Broken Sleep (2017)

The Invasion

Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.

Dark City

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.

Sleep

A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.

The Sleep Experiment

Two detectives begin an investigation into a disastrous secret military experiment where five prisoners were kept awake for thirty days in a sealed gas chamber.

Hypnic Jerk

Hypnic Jerk unfolds as a dreamlike tale of a man who buys a banana from a street vendor and is drawn into a strange, shifting journey. Starring Thomas Roman Howell and Matt Bertzyk, the film moves between the everyday and the surreal, with quiet performances that bring depth and nuance. Through oblique gestures and subtle shifts in tone, Devereaux shapes a disorienting narrative that hovers between waking and sleep, humor and unease.

Don't Sleep

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.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Sleeping Beauty

Cursed to die by the evil fairy Maleficent when she was a baby, Princess Aurora is sent into hiding under protection from three good fairies. As she grows up far away, Maleficent becomes increasingly determined to seal the princess's fate.

Two Sleepy People

Two office colleagues become spouses each night, only to return as strangers when morning comes.

Sleep Paralysis

"Sleep Paralysis" dives in to the little-known phenomenon of the same name. Affected people from different cultures tell of their frightening experiences, while scientists try to find explanations.

The Alphabet

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Come True

Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.

Echoes

A young writer experiences visions during episodes of sleep paralysis, and she retreats with her boyfriend to an isolated house in the desert. As the visions worsen, she teeters on the edge of insanity as she uncovers a life-threatening secret.

Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales

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 voices to the tape: Tony Bennett sings the story of "Hit the Road to Dreamland"; Lauryn Hill brings rhythm to "Hush, Little Baby"; Billy Crystal lends many voices to Mercer Mayer's "There's a Nightmare in My Closet"; and singers Natalie Cole, Aaron Neville, and Patti LeBelle sing other tales. A dandy video for the youngster, punctuated with "interviews" of real kids answering a host of bedtime questions.

Somnium

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.

Alice in Wonderland

Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom.

Sweet Dreams

A boy is haunted by a spooky figure stalking him in the dark. This ghost story is inspired by childhood nightmares, aimed to build a creepy atmosphere with one or two jumpscares mixed in there.

The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas

While the rest of the world is getting ready for Christmas, all the bears in Bearbank are getting ready to sleep… except for Ted E. Bear. Ted gets curious about the holiday, and sets out to learn the meaning of it from Santa Claus himself.

Dead Awake

Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who, after the sudden death of her twin sister, is investigating the mysterious deaths of other people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they were suffering from sleep paralysis. When Kate investigates further into the case, she opens herself up to the creature's wrath and soon finds herself and her family suffering from an ancient evil.

Bedtime for Sniffles

Christmas Eve, and Sniffles is determined to stay awake to see Santa. Not an easy task.

The Russian Sleep Experiment

Russian researchers funded by the Soviet Union during WWII are testing an expirimental gas on subjects deemed enemies of the state. The experimental gas is meant to eliminate the need for sleep, but all goes wrong as the gas has unexpected effects on the subjects.

Sleep Incidents

Hans suffers from insomnia. But there is help available! A self-appointed specialist guides us through this absurd study of sleep.

Shuteye Popeye

Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back.

Trap Happy Porky

Porky can't sleep because mice demolish his plates. A cat offers help and gets the mice out, but invites some friends so Porky still can't sleep.

Beyond Darkness

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

Sleep

Footage of John Giorno sleeping for five hours.

Nisaacharudu

Jay hires James, a private detective, to find the mysterious figure responsible for his insomnia. As the case grows dire, Jay's secrets risk being uncovered.

How to Sleep

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 on sleep, including a time-lapse film of a man changing positions 55 times during an 8-hour rest: why exercise, he asks, when you can sleep like a top? The film instructs one on how to get a drink of water during the night without waking completely, and other useful skills for the insomniac.

Slap me to Sleep

Three reckless robbers target a chinese mafia club. They do not know, however, that the bartender, the only one who knows the safe combination, is narcoleptic and falls asleep suddenly when he gets too emotional...

The Sleepy Revolution

In the eighteenth century the mystical midnight hour disappeared and the modern night was born. We now aim to keep sleep at an efficient minimum, but experiments show that we quickly return to the old sleep pattern if given the opportunity. So what is the 'natural' way to sleep?

A Modern Guide to Health

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

I Can't Sleep Without You

Lisa and Dan share a common disorder: since getting dumped, neither of them has been able to sleep. As they navigate the perilous world of modern dating, a wide variety of misunderstandings occur. Each trying desperately trying to meet a stranger that they might finally be able to sleep beside, Lisa is inundated with attention, while Dan gets doors slammed in his face. When the two finally meet, will they finally find rest in each other arms or come to find out love just isn’t that simple?

Roshan

On a lonely night, revolting for sleep, Hari opened his old notes of melancholy. While writing the diary, he delves into his past and reopens all his childhood wounds. With amble sorrow and agony, he calls for a revolution of people who cannot sleep. This is a documentation of one of the many usual nights of Hari.

Um Olho que Sonha

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Silently, I Want Revenge

Key, who that afternoon wanted to pick up the dress she had made at her teacher's kiosk after school, was raped by her own teacher. The fear and trauma that remained led her to experience sleep paralysis when she slept at home. Through sleep paralysis, Key found a way to escape the madness she had experienced.

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Offing David

Follow a lost mobile phone as it is passed around to random people. There's just one thing no one realizes: the owner of this phone is dead.

The Grudge

After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.

Njan Kodiswaran

Gopinathan (Jagadish) works as a textile shop salesman who struggles to make ends meet. Returning from work one day, he accidentally comes in possession of a suitcase from a criminal being chased by the police. The suitcase contains gold and Gopi thinks that it will end his troubles; however things are not easy as it seems.

The Saragossa Manuscript

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Conspiracy Theory

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

The X Files: I Want to Believe

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

Dude, Where's My Car?

Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.

The Damned

In the 19th century, a young widow named Eva manages a remote winter fishing outpost in an Arctic bay, which she inherited after her husband, Magnus, was shipwrecked. The nearest settlement is three days' march away and inaccessible due to deep snow on the mountain trails. The outpost faces a harsh and brutal winter with rapidly dwindling supplies. Eva and her crew are already living on bait as their fishing catch declines. One morning on the beach, they witness a Basque whaling ship sinking far out near the cliffs known as "the Teeth," which rise steeply from the sea. Eva now faces an impossible decision, as any attempt to rescue the survivors risks depleting the last supplies for her and her men even faster.

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