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1. Dark (2017–2020)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.
Stars: Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari, Maja Schöne
Votes: 448,063
2. Chernobyl (2019)
TV-MA | 41 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Adam Nagaitis
Votes: 872,944
3. Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.
Director: Steve Pink | Stars: John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson, Clark Duke
Votes: 187,041 | Gross: $50.29M
4. My Spy (2020)
PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Comedy
A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Kristen Schaal
Votes: 34,660
5. Radioactive (2019)
PG-13 | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Rosamund Pike, Yvette Feuer, Mirjam Novak, Ralph Berkin
Votes: 21,887
6. Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Six tourists hire an extreme tour guide who takes them to the abandoned city Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. During their exploration, they soon discover they are not alone.
Director: Bradley Parker | Stars: Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Nathan Phillips
Votes: 68,709 | Gross: $18.12M
7. King Lear (1987)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Woody Allen, Freddy Buache, Leos Carax, Julie Delpy
Votes: 1,494 | Gross: $0.06M
8. Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022)
96 min | Documentary, History
Newly-discovered archive footage and witness accounts to lay bare the tragedy and heroic efforts made to prevent another explosion.
Director: James Jones | Stars: Lyudmila Ignatenko, Oleksiy Breus, Leonenko Vitaliy, Aleksandr Syrota
Votes: 1,894
9. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
You play as a scavenger suffering from amnesia inside the exclusion zone of a nuclear power plant in the Ukraine which exploded, creating mutants, and weird paranormal activity.
Director: Zach Hanks | Stars: Anthony Green, Aleksandr Vilkov, Anatoliy Bogush, Andrey Podubinskiy
Votes: 1,680
10. The Last Loner (2019)
72 min | Action
The film tells a story about a young man, who enters the Zone. A place where fear and pain fills human hearts. Upon entering, he becomes a stalker and quickly learns that the zone is ruled by apathy and greed.
Director: Amadeusz Kocan | Stars: Damian Ziembinski, Karol Kopiec, Grzegorz Halama, Pawel Kaszkowiak
Votes: 65
11. Zone of the Dead (2009)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
InterPol agents must join forces with dangerous prisoner to fight zombie hordes.
Directors: Milan Konjevic, Milan Todorovic | Stars: Ken Foree, Kristina Klebe, Emilio Roso, Miodrag 'Miki' Krstovic
Votes: 3,313
12. From the Edge of the City (1998)
Unrated | 94 min | Crime, Drama
A group of Pontian Greek immigrant teenage dreamers dwelling marginalised in the notorious and lustreless wild suburbia, witness the city's repulsive face and an unrelenting world defined by prostitution, drugs, and inevitably, loss.
Director: Constantine Giannaris | Stars: Stathis Papadopoulos, Costas Kotsianidis, Panagiotis Chartomatsidis, Anestis Polychronidis
Votes: 1,478
13. Soviet Bus Stops (2022)
60 min | Documentary, History
Uncovering the stories of the designers who built fascinating architectural marvels during the Soviet regime, Soviet Bus Stops is an ode to the power of individual creativity that would not be suppressed.
Director: Kristoffer Hegnsvad | Stars: Christopher Herwig, Victor Sheptunov Illarionovich, Konstantinas Jakovlevas-Mateckis, Jüri Konsap
Votes: 186
14. Life After People (2008 TV Movie)
108 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Visit the ghostly villages surrounding Chernobyl (abandoned by humans after the 1986 nuclear disaster), travel to remote islands off the coast of Maine to search for abandoned towns that ... See full summary »
Director: David de Vries | Stars: Struan Rodger, John Anderson, David Brin, Bill Bruninga
Votes: 3,193
15. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl (2024 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror | Post-production
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is an upcoming first-person shooter survival horror video game developed and published by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World. It will be the fourth game released in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Stars: David Bowles, Kevin Michael Clarke
17. After Chernobyl (I) (2021)
81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A group of friends go missing after visiting the 'Exclusion Zone' in Chernobyl
Directors: Igor Kinko, Maksim Litvinov | Stars: Michael Golodini, Catherine Badalyan, Vladimir Dykhovichnyy, Rostislav Gulbis
Votes: 403
18. The Chernobyl Disaster (2022)
180 min | Documentary
The Chernobyl Disaster, narrated by Ben Fogle, is a dramatic and detailed 3-part documentary series that reveals the events that led to the 1986 nuclear accident.
Star: Ben Fogle
Votes: 61
19. Pole to Pole (1992– )
50 min | Adventure, Documentary
Michael Palin undertakes a journey by the most direct route possible with the most land to cross from the North Pole to the South Pole.
