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Sleepy-Time Squirrel

June 1954 •English

Barney Bear is forced to give hibernation lodgings in his home to his neighbor Jimmy Squirrel, who makes it impossible to get any sleep.

Shuteye Popeye

October 1952 •English

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

Trap Happy Porky

February 1945 •English

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.

Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle

May 1941 •English

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.

The Alphabet

February 1969 •English

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

Piccolo

November 1959 •

Two men in adjoining duplexes, good friends, are enchanted by the song of a bird. One buys a small harmonica and learns to play it; he keeps his neighbor awake. The neighbor buys a larger harmonica, and an arms race ensues; the instruments get larger, until it's a piano vs. a pipe organ, and then they start bringing in larger groups of friends until an entire orchestra is playing the 1812 Overture. The houses collapse from all this, atop the dueling orchestras, and on their way up to heaven, the man puts his small harmonica up for sale.

A Modern Guide to Health

June 1946 •English

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

Sleeping Beauty

February 1959 •English

A beautiful princess born in a faraway kingdom is destined by a terrible curse to prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and fall into a deep sleep that can only be awakened by true love's first kiss. Determined to protect her, her parents ask three fairies to raise her in hiding. But the evil Maleficent is just as determined to seal the princess's fate.

The Sleepy Revolution

October 2009 •Swedish

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?

Alice in Wonderland

January 1981 •Russian

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

Um Olho que Sonha

August 2022 •Portuguese

Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales

December 1999 •English

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.

Bedtime for Sniffles

November 1940 •English

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

The 13th Ram

May 1966 •Polish

One of the alleged ways to stay awake is by counting rams in your mind. During a sleepless night, the main character of the animation decides to test the effectiveness of monotonous counting on himself. Reaching the thirteenth ram, the perspective of the whole situation changes dramatically.

Sleep Incidents

January 2016 •Swedish

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

Sweet Dreams

August 2003 •Spanish

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

When you’re asleep

January 1998 •French

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 on a wall in the underground... a phrase actually taken from a Mano Solo song.

A Nightmare on Elm Street

October 1984 •English

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...

Dark City

February 1998 •English

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.

Nosferatu the Vampyre

January 1979 •German

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.