A Glean movie guide
Time Loops & Fatal Resets
Relive. Rewrite. Survive.
High-stakes thrillers where every second—and every death—counts over and over.
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The movie list
- 01
Edge of Tomorrow
A thrilling sci-fi actioner where each death resets the battle against an alien invasion.
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
- 02
Source Code
A fast-paced race against the clock inside an escalating eight-minute terminal loop.
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.
- 03
Triangle
A deeply unsettling psychological puzzle set aboard an abandoned ocean liner.
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.
- 04
Timecrimes
A tightly wound Spanish thriller built on the dangerous mechanics of causal loops.
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
- 05
Boss Level
An action-packed daily assassination cycle driven by relentless momentum.
A former special forces agent is trapped in a time loop and relives his death over and over again. To escape the terrible situation, he must track down those responsible and stop them.
- 06
Happy Death Day
A clever whodunit slasher where a college student must solve her own murder.
Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival run out.
- 07
Predestination
A mind-bending temporal puzzle exploring identity, fate, and inescapable loops.
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
Coherence
A claustrophobic dinner party descent into reality-fracturing parallel paths.
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
- 09
ARQ
A tense, single-location home invasion trap tied to a repeating energy device.
Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
- 10
Run Lola Run
A kinetic, high-octane sprint that resets three times with wildly varying outcomes.
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.