Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "meltdown"

1. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver

Votes: 743,063 | Gross: $132.09M

2. Brothers (I) (2009)

R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War

While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's helicopter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.

Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard

Votes: 146,962 | Gross: $28.50M

3. Rain Man (1988)

R | 133 min | Drama

After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen

Votes: 546,902 | Gross: $178.80M

4. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

TV-14 | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

Explores every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.

Director: Eric Appel | Stars: Diedrich Bader, Daniel Radcliffe, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Richard Aaron Anderson

Votes: 38,637

5. Blackhat (2015)

R | 133 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei, Leehom Wang

Votes: 64,330 | Gross: $7.10M

6. The China Syndrome (1979)

PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady

Votes: 33,058 | Gross: $51.72M

7. Too Big to Fail (2011 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 99 min | Biography, Drama, History

Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt, Erin Dilly

Votes: 19,108

8. Music (I) (2021)

PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Musical

Zu is newly sober when she receives news that she is to become the sole guardian of her half-sister named Music, a young girl on the autism spectrum. The film explores two of Sia's favorite themes: finding your voice and creating family.

Director: Sia | Stars: Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr., Maddie Ziegler, Mary Kay Place

Votes: 9,075

9. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

PG | 96 min | Documentary

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.

Director: Davis Guggenheim | Stars: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. Bush

Votes: 85,230 | Gross: $23.81M

10. Thunder Road (2018)

92 min | Comedy, Drama

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

Director: Jim Cummings | Stars: Jim Cummings, Kendal Farr, Nican Robinson, Jocelyn DeBoer

Votes: 19,504

11. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)

R | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Terrorists kidnap the Russian Prime Minister's 2 kids, take Chernobyl nuclear power plant and threaten to blow up a reactor. 4 Universal Soldiers go in but are no match to a Next Gen. UniSol Luc (Jean-Claude Van Damme) goes in but faces 2 NGUs.

Director: John Hyams | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Andrei Arlovski, Mike Pyle

Votes: 26,544

12. Georgia (1995)

R | 115 min | Drama, Music

Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Her desperate need to be accepted by her sister is constantly complicated by her drug and alcohol problems.

Director: Ulu Grosbard | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham, Ted Levine, Max Perlich

Votes: 3,337 | Gross: $1.11M

13. Deadly Weapon (1989)

PG-13 | 89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A teenage boy who's bullied both at school by the seniors and at his home by his abusive father finds an experimental laser weapon in a river and ponders revenge. The army general who lost the gun sends his units after the kid.

Director: Michael Miner | Stars: Rodney Eastman, Kim Walker, Gary Frank, Michael Horse

Votes: 320

14. Carnosaur 2 (1995)

R | 83 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A team of scientists go to a nuclear mining facility to investigate a possible meltdown and instead find a large amount of cloned dinosaurs.

Director: Louis Morneau | Stars: John Savage, Cliff De Young, Don Stroud, Rick Dean

Votes: 2,248

15. Living It Up (2000)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

After borrowing from loan sharks for a final round of partying before committing suicide, a man (Carmelo Gomez) falls in love with a waitress (Salma Hayek).

Director: Antonio Cuadri | Stars: Salma Hayek, Carmelo Gómez, Tito Valverde, Alicia Agut

Votes: 1,331

16. Keep the Change (I) (2017)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Romance

A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.

Director: Rachel Israel | Stars: Jessica Walter, Christina Brucato, Tibor Feldman, Sondra James

Votes: 946 | Gross: $0.20M

17. The Lonely Island: Threw It on the Ground (2009 Music Video)

2 min | Short, Comedy, Music

The Lonely Island's humored music video about a non conformist guy who rebels against society and the "system" by throwing objects to the ground. His anger escalates towards common workers,... See full summary »

Director: Akiva Schaffer | Stars: The Lonely Island, Bobby Moynihan, Ryan Reynolds, Andy Samberg

Votes: 661

18. We Too Together (2021)

94 min | Drama, Romance

An autistic boy and his Father who returns from war with PTSD help each other find peace with the help of martial arts and music. As a man Rob also learns to follow his heart when he finds a woman who loves him just as he is.

Director: Deborah Hadfield | Stars: Cengiz Dervis, Silvia Busuioc, Nigel Lowe, Jake Levitt

Votes: 50

19. Berserkers (2014)

Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

A seemingly normal day takes a turn for the worse for three friends as everyone they have ever known are suddenly transformed into aggressively murderous flesh eating freaks.

