. The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
R | 83 min | Comedy
The daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Bill Bixby, George Lazenby
Votes: 20,281
10. 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: 33,075 | Gross: $51.72M
11. On the Beach (1959)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins
Votes: 14,439 | Gross: $11.00M
12. The Manhattan Project (1986)
PG-13 | 117 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A high school prodigy builds an atomic bomb with stolen plutonium to win the 45th National Science Fair and expose a nuclear weapons lab posing as a nuclear medical research facility in Ithaca, NY.
Director: Marshall Brickman | Stars: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Richard Council, Robert Schenkkan
Votes: 6,873 | Gross: $3.90M
13. Torn Curtain (1966)
PG | 128 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Hansjörg Felmy
Votes: 29,281
14. This Island Earth (1955)
Passed | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Aliens come to Earth seeking scientists to help them in their war.
Directors: Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller
Votes: 10,695
15. Oppenheimer: The Real Story (2023)
96 min | Documentary
The documentary covers Oppenheimer's contribution to nuclear physics as a professor and leader of the Los Alamos Laboratory.
Director: Robin Bextor
Votes: 387
16. Mirage (1965)
Approved | 108 min | Mystery, Thriller
An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy
Votes: 5,955 | Gross: $3.27M
17. Oppenheimer (1980)
Not Rated | 420 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biography of the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, only to find himself suspected as a security risk in the 1950s.
Stars: Sam Waterston, John Carson, Christopher Muncke, Jana Shelden
Votes: 722
18. Enemy Lines (2020)
TV-14 | 92 min | Action, Drama, War
In the frozen, war torn landscape of occupied Poland during World War II, a crack team of allied commandos are sent on a deadly mission behind enemy lines to extract a rocket scientist from the hands of the Nazis.
Director: Anders Banke | Stars: Ed Westwick, John Hannah, Tom Wisdom, Corey Johnson
Votes: 1,936
19. Shack Out on 101 (1955)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An isolated diner on California's 101 highway provides the backdrop of the story involving nuclear secrets, foreign spies and federal agents.
Director: Edward Dein | Stars: Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn, Lee Marvin
Votes: 829
20. The Serpent (2020)
89 min | Action, Thriller
Top special agent Lucinda Kavsky works for a secret part of the CIA. She's given a special assignment but then set up by her own agency.
Director: Gia Skova | Stars: Gia Skova, Travis Aaron Wade, Nigel Vonas, Kristopher Graves
Votes: 3,601 | Gross: $1.20M
21. The Iron Curtain (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Biography, Crime, History
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 1,108
22. Virtuality (2009 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Spaceship crew members start dying because of an unknown defect in a virtual-reality device.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kerry Bishé, Joy Bryant, Jose Pablo Cantillo
Votes: 4,220
23. I'll Never Forget You (1951)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th-century London, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Dennis Price
Votes: 1,074
24. The Day After Trinity (1981)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography
Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon ... See full summary »
Director: Jon Else | Stars: Hans Bethe, Holm Bursom, Haakon Chevalier, Stirling Colgate
Votes: 1,236
25. Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita) (2008)
Unrated | 78 min | Animation, Comedy
Jóska, a Hungarian immigrant in Los Angeles is sharing an apartment with the Russian Vladislav. In their search for the "American Dream" they get into all kinds of troubles, wild adventures... See full summary »
Director: Gabor Csupo | Stars: Hank Azaria, Ahmed Ahmed, Jen Alexander, Jack Angel
Votes: 884
26. That Man in Istanbul (1965)
117 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When a hostage-for-ransom exchange goes wrong, the F.B.I. sends an agent to Turkey to retrieve the ransom money and the hostage who's an important nuclear-weapon scientist.
Director: Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi | Stars: Horst Buchholz, Sylva Koscina, Ángel Picazo, Gustavo Re
Votes: 470
27. A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
-In Montreal (Canada), a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress, are all involved.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter, George Dolenz
Votes: 1,231
28. The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2010)
109 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Profile of Robert Oppenheimer, controversial father of the atomic bomb.
Director: David Grubin | Stars: Marvin L. Goldberger, Priscilla McMillan, Richard Rhodes, Martin Sherwin
Votes: 225
29. The Spies (1957)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 1,099
30. Escape to Nowhere (1973)
PG | 117 min | Drama, Thriller
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon, Robert Hardy
Votes: 1,060
31. I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Jana Brejchová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janzurová
Votes: 574
32. Stop Susan Williams (1979)
20 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A plucky female reporter uncovers a global conspiracy and becomes the conspirators' prime target. It originally aired as part of NC's "Cliffhangers" TV series which featured three revolving serials.