Stars: Michael Palin, Neil Hardwick, Lasse Lehtinen, Graham Hancock
Votes: 1,435
20. The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
An affectionate portrait of a group of women who, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, returned to the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant and have resided there - semi-officially, for years.
Directors: Anne Bogart, Holly Morris
Votes: 871
21. Klitschko (2011)
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
A documentary encompassing the lives of world heavyweight boxing champions, Vitali & Wladimir Klitschko. The first time in history two brothers have shared all the heavyweight world titles,... See full summary »
Director: Sebastian Dehnhardt | Stars: Lamon Brewster, Chris Byrd, Bernd Bönte, Pearlman Hicks
Votes: 2,923
22. Clouds of Chernobyl (2022)
76 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A young woman is forced by her mother-in-law to have an abortion during the communist period in Romania because the children were born dead or with malformations after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Director: Ligia Ciornei | Stars: Isabela Neamtu, Victoria Cocias, Oana Puscatu, Anastasia Simion
Votes: 229
23. Inseparable (2014 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Romance
It's April of 1986. Pripyat, Ukraine. A core meltdown occurred at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Power Plant. Over thirty people died during the blast but the estimated death toll as a result ... See full summary »
Director: Vitaliy Vorobyov | Stars: Timur Bokancha, Yura Borisov, Andrey Kazakov, Galina Korneeva
Votes: 63
24. Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail (2015)
Documentary
Host and physicist Dr. Derek Muller unlocks the mysteries of uranium, one of the Earth's most controversial elements.
Star: Derek Muller
Votes: 534
25. Surviving Disaster (2006– )
59 min | Drama
BBC Docu-dramas exploring and re-enacting disasters of the 20th Century, from natural to military.
Stars: Bernard Hill, David MacInnis, Peter Hall, Sean Allen
Votes: 74
26. Innocent Saturday (2011)
99 min | Drama
A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
Director: Aleksandr Mindadze | Stars: Anton Shagin, Svetlana Smirnova-Martsinkevich, Stanislav Ryadinskiy, V. Gusov
Votes: 649
27. The last people of Chernobyl 2 (2019)
86 min | Documentary
"The last people of Chernobyl 2" tells a story about people that to this day live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Shows the daily struggles and shares their stories.
Director: Amadeusz Kocan | Stars: Maciej Bogaczyk, Krystian Machnik
Votes: 17
28. Ice of Chernobyl (2019)
46 min | Documentary
33 years after the disaster. 5 days and nights illegally in the restricted area, in Pripyat and on the Duga-1 antenna.
Director: Maryna Dymshyts
Votes: 26
29. Kolokol Chernobylya (1987)
88 min | Documentary
The film focuses very much on the human side of Chernobyl. It was made between May 28 and June 26, 1986, and some parts were added in September 1986. Many of those featured in the film ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Rollan Sergienko, Vladimir Sinelnikov
Votes: 42
30. Chernobyl Reclaimed: An Animal Takeover (2007 TV Movie)
65 min | Documentary
What would happen if the world were suddenly without people - if humans vanished off the face of the earth? How would nature react - and how swiftly? On the edge of Europe, the deserted ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Hayden
Votes: 161
31. Die WHO - Im Griff der Lobbyisten? (2017 TV Movie)
92 min | Documentary
Wenn eine Epidemie droht, sich ein gefährliches Virus ausbreitet oder die Grippewelle rollt, ist die Weltgesundheitsorganisation gefragt. Ihre Erfolge sind unbestritten, denn allein ihre ... See full summary »
Directors: Tatjana Mischke, Jutta Pinzler | Stars: Josef Tratnik, Corinne Lepage, Alison Katz, David Mccoy
Votes: 11
32. Extraterrestrial (2007 TV Movie)
128 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
There was a famous Soviet movie of the 1950s in which a character says, 'I don't much care if there is life on Mars.' But there are still people who look up into the sky wondering if Earth ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Krutin | Stars: Sergey Batalov, Miroslav Belonogov, Grigoriy Bokovenko, Lina Budnik
Votes: 143
33. Chernobyl - A Bomb That Keeps Ticking (2024)
52 min | Documentary
A young scientist investigates Chernobyl's aftermath, discovering toxic water endangering millions. Amidst the Russian invasion, he witnesses soldiers digging trenches in the Red Zone. The Russians withdraw, leaving their troops to die.
