Films thrillers about the atomic bomb

List of the best films of thrillers about the atomic bomb according to the audience: Man on a Ledge, The Words, Stonehearst Asylum, Shutter Island, The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, Argo, Room, Anonymous, Split, The Place Beyond the Pines.

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

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

    An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

      The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, biography
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:00

      As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:32

      Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
      Duration02:10

        Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration02:27

        Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:20

          A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

            Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrethriller, drama, history
            CountryUSA, Germany, India
            Duration02:39

              During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrethriller, drama, detective
              CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
              Duration01:35

              Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genreaction, thriller, detective
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA
              Duration01:53

              An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a former Stazi agent, he sets out to prove who he is and find out why people are trying to kill him.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA, Canada
              Duration01:56

              Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

              Markimdb: 8.1
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:59

              A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrethriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:57

                An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
                Duration01:41

                A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, France
                Duration02:13

                  A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

                  Markimdb: 7.8
                  Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:14

                    The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

                    Markimdb: 7.5
                    Genrethriller, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:55

                      Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the stories intersect with surprising twists that expose a shocking reality into our daily use of technology that mediates and defines our relationships and ultimately our lives.

                      Markimdb: 8.1
                      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:33

                        When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada

                        An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

                        Markimdb: 7.3
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA, France
                        Duration02:02

                        Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19 days, but Henri spends years alone, cold and in complete darkness, only to emerge a madman and soon to be a murderer. The story follows a rookie lawyer attempting to prove that Alcatraz was to blame.

                        Markimdb: 6.7
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                        CountryUSA, Canada
                        Duration01:58

                        Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

                        Markimdb: 7.2
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA, Canada
                        Duration01:35

                        Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

                        Markimdb: 8.1
                        Genrethriller, drama, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:29

                          With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

                          Markimdb: 7.1
                          Genrethriller, drama, adventure, history
                          CountryUSA, Canada
                          Duration02:01

                          The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

                          Markimdb: 7.4
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:44

                          A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

                          Markimdb: 7.4
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
                          Duration02:19

                          Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

                          Markimdb: 7.6
                          Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:37

                          An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

                          Markimdb: 6.8
                          Genrethriller, drama, adventure
                          CountryGermany, USA
                          Duration01:50

                          Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

                          Markimdb: 7.7
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:38

                          The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

                          Markimdb: 7.8
                          Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
                          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

                          What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

                          Markimdb: 7.5
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, USA
                          Duration02:10

                          A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

                          Markimdb: 8.5
                          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:49

                          When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother. The place seems quirky, but fine… until Marion decides to take a shower.

                          Markimdb: 7.7
                          Genrethriller, drama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:18

                          When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

                          Markimdb: 7
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:54

                          Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.

                          Markimdb: 7
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, USA
                          Duration01:37

                          A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.

                          Markimdb: 6.8
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:49

                          A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.

                          Markimdb: 6
                          Genrethriller, drama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:24

                          A bickering couple drive fast through a downpour to catch the last ferry to their island retreat. In a flash, they recognize a crumpled body laying at the side of the road and after much argument they stop, only to find a young man battered and bruised. An offer of summoning the police firmly rejected, the two help the man as best they can although it certainly means missing the ferry... and so starts this thriller: a tale of twisted sexual attraction and ulterior motives.

                          Markimdb: 6.6
                          Genrethriller, drama, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:03

                          An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

                          Markimdb: 7.4
                          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                          CountryUSA, Mexico
                          Duration01:45

                          A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

                          Markimdb: 6.5
                          Genrethriller, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:00

                          Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.

                          Markimdb: 7.4
                          Genrethriller, drama, military
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Mexico
                          Duration02:02

                          A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.

                          Markimdb: 7.9
                          Genrethriller, drama, detective
                          CountryUSA, France
                          Duration02:27

                            After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

                            Markimdb: 8.4
                            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
                            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                            Duration02:24

                            Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

                            Markimdb: 7.5
                            Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration02:04

                            A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

                            Markimdb: 7.7
                            Genrethriller, drama, adventure
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration02:01

                            Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

                            Markimdb: 7.1
                            Genrethriller, drama, crime
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration01:37

                            A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant", known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?




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