A Glean movie guide
Mind-Bending Sci-Fi & Cosmic Mysteries
Beyond the event horizon.
High-concept thrillers that challenge your perception of time, space, and reality.
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The movie list
- 01
Tenet
A high-stakes espionage thriller where time flows backward to prevent a global catastrophe.
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 cerebral encounter with extraterrestrials that unlocks a non-linear understanding of time and memory.
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
The Prestige
Two rival magicians obsessively compete to master the ultimate, reality-defying stage illusion.
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.
- 04
Blade Runner 2049
A visually stunning mystery that explores the thin line between human and artificial identity.
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
Contact
A grounded look at humanity's first signal from the stars and the journey to meet its source.
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.
- 06
The Matrix
A definitive cyberpunk epic about a hacker discovering his world is a simulated reality.
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.
- 07
Paprika
A surreal animated journey into a world where dreams and reality collide through stolen technology.
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.
- 08
Moon
An isolated astronaut on a lunar base uncovers a disturbing truth about his identity and mission.
With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.
- 09
Coherence
A low-budget, high-tension thriller where a passing comet shatters the boundaries of parallel realities.
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
- 10
Predestination
A temporal agent tracks a criminal through a series of increasingly complex time-travel paradoxes.
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.