Insomnia movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant insomnia movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense and disturbing films and TV shows about / with insomnia, sleeping, death, sleep disorder, urban, murder, hallucination, danger, paranoia and obsession plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, Spain, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as insomnia: The Machinist (2004), The Insomniac (2013), Fight Club (1999), Chasing Sleep (2000), Cashback (2006), Awoken (2019), No Sleep 'Til Christmas (2018), Lucid (2005), Parasomnia (2008), Deep (2021).
Best films
New films
| Still Up (2023) | 6.7 | |
| A Breeze of Love (2023) | 7.4 | |
| Vaka (2026) | 5.7 | |
| The Devil's Hour (2022) | 7.6 | |
| Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025) | 4.3 |
List of insomnia movies
439K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, depressing, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insomnia, insanity, uncover truth, obsession, mysterious character, paranoia, losing-it hero, twists and turns, schizophrenia, life is a bitch, secrets, alienation ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, persia, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
insomnia, home invasion, paranoia, betrayal, obsession, whodunit, suspicion, breaking and entering, heist, theft, robbery, invasion ...
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2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, mind twisting ...
Plot:
nightmare, insomnia, police, professor, uncover truth, obsession, hallucination, sleeping, murder, haunted by the past, missing person, teacher ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle
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94K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
sexy, humorous, surreal, philosophical, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
breakup, introspection, artist, supermarket, stopped time, sexual attraction, nudity, girlfriend, insomnia, workplace, time freeze, time ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe
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11K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
medical horror, atmospheric, twisted, psychological
Plot:
insomnia, nightmare, sleeping, medical, terminal illness, cure, student, disease, illness, medicine, waking up, dreaming ...
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lizzie, a high-end event planner, lies awake nightly while her devoted fiancé Josh rests peacefully. When a sleep-deprived incident causes her to run into Billy, a low-key bartender who is just as sleepless and frustrated as she is, they discover ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sweet, feel good, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
christmas, insomnia, holiday, wedding planning, new year's eve, male female relationship, unlikely couple, fall in love, looking for love, stereotypes, lifestyle change, morality ...
Place:
chicago
Is relevant?
306
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thirty-two year old Winnipeger Joel Rothman's personal life falls apart after his wife, Mari, catches him cheating. Following, he can't sleep which affects the parenting of his adolescent daughter Jenny. A therapist, he dismisses the work ...
Style:
psychological, neo noir, captivating, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
insomnia, group therapy, doctors and patients, mental illness, losing-it hero, family problems, unfulfillment, father daughter relationship, post traumatic stress, sleeping, making love, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a "sleeping beauty," who suffers from a medical condition called "parasomnia." A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
insomnia, mentally unstable, obsession, woman in danger, danger, fall in love, rehabilitation, sleeping, self mutilation, death, hypnosis, female killer ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological horror, disturbing ...
Plot:
insomnia, student, sleep deprivation, experiment gone awry, physician, experiment, paranoia, hallucination, escape, neuroscience, claustrophobia, survival ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without sleep, they reach new thresholds of perception that expose them to the secrets of the place and the ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
insomnia, mysterious death, sleeping, mental institution, paranormal activity, abandoned building, hallucination, experiment, stage play, fire, theater, death ...
Time:
year 1975, year 1984
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
A romantic comedy which is about a timpanist witnessing a murder case but cannot remember anything about what happened. With the help from a mysterious guy, she attempts to recover her memories from that day.
Style:
suspense, captivating, non-linear, romantic comedy, melancholic ...
Plot:
insomnia, investigation, murder, musician, trauma, amnesia, pianist, orchestra, memory, dangerous friend, twists and turns, rivalry ...
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Dr. David Marrow invites Nell Vance, and Theo and Luke Sanderson to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself – ...
Style:
gothic, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
haunted house, haunted, ghost, insomnia, evil, supernatural, mansion, psychology, destiny, danger, domestic disturbance, ghost child ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
413
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
insomnia, mental illness, paranoia, murder, psychiatrist patient relationship, mental breakdown, mental institution, siblings relations, mistrust, parents and children, dishonesty, pretense ...
