100 films in which the male protagonist is insomniac and then weird things start happening to him and we don't know if they're real or the result of his sleep(deprived paranoia

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1. The Machinist
2. Fight Club

― pj proby, Monday, 31 January 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

3. Matrix

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Insomnia

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

5. 'Taxi Driver'

Truth. It's a very ambiguous ending.

― Miles Finch, Monday, 31 January 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

6. Neverending Story?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

7. surely this must happen in one of the Elm Streets?

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

8. Brain Dead

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

9. Jacob's Ladder

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Was the protagonist is Jacob's an insomniac?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm... maybe not actually, although it seemed a bit like that too start.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

10. Delicatessen

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

11 Pi

― Bumfluff, Monday, 31 January 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

12. Lost In Translation

(on the reading that the Scarlet Johansson character is an insomniac fantasy)

― Samantha T., Monday, 31 January 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm, more or less any film 'could be' a fantasy. but anyway

13. 'The Woman in the Window' by Fritz Lang (in fact IT WAS ALL A DREAM in this case)

― Miles Finch, Monday, 31 January 2005 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

14. The Tenant

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

15. Sleepless in Seattle?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

what's that weird Jon Landis/Jeff Goldblum 80s number?

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

16. After Hours

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

17. Vertigo? (It's been a long time since I've seen this)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

18. Aladdin
19. Winnie The Pooh

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

20. Jurassic Park (think about it!)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

21. Angel Heart

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

SexyD, that Goldblum/Landis thing was...

22. Into the Night

With David Bowie and Carl Perkins knife-fighting!

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The dude in Pi wasn't an insomniac, he suffered from migraines, thus hallucinating, it was pretty clear when it wasnt his real world I thought.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Collateral

― TOMBOT, Monday, 31 January 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

23. chasing sleep (which was pretty good!)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

24. bulworth

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

24. Bringing Out with Dead
Nicholas Cage as a burnt out ambulance driver, seeing "ghosts" of people he couldn't save.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

26. Donnie Darko(?)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

27. Dark City (although weird shit actually WAS happening)

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

28. Showgirls.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Waking Life

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

29. AI:Artificial Intelligence. In a way. He's definitely insomniac, anyway.

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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