Stars: Susan Anton, Ray Walston, Michael Swan, John Hancock
Votes: 52
33. Klaus Fuchs - Atomspion (1989)
88 min | Documentary
England, 1950. A defector Russian points out the brilliant nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs as a spy for the Soviet Union. Apparently, five years earlier, Fuchs had smuggled documents out of ... See full summary »
Directors: Donatello Dubini, Fosco Dubini, Wolfgang Meyer | Stars: Bernhard Baier, Hans Bethe, Klaus Fuchs, Lutz Göhnermeier
34. Dr. Teller's Very Large Bomb (2006 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
As scientists race to perfect the atomic bomb, Dr. Teller has a bigger idea.
Director: Michael Lennick | Stars: Hans Bethe, Freeman Dyson, Reed Hadley, Richard Rhodes
Votes: 18
35. Journey to the Safest Place on Earth (2013)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary
Over 350,000 tons of highly radioactive waste and spent fuel rods are in temporary storage on site at nuclear power complexes and at intermediate storage sites all over the world. More than... See full summary »
Director: Edgar Hagen | Stars: Charles McCombie, Marcos Buser, Gregg Butler, Neil Patterson
Votes: 73
36. Operation Sunflower (2014)
105 min | Drama, History
Through the eyes of the scientist in charge of the operation, we see the events leading to Israel developing her nuclear option in the 1960's.
Director: Avraham Kushnir | Stars: Yehoram Gaon, Baruch Brener, Daniella Kertesz, Tzufit Grant
Votes: 53
37. In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer (1964 TV Movie)
135 min | Drama
Director: Gerhard Klingenberg | Stars: Charles Regnier, Siegfried Wischnewski, Carl Lange, Hans Karl Friedrich
Votes: 38
38. Eynshteyn. Teoriya lyubvi (2013– )
180 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Scientists tend to rationalize everything, whether it's the existence of God or humans' deepest feelings. But scientists, too, are capable of passion.
Stars: Olga Budina, Dmitriy Pevtsov, Aleksandr Baluev, Olga Drozdova
Votes: 19
39. Nebezpecný clovek (1964 TV Movie)
74 min | Comedy
Director: Jan Matejovský | Stars: Jirí Adamíra, Vladimír Brabec, Frantisek Holar, Rudolf Hrusínský
40. Hommage à Albert Einstein (1956)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Director: Jean Lods | Star: Roger Pigaut
41. Shadow of Doubt (1957 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A live television play, a suspense drama concerning an English physicist.
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Don Crosby, Bruce Beeby, Winifred Green, Betty Lucas
42. Spojení pres Kodan (1968 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Miloslav Zachata | Stars: Eduard Cupák, Jana Hlavácová, Karel Höger, Marie Vásová
43.
Epic Rap Battles of History (2010– )
Episode:
Thanos vs J Robert Oppenheimer
(2019)
TV-14 | 2 min | Short, Comedy, History
Comic book villain Thanos battles against American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Directors: Lloyd Ahlquist, Peter Shukoff | Stars: Lloyd Ahlquist, Peter Shukoff
Votes: 83
44.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
(2009)
TV-PG | 111 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This biography presents a complex and revealing portrait of one of America's most influential scientists.
Director: David Grubin | Stars: Harold Agnew, Jeremy Bernstein, Robert Christy, Michael Cumpsty
Votes: 142
45.
Cambridge Spies (2003)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2003)
60 min | Drama, History
Burgess and Maclean are becoming liabilities for Soviet intelligence, and Philby has his hands full protecting the two of them before they can be pulled out and relocated to Moscow, while ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Tom Hollander, Samuel West, Ronald Pickup, Angus Wright
Votes: 53
46.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 21 January 1953
(1953)
News, Talk-Show
Huie and Burt interview John R. Dunning, nuclear physicist and Dean of Engineering at Columbia University. Topics include the shortage of trained engineers in the United States and opportunities for current engineering students.
47.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 4 September 1953
(1953)
News, Talk-Show
Edward P. Morgan and Walter Cronkite, CBS Television Correspondents, interview Ralph E. Lapp, nuclear physicist and author. Topics include the ability of the U.S. and the Soviet Union to ... See full summary »
Stars: Walter Cronkite, Ralph E. Lapp, Edward P. Morgan
48.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 2 March 1955
(1955)
News, Talk-Show
Lesueur and Crawford interview John R. Dunning, nuclear physicist and Dean of the Columbia University School of Engineering. Topics include America's technical superiority over the Soviet ... See full summary »
Stars: Kenneth Crawford, John R. Dunning, Larry LeSueur
49.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 29 April 1955
(1955)
News, Talk-Show
In the last program of the Longines Chronoscope series, Larry Lesueur reviews excerpts from programs dealing with science and social progress.
Stars: Henry Steele Commager, John R. Dunning, Frank Laubach, Larry LeSueur
50.
Passé sous silence (2000– )
Episode:
La bataille de Tchernobyl
(2006)
94 min | Documentary
Documentary about the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl.
Director: Thomas Johnson | Stars: Tim Birkett, Hans Blix, Mikhail Gorbachev, Oleg Mirochnikov
Votes: 1,576