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1. Dark (2017–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.
Stars: Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari, Maja Schöne
Votes: 444,077
2. Sahara (2005)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
Director: Breck Eisner | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Penélope Cruz, Steve Zahn, Mark Aspinall
Votes: 103,628 | Gross: $68.67M
3. C.H.U.D. (1984)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A bizarre series of sudden disappearances on the streets of New York City seems to point toward something unsavory living in the sewers.
Director: Douglas Cheek | Stars: John Heard, Daniel Stern, Christopher Curry, Kim Greist
Votes: 13,970 | Gross: $4.65M
4. Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.
Directors: Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Janelle Brady, Gil Brenton, Robert Prichard, Pat Ryan
Votes: 9,483
5. Metal Gear Solid (1998 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
A crack government anti-terrorist squad takes over an obscure Alaskan nuclear disposal facility. Solid Snake is up for the task to infiltrate the facility, rescue the two hostages and thwart the terrorists' plans.
Director: Hideo Kojima | Stars: David Hayter, Patric Zimmerman, Peter Lurie, Akio Ôtsuka
Votes: 12,828
6. The In-Laws (I) (2003)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his future son-in-law's father is a free-wheeling international spy.
Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Albert Brooks, Michael Douglas, Ryan Reynolds, Lindsay Sloane
Votes: 17,879 | Gross: $20.44M
7. Edge of Darkness (1985)
53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When his daughter Emma is murdered, cop Craven discovers that she was in a GAIA group of activists occupied with exposing Northmoor nuclear waste storage facility for illegal activities.
Stars: Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Charles Kay, Ian McNeice
Votes: 4,165
8. Modern Problems (1981)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
Director: Ken Shapiro | Stars: Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, Dabney Coleman, Mary Kay Place
Votes: 5,823 | Gross: $26.15M
9. Nuclear Now (2022)
105 min | Documentary
An investigation into the possibility of addressing climate change with a move away from fossil fuels to nuclear power.
Director: Oliver Stone
Votes: 864
10. Totally F***ed Up (1993)
TV-MA | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Six queer teenagers struggle to get along with each other and with life in the face of varying obstacles.
Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: James Duval, Roko Belic, Susan Behshid, Jenee Gill
Votes: 3,935 | Gross: $0.10M
11. Against the Wind (1990)
95 min | Drama
Juan flees Madrid and an incestuous relationship with his sister, Ana, working at a mine on the Andalucian coast. When his friendship with Rosario, a local shop girl, becomes romance, Ana ... See full summary »
Director: Paco Periñán | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Emma Suárez, Bruce McGuire, Rosario Flores
Votes: 277
12. Class of Nuke 'Em High Part 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid (1994)
R | 102 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
Taking place after the events of part two, where Roger Smith's twin sons Adlai and Dick are born; one of them is suddenly kidnapped and taught to be evil while Adlai is determined to foil the fiendish plot and save Tromaville.
Director: Eric Louzil | Stars: Brick Bronsky, Lisa Star, John Tallman, Lisa Gaye
Votes: 1,349
13. Mystery On Makeout Mountain (1997 Video)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Thriller
The Three Seasons Bikini Team (April, May & June) leave on a cross-country tour, but June sabotages the trip. They and the photographer end up in Pig Hollow, where Missy Sue is desperately ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Griffin Drew, Shayna Ryan, Ashlie Rhey, Maureen Flaherty
Votes: 275
14. The Minion (1998)
R | 95 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A 1500 year old body of one of the Knights Templar is discovered below New York's subway. Soon, a demonic minion and a modern Templar Knight are drawn to its secrets. So begins a battle for nothing less than the fate of the entire world.
Director: Jean-Marc Piché | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Françoise Robertson, Roc Lafortune, David Nerman
Votes: 2,070
15. Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1978 TV Movie)
93 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Lunar colonists of Moonbase Alpha are marooned in space after a nuclear explosion pushes the Moon out of its orbit and a rescue spaceship from the Earth is not what it seems to be.
Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt
Votes: 436
16. The Return of Captain Nemo (1978 TV Movie)
102 min | Sci-Fi
After a century of being in suspended animation, the mysterious submarine commander is revived in modern times for new adventures.
Directors: Alex March, Paul Stader | Stars: José Ferrer, Burgess Meredith, Mel Ferrer, Horst Buchholz
Votes: 444
17. Thunder Run (1985)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Charlie, a Korean War veteran, is driving a truck which is transporting plutonium from Nevada to Arizona. But there are a bunch of terrorists who want to steal the stuff...
