A Glean movie guide
Beyond the Event Horizon
For fans of Interstellar
Ambitious, thought-provoking sci-fi that explores the vast mysteries of space and time.
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The movie list
- 01
2001: A Space Odyssey
A landmark achievement in cinema that explores human evolution through a visually stunning space journey.
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
- 02
Arrival
An intellectually gripping film that uses a first-contact scenario to explore the nature of time and language.
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
- 03
Contact
A grounded, compelling look at the intersection of scientific discovery and the human search for meaning.
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
- 04
The Martian
A masterclass in problem-solving and survival that keeps the science realistic and the stakes high.
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
- 05
Gravity
An immersive, high-tension experience that captures the terrifying isolation of being adrift in space.
Dr Ryan Stone, an engineer on her first space mission, and Matt Kowalski, an astronaut on his final expedition, have to survive in space after they are hit by debris while spacewalking.
- 06
Inception
A complex, high-concept heist film that bends the rules of reality and the subconscious.
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
- 07
Moon
A quiet, philosophical character study about the psychological toll of deep-space isolation.
With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.
- 08
Ad Astra
A visually ambitious, introspective journey to the edge of the solar system that explores father-son dynamics.
The near future, a time when both hope and hardships drive humanity to look to the stars and beyond. While a mysterious phenomenon menaces to destroy life on planet Earth, astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across the immensity of space and its many perils to uncover the truth about a lost expedition that decades before boldly faced emptiness and silence in search of the unknown.