Director: Allen Dobrovolsky
34. The Real Chernobyl (2019 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary
This special documentary heads to Ukraine to meet the people involved in dealing with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
Directors: Stephanie DeGroote, Julia Karmo | Star: Diana Magnay
Votes: 6
35. The Chernobyl Fallout (2022)
90 min | Horror
An archaeologist travels to Chernobyl to find her missing brother, only to find something far more sinister within the abandon city walls.
Director: Vasyl Moskalenko | Stars: Chloé Booyens, Kseniya Mishina, Vasyl Moskalenko, Oleg Drach
Votes: 12
36. Chernobyl: Men of steel (2022)
60 min | Documentary
Samosely are the people who did not come to terms with the forced evacuation after the Chernobyl disaster. They returned to their homes to live on the land of their fathers.
Director: Amadeusz Kocan | Stars: Maciej Bogaczyk, Krystian Machnik, Miroslaw Utta
Votes: 6
37. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Monolith's Whisper (2011 Video)
68 min | Sci-Fi
Alexey enters 'The Zone' to find his lost brother after "The Second Catastrophe" as depicted in the video game STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl.
Directors: Gabriel Zang, Ernesto Abrines, Esteban Dal Monte, César Dieguez | Stars: Gabriel Zang, Ernesto Abrines, Ezequiel Trías, César Dieguez
Votes: 91
38. I'm So Sorry (2021)
96 min | Documentary
Artistic documentary about the aftermaths of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. Some images can be disturbing.
Director: Liang Zhao
Votes: 51
39. Pripyat (2008)
16 min | Short
The city of Pripyat was once considered the finest place to live in the whole of the Soviet Union. A thoroughly modern city, it was built in 1970 to house the workers of the new Chernobyl ... See full summary »
Director: Nicky Larkin
Votes: 18
40. The last people of Chernobyl 3 (2020)
70 min | Documentary
This documentary tells a story about people that to this day live in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Shows their daily struggles and lets them share their stories.
Director: Amadeusz Kocan | Stars: Maciej Bogaczyk, Tomasz Knapik, Krystian Machnik
Votes: 112
41. La noche del fin del mundo (2008 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, History
Exactly to the 1:23:45 AM, in the night of Friday 26 April, 1986, happened the worst nuclear disaster of all 20th Century: Chernobyl. Journalist Iker Jiménez, host and creator of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Iker Jiménez, Sergio Fernández de Pinedo, Manuel Romo, Álvaro Sanmartín, Carmen Porter | Stars: Iker Jiménez, Carmen Porter, Anna Korolevskaya, Ricardo García
Votes: 50
42. Chernobyl Fire (2021 Video Game)
15 min | History, Horror
Tells the story of the firefighters who assessed the damage and extinguished fires on the roofs of the reactor building in the early hours of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.
Stars: Valentina Karpenko, Leonid Telyatnikov, Ruslan Tsuiun
43. Spaltprozesse (1987)
95 min | Documentary
The NUCLEAR SPLIT of the title has become a feature of life in the Upper Palatinate, a region in West Germany bordering on Czechoslovakia. Since the location of the nuclear fuel ... See full summary »
Directors: Claus Strigel, Bertram Verhaag
Votes: 12
44. Soviets (1991– )
Documentary
A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.
Votes: 25
46. Tchernobyl: Une histoire naturelle (2010 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Luc Riolon | Stars: Gin Candotti Besson, Carl-Magnus Larsson, Sergey Gashchak, Denise Stammose
Votes: 64
47. Obitnytsia (1992)
70 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Love triangle revealed during a wedding is set to a backdrop of Ukrainian history and tradition, with questions of honor and faithfulness asked.
Director: Vasiliy Ilyashenko | Stars: Svetlana Krut, Aleksei Bogdanovich, Aleksey Gorbunov, Konstantin Stepankov
Votes: 8
48. Misery of My Soul (2013 Video)
3 min | Short, Horror
An assaulted young woman relieves her pain through a series of rituals in a nearby forest.
Director: Monika K. Adler | Star: Sasha Gorska
49. Work of Art (2008 Video)
Short, Drama, War
A shocking revelation about the so far unknown side effects of a Recent War.
Director: Eva-Maria Leonardou | Stars: Eva-Maria Leonardou, Darren Dowler, Kendall Ryan Sanders, Telis Zotos
Votes: 11
50. Long Knives Night (1999)
56 min | Documentary
A harrowing and brave response to dictatorship.
Director: Viktor Dashuk | Stars: Viktor Dashuk, Aleksandr Lukashenko
Votes: 15