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Films For When The Night Feels Too Long When You Cant Sleep

Films for when the night feels too long when you cant sleep. Includes Gabriel's Inferno: Part III, Rear Window, American History X and more, curated by Movie...

There is too much night left. You are not tired enough to sleep and not alert enough to do anything useful. These films are good company for the long part of the dark.

Gabriel's Inferno: Part III movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.

Good company for the long part of the dark. Absorbing without requiring full presence.

Matches the quiet

Rear Window movie poster
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1954 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

Good company for the long part of the dark. Absorbing without requiring full presence.

Matches the quiet

American History X movie poster
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1998 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

Good company for the long part of the dark. Absorbing without requiring full presence.

Matches the quiet

Dead Poets Society movie poster
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1989 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

The night is long. This film is steady. That turns out to be enough.

Steady company for the dark

It's a Wonderful Life movie poster
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1946 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

Good company for the long part of the dark. Absorbing without requiring full presence.

Matches the quiet

Steady company for the dark

Modern Times movie poster
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1936 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

The night is long. This film is steady. That turns out to be enough.

Steady company for the dark

Sunset Boulevard movie poster
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1950 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Good company for the long part of the dark. Absorbing without requiring full presence.

Steady company for the dark

Apocalypse Now movie poster
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1979 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Good company for the long part of the dark. Absorbing without requiring full presence.

Matches the quiet

Paths of Glory movie poster
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1957 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

The night is long. This film is steady. That turns out to be enough.

Steady company for the dark

The Lion King movie poster
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1994 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life.

Good company for the long part of the dark. Absorbing without requiring full presence.

Steady company for the dark

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