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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: 739,180 | Gross: $326.11M
2. Asteroid City (2023)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 114,627
3. The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a dystopian America dominated by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a young woman discovers a mysterious film that may hold the key to toppling the totalitarian regimes.
Stars: Alexa Davalos, Luke Kleintank, Rufus Sewell, Rupert Evans
Votes: 111,252
4. Twin Peaks (2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Michael Horse, Chrysta Bell
Votes: 76,159
5. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure
Indiana Jones becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf, Karen Allen
Votes: 492,024 | Gross: $317.10M
6. Pacifiction (2022)
165 min | Drama, Thriller
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the high commissioner of the Republic and French government must investigate an ongoing rumor: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
Director: Albert Serra | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Marc Susini, Matahi Pambrun
Votes: 3,235
7. 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: 67,488 | Gross: $35.17M
8. Radioactive (2019)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin
Votes: 21,806
9. Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
When opportunistic tycoons refuse to return Mothra's egg to Infant Island, its people must decide if they are willing to answer Japan's own pleas for help when Godzilla arises near Nagoya.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Yû Fujiki
Votes: 10,384
10. Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Scout pilots for a fishing company are startled to discover a second Godzilla, whose battle with rival monster Anguirus threatens to destroy Osaka.
Directors: Motoyoshi Oda, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Hiroshi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura
Votes: 8,394
11. Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
G | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Megalon, the monster god of the vengeful underground kingdom of Seatopia, is aided by Gigan in attacking the surface world, until android Jet Jaguar teams up with Godzilla to fight them.
Directors: Jun Fukuda, Yoshimitsu Banno, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Katsuhiko Sasaki, Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, Robert Dunham
Votes: 6,948
12. A Very Secret Service (2015–2018)
TV-MA | 26 min | Comedy
Andre Merlaux, a young officer, under the leadership of his three seniors, needs to protect and defend the interests of France and participate in dangerous operations.
Stars: Hugo Becker, Wilfred Benaïche, Christophe Kourotchkine, Karim Barras
Votes: 3,913
13. Midnight's Children (2012)
Not Rated | 146 min | Drama
A pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain grow up in the country that is nothing like their parents' generation.
Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Rajat Kapoor, Vansh Bhardwaj, Anupam Kher, Neha Mahajan
Votes: 3,397 | Gross: $0.14M
14. Brides of Blood (1968)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Natives of a tropical island have to contend with man-eating plants and animals, mutations caused by radioactivity. Virgin sacrifices become the norm. A small group of interlopers become caught up in the mayhem.
Directors: Gerardo de Leon, Eddie Romero | Stars: John Ashley, Kent Taylor, Mario Montenegro, Beverly Powers
Votes: 966
15. 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: 831
16. Mission Blue (2014)
95 min | Documentary, Drama
Feature documentary about legendary oceanographer, marine biologist, environmentalist, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle and her campaign to create a global network of protected marine sanctuaries.
Directors: Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens | Stars: Barbara Block, James Cameron, Michael deGruy, Sylvia Earle
Votes: 2,149
17. Above and Beyond (1952)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War
Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Votes: 1,342
18. Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995 Video)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War
The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963.
Director: Peter Kuran | Stars: William Shatner, Edward Teller, W.H.P. Blandy, Frank H. Shelton
Votes: 3,625
19. Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018)
Not Rated | 129 min | Action, Drama, History
Ashwat Raina and his teammates arrive in Pokhran to re-conduct a confidential nuclear test, where they face challenges from the American Lacrosse satellite and local spies.
Director: Abhishek Sharma | Stars: John Abraham, Boman Irani, Diana Penty, Anuja Sathe
Votes: 25,237
20. 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: 226
21. Polar Opposites (2008 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Drama
David Terran wrote scientific theories predicting an inevitable shift in Earth's magnetic poles. Then an Iranian underground nuclear test sets off a global phenomenon that matches David's doomsday scenario.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Charles Shaughnessy, Tracy Nelson, Ken Barnett, Beth Grant
Votes: 613 | Gross: $0.00M
22. Ground Zero (1987)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for... See full summary »
Directors: Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson | Stars: Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, Natalie Bate
Votes: 551 | Gross: $0.20M
23. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary (2007 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Lara Croft has been hired by a mysterious woman named Natla to find a lost and very powerful artifact known as the Scion.
Director: Toby Gard | Stars: Keeley Hawes, Grey Griffin, Dave Wittenberg, Jim Ward
Votes: 2,008
24. SOS Pacific (1959)
92 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Due to an accident, a seaplane operated by a small airline company ditches off an island in the Pacific and the surviving passengers must find a way to be rescued.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, John Gregson, Eva Bartok
Votes: 440
25. Black Ocean (2010)
87 min | Drama
Three young boys aboard a French naval vessel in 1974, unaware of the risks they run and the dramatic effects on our planet, take part in the nuclear tests in Mururoa, in the Pacific.
