Insomnia
Light Sleeper
HDA drug dealer reconsiders his profession when his boss plans to go straight and an old flame reappears.
Speechless
HDTwo political speechwriters fall in love before they find out they are working for candidates on opposite sides.
Fight Club
HDA nameless first person narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable. However when he associates himself with Tyler (Brad Pitt) he is dragged into an underground fight club and soap making scheme. Together the two men spiral out of control and engage in competitive rivalry for love and power.
The Machinist
HDAn industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
Wishing for a Dream
HDActress Mika Andrews and her filmmaker boyfriend Louis Digman struggle through the trenches of the entertainment industry to succeed in "Hollywood." Told in raw documentary style, the camera chronicles Mika's journey through Los Angeles, going to auditions and trying to make her mark in front of the camera. Louis's story shows his struggles behind the scenes as an up-and-coming writer-director. The film also follows their ups and downs as a young couple, supporting each other through the stresses, hopes, desires, disappointments and Mika's crippling insomnia, as they try to make ends meet and pursue their dreams in an often heart-breaking industry.
No Sleep 'Til Christmas
HDLizzie is about to marry by Christmas but the preparations are complicated by her insomnia. One night when she's out driving she accidentally hits Billie, a bartender that also suffers from insomnia. She insists on driving him to the hospital but when they reach the parking lot outside they both fall asleep in the car. Afterwards Lizzie starts to wonder whether it was the company of Billie that finally enabled her to sleep. She convinces him to try again. When they both gets a good night sleep again she offers to lend him money for a bar that he wants to start if he helps her sleep until the wedding. The arrangement works but gets more and more complicated to keep a secret. It does not help that getting to know each other changes other things too.
Awoken
HDA young medical student attempts to cure her brother from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to help him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.
The Swerve
HDHolly seems to have it all: two kids, a nice house, a good job as a teacher, and a husband with his career on the way up. But there are troubling signs that all is not right in her world. The insomnia. The medication for the insomnia. The dreams from the medication for the insomnia. (Are they even dreams?) And then there's the mouse that appears in her home. Upsetting her already delicate balance, it sends her spiraling out of control. Writer/director Dean Kapsalis' feature debut explores a week in the life of a woman on the verge in this haunting meditation on mental illness.
Awake
HDWith humankind unable to sleep and think clearly, growing increasingly irrational and violent after an unprecedented global phenomenon that wiped out all electronics, Jill, a former U.S. Army medic and widowed mother-of-two, finds herself struggling to keep her kids safe. Now, as scientists all over the world seem to fight a losing battle, the mysterious, worldwide plague of insomnia threatens to eradicate the entire human species, and undoubtedly, this is the end of the world as we know it. However, what if Jill's ten-year-old daughter, Matilda, holds the key to a cure? Can sleep-deprived Jill protect her children when everyone has only a few days to live?