A Glean movie guide
Mind-Bending Sci-Fi & Cosmic Epics
Beyond the event horizon.
Cerebral thrillers and visual spectacles that challenge your perception of reality.
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The movie list
- 01
Tenet
A relentless, time-inverting puzzle from Christopher Nolan that demands your full attention.
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
- 02
Arrival
A profound exploration of language and time with a deeply moving emotional core.
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.
- 03
2001: A Space Odyssey
The definitive cosmic epic that inspired the visual and philosophical scale of Interstellar.
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
Blade Runner 2049
A breathtakingly beautiful meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to be human.
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
- 05
The Prestige
A masterfully constructed mystery where every detail matters and nothing is as it seems.
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
- 06
Contact
A grounded and awe-inspiring look at humanity’s first encounter with the unknown.
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.
- 07
The Matrix
A genre-defining spectacle that questions the very nature of the world around us.
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
- 08
Ex Machina
A tense, cerebral thriller that blurs the line between human consciousness and artificial intelligence.
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
- 09
Sunshine
A visually stunning and claustrophobic race to save humanity from a dying sun.
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.
- 10
Looper
An inventive take on time travel that balances high-concept ideas with sharp action.
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.
- 11
Source Code
A tight, high-stakes thriller that uses a sci-fi loop to unravel a ticking-clock mystery.
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
Coherence
A high-concept marvel that turns a simple dinner party into a terrifying reality-warp.
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.