Director: Gary Hudson | Stars: Forrest Tucker, John Ireland, John Shepherd, Jill Whitlow
Votes: 396 | Gross: $0.15M
18. White Wall (2020– )
353 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A mysterious white wall made of unknown material is found deep underground at the mining site of the world's largest nuclear waste depository.
Stars: Aksel Hennie, Vera Vitali, Mattias Nordkvist, Einar Bredefeldt
Votes: 1,612
19. Raven Hawk (1995 TV Movie)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama
A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her reservation to seek revenge.
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Rachel McLish, John Enos III, Ed Lauter, Matt Clark
Votes: 908
20. Into Eternity: A Film for the Future (2010)
75 min | Documentary
A documentary on the safety of nuclear storage.
Director: Michael Madsen | Stars: Carl Reinhold Bråkenhjelm, Mikael Jensen, Berit Lundqvist, Michael Madsen
Votes: 3,114 | Gross: $0.06M
21. Atomic Homefront (2017)
TV-14 | 100 min | Documentary
A terrifying look at the corruption that's destroying our nation and our planet. This should shake every American citizen. Citizens of an American city fight back against corruption and greed and try to save their own lives.
Director: Rebecca Cammisa | Stars: Dawn Chapman, Douglas Clemens, Robbin Ellison Dailey, Kay Drey
Votes: 569
22. Abyssal Spider (2020)
107 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
While at sea, it is not only raging storms, waves the size of tankers that prove dangerous, deep sea creatures and gargantuan aquatic spiders have a tendency of also making life on the sea treacherous.
Director: Joe Chien | Stars: Jen-Shuo Cheng, Herman Du Plessis, Aggie Hsieh, Johnny Huang
Votes: 116
23. The Safe Side of the Fence (2015)
108 min | Documentary
World War II's Manhattan Project required the refinement of massive amounts of uranium, and St. Louis-based Mallinckrodt Chemical Works took on the job. As a result, the chemical company's ... See full summary »
Director: Tony West | Stars: Kay Drey, Gerald J. Kleba
Votes: 29
24. The Dirdy Birdy (1995)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A dirty bird with a penchant for mooning falls in love with a hostile cat who sits in a tree.
Director: John Dilworth | Star: John Dilworth
Votes: 387
25. Hyper Space (1989)
R | 81 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
In the 21st Century, the "Corporation" sends a spaceship to dispose of earth's severe nuclear waste to a distant region in the cosmos. The astronauts awaken from their "cryo-sleep" to truly... See full summary »
Director: David Huey | Stars: Richard Norton, Don Stroud, Lynn-Holly Johnson, James Van Patten
Votes: 119
26. Dusting Cliff 7 (1997)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The young daughter of a tough, female ex-agent is held ransom for the giving over of a top secret information file which outlines the layout of buried nuclear arms being held as garbage ... See full summary »
Director: William H. Molina | Stars: Nancy Allen, Lance Henriksen, Scott Lincoln, Dean Scofield
Votes: 284
27. Tae-poong (2005)
R | 124 min | Action
A modern-day pirate plans a massive attack on North and South Korea.
Director: Kyung-taek Kwak | Stars: Jang Dong-Gun, Lee Jung-jae, Lee Mi-yeon, David Lee McInnis
Votes: 1,391 | Gross: $0.14M
28. Earth Defense Widow (2014)
84 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A former geisha, widowed by the space monster Bemurasu, works as an ace pilot for the Earth Defense Troops. To save Planet Earth, she attacks Bemurasu, but whenever she does, she feels ecstasy. Can she save Planet Earth?
Director: Minoru Kawasaki | Stars: Nômaru Abe, Mark Chinnery, Mitsu Dan, Yûsuke Fukuda
Votes: 37
29. War and Peace (2002)
148 min | Documentary, War
The danger of a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.
Director: Anand Patwardhan | Star: Anand Patwardhan
Votes: 150
30. Seasick (1996)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
The crew aboard a freight ship are stuck at sea, shunned at all ports because of the toxic waste the ship carries.
Director: Veikko Aaltonen | Stars: Bob Peck, Katrin Cartlidge, John Castle, Peter Firth
Votes: 95
31. Return of the Atom (2015)
110 min | Documentary
Introduction to Olkiluoto OL3 nuclear plant building process in Finland. Plant is the first green-lighted nuclear plant in west after Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Directors: Jussi Eerola, Mika Taanila | Stars: Petri Hämäläinen, Heikki Jaakkola, Juha Jaakkola, Ritva Junkkari
Votes: 106
32. 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
33. SOS - The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power's Legacy (2023)
97 min | Documentary
A timely and urgent story with global implications SOS - THE SAN ONOFRE SYNDROME: Nuclear Power's Legacy Filmed over 12 years, SOS - THE SAN ONOFRE SYNDROME: Nuclear Power's Legacy ... See full summary »
Directors: Mary Beth Brangan, James Heddle, Morgan Peterson | Stars: Gordon Edwards, S. David Freeman, Rose Gardner, Donna Gilmore
34. Maan mitta (2007)
142 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Stars: Leena Pöysti, Petra Frey, Heidi Krohn, Ismo Kallio
Votes: 27
35. Svenska slut (2002)
28 min | Sci-Fi
Depicts a fictitious near future at a radioactive waste facility in northern Sweden. Due to an earlier accident, a large area in northern Sweden has been evacuated.
