A Glean movie guide
High-Octane Hits
No slow starts, just pure momentum.
Relentless pacing and high-stakes tension for an adrenaline-fueled movie night.
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The movie list
- 01
Mad Max: Fury Road
A masterclass in visual storytelling told through a near-continuous, high-speed desert chase.
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.
- 02
John Wick
A sleek, momentum-driven revenge thriller featuring some of the most efficient combat ever filmed.
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
- 03
The Raid: Redemption
An unrelenting martial arts showcase set within a high-tension, claustrophobic apartment block.
Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.
- 04
Speed
A classic high-concept thriller that never lets its foot off the gas—literally.
Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.
- 05
Run Lola Run
A pulse-pounding race against time with a techno-driven beat and constant physical energy.
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
- 06
Crank
A hyper-kinetic action film that demands constant movement and delivers pure, unadulterated adrenaline.
Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing through his body while he searches for an antidote.
- 07
Uncut Gems
A relentless, high-anxiety odyssey through New York’s diamond district that never stops for breath.
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
- 08
Dredd
A lean, gritty sci-fi survival story that moves with brutal efficiency from start to finish.
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.
- 09
Train to Busan
A high-stakes survival thriller that uses its moving setting to create non-stop zombie-fueled tension.
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
- 10
Baby Driver
A stylish, high-energy heist film where every car chase and shootout is perfectly synced to the beat.
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
- 11
Source Code
A clever sci-fi mystery that uses a time-loop premise to maintain a constant sense of urgency.
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.
- 12
Taken
A lean and efficient search-and-rescue thriller that prioritizes forward momentum and brutal combat.
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.