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150
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the middle of a mysterious insomnia epidemic that slowly takes on catastrophic dimensions, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee the city in their motorhome to get away from the chaos. As they move down the route, the world becomes an increasingly ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, apocalyptic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
insomnia, survival, isolation, epidemic, road trip, male female relationship, escape from reality, worldwide chaos, relationship problems, chaos, apocalypse, travel ...
Is relevant?
29K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own ...
Style:
road movie, suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
insomnia, little girl, sleep deprivation, female protagonist, meditation, young widow, brother sister relationship, daughter, police officer killed, ex soldier, worldwide chaos, dystopia ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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13K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Colombia, Thailand, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar, UK, China, Switzerland, USA, Taiwan, Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A Scottish orchid farmer visiting her ill sister in Bogotá, Colombia, befriends a young musician and a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring a century-long construction project to tunnel through the Andes mountain range. Each night, she is ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
insomnia, introspection, self discovery, escape from reality, european, relationship problems, female protagonist, jungle, puzzle, illness, in love, feeling ...
Place:
colombia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
twist ending, disturbing, surreal, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
nightmare, paranoia, delusion, memory, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, dealing with death, soldier, macabre ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city ...
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14K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A man suffering from insomnia is tricked into buying a drug, Lucia, that makes his desires come true in his dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
Style:
surreal, romantic drama, experimental, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
insomnia, hallucination, drug, fantasy becomes reality, surrealism, drug abuse, cognitive science, mind, great ending, cyberpunk, urban, myth ...
Place:
kannada, india
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1.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style:
psychological, neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loner, vigilante, character study, alienation, vigilantism, violence, obsession, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, social decay ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
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17K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins ...
Style:
suspense, tense, neo noir, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
police investigation, police detective, murder mystery, insomnia, murder, serial killer, male nudity, manipulation, small town, sleeping, police officer killed, loss of partner ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
358
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young couple, Alexander and Livia, take off on holiday to Romania. Hospitalized after being hit by a car, Alexander must undergo a blood transfusion—with horrifying consequences: upon his return, he seems afflicted with a strange disease.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, bloody ...
Plot:
vampire, insomnia, infection, ghost, couples, hallucination, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, paranoia, contamination, vacation, strange behavior, hospital ...
Place:
romania
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Genre: Horror
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After suffering a family tragedy, a widower named Thanh moves his two daughters to a centuries-old ancestral home. Both daughters fall prey to sleep paralysis and night terrors. Their father seeks the help of a local psychologist, but chilling ...
Style:
sinister, suspenseful, gothic horror, disturbing, thrilling ...
Plot:
insomnia, terror, family tragedy, tragic event, tragedy, undercover, dysfunctional family, family secret, secret, psychologist, sleeping, loss of wife ...
Place:
vietnam
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A man suffering from insomnia is tricked into buying a drug, Lucia, that makes his desires come true in his dreams, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
Style:
non-linear, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
insomnia, marriage proposal, disorder, danger, actor's life, workplace, artists and showbiz, drug, love, pills, dream, split personality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
insomnia, sex scene, innocence lost, introspection, hopes, looking for love, couples, couple relations, love affair, male female relationship, blind date, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
europe, finland
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Bonded by insomnia, best friends Lisa and Danny stay connected to each other late into the night and find their way through a world of wonderfully weird surprises as their relationship deepens.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, romantic comedy, dramatic, informative ...
Plot:
insomnia, friendship, male female friendship, friends, male female relationship, relationships, chemistry, self discovery, bittersweet, millennial, slice of life, social anxiety ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, rough, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, erotica, murder investigation, novelist, japanese girl, brothel, strangulation, police investigation, sex, female sexuality, submissive woman, insomnia ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, cerebral, dark comedy ...
Plot:
medical, mental illness, ambulance, hospital, redemption, paramedic, insomnia, hallucination, character study, crime gone awry, rescue, haunted by the past ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey
Is relevant?
286
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After the violent murder of his family, a man becomes a vigilante dispensing his own kind of justice to people in need.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, dark, tense, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insomnia, vigilante, murder, revenge, vigilante justice, family tragedy, justice, trauma, loss, anti hero, grief, nightmare ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child - a supernatural entity that has chosen her ...
Style:
suspense, scary, melancholic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
macabre, insomnia, supernatural horror, supernatural, children, tragedy, paranormal activity, afterlife, mental disorder, dream, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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