Stars: Wallis Grahn, Martin Wikström, Göran Forsmark, Harald Lönnbro
Votes: 26
36. The First Secret City (2015)
105 min | Documentary
Before the creation of the secret cities of Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Hanford, the Manhattan Project hired the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works of St. Louis to refine the first uranium used in ... See full summary »
Directors: Alison Carrick, C.D. Stelzer | Stars: John Bell, Carolyn Bower, Conrad Bowers, Karl Brooks
Votes: 16
37. Blueprint (1992)
190 min | Mystery, Thriller
A chilling thriller in the shadow of a nuclear power industry and cynical research around human life and death. There power and money means everything, and life nothing. Somebody must stand... See full summary »
Stars: Åsa Karlin, Gerhard Hoberstorfer, Peter Haber, Torsten Näslund
Votes: 70
38. Unter Kontrolle (2011)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
Within the closed world of the nuclear power industry one of humanity's most compelling struggles has taken place. Germany was at the vanguard of the nuclear power industry but now the ... See full summary »
Director: Volker Sattel
Votes: 132
39. Sadan tuhannen vuoden ongelma (2011 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
Directors: Ari Lehikoinen, Vesa Toijonen
40. Trespassing (2005)
Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary
In "Trespassing", the struggle of Native Americans and other ethnic groups confront the effects of United States' policy and the nuclear industry. From broken treaties to the desecration of... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Blumberg DeMenezes | Stars: Anthony Guarisco, Corbin Harney, Steve Lopez, Dorothy Purley
Votes: 40
41. News Report on a Journey to a Bright Future (1986 TV Movie)
120 min | Thriller
The wife of a reporter, who turned up missing while investigating reports of illegal toxic dumping, teams up with a photographer to find her husband.
Director: Rainer Erler | Stars: Birgit Doll, Albert Fortell, Mark Lee, Kitty Myers
Votes: 45
42. Secrets in the Sands (1991 Video)
28 min | Documentary, Short, History
Stars: David Jessel, Archie Barton, Maggie Brady, Andrew Collett
43. Treasure of the Rudras (1996 Video Game)
Drama, Horror, Adventure
Four heroic warriors must form their own parties to help their world from a coming catastrophe.
Directors: Kouze Ide, Akitoshi Kawazu
Votes: 33
44. Maralinga Atomic Bomb Test Survivors (2007 Video)
4 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: Pip Starr | Stars: Avon Hudson, Yani Lester
45. Arid Lands (2007)
102 min | Documentary, History
Documentary about the land and people of the Columbia Basin and the Hanford Nuclear site in southeastern Washington state.
Directors: Grant Aaker, Josh Wallaert
Votes: 19
46. Living Country (2005)
22 min | Short, Documentary
'Living Country' observes the campaign by Aboriginal people of central Australia to protect their land and lives from two proposed sites for uranium dump sites. For these people, their land... See full summary »
Director: David Tranter | Stars: Rosalie Riley, Alison Anderson, Herbie Bloom, Herbert Bloomfield
47. Sovereignty Dreaming, la révolte des rêves (2015)
47 min | Documentary
When Australia decides to built a radioactive waste dump at Muckaty, a sacred land, Aboriginal women sharing the Milwayi Dreaming, start to fight against the waste dump . Their trial against the Commonwealth is taking place in the bush.
Director: Vanessa Escalante | Stars: Elyas Akhoun, Michael Ghillar Anderson, Darren Bloomfield, Kevin Buzzacott
48. Rockpile (2018)
33 min | Documentary, Short
A retired teacher investigates the shadowy history of his rural Missouri community, including the origins of a looming structure known as the Rockpile.
Director: Kyle Pyatt | Stars: Thomas M. Whelan Jr., Dylan Busken, Paula Busken, Doug Busken
49. Rise Like the Phoenix: The Story of A68-1 (1985 TV Special)
40 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Director: Jim Adolph | Stars: Brenton Whittle, John Ashton, Len Beadell, Ross Goldsworthy