When the Wind Blows (1986), Black Rain (1988), These Are the Damned (1962), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Pripyat (1999), Them! (1954), On the Beach (1959), The Quiet Earth (1985) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Radiation movies.
Storyline: In this hand-drawn animated tale, elderly married couple Hilda (Peggy Ashcroft) and Jim Bloggs (John Mills) have their quiet, simple lives in the English countryside interrupted when they learn of an impending nuclear attack. Not completely understanding the gravity of their situation, Hilda and Jim react archaically and insufficiently after the attack -- and the film takes a dark turn as the radiation begins taking its toll on the unsuspecting couple.
Plot Keywords: retiree, wife, husband, amusing, disheartening, sad, sussex, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five years after World War II, Hiroshima's survivors still struggle with the memories of their horrible ordeal.
Plot Keywords: young woman, uncle, aunt, poor person, survivor, bleak, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An American man (Macdonald Carey) and an Englishwoman (Shirley Anne Field) discover genetically engineered children who can survive a nuclear war.
Plot Keywords: american man, child, scientist, prisoner, captor, young woman, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Scott Carey and his wife Louise are sunning themselves on their cabin cruiser, the small craft adrift on a calm sea. While his wife is below deck, a low mist passes over him. Scott, lying in the sun, is sprinkled with glittery particles that quickly evaporate. Later he is accidentally sprayed with an insecticide while driving and, in the next few days, he finds that he has begun to shrink. First just a few inches, so that his clothes no longer fit, then a little more. Soon he is only three feet tall, and a national curiosity. At six inches tall he can only live in a doll's house and even that becomes impossible when his cat breaks in. Scott flees to the cellar, his wife thinks he has been eaten by the cat and the door to the cellar is closed, trapping him in the littered room where, menaced by a giant spider, he struggles to survive.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, doctor, dwarf, spider, cat, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After 1986, a restricted zone was erected at a radius of 30km around Chernobyl. More than 100.000 people have been evacuated from there, but some have remained or returned. "Pripyat" follows four protagonists who live or work in this zone.
Plot Keywords: elderly person, environmentalist, researcher, government official, soldier, documentarian, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the New Mexico desert, Police Sgt. Ben Peterson and his partner find a child wandering in the desert and sooner they discover that giant ants are attacking the locals. FBI agent Robert Graham teams up with Ben and with the support of Dr. Harold Medford and his daughter Dr. Patricia 'Pat' Medford, they destroy the colony of ants in the middle of the desert. Dr. Harold Medford explains that the atomic testing in 1945 developed the dangerous mutant ants. But they also discover that two queen ants have flown away to Los Angeles and they are starting a huge colony in the underground of the city. When a mother reports that her two children are missing, the team and the army have a lead to follow. Will they arrive in time to save the children and destroy the colony?
Plot Keywords: police officer, partner, fbi agent, entomologist, general, young girl, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: commander, alcoholic, scientist, newlywed, lieutenant, survivor, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man wakes up to find himself literally alone in the world, and goes about trying to find other survivors, as well as to find out what happened. He suspects that a government research project he was involved in had something to do with the disappearance of everyone. Eventually he finds several other people, and once they begin to trust each other they try to figure out why they were left on earth.
Plot Keywords: scientist, young woman, maori, survivor, dreamy, offbeat, auckland, new zealand ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pretty Wally Cook, a reporter for the New York Chronicle convinces her editor to let her do a series of articles on Homer Flagg, a young man from New Mexico who is believed to be dying as a result of radioactive poisoning. Before she arrives out west, Homer learns from his doctor that the diagnosis was a mistake and he's perfectly healthy. That doesn't stop them from accepting Wally's offer of an all- expenses paid trip to New York. Everyone in New York takes pity on Homer, while Homer and his doctor try to keep up their pretense.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: railroad worker, doctor, reporter, editor, love interest, charming, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As a result of an arctic nuclear test, a carnivorous dinosaur thaws out and starts making its way down the east coast of North America. Professor Tom Nesbitt, only witness to the beast's existence, is not believed, even when he identifies it as a "rhedosaurus" to paleontologist Thurgood Elson. All doubts disappear, however, when Elson is swallowed whole during an oceanic bathysphere excursion to search for the creature. Soon thereafter the rhedosaurus emerges from the sea and lays waste to Manhattan Island until Nesbitt comes up with a plan to try to stop the seemingly indestructible beast.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: professor, researcher, doctor, scientist, corporal, colonel, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An earthquake doesn't just shake up Southern California -- it awakens a nest of monsters lurking in the Salton Sea. These bloodthirsty sea snails are gobbling up anyone who sets foot in the water. And when the creatures move on to land in search of wider hunting grounds, they launch a reign of terror that threatens to spread across the whole country. Humanity's only hope rests on a crew of intrepid scientists and Lt. Cmdr. John Twillinger (Tim Holt).
Plot Keywords: creature, swimmer, scientist, lieutenant commander, chilling, tense, california ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young inductee into the military is given the task of looking after some chimpanzees used in the mysterious "Project X". Getting to know the chimps fairly well, he begins to suspect there is more to the secret project than he is being told.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: pilot, graduate student, chimpanzee, scientist, military officer, engaging, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the future, a nuclear war has transformed the Earth into a radioactive wasteland where the sea has dried up leaving it as a post-apocalyptic desert. In the desert, A desert scavenger named Nomad discovers a robotic head, arriving in New York City, A space marine named Moses Baxter buys the robotic head from Nomad as a Christmas present for his girlfriend Jill Grakowski, who decides to use it for one of her sculptures. But all hell starts breaking loose, when the robotic head is activated and begins to rebuilt itself. When Alvy, a junkyard dealer discover the robotic head is a Mark 13, a military cyborg of a project that was abandoned. Moses learns Jill's life is in danger, as the Mark 13 cyborg goes on a violent rampage in Jill's apartment as Jill has become the the prime target for extermination.
Plot Keywords: android, ex-soldier, girlfriend, artist, boyfriend, junk dealer, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The dumping of radioactive waste in the ocean disturbs a prehistoric monster than can project electric shocks and radioactive beams. After terrorizing the English coast, it is discovered that if the creature is destroyed with conventional weaponry it would spread a dangerous amount radioactive contamination over the entire country, with this fact preventing the military from attacking the monster as it nears London.—Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>
Plot Keywords: dinosaur, marine biologist, monster, professor, doctor, submarine officer, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
Plot Keywords: cancer patient, soldier, doctor, test subject, gripping, spirited, disturbing ...
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