A Glean movie guide
High-Tension Thrillers to Keep You on Edge
Don't forget to breathe.
From relentless survival races to psychological pressure cookers that never let up.
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The movie list
- 01
Uncut Gems
A relentless, anxiety-inducing descent into a jeweler's high-stakes gambling addiction.
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.
- 02
Whiplash
A cut-throat music instructor pushes a young drummer to the brink of a psychological breakdown.
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
- 03
A Quiet Place
A family must navigate a world of absolute silence to survive sound-sensitive predators.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
- 04
Good Time
A desperate bank robber embarks on a chaotic, neon-soaked odyssey through the New York underworld.
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
- 05
Green Room
A punk band fights for survival in a remote venue after witnessing a horrific crime.
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.
- 06
Don't Breathe
A simple home invasion turns into a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse in total darkness.
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
- 07
Sicario
An FBI agent is plunged into the murky, high-stakes world of drug cartel warfare.
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
- 08
Gravity
A routine spacewalk turns into a terrifying fight for survival in the vast vacuum of space.
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
Mad Max: Fury Road
A high-octane, non-stop chase across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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.
- 10
Parasite
A masterful blend of dark comedy and suspense where a family's deception leads to a breaking point.
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.
- 11
Run Lola Run
A literal race against time as a woman has twenty minutes to save her boyfriend's life.
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.
- 12
10 Cloverfield Lane
Claustrophobic tension peaks as a woman questions the motives of her survivalist captor.
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.