Director: Marion Hänsel | Stars: Adrien Jolivet, Nicolas Robin, Romain David, Alexandre de Sèze
Votes: 175
26. 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
27. Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1 (2011)
87 min | Documentary
A shocking political expose, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling for survival, dignity and justice after decades of top-secret human radiation experiments conducted on them by the U.S. government.
Director: Adam Jonas Horowitz | Stars: Holly Barker, Steven V. Carey, Tony de Brum, Howard Hills
Votes: 36
28. America's Atomic Bomb Tests: Operation Hardtack (1997 Video)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
One of the few atomic testing operations ever to be conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense at both the Pacific Proving Grounds and the Nevada Test Site, Operation Hardtack combined ... See full summary »
Votes: 23
29. Silent Storm (2003)
90 min | Documentary, History
In 2001 tons of ashed human bones were found in Melbourne, contaminated by Strontium 90, a toxic residue of nuclear weapon tests in Australia and around the world.
Director: Peter Butt | Stars: Paula Arundell, Bille Brown, Penny Brabin, Peter Burns
Votes: 20
30. Blowin' in the Wind (2005)
62 min | Documentary, History, War
Director: David Bradbury | Stars: Lisa Peers, Doug Rokke, Lauren Moret, George W. Bush
31. 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
32. Too Long in the Bush: Len Beadell Looks Back (2007 Video)
80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Director: Phil Sexton | Stars: Len Beadell, Anne Beadell, Ron Buckley, Clive Drinkwater
34. Operation Castle - Commander's Report (1954)
21 min | Documentary, Short
An official government (United States Air Force) film documenting "Operation Castle", a series of nuclear weapon tests on Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls in the Pacific, in the year 1954. The ... See full summary »
35. Hiro (2008)
60 min | Documentary
Through Maori poet, filmmaker and activist Henri Hiro's life and work, Tahitians struggle to safeguard their own identity in the face of colonial invasion and nuclear tests in Mururoa.
Directors: Jorge Diaz de Bedoya, Sophie Guénan, Nils Vernaudon | Star: Henri Hiro
36. The Woomera Atomic Tests (1954)
3 min | Documentary, Short, News
Stars: Lionel Gamlin, William Penney
37. Backs to the Blast: An Australian Nuclear Story (1981)
52 min | Documentary, History
One hour documentary examining the seventy year history of nuclear and atomic industry, weapons, testing in South Australia from 1910 to 1980.
Director: Harry Bardwell | Stars: Martin Vaughan, Arthur Baillie, Eric Geddes, Roger Goldsworthy
Votes: 7
39. Maralinga: Old Nuclear Test Range Site Where Plutonium Buried Now Centre of Dispute Over Removal of Dangerous Residue (1978)
3 min | Documentary, News, Short
Stars: Joan Bullock, Avon Hudson
40. War of Art (2019)
102 min | Documentary
Artists from across the Western world visit North Korea to take part in a "cultural exchange" - with varying degrees of success and failure.
Director: Tommy Gulliksen | Stars: Matthias Scherwenikas, Cathie Boyd, Chol-Hak Ham, Kyong-Chol Kim
Votes: 113
42. Maralinga Victims (2010 Video)
4 min | Documentary, Short, History
When you think of nuclear weapons you probably think of wars and far-away place. But did you know atomic bombs have been dropped here on Australian soil? It was a long time ago but lives ... See full summary »
Stars: Sarah Larsen, Yami Lester
44. Bereg nadezhdy (1967)
75 min | Drama
Director: Nikolay Vingranovskiy | Stars: Yuri Leonidov, Boris Bibikov, Nikolay Vingranovskiy, Vladimir Zeldin
45. Operation A-Bomb (1953)
16 min | Documentary, Short, War
The actual story of two atomic bomb tests in the Nevada desert, in which United States Army and Marine Corps participated. Atomic warfare maneuvers and the actual explosions are shown.
Director: Burton Benjamin | Star: Bob Considine
46. Atomic Fracking in Wyoming: The Story of Project Wagon Wheel (2019)
59 min | Documentary, History
In the 1960s, the US government came up with an experimental plan supported by the oil companies to try using nuclear explosions to extract natural gas in the American West. The tests set for Wyoming were known as the Wagon Wheel Project.
Director: Gregory Asay
Votes: 11
47. Maralinga Tours: An Insight Into Our Hidden Past (2018 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short, History
Learn about a very, very dark chapter in Australia's history. One Tree, Marcoo, Kite, Breakaway, Tadje, Biak and Taranaki: innocuous sounding names that in the 1950's provided headlines in ... See full summary »
48. The Other Face of Maralinga (2013 Video)
14 min | Documentary, Short, History
Star: Alan Parkinson
50. Plutonium at Maralinga, South Australia (2016 Video)
14 min | Documentary, Short, History
Star: Alan Parkinson