This movie or possibly TV episode (I saw it on TV) was set during the Cold War. The main character was a lady who could stop time for about 15 minutes or so.
There are a bunch of relatively mundane things that happen while the Cold War tensions keep rising in the background. In the final scene the main character leaves the store after having stopped time and sees a Soviet missile hanging in the air above the street (since time is stopped) about to impact the town (the missile still had all of the stages attached, for some reason)
Other details that I can (sort of) remember: it was set in a small town, I think during late 70s or 80s
Answer
This is "A Little Peace and Quiet" from The Twilight Zone.
While doing a little gardening (to the tune of her neighbor’s chainsaw), Penny digs up a necklace with a watch on it. That afternoon after a hectic trip to the grocery store, spilled milk, and an idiot husband, she clasps the watch and screams, “SHUT UP!” To her shock and awe, there is immediate silence as everyone freezes.
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That night as Penny is luxuriating in a bubble bath, she hears a new annoying sound — an air raid siren. Her husband calls her in to hear the news that Soviet missiles have just entered US air space. She stops time and for some reason decides to take a stroll downtown in her robe. It is an eerie site as she weaves her way around frozen people and stopped vehicles. She sees several people who are looking at the sky. Looking up, she sees a nuclear missile just a few hundred feet from vaporizing her town.
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