Films like The Day After
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, a...
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Fail Safe
Film · 2000 · also drama and tv movieCold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
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On the Beach
Film · 2000 · also drama and science fictionThe world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes...
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The Andromeda Strain
Film · 1971 · also drama and science fictionWhen virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop de...
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Meltdown: Days of Destruction
Film · 2006 · also drama and science fictionDespite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major p...
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Colossal
Film · 2017 · also drama and science fictionA woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.
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War for the Planet of the Apes
Film · 2017 · also drama and science fictionCaesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with hi...
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The Devil's Arithmetic
Film · 1999 · also drama and tv movieAn American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when s...
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The Giver
Film · 2014 · also drama and science fictionIn a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure...
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Contagion
Film · 2011 · also drama and science fictionAs an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spread...
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Moon
Film · 2009 · also drama and science fictionWith only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, a...
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