A Glean movie guide
Reality, Reimagined
Prepare to have your mind blown.
Essential sci-fi films that will challenge your perception of the truth.
Handpicked for this guide
The movie list
- 01
Inception
A masterclass in layered storytelling that keeps you questioning what is real until the final frame.
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
- 02
Arrival
This profound film uses a non-linear narrative to deliver a twist that recontextualizes the entire story.
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
A gripping tale of obsession where scientific ambition leads to a truly shocking narrative reveal.
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
Coherence
A brilliant, low-budget puzzle box that turns a simple dinner party into a terrifying exploration of reality.
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
- 05
Predestination
This intricate time-travel paradox is built around a central reveal that is as clever as it is unexpected.
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.
- 06
Moon
A solitary astronaut's mission takes a haunting turn when he discovers a secret that changes everything.
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.
- 07
Dark City
A visually striking mystery about a man trapped in a city where reality is constantly being rewritten.
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
- 08
Ex Machina
A tense psychological game of cat-and-mouse that culminates in a sharp shift of power.
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
Primer
An incredibly dense and rewarding time-travel film that demands your full attention to untangle.
A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.