Fantastic movies about a nuclear explosion

List of the best science fiction films about a nuclear explosion according to the audience: RoboCop, Hibernatus, Metropolis, Doctor Who: Deep Breath, The Aerial, Fish Story, The Cloud, Dead Man's Letters, Harrison Bergeron, The Day After Tomorrow.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, comedy
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration01:22

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryGermany
Duration02:25

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Mark
Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:38

The newly-regenerated Doctor arrives in Victorian London, and Clara Oswald struggles to embrace the man he has become. All the while, they reunite with the Paternoster Gang to investigate a series of combustions that have been occurring all around the city.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama
CountryArgentina
Duration01:30

The denizens of a nameless city "in the year XX" have lost their voices. People communicate by mouthing out words that are spelled mid-air. The only person who has kept the use of her voice is La Voz ("the voice"), a singer working for the sole TV channel broadcast in the city, run by Mr. TV, who desires La Voz. La Voz wears a hood over her head that hides away her face. She has a son called Tomás, an eyeless little kid who nonetheless also has a voice (although this is kept a secret). Tomás lives next door to Ana, whom he one day befriends after a letter addressed to his house is erroneously delivered to hers.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, music
CountryJapan

A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryGermany
Duration01:45

    DIE WOLKE (The Cloud) is about a breakdown of a nuclear power station in Germany and the story of two teenager-lovers Hannah and Elmar who take refuge. 38.000 people die and Hannah unfortunately becomes contaminated.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:28

    In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will never be read.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic
    CountryCanada

    "All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:42

      In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Japan
      Duration01:44

      In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, comedy, crime
      CountryFrance, Italy

      The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:05

      A young man tries to revive his parents' wilting marriage in a unique manner - travel to the 1970s when their romance was budding and make it bloom. This is more complex than he expects.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:38

      Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
      Duration01:36

      Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Italy, United Kingdom, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, China, West Germany, Japan, France, Hong Kong
      Duration01:33

      A quartet of mutated humanoid turtles clash with an uprising criminal gang of ninjas

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure, military, history
      CountryRussia
      Duration01:55

      Four 21st century treasure seekers are transported back into the middle of a WWII battles in Soviet Union...

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:39

      After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountrySpain

      A mysterious place, an indescribable prison, a deep hole. An unknown number of levels. Two inmates living on each level. A descending platform containing food for all of them. An inhuman fight for survival, but also an opportunity for solidarity.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:06

      The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker, who has seized control of Gotham's underworld.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, West Germany, United Kingdom
      Duration01:48

      A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:57

      In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, who had also been cryogenically frozen after being wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:45

      Akilan and Vimalan are the conjoined twins of genetic scientist Ramachandran, whose company makes Energion, a dietary supplement that promises to make geniuses out of children. When Russian journalist Volga tells them that there is something fishy about Energion and is mysteriously found dead, their lives are turned topsy-turvy.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family
      CountryGermany, Belgium

      One day, robot Robby enters into a life of the most creative little boy, Toby. Robby had been separated from his robot parents when his spaceship crashed. Toby decides to offer his help and the two of them become friends.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This phenomenon changes the lives of all those around him in ways they never could have imagined.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:01

      Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star — the first totally believable synthetic actress.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love. Faced with choosing between his deceased wife and Meli, Dr. Wolper sees his situation in a new light when Boris' own new love, Barbara, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, another professor tries shutting down the cloning project.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:55

      In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:42

      Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantastic, action, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

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