A Glean movie guide
Essential Modern Classics & All-Time Greats
The ultimate watchlist.
A handpicked selection of cinema’s most impactful and engaging stories.
Handpicked for this guide
The movie list
- 01
Parasite
A razor-sharp social thriller that keeps you guessing until the very last frame.
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
- 02
Inception
A mind-bending heist film that explores the architecture of dreams with stunning precision.
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.
- 03
Spirited Away
A visually breathtaking journey into a world of spirits that captures the wonder of childhood.
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
- 04
The Dark Knight
A gritty, realistic take on the superhero genre anchored by an iconic villainous performance.
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
- 05
Everything Everywhere All At Once
An inventive, chaotic, and deeply emotional adventure through the multiverse.
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
- 06
The Shawshank Redemption
A powerful story of hope and resilience that remains one of cinema's most beloved dramas.
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
- 07
Mad Max: Fury Road
A relentless, high-octane chase through a wasteland that redefines modern action filmmaking.
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
- 08
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
A vibrant and stylistically groundbreaking animation that breathes new life into a classic hero.
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.
- 09
The Grand Budapest Hotel
A meticulously crafted and whimsical comedy featuring a stellar ensemble cast.
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
- 10
12 Angry Men
A masterclass in tension and dialogue that unfolds entirely within a single jury room.
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.