Top 20 movies like The China Syndrome

The China Syndrome

While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.

The China Syndrome is of 2 hour(s) and 2 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Columbia Pictures, IPC Films. It was released on 1979-03-16. It has the tagline: Sometimes it’s too late to tell the truth. It has an average vote of 7.153 on TMDB.

Genres: DramaThriller

1. Special Bulletin

Special Bulletin

A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.

It has an average vote of 7.025 on TMDB.

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2. Peter Kay: Live at the Bolton Albert Halls

Peter Kay: Live at the Bolton Albert Halls

In Live at the Bolton Albert Halls Peter Kay performs his 'Mum Wants A Bungalow Tour' in front of a home town audience.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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3. The Motel Life

The Motel Life

A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.

It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.

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4. Edvard Munch (Edvard Munch)

Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch's childhood is overshadowed by death: he suffers the loss of his sister and mother, while enduring serious illness himself, almost dying. At university, Munch discovers his talent as a painter. As he immerses himself in the art world, he becomes part of a cultural revolution lead by the likes of nihilist Hans Jæger.

It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.

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5. The Doctor

The Doctor

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.

It has an average vote of 6.36 on TMDB.

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6. The Driller Killer

The Driller Killer

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

It has an average vote of 5.263 on TMDB.

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7. Static

Static

A couple facing marital problems after losing their child finds their life together further complicated by a mysterious visitor.

It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.

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8. Coma

Coma

A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.

It has an average vote of 6.718 on TMDB.

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9. The Grand Duel (Il grande duello)

The Grand Duel

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

It has an average vote of 5.926 on TMDB.

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10. Coming Home

Coming Home

The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.

It has an average vote of 7.017 on TMDB.

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11. The Long Walk Home

The Long Walk Home

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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12. The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

It has an average vote of 7.206 on TMDB.

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13. The Calling

The Calling

Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Port Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.

It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.

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14. The Beast of War

The Beast of War

During the war in Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew commanded by a tyrannical officer find themselves lost and in a struggle against a band of Mujahadeen guerrillas in the mountains.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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15. The Chase

The Chase

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

It has an average vote of 7.09 on TMDB.

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16. The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

It has an average vote of 6.723 on TMDB.

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17. Oasis (오아시스)

Oasis

A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.

It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.

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18. The Vanishing

The Vanishing

The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.

It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.

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19. The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли)

The Cranes Are Flying

Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

It has an average vote of 7.969 on TMDB.

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20. Always

Always

Aerial firefighter Pete risks himself and his vintage World War II airplane in a constant and death-defying quest to fight forest wildfires, much to the dismay of his girlfriend, Dorinda . His love for Dorinda and the advice of fellow pilot Al convince Pete to give up his perilous career, but he flies one last mission. Pete heroically saves Al's plane from certain destruction, but with supernatural consequences.

It has an average vote of 6.293 on TMDB.

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