A Glean movie guide
Sci-Fi With a Twist
Prepare to have your reality challenged.
Mind-bending science fiction films where nothing is quite what it seems.
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The movie list
- 01
The Prestige
Two rival magicians engage in a dangerous game of obsession fueled by experimental technology.
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.
- 02
Arrival
A linguistics professor’s attempt to communicate with extraterrestrials leads to a profound revelation about time.
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
Moon
A solitary lunar miner makes a discovery that forces him to question his own 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.
- 04
Coherence
A simple dinner party spirals into chaos as a passing comet triggers reality-bending phenomena.
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
- 05
Ex Machina
A programmer’s Turing test of a sophisticated humanoid A.I. becomes a tense battle of wits.
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.
- 06
Dark City
A man with amnesia navigates a shifting, sunless city controlled by mysterious beings.
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.
- 07
Predestination
A temporal agent’s final assignment unravels into a complex web of paradoxes and identity twists.
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.
- 08
Source Code
A soldier must repeatedly relive a train bombing to identify the culprit in a high-stakes government program.
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.
- 09
Total Recall
A construction worker’s quest for Mars-based memories leads him to doubt the very nature of his reality.
Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.
- 10
Upgrade
An experimental A.I. chip grants a paralyzed man lethal abilities and a dark, hidden agenda.
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.