A Glean movie guide
Pure Adrenaline: Fast-Paced Thrills
No slow burns allowed.
High-stakes movies designed to keep your heart racing from start to finish.
Handpicked for this guide
The movie list
- 01
Mad Max: Fury Road
A relentless, visually stunning chase across a post-apocalyptic wasteland with minimal dialogue and maximum impact.
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
Uncut Gems
An anxiety-inducing descent into the high-stakes world of New York gambling that never lets you catch your 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.
- 03
The Raid: Redemption
A brutal, non-stop martial arts assault inside a locked tenement building that redefines action choreography.
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
Run Lola Run
A kinetic race against time with a literal ticking clock and a pulsing soundtrack that keeps the momentum high.
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.
- 05
Whiplash
A ferocious psychological battle between a determined drummer and his ruthless instructor that feels like an action movie.
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
- 06
Speed
A high-concept classic where a city bus must stay above 50 mph to survive, delivering constant forward motion.
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.
- 07
John Wick
A sleek, hyper-violent revenge story featuring some of the most efficient and frequent action sequences ever filmed.
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
- 08
Train to Busan
A terrifyingly fast zombie outbreak confined to a speeding locomotive, blending horror with high-octane survival.
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.
- 09
Crank
A hyper-kinetic ride where the protagonist must keep his adrenaline high to stay alive, resulting in non-stop chaos.
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.
- 10
Baby Driver
A stylish heist film where every gear shift and gunshot is perfectly synced to a high-energy soundtrack.
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
- 11
Good Time
A frantic, neon-soaked odyssey through the New York underworld over one desperate and high-pressure night.
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.
- 12
Dredd
A lean, gritty sci-fi thriller that never stops moving as law enforcers fight their way up a 200-story tower.
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.