Movies about insomnia

Movies about insomnia
List of the best films about insomnia, selected by visitors to our site: Dreams, Luster, The Insomniac, Snowden, Bringing Out the Dead, Tokyo Story, Chasing Sleep, The Dawn, Peaceful Warrior, Awoken.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryJapan, USA
Duration01:59

A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

Thomas Luster is a troubled businessman who tries to make sense of a life being driven out-of-control by a force closer to home than he first realizes. When he discovers that the man working against him is another side of his own personality he is forced to fight back against his manipulative alter-ego as murder, madness and mayhem combine to take Luster on the most bizarre and terrifying ride of his life.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

John Figg has a great career and a gorgeous fiancée. When he inherits a nice house in a quiet neighborhood, he finally starts to feel like his life is coming together. Trouble arises, however, when John's house is burglarized, and the thieves steal one of his most prized possessions.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryFrance, Germany, USA, United Kingdom
Duration02:23

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredrama
CountryJapan
Duration02:16

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, detective
CountryCanada, USA, France
Duration01:40

A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.

Markimdb: 4
Genrehorror
CountryUSA

Following the murder of her family at the hands of her father in the wake of World War I, a young woman is sent to live in a convent. However, the demons that plagued her father follow, reawakening the nightmares of her past.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama, biography, sport
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:00

A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror
CountryAustralia

Karla, a young medical student, is trying to cure her brother, Blake, from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to treat him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, fantasy, musical, adventure, family, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:53

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A girl with insomnia who works in a coffee house has impossibly high standards for her love and fears she will never meet a worthy man. Then in walks a new employee and they click - until she discovers he has a girlfriend. Undaunted, she moves to L.A. with a friend sure that he will dump the girlfriend and follow her. She puts all her faith in fate and hopes for the best.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, detective
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration02:10

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:41

    Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, India, United Arab Emirates
    Duration02:02

    A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Republic of Ireland
    Duration01:28

    Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around them seems to be falling apart. A life-affirming look at what it means to love and be loved in turbulent times.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their sleep from a heart attack, Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:58

    Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

    Markimdb: 3
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA

    When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and place to tell them about their mother's fate.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, adventure, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror
    CountryCanada

    A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action
    CountryJapan

    Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:42

      After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance

      Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn. A parallel storyline follows her former lover and second husband, Ismaël Vuillard, a musician, with whom she had lived for seven years. He is given to strange behaviour, and as a result he has been committed to a mental hospital, from which he is planning to escape. Nora learns that her father's digestive problems are actually cancer, and facing her father's death, Nora desperately seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias, but he has mixed feelings about adopting her son. Moreover, he has met Arielle, another patient.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryHungary
      Duration01:45

      A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, his fellow inspectors, who are all without exception likeable characters, a rival ticket inspection team, and racing along the tracks... And a tale about love.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration01:38

      Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin, who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine is interrupted when he finds himself drawn to one of his intended victims, Rose. He spares her life, unexpectedly acquiring in the process a young apprentice, Tony. Believing Victor to be a private detective, his two new companions tag along, while he attempts to thwart the murderous attentions of his unhappy client

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryJapan

      A detective probes the brutal murder of a woman in a red light district while a housewife hides her double life as a prostitute from her husband.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryFinland
      Duration01:14

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      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryItaly, France
      Duration02:21

      Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

      12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, fantasy
      CountryUnited Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

      Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for Magda, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      Jesse is charming, romantic, and he knows how to pop the question; he just can't face marriage. So, when he and Hannah split up during the same week that a former fiancée dies, he decides to figure things out. He visits each woman about whom he's been serious to ask what went wrong. His teen flame, an independent woman who sometimes sleeps with him, and a group of lesbians give him advice, as does Anabeth, dead but lively in his dreams. One ex remains furious, but with the help of her inventive colleague, the level-headed insomniac Laura, Jesse even gets to talk to her. It's on to Anabeth's funeral, where he'll see Hannah, and maybe grasp what has been eluding him.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryAustralia, Canada
      Duration01:33

      A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryItaly, Argentina

      Doctor Bianca Valentino is hired to cover the night shift in the ward of a pediatric hospital. She finds herself immersed in an environment that, behind its reassuring image, hides a terrifying secret linked to its past as a children's asylum. The ghost of a child wanders the corridors tormenting her and transforming her nights in the clinic into an endless nightmare that day after day is about to become reality.

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