Other bleak nuclear films like Threads and The Day After?

When the Wind Blows, On the Beach, One Night Stand

Testament from 1983 hits different, way more focused in family dynamics during nuclear fallout rather than big action sequences

By Dawn's Early Light is pretty good.

Something that hasn't been mentioned: [These Final Hours](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/these_final_hours). It is an Australian movie set in Perth, Australian, which is one of the remote cities in the world. So basically they know that they have 12 hours to live. Not really like The Road or Threads, but more about knowing that the inevitable is coming.

Miracle Mile

Not that vibe, but FAILSAFE is a great one about the failure of leadership leading to nuclear war. 

The War Game from the BBC

Grave of the Fireflies, Japanese animated by Ghibli This is one of the "I can only watch this the one time. Never again" ones.

Chernobyl TV show. Miniseries on HBO

Dr. Strangelove (1964) is a dark comedy but *everyone* dies in the end. These days the movie seems more and more plausible.

The Divide (2011) is more post-apocalyptic bunker horror, but it gets really grim.

ngl, after i watched threads i just sat in silence staring at a blank wall for like an hour. if you want that exact level of utter, sickening hopelessness, you need to watch 'come and see'. it's ww2 instead of nuclear, but it leaves you with that exact same hollow, ruined feeling.

Children Of Men Also, a rec from left field: Flow It's animated, and only follows animals (not talking animals btw)

There was "A House of Dynamite" on Netflix recently.

Fail Safe!! It's fantastic

When the wind blows (1986). do not let the cute animation style fool you, it is absolutely soul-crushing and will ruin your week. testament (1983) is another one that is just quietly, deeply devastating.

Presumably you've seen Oppenheimer. Thirteen Days - about the Cuban Missile Crisis - is another one that's based in fact. Z for Zachariah was made into a movie in 2015. I've read the book, but haven't seen the film.

Children of Men

I don't know if its bleak and it didn't age well but the show Jericho was decent at the time showing a small town dealing with an unknown nuclear war that basically collapses society.

[When The Wind Blows](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJKdTqYijY&pp=ygUTd2hlbiB0aGUgd2luZCBibG93cw%3D%3D) [Testament](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o_VkYWDSy4&pp=ygURdGVzdGFtZW50IHRyYWlsZXI%3D) [Miracle Mile](https://youtu.be/sixCVdhy0lQ?si=F_wN5T6gY8r3txOs)

[Black Rain by Shohei Imamura](https://youtu.be/W2MOeUzgsQA)

There's a fantastic fake news bulletin movie called Special Bulletin (1983) that's about a domestic nuclear terrorist attack. You can watch it on Youtube.

barefoot gen: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0085218/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk 😭

Ngl I cannot imagine watching those two movies and then saying “oh yeah gimme more”

List of good suggestions. How I Live Now probably works too. If eventually suggestions and options run thin, an off shoot for mood and atmosphere could be 70’s thrillers like The Andromeda Strain (it is really, really slow, long shots with just sound design and music). Tarkovski’s Stalker has a post apocalypse type mood (non nuclear though).

**Barefoot gen** is a manga that evenly matches Threads horror. Be warned: it's about Hiroshima, and it is very gruesome. People caught in nuclear fire have their eyes melting out of their sockets, very disturbing. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot\_Gen\_(disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_Gen_(disambiguation))

[Malevil ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malevil_(film))(French movie 1981)

Fail Safe. It's a teleplay with George Clooney based on the bestselling book. (The book in turn was very similar to another book, Red Alert, that inspired Kubrick to make Dr. Strangelove. But the original is actually quite chilling.)

The Stand, a miniseries based on the epic Stephen King novel.

Colossus (1970). A Boy and His Dog. When the Wind Blows. Those are my three.

Not movies but great books "Alas, Babylon" and "One Second After". Very similar vibe to "The Day After".

A Boy and his Dog Different vibe, and campy. However, I've been wanting to rewatch since binging Fallout. Been about 20 years.

Testament, hits hard and is also very well made

War Book - based on a stage play, about a group of British civil servants from different ministries and departments reviewing and updating the UK government's response to a potential nuclear attack I think it all takes place with all the actors around a table in one room, which sounds very dry and banal and in a way it is - but the banality is where the horror and bleakness is, a group of ordinary people from different backgrounds talking about the death, maiming and illness of millions, with the nuance of each decision condemning thousands from one area or another to interminable horrors. Well worth it - I watched it maybe 10 years ago and it's stuck with me.

Tangentially related, as in anti-war and difficult to deal with horrors of war, is Come and See. If you haven't seen it, it's exceptional. It's not about nuclear war or its aftermath though.

Grazed by the Apocalypse, on YouTube.

Miracle Mile

Testament

The sum of all fears

When the wind blows

The Divide (2011). It's pretty devisive (pun intended), but I liked it a lot. And it's main music theme is still on my playlist after all these years

Try Atomic Train. Bit hammy, but good nuclear disaster film.

The Divide

On the Beach

When the Wind Blows (1986)

Although not nuclear but more about the spiraling of things is Anniversary with Kyle Chandler and Diane lane - >!sorta like a prequel to Handmaid's Tale focusing on a family against the backdrop of the rise of a Serena Joy type figure!<

There are two obscure one's that are masterpieces: Dead Man's Letters (1986), which is co-written by Boris Strugatskiy (the co-author of Roadside Picnic). O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985).

When The Wind Blows...

Try When the Wind Blows, it’s very heavy and strangely quiet.

Not necessarily nuclear-related but post-collapse: The Rover (2014) is one of my favorites that needs to be seen by more people.

Never Let Me Go. It's not post-apocalyptic (more dystopian), but the big reveal is such a gut punch.

Not nuclear, but…These Final Hours is similarly bleak. Great film, extremely realistic and depressing. I always recommend it when people ask for ‘end of world’ films.

You might like Colossus: The Forbin Project. It's a very bleak movie about AI with nuclear elements. It does leave you with that dread I think you are looking for.

Eraserhead and Stalker.

China Syndrome

The Day After was pretty confronting.

*On The Beach* / Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner based on Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Explores the aftermath of an atomic war as the last stronghold of humanity in Australia try to come to grips with universal extinction. One of the saddest novels and films ever produced.

Planet of the Apes

Miracle Mile, great tense movie with Anthony Edwards.

dude are you doing okay? seeking out more movies like threads voluntarily is wild behavior lmao. but if you really hate feeling happy, check out 'dead man's letters' (1986). pure, unfiltered soviet nuclear winter depression.

Turbo Kid. It sounds stupid but the ending will f*** you up.

Come And See

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Mad Max Hopefully it isn't as prophetic as Idiocracy

Terminator 3

Hope feels fragile in every frame.