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10 Best Movies Like Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare

If you loved Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
A Night at the Opera

A Night at the Opera

1935★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success...

#2
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#3
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#4
Fight Club

Fight Club

1999★ 8.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clu...

#5
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

1957★ 8.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begi...

#6
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But ...