Movies: Insomnia

Akira, a young and attractive but emotionally damaged Japanese woman moves to the United States to escape a past marked by tragedy. She moves in with her sister Hana and her new husband Adam to start a new life. But as Akira's behavior grows increasi...

B., a film-maker and insomniac, decides to rescue his hours of insomnia from the void by filming his quest for sleep. The insomniac asks questions about these different states of consciousness and about the difficulties humans have in synchronising t...

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Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his lifelong battle with insomnia in this intimate documentary. The cameras roll as he tries to quiet his overly active mind so he can get a decent night's sleep, capturing the details of what it's like to suffer fr...

An insomniac actress is facing the waning days of her career, when her niece pays a visit to her Malibu house....

A strange man is involved in a village massacre and drug dealing....

A day in the life of Malek, a young man who suffers from sleep disorders and is obsessed with thoughts of his ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, his overprotective mother struggles with the disappearance of her husband, who was kidnapped more than 15 years ag...

A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research o...

Modern advice and old-fashioned values combine in this postwar animated health guide from the makers of Animal Farm....

Life on an offshore oil drilling rig is becoming a burden for one of the riggers, who feels lonely and is frequently visited by a lone black dog that appears from nowhere....

A sleepless man meets a sleepwalker woman. A nocturnal ballad begins in the quiet city of Novi Ligure. But someone conspires in the darkness of the city…...

Mara, an exhausted, anxious insomniac, is continuously plagued by familiar looking visions....

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A young woman gets a hotel room and contends with sleep deprivation. The second in Adam Wingard's "Forgot My Meds" trilogy of short films....

"I only say the sun goodbye." Dionisos captures the existential unease where insomnia echoes and shadows of past regrets linger. As days blend into unconsciousness, the night unveils a haunting struggle between personal demons and the unending flow o...

Short film about the inability to sleep, or to remain asleep throughout the night....

After a power cut one night, Stan thinks he is seeing things. All alone, he must face what lurks in the dark....

One man's attempts to defeat the tortures of his own mindscape come to a head in the midst of a game of poker, when a mysterious figure interjects the flow of things and everything takes a turn for the worst. As the audience and the protagonist exper...

What happens when sleep becomes a luxury...

Violet, a piano player with rising anxiety and insomnia, finds herself struggling to distinguish her vivid dreams from reality....