A Glean movie guide
Beyond the Event Horizon
Reach for the stars.
High-concept sci-fi epics that blend cosmic wonder with deep human emotion.
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The movie list
- 01
Arrival
A profound exploration of language and time with a devastating emotional core involving a parent and child.
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.
- 02
Contact
A soaring journey that balances scientific discovery with a daughter’s search for her father across the cosmos.
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.
- 03
2001: A Space Odyssey
The definitive cinematic vision of human evolution and the grand, mysterious vastness of deep space.
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
Ad Astra
A meditative and visually stunning odyssey across the solar system in search of a lost father.
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.
- 05
The Martian
A thrilling, scientifically grounded survival story about human ingenuity against the odds 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.
- 06
Inception
Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending heist that uses layered realities to explore a father’s desire 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
Gravity
A relentless survival thriller that captures the terrifying beauty and isolation of Earth's 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.
- 08
Sunshine
A visually arresting mission to the center of the solar system that tests the limits of human endurance.
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.
- 09
First Man
A visceral look at the immense personal and familial sacrifices required to reach the moon.
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
Solaris
A haunting, atmospheric meditation on memory and loss set aboard a lonely space station orbiting a mysterious planet.
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.