Top Post Nuclear Movies & TV Shows

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (2020) TV Show

8.2 238 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: A sheltered girl gets a crash course in survival when a mutant attack sends her to the surface, far from the safety of her underground home.

Plot: transformation, post-apocalyptic future, talking animal, 3d animation, based on webcomic or webtoon, underground colony, 2d animation

Cast

Rebecca Ferguson

Common

Chinaza Uche

Ashley Zukerman

Silo (2023) TV Show

8.2 2.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

Style: cynical, absurd

Plot: corruption, based on novel or book, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, politics, disaster, hidden powers, silo, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

8.2 14.5K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 137 min.

Audience: R

Story: Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: man vs machine, artificial intelligence (a.i.), cyborg, shotgun, dystopia, moral ambiguity, post-apocalyptic future, villain, ...

High School of the Dead (2010) TV Show

8.1 993 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A small group of students at Fujimi High are fighting for their lives after surviving a zombie outbreak. It is up to Takashi to unite the survivors and escape the horrors that surround them. In this new world of the living dead...will they escape?

Style: erotic

Plot: swordplay, post-apocalyptic future, end of the world, gore, survival, coming of age, gunfight, zombie, ...

Cast

Ella Purnell

Aaron Moten

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Frances Turner

Fallout (2024) TV Show

8.1 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

Plot: capitalism, nuclear war, mutant, vault, bunker, post-apocalyptic future, drug use, alternate history, ...

Place: los angeles, california

Cast

Lauren Cohan

Norman Reedus

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Melissa McBride

The Walking Dead (2010) TV Show

8.1 18.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 11

Episodes: 177

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, gore, undead, survival, zombie, based on graphic novel, horror

Cast

Jason Momoa

Sylvia Hoeks

Hera Hilmar

Christian Camargo

See (2019) TV Show

8.1 2.9K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.

Plot: monarchy, post-apocalyptic future, politics, sword fight, blind, power struggle, epic fights, swords, ...

Cast

Masaya Onosaka

Hiromi Tsuru

Satsuki Yukino

Show Hayami

TRIGUN (1998) TV Show

8.1 500 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: Trigun takes place in the distant future on a desert planet. Vash the Stampede is a gunfighter with a legend so ruthless he has a $$60,000,000,000 bounty on his head. Entire towns evacuate at the rumor of his arrival. But the real Vash the Stampede, the enigmatic and conflicted lead character, is more heroic, even though he usually acts like a complete idiot.

Plot: bounty hunter, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, steampunk, bromance, based on manga, gunman, gun violence, ...

Strangers from Hell (2019) TV Show

8.0 144 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), fight, kidnapping, paranoia, hallucination, investigation, psychopath, psychological abuse, ...

Cast

Luigi Lo Cascio

Alessio Boni

Adriana Asti

Sonia Bergamasco

The Best of Youth (2003)

8.0 608 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: Italy

Duration: 367 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

Plot: society, loss of loved one, sicily, italy, political activism, cultural revolution, florence, italy, ...

Fist of the North Star (1984) TV Show

8.0 129 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 152

Audience: TV-MA

Story: It's the year 199x, and Earth burns with the fires of a nuclear holocaust. On the charred remains of the planet's surface, humans struggle desperately to survive a fearful world. The young wanderer Kenshiro rises to stand against the violent reality. Upon his chest are seven scars in the shape of the North Star!

Style: melancholy, intense

Plot: martial arts, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, based on manga, fighting, macabre, shounen, anime, ...

WorldEnd: What are you doing at the end of the world? Are you busy? Will you save us? (2017) TV Show

8.0 145 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: The fleeting and sad story about little girls known as fairy weapons and an associate hero that survived. This is a world after it was attacked by unidentified monsters known as beasts and many of the species in the world, including humans, had been destroyed. The species that had managed to survived left the ground and were living on a floating island called Regal Ele. Willem Kmetsch wakes up above the clouds 500 years later and couldn’t protect the ones who he wanted to protect. Actually, he was living in despair because he was the only survivor.

Plot: saving the world, post-apocalyptic future, giant monster, anthropomorphism, hopeless, anime, based on light novel, depressing

Cast

Noppanut Guntachai

Warut Chawalitrujiwong

Thitiwat Ritprasert

Natouch Siripongthon

Between Us (2022) TV Show

8.0 37 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: A swimmer with insomnia finds comfort in a senior who lets him stay in his room, and as competitions near, their bond pushes both to face their fears.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, difficult childhood, trauma, childhood trauma, friendship, flashback, tragedy, ...

Fireworks of My Heart (2023) TV Show

8.0 69 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: China

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 40

Story: Fire chief Song Yan and emergency doctor Xu Qin were separated by family opposition when they were younger. Now ten years later, they meet again due to their professions. After experiencing life and death together, they manage to find their way back, working together and encouraging each other. They acknowledge each other's individual growth after years apart, but will they be able to overcome the obstacles in their path this time to stay together?

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), workplace, romance, rescue mission, co-workers relationship, firefighter, transfer student, emergency services, ...

Cast

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Setsuko Hara

Yumeji Tsukioka

Haruko Sugimura

Late Spring (1949)

8.0 479 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 108 min.

Story: Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

Plot: arranged marriage, black and white, post world war ii, father daughter relationship, serene, shōwa era (1926-89)

AIKa (1997) TV Show

8.0 198 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Aika Sumeragi works as a salvager for hire, but gets caught up in a plot for world domination.

Plot: secret agent, post-apocalyptic future, incest, super villain, ecchi, anime, small business

Time: future

The Deer Hunter (1978)

8.0 4.3K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 183 min.

Audience: R

Story: Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.

Plot: vietnam veteran, small town, suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), escape, pennsylvania, usa, saigon, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

Gen Sato

Sayaka Senbongi

Hibiku Yamamura

Toshiyuki Toyonaga

Tengoku Daimakyo (2023) TV Show

8.0 278 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In the year 2024, the world has collapsed. Grotesque monsters lurk amongst the ruins of Japan, while remaining people scrape together what they can to survive. Kiruko, an odd-job girl in Nakano, accepts a mysterious woman's dying wish to take a boy named Maru to a place called Heaven. Maru is convinced that there will be a boy there who looks exactly like him.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, based on comic, organ transplant, seinen, anime, monsters, adventure

Girls' Last Tour (2017) TV Show

7.9 116 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: Civilization is dead, but Chito and Yuuri are still alive. So they hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and aimlessly wander the ruins of the world they once knew. Day after hopeless day, they look for their next meal and fuel for their ride. But as long as the two are together, even an existence as bleak as theirs has a ray or two of sunshine in it, whether they're sucking down their fill of soup or hunting for machine parts to tinker with. For two girls in a world full of nothing, the experiences and feelings the two share give them something to live for.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, slice of life, travel, based on manga, military, driving, journey, anime, ...