Director: Jacob O'Brien Mulliken | Stars: Jacob O'Brien Mulliken, Seth Gontkovic, Alicia Marie Marcucci, F. Robert McMurray

Votes: 104

20. The Simpsons: Tapped Out (2012 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Homer accidentally causes a nuclear meltdown whilst playing The Happy Little Elves Village on his myPad. After he's the only one to survive the blast, he starts to rebuild Springfield, bringing other characters out of limbo in the process.

Stars: Pamela Hayden, Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Dan Castellaneta

Votes: 774

21. The Critic (I) (2018)

15 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

A starry-eyed actress with a troubled past faces her harshest critic during an interview gone wrong.

Director: Stella Velon | Stars: Stella Velon, Alan Smyth, Todd Karner

Votes: 90

22. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (2008)

6 min | Short, Comedy

A low budget spoof of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Director: Michael Bartnett | Stars: Mikey Yrigoyen, Mike Maclaggan, Auora Schroeder, Bobby Baker

Votes: 32

23. Déjà Vu: The Peril of Pauline

105 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance | Post-production

French environmental scientist Dr Pauline Joubert, about to expose secret warfare technology, was assassinated by her hitman/lover in New York's Central Park in 1985. In present day ... See full summary »

Director: Cybela Clare | Stars: Baby Rainbow, Cybela Clare, Michael Slack, Dana Watkins

24. Verhängnis (1994)

80 min | Drama

The paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night.

Director: Fred Kelemen | Stars: Valerij Fedorenko, Marc Ottiker, Sanja Spengler, Eddi Zacharias

Votes: 105

25. The Lion (2017)

9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

A voiceover artist is asked to speak like he's seen a lion. So he goes to extremes.

Director: Sam Buchanan | Stars: Julian Stolzenberg, Neil McCaul, Levente Molnár, Samantha Spurgin

Votes: 157

26. Killervision (2014)

93 min | Drama, Thriller

While watching B grade movies a brain-injured man is tormented by visions of his friends being murdered by a faceless killer. He becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes it's only a matter of time before the killer comes for him.

Director: Dale Trott | Stars: Damien E. Lipp, Susie Kazda, Katrina Gow, Josh Dean Williams

Votes: 78

27. Brutal Colors (2015)

Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Famous fine artist Brie finds her mind unraveling inside her beautiful home. Could it be the mysterious and somewhat sadistic housekeeper who is behind this?

Director: Michael Conroy | Stars: Britt Bowman, Fred Campbell, Michael Anthony Coppola, Lauren Doucette

Votes: 66

28. The Rheinsberg Tapes

70 min | Horror | Announced

Her vacation turns into a horrible nightmare for a young female doctor Laura when a nuclear meltdown in the nearby power plant destroys everything she believed in. And it's not over yet.

Director: Hans-Ulrich Dissen | Star: Jane Doe

29. Atomics (1990 TV Movie)

27 min | Comedy

Two bumbling janitors from Wash & Co are hired to clean the Petunia Power Plant. After they accidentally damage the cooling system, the Trouble Killer must be called in to avert a nuclear meltdown.

Director: Helge Lyngstad | Stars: Trond Kirkvaag, Øivind Johannessen, Ola B. Johannessen, Anne Stray

Votes: 7

30. I Am Not a Sheep (2014)

18 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

An odd man with a questionable level of mental stability (Ian, played by Joel D. Anger) goes to his girlfriend (Moirah, Taylor Nelms) to try to sort out his reality as it appears to slowly ... See full summary »

Director: Zac Webb | Stars: Joel Anger, Taylor Nelms, Samuel Taylor, Jacob Taylor

31. Meltdown (I) (2012)

32 min | Short, Horror

Meltdown is the ultimate Zombie, Sci-fi, Comedy that pits four Pittsburghers against a horde of flesh eating radio active Zombies.

Director: Jacob O'Brien Mulliken | Stars: Jacob O'Brien Mulliken, Pilar Freeman, Angelica Sirabella, F. Robert McMurray

Votes: 7

32. Flat B (2019 TV Movie)

22 min | Comedy

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Director: Lisa Reynolds | Stars: Claire Louise Amias, Daniel Cummins, Ellie Hautekiet, Dave House

33. The Incredible Hulk (1978–1982)
Episode: Earthquakes Happen (1978)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Banner uses forged documents to take the place of safety inspector Robert Patterson in order to get access to Gamma ray inversion equipment at a power plant when an earthquake hits.

Director: Harvey S. Laidman | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Sherry Jackson

Votes: 251

34. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Homer Defined (1991)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Homer is a hero after averting a nuclear meltdown that he nearly caused, but he doesn't want to tell anyone that he stopped it completely by accident.

Director: Mark Kirkland | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 4,381

35. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Homer Goes to College (1993)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

When a surprise inspection of the nuclear power plant reveals that Homer is not qualified to do his job, he is forced to go to college.

