A Glean movie guide
Beyond the Event Horizon
Space, time, and the human heart.
High-concept sci-fi that blends theoretical physics with profound human emotion.
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- 01
Contact
A brilliant scientist journeys through a wormhole to find the intersection of faith and physics.
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.
- 02
Arrival
A linguist races to decode an alien language that fundamentally alters her perception of time and loss.
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
2001: A Space Odyssey
A landmark epic that explores human evolution and the mysteries of the cosmos with unparalleled visual scale.
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.
- 04
The Martian
A stranded astronaut uses rigorous scientific ingenuity to survive the harsh environment of the Red Planet.
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
Ad Astra
An astronaut embarks on a contemplative journey across the solar system to find his father and save humanity.
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.
- 06
Inception
A mind-bending heist thriller that explores the architecture of dreams and a father's desperate wish to return home.
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
Sunshine
A crew on a desperate mission to save the sun faces psychological pressure and the terrifying beauty of space.
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
- 08
Gravity
A visceral survival story that captures the terrifying isolation and physical dangers of being stranded in orbit.
Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer, is on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
- 09
First Man
A grounded look at Neil Armstrong’s mission to the moon, focusing on the personal grief behind the technical feat.
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
- 10
Moon
A quiet, atmospheric thriller about a lone lunar worker discovering a startling truth about his identity.
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.