Movies: Sleep

Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's bestselling children's book headlines this winning 25-minute collection of sleepytime tales from HBO. Susan Sarandon narrates the simple story of a bunny readying for bed. Other top entertainers lend their voice...

A man seeking purpose to live his life, questioning his faith and the existence of humankind. What exactly we were born for?...

Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault....

One spring night, Ana falls into a permanent sleep. Her mother Irene and her little sister Ayleen witness each other's loneliness as they interact with the sleeping body and discover a distance that was previously imperceptible....

A mysterious health condition emerged in late 2022: dozens of people go to sleep and never wake up, entering a deep coma popularly known as "The Sleep Plague." Ester, a psychology student burdened with guilt over her recent loss of her mother, finds ...

Rip Van Winkle is being thrown out for nonpayment of rent (for twenty years). Popeye happens by and carts the sleeper home, but soon discovers that Rip has a sleepwalking problem that gets both of them into some trouble with some dwarves....

This little film, which juxtaposes animated sand and scratching on 16mm film, was made during studies at the Royal College of Art. The starting point of this film was the sentence "but it's always when you're asleep that I want to talk to you", read ...

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

This audio-visual tone poem uses the language of filmmaking to offer a first-hand evocation of the turbulent psychological effects one can experience due to prolonged lack of sunlight....

A WWII paratrooper gets lost in a forest as the line between reality and memory begins to blur....

Thanatos is a dark psychological thriller about lucid dreaming....

A tale of two sisters with rare unique supernatural abilities. Three burglars break into a house to find jewels and money but leave their sanity behind....

Solutions to one problem can bring their own problems. In the middle of the night, a solitary sleeper awakes in bed. He's uncomfortable, his bed is too short for his body; in fact, his legs stick straight up at the end of the bed. To deal with this a...

THE NIGHTMARE, documentary filmmaker Adam Gray sets out on a journey to understand this terrifying phenomenon. From the foggy shores of Newfoundland to the steaming jungles of Zanzibar we will see where the Nightmare has left its mark. Hear from thos...

It isn’t always fun to dream. Sometimes, the nightmares come true too. This short film was made for a school project, all rights are reserved....

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

a young man returns home with severe skin burns. after going to sleep, he receives a visit from a supernatural being....

Trapped in a recurring cycle of sleep paralysis, a man desperately searches for a way to break free....

Soo-in as become sick and tired of his longtime love, Jung-Hwa. Besides, m ore and more, he is unable to sleep. One day, after a quarrel, she wasn’t able to contact him in any way. Did Soo-in disappeared or fallen into a deep sleep?...

A little boy is having trouble falling asleep because there are monsters in his bedroom...