Director: Jim Reardon | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 4,101

36. Goof Troop (1992–1993)
Episode: Axed by Addition (1992)

TV-Y | 22 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

P.J. is so worried about being grounded for bad school grades that he tries to enjoy himself like he will never be able to do it again.

Director: Robert Taylor | Stars: Jim Cummings, David Doyle, Bill Farmer, Dana Hill

Votes: 81

37. Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode: Inferno: Episode 7 (1970)

TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

The Doctor is back in his own universe and must stop Stahlman before his earth suffers the same fate as the parallel one.

Directors: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, Olaf Pooley

Votes: 659

38. Schitt's Creek (2015–2020)
Episode: Life Is a Cabaret (2019)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

Stevie is nowhere to be found on opening night for Cabaret. David attempts to make a big announcement.

Directors: Andrew Cividino, Dan Levy | Stars: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy, Annie Murphy

Votes: 1,922

39. DuckTales (1987–1990)
Episode: Catch as Cash Can: Part 2 - A Whale of a Bad Time (1987)

TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Glomgold tries again to stop Scrooge from being declared the richest duck in the world, this time using a stolen submarine.

Director: Alan Zaslove | Stars: Tony Anselmo, Peter Cullen, Joan Gerber, Chuck McCann

Votes: 203

40. SEAL Team (2017–2024)
Episode: The Ones You Can't See (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Drama, War

Jason contemplates surgery, and Bravo Team is on a mission abroad to help the secret service prevent a sniper attack on U.S. dignitaries.

Director: Ruben Garcia | Stars: David Boreanaz, Max Thieriot, Jessica Paré, Neil Brown Jr.

Votes: 449

41. Another Dirty Room (2016– )
Episode: Another Dirty Room New Orleans: Bed Bug Booger at the Midtown Hotel (2020)

43 min | Documentary, Comedy

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Director: Dan Bell | Stars: Dan Bell, Brennen Evangelista, Rick Serra

42. The Good Doctor (2017–2024)
Episode: Piece of Cake (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama

Shaun and the team race to save a pregnant woman's baby and find her current situation as a convicted felon complicates it even more than they realize; the hospital takes on some unexpected changes that the staff is not prepared for.

Director: Tim Southam | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Fiona Gubelmann, Will Yun Lee, Christina Chang

Votes: 674

43. Flipping Out (2007–2018)
Episode: House of Lies (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV

In the wake of Andrew's abrupt departure, Jeff and Jenni scramble to cover the work he's left undone. Meanwhile, Jeff finds himself underpaid and overworked on a project where he's forced ... See full summary »

Stars: Jeff Lewis, Jenni Pulos, Zoila Chavez, Gage Edward

44. Flipping Out (2007–2018)
Episode: Retreat (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Reality-TV

The Jeff Lewis Design team arrives at a remote facility in rural New Mexico to deal with and hopefully ease their issues with one another. As they undergo a series of therapy sessions and ... See full summary »

Stars: Vanina Alfaro, Beth, Matt Bowen, Summer Bowen

45. Nova (1974– )
Episode: Nuclear Meltdown Disaster (2015)

TV-PG | 54 min | Documentary

Four years after one of history's worst nuclear accidents, NOVA reveals the minute-by-minute story of the Fukushima nuclear crisis and its ongoing aftermath, told by the brave workers who ... See full summary »

Director: Miles O'Brien | Stars: Chuck Casto, Masatoshi Fukura, Takeyuki Inagaki, Naoto Kan

Votes: 48

46. BBC News 8pm Summary (2007– )
Episode: Episode dated 1 June 2015 (2015)

2 min | Short, News

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Stars: Ellie Crisell, Waseem Mirza, Harriette Thompson

47. Justice League Action (2016–2018)
Episode: Nuclear Family Values (2017)

TV-Y7 | 11 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Firestorm's family values. The heat is on when the Justice League elist the help of Firestorm. Taking a trip to where it all began, Firestorm encounters a not so all American family.

Director: Doug Murphy | Stars: P.J. Byrne, Kevin Conroy, Melissa Disney, Rachel Kimsey

Votes: 143

48. Henry Danger (2014–2020)
Episode: Henry Danger: The Musical (2019)

TV-G | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Family

When Frankini uses a device to put a musical curse over Swellview, Kid Danger and Captain Man are forced to find a way to stop him, but when Captain Man cracks under the pressure, it's up to Kid Danger to remind him how to be a hero again.

Director: Steve Hoefer | Stars: Jace Norman, Cooper Barnes, Riele Downs, Sean Ryan Fox

Votes: 191