A Glean movie guide
Caught in the Loop
Relive, rethink, and resolve.
Mind-bending thrillers where the clock is the ultimate enemy.
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The movie list
- 01
Edge of Tomorrow
A soldier fighting aliens must master the battlefield by reliving his own death repeatedly.
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
- 02
Source Code
A soldier has only eight minutes to identify a bomber in a high-tension digital simulation.
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
- 03
Predestination
A temporal agent’s final mission spirals into a complex web of paradoxes and shocking revelations.
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
- 04
Timecrimes
A man’s desperate attempt to fix a mistake leads to a terrifying, self-contained cycle of events.
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
- 05
12 Monkeys
A convict travels back in time to stop a plague, only to confront the fragility of his own reality.
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
- 06
Looper
A hitman faces the ultimate conflict when his next target turns out to be his older self.
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
- 07
Palm Springs
Two wedding guests find a fresh, witty perspective on the monotony of an infinite loop.
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
- 08
Happy Death Day
A college student must solve her own murder by reliving the day of her death until she finds the killer.
Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival run out.
- 09
Primer
Two engineers discover time travel, resulting in a dense, puzzle-like narrative that rewards close attention.
A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.
- 10
Triangle
A yacht trip turns into a nightmare on a mysterious ocean liner in this intricate, looping mystery.
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.