Movies like The Manhattan Project

“The Manhattan Project (1986) is a 1980s United States science-fiction thriller that stages a teenage heist against a secret military installation. It sets a moral dilemma—stealing plutonium to build a device to win a science fair and expose secrecy—inside a visual grammar of high-contrast lighting and sterile institutional mise-en-scene. The film argues plainly that adolescent ambition confronting Cold War-era opacity compels a reassessment of youth agency and institutional accountability.”